SW.com: First Look - The Essential Atlas

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-10-06 03:22am

It's Dan Wallace, so I have a very bad feeling about this:

SW.com: First Look - The Essential Atlas

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-10-06 05:39am

Apart from possible "lol magic shiled keeps us inside the galaxy" nonsense, I'm looking forward to the campaigns section, showing how each conflict went.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2007-10-06 06:37am

I thought the "hyperspace barrier" was debunked in the NJO? Danni Quee gave some sort of lecture on it and how it wasn't a permannt thing or some such. Given all the "extra-galactic" entities which have invaded the galaxy (Remember the Silentium and Abominor?)

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-10-06 06:43am

Yeah those two machine species managed to get into the GFFA and I assume they didn't use Vector Prime or whatever to do it.

Weren't the Tofs also from outside the galaxy?

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-10-06 06:49am

VT-16 wrote:Weren't the Tofs also from outside the galaxy?

No. IIRC, The Essential Chronology established that they hailed from some star cluster (globular cluster?) from within the Unknown Regions.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-10-06 07:00am

the Unknown Regions

*cricket chirp*

That basically tells us nothing, since the Unknown Regions are so nebulously defined anyway. :/

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-10-06 03:17pm

Just the cover? Man, what a letdown of a preview...

Jericho Kross · Post by **Jericho Kross** » 2007-10-06 06:56pm

Looks good so far. I just hope it does not have some of the retarded EU shit in it.

Aratech · Post by **Aratech** » 2007-10-06 06:59pm

Connor MacLeod wrote:I thought the "hyperspace barrier" was debunked in the NJO? Danni Quee gave some sort of lecture on it and how it wasn't a permannt thing or some such. Given all the "extra-galactic" entities which have invaded the galaxy (Remember the Silentium and Abominor?)

There's also the fact that we see the guys hanging out in the middle of nowhere in ESB. THe galaxy appears to be of a similar size as the milky way appears in the new Halo game (though I'll admit that this is a bit of a stretch to compare). WOuldn't that mean they're about 200,000 light years away?

Pelranius · Post by **Pelranius** » 2007-10-06 07:18pm

Aratech wrote:
Connor MacLeod wrote:I thought the "hyperspace barrier" was debunked in the NJO? Danni Quee gave some sort of lecture on it and how it wasn't a permannt thing or some such. Given all the "extra-galactic" entities which have invaded the galaxy (Remember the Silentium and Abominor?)
There's also the fact that we see the guys hanging out in the middle of nowhere in ESB. THe galaxy appears to be of a similar size as the milky way appears in the new Halo game (though I'll admit that this is a bit of a stretch to compare). WOuldn't that mean they're about 200,000 light years away?

I believe that 'galaxy' in question was the Rishi Maze or another smaller one.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-10-06 08:46pm

Jericho Kross wrote:Looks good so far. I just hope it does not have some of the retarded EU shit in it.

You must be joking... Dan Wallace's modus operandi is to walk the middle line. Not that I blame him, since office politics seem to extend to just about anything.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-10-07 02:59am

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:
Jericho Kross wrote:Looks good so far. I just hope it does not have some of the retarded EU shit in it.
You must be joking... Dan Wallace's modus operandi is to walk the middle line. Not that I blame him, since office politics seem to extend to just about anything.

Wallace discussed the infantile concept of the hyperspace barrier on the OS a few years ago:
+http://forums.starwars.com/thread.jspa? ... &start=300

And you can bet your socks that the Unknown Regions will make out a large chunk of the disc:
+http://boards.theforce.net/literature/b ... 938930/p27

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-10-07 04:05am

Apparently things have gotten worse since I quit the TF.N

FTeik · Post by **FTeik** » 2007-10-07 07:47am

Of course they have gone worse. The sane people are almost all gone so that means the boot-lickers remain.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-10-07 02:41pm

FTeik wrote:Of course they have gone worse. The sane people are almost all gone so that means the boot-lickers remain.

The retarded Ewok must have been jerking off in excitement over his imminent victory.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-10-07 02:56pm

I still don't understand how he ever got into any position of authority. But judging from his conversations with authors, I assume it's due to asskissing.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-10-07 03:02pm

VT-16 wrote:I still don't understand how he ever got into any position of authority. But judging from his conversations with authors, I assume it's due to asskissing.

That and the fact that he has plenty of allies like Ender Sai. I take it that was how that idiot Havac got the post as well.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2007-10-07 11:10pm

Fuck em. It still makes no intrinsic sense, is spiritually and analytically in dispute with the filmic canon, and even with the DK publications.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2007-10-08 12:56am

It is kind of hard to have an INTERGALACTIC Banking Clan when you can't leave the galaxy.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2007-10-08 01:17am

Ender wrote:It is kind of hard to have an INTERGALACTIC Banking Clan when you can't leave the galaxy.

Well, there are always the two "dwarf" galaxies seen in AOTC...

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2007-10-08 01:28am

DEATH wrote:
Ender wrote:It is kind of hard to have an INTERGALACTIC Banking Clan when you can't leave the galaxy.
Well, there are always the two "dwarf" galaxies seen in AOTC...

Which are in orbit around the main galaxy and thus outside the galaxy, meaning they are able to leave the galaxy.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2007-10-08 01:44am

Ender wrote:It is kind of hard to have an INTERGALACTIC Banking Clan when you can't leave the galaxy.

One can always point to the fact that Miss Universe isn't made up of beauties from the universe.

I won't use the IGB as an argument for intergalactic travel.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2007-10-08 01:45am

I'm withholding judgement until I actually see samples from the interior.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-10-08 02:48am

PainRack wrote:
Ender wrote:It is kind of hard to have an INTERGALACTIC Banking Clan when you can't leave the galaxy.
One can always point to the fact that Miss Universe isn't made up of beauties from the universe.

I won't use the IGB as an argument for intergalactic travel.

ICS mentioned the IGB had space stations outside the galaxy proper.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-10-08 02:31pm

According to Random House, it's 256 pages.