Stormtrooper scopes

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-02-12 07:16pm

RogueIce wrote:
Elheru Aran wrote:Odd, I distinctly remember it being in quite readable English. Must've been seeing things...
I'm pretty sure I saw one of the cards from the CCG that had that screen with readable English text. Maybe you're thinking about that?

One I can think of, the old SWEG: Starships and Vehicles has a Corporate Sector Authority fightercraft with a big "CSA" emblazened on its wing.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-02-12 07:27pm

RogueIce wrote:
Elheru Aran wrote:Odd, I distinctly remember it being in quite readable English. Must've been seeing things...
I'm pretty sure I saw one of the cards from the CCG that had that screen with readable English text. Maybe you're thinking about that?

No, I'm positive it had English text in the SE movie-- Artoo asks, "Why aren't we going to the rendezvous?" or something along those lines. However, as I remember the same in ROTJ, which had Aurebesh in the Death Star/Executor screens, it's possible my mind was filling in English letters where I just saw red blobs on the screen... something like that.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-02-12 11:07pm

I can guarantee 1000% that your memory is wrong, Elharu.

The text has always been unreadable/untranslatable.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2006-02-13 01:33am

The CSA logo does say "CSA" right on it.

nightmare · Post by **nightmare** » 2006-02-13 04:02am

Interestingly, CSA has both aurabesh and latin alphabet on it.

Czerka Corp's logo also has an inverted C.

Then we have A- B- X- Y- K- younameit wings. The retcon of this is that "one version of aurabesh looks like our alphabet", or so I hear.

Cykeisme · Post by **Cykeisme** » 2006-02-13 06:32am

Good point about the starfighter names, Nightmare. An X-Wing is in the shape of our "X"!

Also, I should simply point out that the letters on the shield clearance control screen (as the Tydirium attempts to gain entry) can't possibly mean anything. They're blocks of repeating text with random parts blacked out.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-02-13 07:00am

The 'x-wing' thing could be a transliteration: it could be a 'facma-wing' in SW-ese, but since a 'facma' is in the shape of our X, it is substituted. That's how much of the translation works.