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Discussion for untitled fiction

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:02 am
by CPT Bane
This is a discussion for my fiction.

Read it here http://empirereborn.net/holonet/viewtopic.php?t=1220

It's based on a forest planet. Anyone know any good ones besides endor or yavin?

It's a sort of flashback, as the current storyline places us on the star destroyers...

I only got the idea last night, so plot ideas would be helpful.

And a title... I need a title...

Ideas? Questions? Comments?

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:10 am
by Reservist Foley
Well for planets there's Wayland (Best used for Emperor's ascension), Kashyyyk, Naboo (Some, but not much forest), Arbra (If we found this Rebel planet) , and Myrkr.

And for an idea... put me in it and make me really cool :P

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:13 am
by Robert Lee
You know what, Private, it is pretty good, just add alot, like side battle of the regualr army troops, some on planet air battles, what other people are thinking, get creative, people will read it.

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:17 am
by Reservist Foley
And they will add on to it themselves, giving a story from many view points.

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:19 am
by CPT Bane
I'm not familiar with arbra. What's that from?

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:22 am
by Reservist Foley
Arbra was in a comic series, I remember it from a bit ago. It was a Rebel HQ after Hoth (quite a difference in climate :D). I'm not sure if the Empire ever found it.

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:25 am
by Reservist Foley
Titles are impossible for me. Just look for a somewhat consistant theme, and base it on that. What I do, though that's not a very good thing mabey :P

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:27 am
by CPT Bane
Well, after hoth the rebels fled to the outskirts of the galaxy... It's probably a good place for the imperial army to have found a long hidden rebel base. Sounds good.

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:30 am
by Robert Lee
Yes, that would be a very good story line.
But as you write these, try to think about the knew ones, and if you have an idea for the next campain, send it into FA Polanski, it would be kind of cool for us to find a hidden rebel base and sluaghter them.:P

BTW, I am ALT Lee of Spearhead.

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:36 am
by CPT Bane
so it says in your sig.

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:28 pm
by LC La Forge
FYI, that forum is for OuterSectors roleplaying only... you may want to move it to the officer's bar. :)

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:53 pm
by MCHuskie
PFC Bain wrote:Well, after hoth the rebels fled to the outskirts of the galaxy...
No - they fled to *outside* the galaxy. Take a look at the backdrop in the final scenes of TESB.
John Foley wrote:Arbra was in a comic series, I remember it from a bit ago. It was a Rebel HQ after Hoth (quite a difference in climate :D). I'm not sure if the Empire ever found it.
Which is a case in point as to why comic books (or "graphic novels" if you will) are not so good to be used as sources of information! The reason we didn't find it is because it doesn't exist... as I said, the Rebels left the galaxy, they had learned by then to not have a single base holding all of their forces. From there until Sullust (before Endor), the Rebel fleet remained fragmented and dispersed (much as they believed our own fleet to be).

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:09 pm
by LC La Forge
Ah... I was under the impression that leaving the galaxy was impossible using hyperdrive because of some field surrounding it. Granted, this is either NJO information or similar, but that's the impression I was under.

(and yes, I know about Outbound Flight... but would it have works had it not been destroyed?)

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:18 pm
by MCHuskie
It is commented upon in (IIRC) Tales of the Bounty Hunters. It may explain why they didn't get that far out (relatively speaking) from the galactic disc.

Basically, the thinking goes: a planet has a lot of mass. It generates a large gravity well. A galaxy is a lot bigger than a planet. Hence the gravity well is a lot bigger. When you're in the galaxy itself, the effect is negated as you have matter on all sides. As you move to the edge of the disc (and note that, like the Milky Way, the SW galaxy is also spiral) the balance shifts so that most of the matter is behind you.

It could be theorised, then, that the Rebels only went as far out as they could do before their hyperdrives conked out. We do, however, then have issues about how the Falcon got out there - although its drive is faster, is it powerful enough? The Falcon is lighter than (say) a Frigate or Corvette, so that would act in its favour.

Maybe worth a read: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/hyperspace.html (Good old SWTC!)

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:41 am
by Reservist Foley
Let me rephrase the work Rebel HQ. It wasn't so much that, as just a station. Nothing permanent was there, and besides, they'd still need troops stationed somewhere, they coudln't possibly fit them all in their fleet. They didn't really start to produce their fleets until after ROTJ, so they'd have to store their things in a few different places, though it wasn't necissariily an HQ.