Traviss's new novel, True Colors

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-02-10 04:09am

The OS has posted a blurb on Traviss's new novel, True Colors.

Post by **Vympel** » 2007-02-10 04:49am

[sarcasm]Oh yeah, I'm so going to buy this.[/sarcasm]

Post by **RogueIce** » 2007-02-10 04:51am

That's an interesting set of armor, at least.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » 2007-02-10 06:52am

RogueIce wrote:That's an interesting set of armor, at least.

looks like just an update of the Katarn class Clone Commando suits.

FTeik · Post by **FTeik** » 2007-02-10 06:56am

A growing menace threatens Republic victory, and the members of Omega Squad make a discovery that shakes their loyalty.

I don't dare to think, what that might mean.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-02-10 07:01am

FTeik wrote:
A growing menace threatens Republic victory, and the members of Omega Squad make a discovery that shakes their loyalty.
I don't dare to think, what that might mean.

"Oh my, the Trade Federation is holding back 99.98% of their droid army! It's almost as though someone is manipulating both sides!"

Post by **Vympel** » 2007-02-10 07:30am

"And the Jedi are in on it! And, oh look, Ker-Flop'oa Mando'vode'oa'dergon'flip'vibrador, the Mandalorians saved the galaxy!"

Jim Raynor · Post by **Jim Raynor** » 2007-02-10 08:56am

This August, readers who loved Hard Contact and Triple Zero will have a third hard-hitting Republic Commando novel to add to their bookshelves. Karen Traviss returns with Star Wars: Republic Commando: True Colors, a novel set during the explosive Clone Wars.
In the Grand Army's desperate fight to crush the Separatists, the secret special ops missions of its elite clone warriors have never been more critical... or more dangerous. A growing menace threatens Republic victory, and the members of Omega Squad make a discovery that shakes their loyalty.

As the lines continue to blur between friend and enemy, citizens -- from civilians and sergeants to Jedi and generals -- find themselves up against a new foe: the doubt in their hearts and minds. The truth is a fragile, shifting illusion -- and only the approaching inferno will reveal both sides in their true colors.

Here's a first look at the novel's cover by Greg Knight. The book will be available in paperback this August from Del Rey Books.

Wow, that blurb was like a "greatest hits" collection of Traviss's bullshit. Whether or not the book is like what we're all suspecting it to be I'll never know, since I'll never buy something with Traviss's name on it.

Darth Culator · Post by **Darth Culator** » 2007-02-10 09:29am

Mange wrote:The OS has posted a blurb on Traviss's new novel, True Colors.

True Colors. What an ironic title from an author who went ballistic when people exposed hers.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-02-10 10:02am

Jim Raynor wrote:
This August, readers who loved Hard Contact and Triple Zero will have a third hard-hitting Republic Commando novel to add to their bookshelves. Karen Traviss returns with Star Wars: Republic Commando: True Colors, a novel set during the explosive Clone Wars.
In the Grand Army's desperate fight to crush the Separatists, the secret special ops missions of its elite clone warriors have never been more critical... or more dangerous. A growing menace threatens Republic victory, and the members of Omega Squad make a discovery that shakes their loyalty.

As the lines continue to blur between friend and enemy, citizens -- from civilians and sergeants to Jedi and generals -- find themselves up against a new foe: the doubt in their hearts and minds. The truth is a fragile, shifting illusion -- and only the approaching inferno will reveal both sides in their true colors.

Here's a first look at the novel's cover by Greg Knight. The book will be available in paperback this August from Del Rey Books.
Wow, that blurb was like a "greatest hits" collection of Traviss's bullshit. Whether or not the book is like what we're all suspecting it to be I'll never know, since I'll never buy something with Traviss's name on it.

Yes, it seems to contain every cliché Traviss has spouted for the last year. And the title is quite striking as well...

Vympel wrote:"And the Jedi are in on it! And, oh look, Ker-Flop'oa Mando'vode'oa'dergon'flip'vibrador, the Mandalorians saved the galaxy!"

Hilarious!

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2007-02-10 10:21am

Man, this sucks.

The RC novels were fairly good by EU terms.

I should've figured that hack would shoehorn some sort of self-serving crap into it soon enough. Stupid egomaniacal idiot is ruining a book series that I like just to prove her bullshit point about there only being 3 million clones.

Aratech · Post by **Aratech** » 2007-02-10 12:06pm

Darksider wrote:Man, this sucks.

The RC novels were fairly good by EU terms.

I should've figured that hack would shoehorn some sort of self-serving crap into it soon enough. Stupid egomaniacal idiot is ruining a book series that I like just to prove her bullshit point about there only being 3 million clones.

Tell me about it.

The truly sad part is that Hard Contact and Triple Zero were actually good reads, and in my case, have proven invauable in beating back Trekkie claims of all Clones being retards, that the Jedi are fools who never wear armor, that Wars' obrtial-to-ground bombardments would be useless due to poor accuracy, and that Coruscanti citizens are all a bunch of unarmed peasants.

I might have considered getting this at one point in time. But now, since Traviss has apparently thrown all shreds of common sense and logic to the wayside...

Where are the sane EU authors when we need them?

phred · Post by **phred** » 2007-02-10 01:43pm

Aratech wrote:Where are the sane EU authors when we need them?

They made their money and got out? It's what I'd do

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2007-02-10 02:59pm

I wonder if crack clone troopers Krad Esoom and SemaJ Remlig make an appearance?

The Vortex Empire · Post by **The Vortex Empire** » 2007-02-10 03:42pm

Lord Poe wrote:I wonder if crack clone troopers Krad Esoom and SemaJ Remlig make an appearance?

Please tell me that's a joke. Clone Troopers don't have names, they have numbers. At least, they do from the Clone Wars EU I've read.

darthbob88 · Post by **darthbob88** » 2007-02-10 03:45pm

The Vortex Empire wrote:
Lord Poe wrote:I wonder if crack clone troopers Krad Esoom and SemaJ Remlig make an appearance?

Please tell me that's a joke. Clone Troopers don't have names, they have numbers. At least, they do from the Clone Wars EU I've read.

It must be; the first one seems to be Dark Moose backwards, while the second appears to be James Gilmer with the same treatment. James Gilmer I'm ignorant of, but the Moose is poorly thought of around here, I think for his favorable opinions of Ms Traviss.

Jim Raynor · Post by **Jim Raynor** » 2007-02-10 03:46pm

Clones with names is not some bullshit Traviss made up herself. It's in lots of EU, including G-canon. Palpatine even called the orange clone commander who tried to kill Obi-Wan "Commander Cody." Labyrinth of Evil explains that clone names were something the Jedi and some other progressive people came up with.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2007-02-10 03:46pm

The Vortex Empire wrote: Please tell me that's a joke. Clone Troopers don't have names, they have numbers. At least, they do from the Clone Wars EU I've read.

Psst, If you rearrange the letters in the first name you get Dark Moose as for the second one I'm drawing a blank but I think the point he's trying to make is pretty clear.

Jim Raynor · Post by **Jim Raynor** » 2007-02-10 03:48pm

Cpl Kendall wrote:[as for the second one I'm drawing a blank

James Gilmer, some fanboy asskisser on Traviss's LiveJournal.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-02-10 03:54pm

The Vortex Empire wrote:
Lord Poe wrote:I wonder if crack clone troopers Krad Esoom and SemaJ Remlig make an appearance?

Please tell me that's a joke. Clone Troopers don't have names, they have numbers. At least, they do from the Clone Wars EU I've read.

Some clones are allowed to have names. Only the ones who recieve the more advanced training from mercenaries and such for greater individuality are allowed them (Commanders, Commandos, etc.).

Aratech · Post by **Aratech** » 2007-02-10 04:24pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:
The Vortex Empire wrote:
Lord Poe wrote:I wonder if crack clone troopers Krad Esoom and SemaJ Remlig make an appearance?

Please tell me that's a joke. Clone Troopers don't have names, they have numbers. At least, they do from the Clone Wars EU I've read.
Some clones are allowed to have names. Only the ones who recieve the more advanced training from mercenaries and such for greater individuality are allowed them (Commanders, Commandos, etc.).

Not necessarily. Normal Clones seem to receive names as well. However, it is a very personal thing, as the name appears to be something given to them by their fellows. They appear to prefer outsiders not refer to them by their names. Why, I'm not sure, but some of my friends have speculated that they might see it as some manner of violation of what little privacy they have.

The Vortex Empire · Post by **The Vortex Empire** » 2007-02-10 04:40pm

Jim Raynor wrote:Clones with names is not some bullshit Traviss made up herself. It's in lots of EU, including G-canon. Palpatine even called the orange clone commander who tried to kill Obi-Wan "Commander Cody." Labyrinth of Evil explains that clone names were something the Jedi and some other progressive people came up with.

I'm aware that Commanders and Commandos do have names. It's just the Grunts that usually don't.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-02-10 04:48pm

Jim Raynor wrote:
Cpl Kendall wrote:[as for the second one I'm drawing a blank
James Gilmer, some fanboy asskisser on Traviss's LiveJournal.

Wasn't he privy to the first look of some of the material she had written?

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-02-10 05:20pm

The Vortex Empire wrote:
Jim Raynor wrote:Clones with names is not some bullshit Traviss made up herself. It's in lots of EU, including G-canon. Palpatine even called the orange clone commander who tried to kill Obi-Wan "Commander Cody." Labyrinth of Evil explains that clone names were something the Jedi and some other progressive people came up with.

I'm aware that Commanders and Commandos do have names. It's just the Grunts that usually don't.

Wrong, all the one's In my list aren't Commanders or Commandos:
CT/A-1707 "Able"
Able 472
"Clanky"
CT-44/444 "Forry"
"Fi"
CT-0000/1010 "Fox"
"Galle"
"Inc"
"Mort"
CT-12/74 "Seefor"
CT-36/732 "Sirty"
CT-X270 "Xutoo"
CT-12/12-0068 "Twelve"
CT-41/14-0301 "Barr"
CT-43/76-9155 "Jorir"
CT-52/89-9204 "Tyto"
CT-53/21-8778 "Green"
CT-5108/8843 "Corr"
Sergeant Remy

The Vortex Empire · Post by **The Vortex Empire** » 2007-02-10 05:24pm

General Schatten wrote:
The Vortex Empire wrote: I'm aware that Commanders and Commandos do have names. It's just the Grunts that usually don't.
Wrong, all the one's In my list aren't Commanders or Commandos:
CT/A-1707 "Able"
Able 472
"Clanky"
CT-44/444 "Forry"
"Fi"
CT-0000/1010 "Fox"
"Galle"
"Inc"
"Mort"
CT-12/74 "Seefor"
CT-36/732 "Sirty"
CT-X270 "Xutoo"
CT-12/12-0068 "Twelve"
CT-41/14-0301 "Barr"
CT-43/76-9155 "Jorir"
CT-52/89-9204 "Tyto"
CT-53/21-8778 "Green"
CT-5108/8843 "Corr"
Sergeant Remy

Huh. Guess I haven't read enough Clone Wars EU.

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