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Galvatron wrote:

Elheru Aran wrote:Unfortunately not having seen Rebels I can't say whether they've already shown Pellaeon or not...

Why haven't you seen Rebels?

Elheru Aran wrote:

Galvatron wrote:Yeah, he was retconned along with a lot of other Zahnisms, but he's still supposed to be an older man with white hair and amustache.

People can go grey at a fairly young age even in the Star Wars galaxy, I suppose...

So say he was a Republic Judicial for some time before the Clone Wars, served in the Republic Navy then, and became an Imperial officer afterwards. That works well enough, and they did introduce the Chimera when they brought Thrawn in.

Unfortunately not having seen Rebels I can't say whether they've already shown Pellaeon or not... I'm inclined to say the character is Yularen, mostly because most depictions of Pellaeon show him with his hat on while Yularen usually doesn't have a hat.

eMeM wrote:Rogue One shows the main batteries firing, although the crews over Scarif didn't think about tilting forwards so no superfiring there.

eMeM wrote:I'm not talking about less detailed models, I'm talking about proportions, the ISD has a giraffe neck and is much less bulky, TIE Fighters have huge balls ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) and tiny solar panels.

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Those are radiator panels and possibly anti-grav/art-grav repulsor panels not solar panels urgh QED gigajoules concession accepted!

Galvatron wrote:Home One already? The Profundity was supposed to be the first Mon Cal cruiser ready for combat at the time of the Battle of Scarif.

Maybe they used Home One as an unarmed carrier for a while?

Elheru Aran wrote:

Galvatron wrote:Pellaeon is supposed to be old. From page 1, chapter 1 of HTTE:

Keeping his eyes on the engineering display, Pellaeon waited until he could hear the sound of the approaching footsteps. Then, with all the regal weight that fifty years spent in the Imperial Fleet gave to a man, he straightened up and turned.

...the Empire wasn't around 50 years for there to be an Imperial Navy that long? (albeit this is before anybody knew it had only been around twenty-ish years before Endor so Zahn gets a pass there, I suppose)

But I'm not sure the math adds up there.

I'm okay with Pellaeon being in the Clone Wars, say. Perhaps even the Yinchorri Uprising. But the Clone Wars only covered a few years. Then there's twenty-some years of Imperial rule up to Yavin, Endor happens a few years down the road, and in the old canon, the Thrawn Trilogy happens less than ten years after Yavin, so that can't be much more than say thirty, thirty-five years max.

Now if you backdate Pellaeon's career to have him being a Republic Judicial or something along those lines for a couple decades or so before the Clone Wars, then I suppose I can buy that. Wookieepedia says something like that, apparently, so it's not an original concept.

RogueIce wrote:

Galvatron wrote:Home One already? The Profundity was supposed to be the first Mon Cal cruiser ready for combat at the time of the Battle of Scarif.

Maybe they used Home One as an unarmed carrier for a while?

Wookieepedia doesn't say that, where's this come from?

If it's true though: lol at the "superior" continuity of the New Canon

The Mon Calamari took to converting these transports and passenger liners into capital ships, with Admiral Raddus' Profundity one of the first ready for battle.

RogueIce wrote:Found a quote from somebody on Spacebattles:

The Mon Calamari took to converting these transports and passenger liners into capital ships, with Admiral Raddus' Profundity one of the first ready for battle.

Inexact wording = continuity saved!

The Romulan Republic wrote:I'm just irked that of all the dumb ideas they could keep from the EU, the kept the notion that the Mon Calimari's ships, which are supposed to be good enough to challenge Star Destroyers, are converted passenger liners.