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From: mmartin@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew Wayne Martin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Lucas interview in Lucasfilm Magazine
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:58:51 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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	I haven't received my magazine yet, and won't see it until I go
home on Friday, but to those who have received it or will in the next few days,
can you let us know the answer to two simple questions (we don't need the 
entire interview just these answers).


1. Will there be new Star Wars movies?
2. If yes, when will they be released?


	On a different subject, this summer someone mentioned on the net that a
STAR WARS Chess set (like the Star Trek one) was being made.  Any info when it
will be available and for how much?

	Finally, any news on the supposed Kenneth Flint SW novel due out next
month (ie, is it actually being made, or just a rumor)?
From: boisvert@yaya.WPI.EDU (Brian Richard Boisvert)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: pictures.
Date: 8 Oct 1992 03:52:07 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: yaya.wpi.edu
Keywords: Does anybody know where I could get good pictures of SW-related

In article <1992Oct8.011820.13050@athena.mit.edu> tigerman@athena.mit.edu (Guillermo E Gutierrez) writes:
>	Also, does anybody know what name and code I need to get into
>vab02.larc.nasa.gov?  I heard they have some decent SW pictures there.
>
>		Thanks in advance

	To get onto an FTP site, type anonymous when asked for a name, and
type your email address for the password.  Later.



-- 
Brian R. Boisvert    Worcester Polytechnic Institute    boisvert@wpi.wpi.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Thursday, 8 Oct 1992 13:07:48 EDT
From: The illustrius Pat Ellis (the DM) <IO11330@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Star Wars hype? Not!
 <1at1akINN297@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Oct7.114809.14564@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
 <1avjg6INNn5f@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <BvsKIH.Kn4@news.cso.uiuc.edu>

Well I tend to agree that there really isn't alot of hype going on
right now.  BUT i'd like to comment that I'd like to see a different
Kind of type if and when the First Trilogy ever goes into production.

It seems to me that everyone know what star wars is.  What I would like
to see is to commercial/hype that doesn't show anything from the movie.
Kind of like what happened about four or five months before Willow came
out.  Lots of hints and suggestions but clear picture.  Every one will want
to see the movie because its star Wars.  Perhaps a few adds alot the lines
of the intro to Star wars (In a galaxy far far away........ ) with very
brief clips of film 2 or 3 second at most...... any comments?
                                 Pat Ellis
From: pwg25888@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Patrick W. Grady)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Z-95?
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:07:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bvt8sH.Fvn
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Michael Raymond Cote <mc7g+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>I think a Z-95 is a starfighter that predates the X-Wing.  Han and
>friends fly a bunch of them in one of the Han Solo novels, and in the
>SW:RPG Module, "Tatooine Manhunt," there's a sketch of one and some
>stats for it (though I suspect that this sketch is actually a production
>design preliminary for an X-Wing)  

>-Michael Cote


You're right.  The Z-95 Headhunter shows up in those books and the picture
in "Tatooine Manhunt" are prepoduction of another craft.  The description
I remember of the Z-95 is a looking like an F-14 with blasters set in the 
wing.  

	Patrick
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From: "peter dougherty" <peter.dougherty@canrem.com>
Subject: star wars font??
Reply-To: "peter dougherty" <peter.dougherty@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:48:50 EST

To: pip@pro-freedom.cts.com

DP>If someone is interested, I would be happy to upload an EPS file that I
  >made from Futura of "STAR WARS"  -- It is not 100% perfect, as I only
  >needed it briefly, but it is a pretty good reproduction.....

DP>Let me know if you folks are interested, and I will e-mail you a copy of
  >it...

I'm very interested, but I don't have a Mac.  If it will work with Adobe
for Windows, please, please PLEASE send me a copy.  Which leads me to another
slight problem: The only "access I have to the Usenet/Internet system is
through a commercial BBS, and I don't think I have access to any file tsfr
capabilities through this system.

By the way, I AM looking as well for Star Trek fonts (TOS AND TNG) also for
Windows (I found Crillee and Klinzhai by accident!) and any other major-
TV/motion picture font, but purely for non-commercial applications only.

Any help/suggestions will be gratefully and graciously appreciated.

Thanks in advance/ Peter VE3-THX

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From: heerdege@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Juergen Heerdegen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: ROJ figures FOR SALE!
Summary: ROJ figures FOR SALE!
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:32:31 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I've got a bunch of Return of the Jedi and Power of the Force figures I'm
trying to get rid of.  I posted without much success a few weeks ago so I've
revised some of the prices.  Email me for a complete list.

-Juerg
heerdege@gandalf.rutgers.edu
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From: kachun@spot.Colorado.EDU (Ka Chun Yu)
Subject: Re: Raiders : Directed by commitee
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:31:40 GMT

gmclain@lonestar.utsa.edu (Glenn A. Mclain) writes:
>    Actually, I heard that Ford had been sick for a week, and the director
>  decided that rather than going through a intense battle with Indy's whip,
>  that the gun would be used.

Actually Ford suffered food poisoning from something he ate the night (or
just a few nights) before.  He suffered from . . . how shall we say . . .
Montezuma's revenge the day of the shoot and just wasn't up to doing the
complicated fight scene that had a been scripted.  Hence he complained to
Spielberg and suggested a quicker way to finish off the swordsman.

>  Glenn........

-- 
-kachun

*Ka Chun Yu                * "I'm going down to Cowtown, the cow's a friend of *
*kachun@spot.coloardo.edu  *  me; he lives beneath the ocean and that's where  *
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:27:22 EDT
From: <DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Delta Source Scrutiny
 <1992Oct6.023951.2108@pro-freedom.cts.com>
 <1687812A97.MHART00@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>

In article <1687812A97.MHART00@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>, MHART00@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU
(mason hart) says:
>
>With Zahn going to so much trouble to keep the identity of
>Delta Source a secret, it almost has to be a person.  He's
>trying to set up a surprise for his readers, and something
>as mundane as a "bug" would be far too anticlimactic.  My
>money's still on Winter.

I thought it was Winter too, at first, but I was swayed. I think that having
Delta Source NOT be a person is the whole point; all the guesswork centers
around the people in the story, and stuff like the plants is often over-
looked. Also, the ch'hala trees are not just a "bug"; a mechanical bug would
have been detected, especially after the Republic knew there was a leak in
the palace and were actively scanning for mechanical devices. The ch'hala
trees are organic and might possibly have some level of sentience. They could
respond to outside information stimuli with some degree of discriminative
attention or judgment. I have been mulling over the possibility that they
pay particular attention to the presence or mention of certain people, such
as high-ranking ( or notorious ) Republic personnel, etc. Maybe the reason
why the tree flashed when Han yelled "Councilor Fey'lya" was because it
was primed to respond with a high level of attention to the mention of
( for example ) Fey'lya's name. I would have to check Luke's passage down
the corridor more carefully, but it seems that the trees only respond to
his touch, not his voice, in that sequence. Of course, the flashes might not
mean anything as far as the information-recording capacity of the
tree goes, and I believe Skywalker was talking about Jomark,etc. at the time.
   Winter is a creation of Zahn's, pulled out of nowhere and thrown into
the Star Wars universe. And then we're told that she and Leia have been
companions since childhood, which we have to accept. It's too easy for her
to be the surprise traitor through such literary sleight-of-hand.

   -THARIZDUN
From: bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Vader's Death
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:17:55 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Oct13.003702.910@udel.edu> lim@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Julie Lim) writes:
>In article <1bcagtINNjrc@bigboote.WPI.EDU> mmartin@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew Wayne Martin) writes:
>>
>>	If you want something to debate about, how come Anakin doesn't
>>disappear after he dies....he has supposedly turned back to the good side (he
>>appears at the end with Ben and Yoda, both of whom disappeared upon death).
>>And don't tell me it's because he's more machine than man because his head, which you see is as non-machine as there is and it's still there after he dies.
>>(The more machine answer was given in an issue of BANTHA TRACKS by one of
>>the producers, but not by Lucas (the only authority) himself.
>
>
>	Harrumph. How many times am I going to have to say this?
>
>	Vader's life-support systems kept his basic bodily functions going
>even after he'd suffered brain-death (in his truncated conversation with Luke).
>This explanation, as well as being easy to remember, also handles the question
>of why Anakin didn't appear with that nifty blue glow until after Vader's
>body had been burned.

I haven't seen ROTJ in a few months, and my memory may be a little
fuzzy here.  The way I recall it, we only see Vader for about a
second or two after he dies.  Now, when Ben died, he disappeared
immediately (like, before Vader's lightsabre finished cutting
through him), but it's rather shaky whether or not Yoda's body
disappears immediately after he died.  Maybe Vader's body DID
disappear on the Death Star, but the camera shifted before we
could see it.  It's iffy, I'll admit, but it could be right.
(Unless, of course, I was wrong about the duration of camera
time spent on Vader at the time of his death.  If I was, ignore
everything above.)

I also have a question about Luke burning Vader's armor.  This
will probably seem to be coming completely out of left field,
but I think that in the Star Wars society, burning (as opposed
to burying) is the common death ritual (for lack of a better
term).  My reasoning is based on a scene in ANH.  After Luke,
Ben, C-3PO, and R2-D2 find the Jawa Sandcrawler that the
Imperials destroyed, Luke races home, finds Owen and Beru dead,
and races back to Ben, et. al.  And what are Ben, C-3PO, and
R2-D2 doing?  Burning the Jawa's bodies.  Anyone have any
ideas why, or does my funeral pyre idea seem valid to anyone
else in the world (probably a first for one of my ideas   :)  )?

-- 
"Dog bites man--that's not a story.  Man bites dog--*that's* a story.  And
if the dog and the man slug it out for six issues, and then Wolverine shows
up for a guest appearance, and the dog turns out to be a mutant, that's a
*Marvel* story!"			-Marvel Editorial Handbook
Organization: Freshman, Art, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 1992 20:20:02 -0400 
From: "Scott T. Morgan" <sm89+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Delta Source

I agree with Mason, Winter is your Delta source. I can't really back
that with hard evidence, but I just have the really bad feeling about
it...
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: gfm@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George Francis McBay)
Subject: Re: No more movies?
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:40:45 GMT

In article <92280.133504BNB101@psuvm.psu.edu> <BNB101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>    I read an article in the march 1992 issue of Cinematastique entitled
>'Where's Star Wars 4'.  It told of how Lucas approached Joe Johnson and asked
>him to direct the next movie.  Mr. Johnson insisted he get to do all three in
>sequence at the same time to cut costs.  Lucas agreed and preproduction was
>started.  But all of a sudden, Lucas told everyone to go home and the project
>was aborted.

	This is a false leak in order to make the surprise all the greater, of
course.  There are new Star Wars films being made and I am beginning to think
they are in full production or (close to) post-production by now.  I've read
all the arguments about how it would be impossible to keep such a thing a
secret, but I still have this big hunch that Star Wars 1-3 will be coming
to a "theater near you" a hell of a lot sooner than you think.

Someone once mentioned that Last Command (Timothy Zahn's 3rd Star Wars novel)
would be coming out in June or July. Is this true?  If so, why?  The others
all came out in May, classic Star Wars month.  Another person mentioned that
we might be seeing the book and the first movie coming out simultanously.
Maybe Lucas is planning a release sometime in June/July rather than the
expected May.  The movie scene is a bit different than it was even in the
early 80s, and most expected box-off smashes (of which any Star Wars movie
is guaranteeed) is usually targeted for early-Summer rather than late-spring.





Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:06:52 -0400 
From: John Michael Santore <jsbh+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Hyperdrive multiplier

Damn... it's been a while since I've posted anything.

OK... the hyperdrive multiplier is a number which is multiplied by the
base time it takes to get from one place to another.  Thus If it take 14
days to go from Dantooine to Tatooine and you have a HM of 1/2 it only
takes 7 days.... or conversely if yo have a HM of 2 it takes 28 days....

Hope that helps-
            
                John Santore

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From: ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Archive Update
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:05:16 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu


	The Jedi script has been updated. I guess there were numerous
errors from the original creator, due to the inacurracy of the scanner
he used. Also he had the Lando death scene in it. The updated script
is the movie, and the Lando death scene can now be found in the file:
/starwars/Scripts/Jedi_Revision.Z 
	Also a question on the Jedi script.  The format is different
then the other 2. Would people perfer to have them all match? If I get
a big responce on the positive, I will but the effort in to re-edit it.
	Also the Vader character assessment article from this group
has been added to the main directory. The file is: Vader_Character.Z
-- 
 Scott Streeter                             Keeper of the Star Wars Archive
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From: joea@wpi.WPI.EDU (The Mighty Vanguard)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Hyperdrive multiplier
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:21:53 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

Durations in hyperspace are measured in hours.  This number is then multiplied
by the hyperdrive multiplier (this is how 'fast' the actual drive is).  Say a
hyperspace trip takes 20 hours.  The Death Star (probably with a multiplier of
X5) would take 100 hours travel time.  The Falcon, however would only take 10
hours with its X1/2 hyperdrive.  The base duration time depends on the actual
distance between points A and B.  For example, Hoth is closer to Bespin than
Tatooine is, so the travel time is less.  Most ships also have backup hyper-
drives in case the main drive goes down (as the Falcon's did in ESB).  The
backup drive is a lot slower (about X4 for the Falcon), and can only be used
for short distances ('It's pretty far, but I think we can make it').
Getting back to the question, basically all hyperspace trips are figgured out
using a X1 multiplier as a standard, then the modifiers apply.  
Hope this helped.  Later.
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Subject: Re: Sounds at wpi.wpi.edu
From: cshamis@desire.wright.edu
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:14:18 EST
Distribution: usa
Organization: Wright State University 


> If .voc is going to be the standard, then someone point me to a program for
> Hank.

What in the heck is a .VOC file?  Ive never heard of that standard?  

I dont really care to much cuz my Amiga can read just about anything.  :)
But for the IBMers out there....

Me.
CShamis@Desire.Wright.Edu

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From: bdthomse%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brant Thomsen)
Subject: Rumors actually in print!
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:58:20 MDT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept

The October (1992) issue of National Geographic's WORLD magazine 
had an article entitled "Meet ... George Lucas".

In the article, when George Lucas was asked if he planned to 
complete the STAR WARS saga, he responded:

	"Yes, I hope to do it in the next seven to eight
	years, after the TV series [The Young Indiana Jones
	Chronicles].  The first ones were parts four, five, 
	and six of Star Wars.  Now I'll do parts one, two,
	and three."

Keep your fingers crossed!

(By the way, some might find the article of interest.  Because
the WORLD is a children's magazine, the articles was only a 
couple of pages long.  However, it did give a nice overview of
George Lucas's life, as well as trivia such as where the names
"Indiana" and "R2-D2" came from.)
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From: darkstar@lime.cns.udel.edu (The Janitor Of Anarchy)
Subject: Re: Question about a scene from Jabba's place
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Summary: My Opinion
Keywords: Awww, Loocy, How Could Ju Do Such A Ting?!?  
Organization: The Green Circle Of Vengence
Distribution: galaxy	
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:37:59 GMT

In article <Bw2LGx.3Do@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rku45136@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rajiv Udani) writes:
>
>I was watching ROTJedi on HBO last night. I never understood why the dancing
>girl in Jabba's place was finghting with Jabba and thrown to the Rancor (I 
>think the dancer's name was Oola, or something like that.)
>
>Any explanations?
>
>thanks
>rajiv

I think that she was just disgusted with the thought of Jabba trying to
slip her some tongue!


	--Jerry



-- 

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale)
Subject: Re: Lynch directing SW (Re: Cast of 'Prefix' T
Organization: Undergraduate Projects Lab, UW Madison
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 03:23:12 GMT

In article <1b8j2tINNb1m@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU> ST201714@brownvm.brown.edu () writes:
>A bio on Lynch gives his directorial history, and it includes his rejection
>of being offered the apportunity.  I will say this...it would have been VERY
>different from Marquand's version, maybe better.  If it would have been
>anything like Dune (Long Version), ROTJ directed by Lynch could have been
>one of the best movies ever.  (IMHO, of course)
>

Ugh.  If ROTJ had been *anything* like Dune (any version) it would have
been one of the worst movies ever.  (IMHO, of course).
-- 
Doug Quale
quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu
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From: glocke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Gordon Locke  )
Subject: Re: hardware wars
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:11:09 GMT

	Add my name to the list of people who would like a copy of this
classic.  I used to see it aired periodically on H.B.O. when I was a
kid.  Deadly!  The "Cookiee Monster" was the best.
	By the way, "Oldy Van Moldy" (from the MAD Magazine spoofs)
rules.

	Gord Locke, a.k.a. glocke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

	What's your address, craigs ??
From: dlm4731@zeus.tamu.edu (MAREK, DAVID LESLIE)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: EmpireStrikes Script
Date: 11 Oct 92 16:57:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

First, a big heaping thanks to those who took the time and got ep 4&6 scripts
in the ftp archive.  I thought that a while back or so, someone was scanning
in The Empire Strikes Back script??  What ever happened, and will a copy be
available soon??
Thanks
Dave
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: d'mayeur@tier.key.edu
Subject: Re: Yak Face
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:26:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.215505.1@cgsvax.claremont.edu>  
walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu writes:
> 
> Could someone please post or e-mail me what a reasonable price would be
> for a Yak Face action figure?  The figure is in excellent condition, but
> is off the card and has no accessories.  Thanks!


	--Well, I don't know how reasonable this is, as prices vary  
tremendously from dealer to dealer, but I have heard that a mint condition  
loose (i.e. unpackaged) Yak Face figure is worth about $65 . 
	Since the one you are referring to has no accessories, it wouldn't  
be worth quite this much.
	My best suggestion:  consult a few dealers and take the average  
price.  You can find them through the Yellow Pages (local dealers), in any  
nationwide toy publication, and/or toy conventions.
From: joshuali@usc.edu (Joshua Ling)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Personal to J.C. FROST
Date: 16 Oct 1992 21:23:30 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu


Jamison Frost,

Please check your mail server. I have mailed you 6 times without them
bouncing back but you obviously did not get them.
From: pip@pro-freedom.cts.com (David Pipgras)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Last chance for "Star Wars" EPS Files
Date: 15 Oct 92 07:24:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Oct15.002423.2312
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

I psted a notice for those who were interested in geting a copy of my EPS
files of "STAR WARS" logo (the words) in EPS files. I will honor any
requests that reach me by friday, October 23. After that date, you are all
out of luck (space on server is limited and unused files need to go)

E-mail if interested....


Also, the Stormtrooper EPS is no longer available....

Dave
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