Strrrike three. They did NOT say 'Fifteen top of the line Battleships'
What the quote SAYS is this:
' "Actualy the ruling Chiss families never had the chance to decide one way or the other," Parck said. "Palpatine had already decided that the Jedi represented a grave threat to the Old Republic and had sent an assault force into the region to quietly take care of the Outbound Flight when they showed up."
"And there they were, busily setting up their ambush, when Thrawn found them"
He shook his head. "You have to understand the situation, Mara to truely appreciate it. On one side were handpicked units of Palpatine's own private army, equiped with fifteen top-line combat ships. On the other side were Commander Mitth'raw'nuruodo of the Chiss Expansionary Defence and perhaps twelve small and insignificant boarder patrol ships."
"I appreciate it just fine," Mara said, suppressing a shudder. "How badly did Thrawn slaughter them?"
"Utterly," Parck said, the ghost of a smile creasing his face. "I belive only a single one of Palpatines ships remained capable of flight, and that only because Thrawn wanted some of the invaders left alive to interrogate." '
Again Fteik fights to elevate subjective words of and even misquotes to try and justify elevating a pathetic clutch of 29 worlds full of racist Ingsoc blue elitests to Mara-speculation levels (the worst is Mittyphiles can't even concede that even from Zahn it was only ever an assumption based on a momentary glance at a map with colored regions) which are themselves below the vastly overrated Mitty autoerotic vast secret vaults of whatever. I'd really love to commend Zahn on being able to create this massive assumption and get his fans to cling to it so dogmatically.
The Chiss are a pathetic backward inferior relatively insignificant clutch of worlds out in the middle of nowhere in no way comparable to any even token galactic power.
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To be fair to Fteik, he had to translate the VOTF to English, so it may not have been entirely clear. However, more on what exactly went down with the Outbound Flight Project will be revealed in "Survivor's Quest," and Zahn's book in 2005 that details the exact events of the Project itself. I should hope our answer will be found there.
The exact quote goes something like (i have to translate back to english):
What a surpise.
Not only are Chris O´Farell and IP unable to understand what i wrote in the first place, they are also unable to give me an answer to the questions i asked and instead continue to repeat their rants from before. This is no discussion, this is ignoring points that lead to conclusions they don´t like. I´m happily willing to conceede to their point, if they can give me a satisfying answer to the points i brought up. If not we´ll have to wait for Survivor´s Quest or another source, that sheds more light on the subject.
Concerning "significant" threats to the galaxy we have seen in SW, that had a surprisingly small powerbase: There were the Nagai and the Toffs in Marvel (like the Chiss from the UR according to starwars.com), Prince-Admiral Krennel with a Pulsar-Station in the Tion-Hegemony (although a fake the possibility of its existance caused great worries for the NR in "Isard´s Revenge), the Hutt´s version of a DeathStar in Darksaber, the Yevethans and of course the Yuuzhan Vong, where one single planet is enough to house all the survivors of the war.
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Darth Garden Gnome wrote:To be fair to Fteik, he had to translate the VOTF to English, so it may not have been entirely clear. However, more on what exactly went down with the Outbound Flight Project will be revealed in "Survivor's Quest," and Zahn's book in 2005 that details the exact events of the Project itself. I should hope our answer will be found there.
Thank you.
The optimist thinks, that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist is afraid, that this is true.
"Don't ask, what your country can do for you. Ask, what you can do for your country." Mao Tse-Tung.
FTeik wrote: of course the Yuuzhan Vong, where one single planet is enough to house all the survivors of the war.
speaking of that, does anyone have Luceano's email address? I want to ask him about that and a few other points, but I can't find it as he doesn't have a homepage. PM it to me.
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