Star Wars Plagarism?

[Pablo Sanchez]

If you can manufacture a pnuematic nail gun you can make a personal side arm (a very sucky one, but still better than a spear FFS).

That's thinking too hard, chemical firearms would follow very rapidly on the heels of discovering Rakatan technology, if we assume them to be the source of all significant innovation in the early years of the Star Wars universe. The knowledge of materials science, chemistry, physics, and engineering that would be absolutely critical to maintaining and operating space ships would lend itself admirably to the development of weapons. It is completely asinine to suggest that somebody who built or repaired rocket ships for a living would never think about building a small rocket and shooting it into a crowd of enemy soldiers. As for firearms, the physical principles underlying them are actually exceeding simple, child's play for a spaceship engineer--a chemical explosion in an enclosed space is channeled down a narrow barrel, pushing a bit of metal ahead of it.In our own Earth's history, gunpowder weapons were constructed by people whose previous experience was making bells and who had only an ad hoc grasp of physics.

[ray245]

Can anyone raise the issue to new line so George Lucas will finally start to have more say over the EU?

Like DIRECT control?

Please?

[andrewgpaul]

Holy shit that styracosaurus/mumakil hybrid is awful, I mean, so are the spears and LotR soldiers, but that monster is just nasty. Look at the tusks it has underneath its jaw in a bizarre "beard", they look so cumbersome and out of place. Urgh. Shocking, absolutely shocking.

That 'beard' is actually the mumak's bottom jaw, which the artist forgot to remove.

[Ryushikaze]

I'd always suspected that Middle-Earth was a planet of the Old Republic. The Wizards were really Force Adepts (or maybe some of the Lost 13) who had taken up stewardship of the backwater planet, having become inordinately fond of the friendly natives known as Hobbits. The various tribes of Men were truly colonists, and Gondor had fallen so far as a result of losing the ability to maintain their technology to a Galactic-level. The only remarkable remaining technology was a set of holographic communication devices, which would later become known as Palantir. The Ring, of course, is an artifact infused with the Dark Side of the Force, and Hobbits have a Toydarian-like resistance to the whole Control aspect of the Force. This image just furthers my theory, really. Middle-Earth must have been founded by one of the very earliest expeditions away from Coruscant, and so maintained the aesthetics of that age out of tradition.

I always did think that the Minas Tirith of the movies looked like it came from Coruscant or Naboo.

But yeah... there's no way this was an accident. In fact, it's so blatant, I'm tempted to throw in my gauntlet with the "done with new line's knowledge" crowd.

[Stark]

Don't be retarded. Just drink a glass of water and go lie down. Or go into the fanfic forum... away from me.

Frankly, like many others, the plagarism is far less relevant to me than the utterly retarded content of the image. That anyone accepts it intellectually for even a second makes me sad: it instantly hits my shitfilters and gets filed under 'stupid EU crap that I hate and ignore'. Anyone who said the SW:EU wasn't as stupid and bullshit as monthly comic books need look no further.

[Uraniun235]

"okay guys we've got spearmen and lightsabers, what else should we add?"
"let's add DINOSAURS! with LASER CANNONS!"
"HOLY SHIT LETS DO THIS"

[Lord Relvenous]

Holy shit that styracosaurus/mumakil hybrid is awful, I mean, so are the spears and LotR soldiers, but that monster is just nasty. Look at the tusks it has underneath its jaw in a bizarre "beard", they look so cumbersome and out of place. Urgh. Shocking, absolutely shocking.

That 'beard' is actually the mumak's bottom jaw, which the artist forgot to remove.

Its not just the lower jaw the "artist" forgot to remove, those bottom tusks were off of the orignal Mumakil. Man, I am more and more amazed with every case of stupid, lazy ineptness i find in this picture.

[andrewgpaul]

Nah, I figured he left those bottom tusks in on purpose, because, hey, every giant laser-lizard needs extra spikes, yes?

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

Hilarious plagiarism aside, this reminds me of a Turtledove story, 'The Road Less Traveled', about a spacefaring race that still uses flintlock rifles and spyglasses and is currently the hegemon of the known galaxy- until it tries to invade near-future Earth.

[Illuminatus Primus]

Where do you even get somebody fucking retarded enough to come up with a war setting like that? They have the technology to build spaceships and death rays, but they still fight in shield wall formation with swords and spears? One would think that at some stage of the creative process, a person would say, "Hey, it doesn't really make any sense for people who can build ray-guns to carry metal swords, because firearms are an obvious invention and would be trivially easy to build for a space-faring civilization."

My guess is that the Dark Horse people who were tasked with creating this offal just said, "Hey who gives a shit, it's a comic book, and Star Wars fans will buy it even if it doesn't make any sense."

This is just a continuation of previous dreck, only now made visual in a larger publication. The Knights of the Old Republic comic series (for all the complaints about the KOTOR RPGs, at least it created an ancient prequel Star Wars that seemed like actually belonged to the franchise of the films and did its best to ignore this shit) started us with the clan-and-warrior culture from the Middle Ages for the Mandalorians, complete with their war mounts; it gave us the ancient Sith with spears and magic and twisted creatures; it gave us seemingly pre-Classical outfits complete with manual construction of pyramids by primitives. And then there's the total abyss that is Jedi vs. Sith, what with melee combat en masse and wooden battleships that fly. Can't make this up. I totally ignore all this; it just does not occur in my SoD conception of Star Wars.

[Sarevok]

Anyone here seen He-Man ?

In He-Man cartoons and comics high technology like repulsor tanks, laser guns and shields coexists with swords, spears, arrows and high fantasy races. The route taken by the EU is very similar to the He-Man settings.

[Darth Wong]

Anyone here seen He-Man ?

In He-Man cartoons and comics high technology like repulsor tanks, laser guns and shields coexists with swords, spears, arrows and high fantasy races. The route taken by the EU is very similar to the He-Man settings.

This is all coming from those EU assholes who used to lambast people like myself and Curtis Saxton for failing to understand that "Star Wars is just fantasy; stop analyzing it".

Congrats, morons. You're destroying the franchise with your idiotic "we will write exclusively for idiots from now on" policies.