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From: wag5@quads.uchicago.edu (john peter wagner)
Subject: Re: New movie or just books
Reply-To: wag5@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:48:24 GMT


	I wonder how Lucas will present the Ysalimiri?  It seems
kind of hard to imagine a movie successfully presenting the power
of a few worms. Of course, I'm sure Zahn will give him some good
advice.  The 'pirate haven' could cost Lucas a lot to build in Episode
7, what with all the equipment and spare parts that will have to be
fabricated for the scene.

					John
:Look! 5 tabs! I must be someone else!

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From: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu (Chris Blaise,Free Amy Fisher!)
Subject: Re: New Star Wars comics
Originator: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu
Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:06:23 GMT

From article <1993Jan28.003638.862@cs.unca.edu>, by mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner):
> Classic Re-Hash certainly doesn't warrant that hefty price
> tag! The first original series was original and was at least
> well painted and very glossy (TOO glossy -- I'd rather have 
> something less expensive that doesn't hold fingerprints!!!),
> but for CSW there's no excuse.

	Hear hear!  I don't know why that kind of cover is called "glossy"
to denote that it's a better quality - it ain't!  Both my copies of
Classic Star Wars and Next Men are marred with my fingerprint on the cover
(as are my Sandman, etc. etc..)..

	As for the price...well, given the other drivel on the comic
market place, I really don't mind paying $2.50 for something that is, in
my mind, better than probably 90% of the rest of the crap...

 TTYL
 Chris
From: judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Mike Judson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Silver Dice
Date: 21 Jan 93 01:45:34 GMT
Reply-To: judson@watserv.ucr.edu

Did anybody notice that Han Solo has silver dice hanging in the cockpit
of the Millenium Falcon.

--
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought
back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named 
him Flint.

					Jack Handy

judson@watserv.ucr.edu
From: flowerpt@coos.dartmouth.edu (Bill McGonigle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Imperial Fleet
Date: 25 Jan 93 02:52:49 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <1jtemsINNd60@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> lyon@egr.msu.edu (Scott Lyon) writes:
>I was under the impression that the *ONLY* Imperial spacecraft were as follows:
>
>1. Super Star Destroyer
>2. Star Destroyer(standard)
>3. TIE Fighter(standard flat-wing style)
>4. Interceptor TIE fighter.
>5. Darth Vader TIE fighter(unique).
>6. Ship-to-ship(assumtion on my part) shuttle (seen in tESB)
>7. Imperial Shuttle (seen in RotJ)
>
>If there are others(at least, according to the movies, the RPG's aren't, in my
>opinion, valid arguements), please let me know.

In the cantina scene Han says, "I've outrun imperial starships.  Not the
local Balt cruisers, mind you, I'm talking about the big Correlian Ships, now."

Or something like that.  I guess the Correlian ships are the Star Destroyers.
The Balt cruisers must be something smaller.  We never see them on film, but
this is a valid reference. 

-Bill
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Subject: Re: More SW observations
From: <GPS108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:46:33 EST
Organization: Penn State University

Yeah, I even heard the "auuuugh" in _Howard_the_Duck_!

                                                 --Eric
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From: dkemper@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu (David Kemper)
Subject: Re: The other Yoda spoke of
Organization: University of Administrative Incompetence
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:53:32 GMT
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In article <1jmrjnINNaqs@gap.caltech.edu>, keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes...
><DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> 
>>>up the universe as far as the Force is concerned).  From what I've heard,
>>>the final triology is to be about one of the underdeveloped characters
>>>who survives the second trilogy.  Wedge fits this picture just fine...
> 
>>  Where'd you hear this, exactly?
> 
>I don't know... someone here on the net said it...

Oh!  Well then it MUST be true!

<insert smiley if sarcasm is not apparent>

--Gallandro

    "Take it easy, kid.  It's only a movie."   --Ham Salad, "Hardware Wars"
From: megazone@coal.WPI.EDU (MegaZone)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Harpoons ??
Date: 23 Jan 1993 04:56:48 GMT
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In article <1993Jan18.111925.14024@cm.cf.ac.uk> Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk (Simon N Smith) writes:
>sort of cannon, as well as a harpoon launcher.  This would have made the
>second crew member much more useful - they don't seem to do much otherwise!
>In fact, what was the point for using up scarce man-power by having crews
>of 2 when the second is almost superfluous?  Do they have any other jobs
>to do other than look out the back for something to harpoon?

I always thought the second crewman was basically what we would today call a 
RIO, Radar Intercept Officer. (Or GIB- Guy In Back) Such crewmembers are found
in the back seats of F-4s, F-14s, and F-15Es. There job is to guide the weapons
and/or control the radar and instruct the pilot as to the best intercept angles
etc. It really doesn't matter much which way you face as long as you can see
your screens. You don't have to be looking forward to use a weapon since you
guide it using the radar, tele-optical system, Infra-red, etc...

The speeders had the tailgun/harpoon which is why the GIB sits facing the 
rear, with the added benefit of being able to watch for bogeys coming in from
behind.

But just because the GIB is dead doesn't mean the weapons are down as someone
else implied. The pilot can still fire them, just with reduced accuaracy. Or
as an unguided round.

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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:56:20 EST
From: <GPS108@psuvm.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: James Earl Jones
 <16B583B4E.MHART00@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
 <1993Jan16.214822.18073@wheaton.wheaton.edu>
 <1993Jan23.172903.5135@leland.Stanford.EDU>

Except, Luke didn't have to convince Obi-Wan to train him.  It was quite the
other way around.
                                                 --Eric
From: hale@bbsls84.BNR.CA (Dave Hale x5501)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Harpoons (and At-Ats)
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:14:02 GMT
Reply-To: hale@bnr.co.uk
Organization: BNR Europe (UK)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbsls84.bnr.co.uk


In the AT-AT scene in TESB, did anyone notice the glimpse of one of the two
legged walkers?

It was only on screen for a second or so and isn't seen again until the
forest scene in ROTJ. 



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From: barryl@mongoose.tansu.com.au (Barry Lightbody)
Subject: Re: Hyperspace and the Death Star
Reply-To: barryl@mongoose.tansu.com.au
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:44:36 GMT


In article 108215@bu.edu, athas@buphy.bu.edu (Gregory Athas) writes:
>This has nagged me for a while, and since I'm 1000 miles from my copy of ANH (novelization);  If we assume that the falcon escaped by going into hyperspace to get to Yavin, and it was tracked by the imperials (details of this have been a continuing thread here)  can the Death Star go into hyperspace?  Otherwise it would have probably been a myserably long journy to Yavin.  So how much time did the rebels have until they would become interstellar dust?  The movie gives the impression of not too many h
>
>

In the movie there is a time gap between plugging R2 into the computer to down load
the technical data and the briefing of the fighters once analysed.

I would say the DS went into Hyperspace but it would probable take a hell of a lot
of time for the DS to 'speed up' to hyperspace and again to 'slow down ' from
hyperspace. On top of all this I don't think the DS would travel as fast within
hyperspace as the M. Falcon or any other ship for that matter.

In addition they can not track ships in hyperspace as seen in TESB. So they would have
had to wait until the M. Falcon came out from hyperspace near Yavin before they 
could have located the beaken. This would have given them a considerable time delay
as well.

Another factor: Han does not seem to be the type of person to hang around to long
in that situation. He would have stayed long enough to perform repairs to his ship, 
refuel, restock and collect his reward. The fact that he was there in the briefing
room tends to shorten the time frame a bit.



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From: jp66+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jason P. Plank)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Burger Chef Star Wars Posters
Date: 23 Jan 93 17:26:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.4fMUl8q00WBMQ59akp
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

The Burger Chef posters did exist.

If I remember correctly there was one with Ben fighting Vader, one with
R2 and c3p0 and one with Han and Chewie.  There was another but I don't
remember what it was
From: haywire@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (the Insane One)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Imperial Fleet
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:13:32 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <1k1ej5INNe1k@gap.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
>This almost cannot be correct.  We see almost the entire Imperial fleet
>in Jedi.  You see them all...  probably a hundred at most.
>If there were many others sread throughout the galaxy, 
>the Rebels wouldn't be so happy about defeating the fleet at Endor.

The attack at the end of ROTJ was to destroy the death star not the fleet.
I do not see the reason why the entire fleet had to be at the death star.
If it was then the imperials made a targic mistake even if the rebels did 
fail in destroying the DSII. That would mean they left an entire galaxy 
unguarded and unsecure. I dont think the impies are THAT dumb.
I believe it was a small fleet at the DSII. The rest of the fleet is
still out there.

haywire
From: gretchen@ugcs.caltech.edu (Gretchen Mullendore)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Burger Chef Star Wars Posters
Date: 21 Jan 1993 22:29:23 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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dsblack@iastate.edu (Vilkata TDK) writes:

>In <C14BIF.MCD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ssquier@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Sean Alan Squier) writes:

>>Way back in '78, when Star Wars appeared Burger Chef promoted it with
>>a series of four posters.

>>Does anyone else remember these?

I don't recall the posters, but my brother (the real collector in the family
that has no net access) has _mint_ condition Burger Chef Kid's meals with the
Star Wars theme.  Have little character punch-outs and place for a drink
and hamburger, etc.  Really neat.

Gretch
gretchen@ugcs.caltech.edu

"Insanity is Creativity"
From: haywire@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (the Insane One)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Imperial Fleet
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:16:46 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <1993Jan25.233116.26628@Virginia.EDU> qtm2w@Virginia.EDU ("Quinn T. McCord") writes:
>
>	I'll respond to several of the previous posts:
>
>This has to do with whether or not there are "command" star
>destroyers:
>
>Luke on the space shuttle Tyderium sees the Executor and knows
>Vader's aboard.  Han notices him looking.
>Luke: I'm endangering the mission, I shouldn't have come.
>Han: Don't get jittery, there are a lot of command ships.
>
>	The Emperor also refers to the Executor as the command
>ship.  I have no doubt that "command ship" is the short,
>vernacular way to say "super star destroyer", which is quite a
>mouthful.  I would also say that Han doesn't know what he's
>talkiing about, because there can't be "a lot" of super star
>destroyers, for the same reason there can't be 25,000 star
>destroyers.

The Executer was THE command ship....sorta like a flagship.
It doesnt mean there cannot be other command ships under it.
Thats like saying you have an general and a whole lotta PFC's.

haywire
From: kw@doc.ic.ac.uk (K. Wong)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: is HE watching?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 13:45:14 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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In article <mbb2001-130193004652@m248-104.bgsu.edu> mbb2001@andy.bgsu.edu (Greg Pallenik) writes:
>Doen anyone know if Lucas or Lucasfilm is aware of this net?  If so, why
>doen't he post?  I'm sure the man himself could answer all the different
>quesions we have.  I suppose, however, that he would be deluged with
>requests and scripts, etc.

	Maybe he's got better things to do.. like getting the second trilogy
done. I take it the second trilogy is a prequel to the one that we all 
know and love? Anyone know if there will be a third trilogy? (maybe based on
Zahn's books?)

==============================================================================
" There's nothing dumber in the world than a man with an erection. "
				- Borric, Prince of the Blood.

Hadoken! -Ken
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From: barryl@mongoose.tansu.com.au (Barry Lightbody)
Subject: Re: x-wings??????   why?????
Reply-To: barryl@mongoose.tansu.com.au
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:20:42 GMT

In article 24121@muddcs.claremont.edu, abaker@jarthur.claremont.edu (The Evil One) writes:
>In article <C1C6tz.2w9@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> flowerpt@coos.dartmouth.edu
> (Bill McGonigle) writes:
>>
>>		HOW HYPERSPACE WORKS
>>		--------------------
>>
>>1. You get the coordinates from the nav computer.
>>2. You let it make some calculations.
>>3. You strap yourself in.
>>4. You pull a lever.
>>5. You get somewhere really fast.
>>
>>The movies don't tell us much:
>>1. There is a hyperdrive motivator.  
>>2. There is a negative power coupling.  
>>3. Large celestial bodies have an effect on things in hyperspace but
>>   small ones don't. (you can't fly through a star or bounce too close
>>   to a supernova, but if you come out of hyperspace into a meteor shower,
>>   that isn't a problem - at least while you're in hyperspace)
>>4. You can't track a ship in hyperspace.
>>5. You accelerate to hyperspace (startrails).
>>6. Traveling in hyperspace looks nothing like real space.

Yes. You did. 6. depending on you own point of view (sounds familiar). When you see
exterior shots of the M. Falcon you get the mottily effect, sort of like a worm hole
around the ship. But with interior shots you see space as you would normally.
Remember the scenes after they have escaped the DS and jumped into Hyperspace.
Through the cockpit of the M. Falcon all of the star fields look normal.
I have not got the time, nor the knowledge to go into it but I would say the
difference looks to hyperspace are relative to where to are looking from. Someone
familiar with Einstiens theory of relativity could problem offer a more scientific
explenation for the difference



>>
>>Did I miss anything?
>
>You also have to pointed in the general direction you want to go.  Remember
>in TESB, right after the MF latches onto the SD, someone says to calculate
>all possible destinations from the MFs last known trajectory (not quite sure
>of exactly what he said).
>
>The Evil One



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From: megazone@coal.WPI.EDU (MegaZone)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Harpoons ??
Date: 23 Jan 1993 10:41:42 GMT
Organization: WPI Discordian Society, Undocumented Cabal
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In article <1993Jan22.222908.29488@cs.unca.edu> mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes:
>Of course, a rear gunner is nothing strange now-a-days -- most
>dogfighting is getting on the other guy's tail and shooting him
>down, so that's where I'd want a gunner. The forward weapons

Nothing strange? Please, name an aircraft in service with any western AF
that has rear firing weapons. (Sorry, I can't do F-USSR stuff from memory.)
Just to start you off, the AF is removing the tailguns from B-52s, the last
US aircraft to have them. There may still be old WWII aircraft in service
with 3rd world countries that still have them, but nothing new.

Now that missiles are fairly reliable, and the latest IR missiles are all
angle (ie front, side, etc... you don't need to tailchase) there is less
need to get into a tailchase dogfight. And with speeds what they are trying
to humanly track a target that is moving, while you're moving, is almost
impossible. The best defense against a tailchaser is not to let him get
there in the first place. Next is to try and shake him, and preferably set
him up for a shot.

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From: jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: The other Yoda spoke of
Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:08:08 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <C16A7F.oG@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> spock@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Scott) writes:
>In article <1jkf90INNdr1@bigboote.WPI.EDU> jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver) writes:
>>In article <alix.727555922@vincent2.iastate.edu> alix@iastate.edu (L.A. Melloy) writes:
>>>
>>>And as a tangent from this thread, has the possibility of Han Solo being
>>>strong in the Force been discussed here?  Many of my friends discussed the
>>>possibility that HE was the "other" Yoda spoke of in ESB.  His "luck"

>>	I thought so.  The Leia explanation was kind of disappointing, having
>>it be Han would have been nifty, even if it is a hoary old sad plot.  But
>>no dice.

>	How can anyone speculate that it was someone else other than Leia?

	I'm not saying that it actually was anyone but Leia, but Han would have
been a more satisfying explanation.  Since I don't think Lucas had decided it
WAS, in fact, Leia until he started writing RotJ, he might have been planning
on this.
From: dsblack@iastate.edu (Vilkata TDK)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: SW drinking game request
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:24:13 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

In <1993Jan27.195938.21183@Virginia.EDU> cac2g@Virginia.EDU ("Void Where Prohibited") writes:

>A while back a Star Wars drinking game was posted to this
>group.  If you still have a copy, please repost it here or send it to me
>personally at cac2g@UVA.pcmail.Virginia.EDU.  Thanks in
>advance...

I think posting would be better, as I never saw it, and would like to get a 
copy.  And I'm sure there are plenty of others who would like to see it
(again), too.  Thanx!
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From: lyon@egr.msu.edu (Scott Lyon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Star Wars trivia
Date: 23 Jan 93 18:38:33 GMT
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In article <93022.210417GPS108@psuvm.psu.edu> <GPS108@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Lemme think...  We see the Falcon upside-down when it flies around the cloud
>above Bespin to go back and get Luke, when it turns to fly into the asteroid
>crater and become a slug snack, and when it rotates to avoid crashing into part
>of the second Death Star's protruding superstructure.

Very good (I'd missed/forgotten the Bespin one). Special note: there are TWO
scenes inside the Death Star's superstructure where the Falcon is seen upside
down. The OTHER one is the split second where you see the Falcon coming at the
camera, then the view rotates to show the reactor and the Falcon flying at it.
If you look closely, the cockpit (when flying towards the camera) is on the
RIGHT side, therefore the Falcon is upside down once again... :)


>
>The "Rebel Briefing" music on the soundtrack is thankfully (yes, not sadly IMO)
>replaced with superior music from the end of Jedi.  We hear it when Leia tells
>Han about her family heritage and Luke carries the flaming stick that reduces
>the body of Darth Vader to so much Imperial ash.
>
>                                            --Eric

Very good. After my posting, I decided to try something. Since I have a CD
player right here next to my vcr/tv, I tried syncronizing the music to the
video of Jedi(audio off). And when I did that, I noticed an interesting thing:
The "Briefing" music IS that scene, and is even timed perfectly, except for one
thing: Right sometime during the flaming stick scene, the music slows down on
the soundtrack and becomes quite different that what is on the film. (The music
by the time the Xwings are flying across with the fireworks is not part of the
track on the soundtrack at all).

-- 
-Scott Lyon
"May the Force be with us..."
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From: jeffy@cray.com (Jeffrey Neau)
Subject: Re: Harpoons (and At-Ats)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:07:52 CST

In article <1993Jan21.114553.2763@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> wookiee@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
>In article <C17L89.50t@mach1.wlu.ca>, lars4752@mach1.wlu.ca (Bradley Larsen u) writes:
>> The Rebel Alliance must have run into the AT-AT's before.  Recall from the
>> movie when the trench officer uses his binoculars??? to spot the oncoming
>> Walkerrs? His reply to the base is something like "We spotted Imperial
>> walkers." 
>
>I don't see that as any proof that the rebel have run into them before, just
>another character stating the obvious, like the 'Look sir, droids!'
>Stormtrooper in ANH.  Think about it a minute.  You are on an uninhabited
>planet, someone in your cause has just blown up an (assumed, but correctly so)
>Imperial probe droid, Star Destroyers have come out of light speed in the
>system, you are waiting for some kind of ground assault from the Impy's and you
>see 4 (have we decided if there was a fifth yet?) giant metal WALKING armoured
>vehicles coming towards your base... What would you have called them?  Imperial
>because they are obviously from the empire, and walkers because they walk. 
>nothing more to that statement then that.

Actually, I would've said, "Holy S**t!!  Here come some big metal things
with feet!!"