SOCL

I doubt you'll find them, Evaders set up a 'hidden nursing home' for him, where only a few medical staffhad access to treat him... Nice way to word it, Jahled. Almost sounds sarcastic.

It's in Children of the Jedi.

I suppose it is rather humorous. A good satire on the fruit salad most high-rankers wear.

Yeah. It's actually a novel based off a PC game, if you believe that, but it's quite decent. It talks about the story of a submarine crew during a war between the USA and China.

We're always around... Anyway, as SOCL said, he lost his memory. Funny thing was, he remembered just about everything about swr...I remembered a lot of rather random things. For instance, I knew the plot to MacBeth, but couldn't remember the class in which I had taken it in high school. I could remember the people here at SWR, but not how I had originally located the website (or why). I remembered how to drive, but not where or when I had learned. Just a lot of random memories, which the neurologist said was normal. Over time, through constant barrages of people asking "Do you remember this?" or "Do you remember that?", memories started to come back...that, or they manifested themselves. In any event...

Didn't the novel say they simply died off? Or, wait, didn't they intermarry into the "normal" population, delluding, if you will, the Jedi powers into near non-existance... Dammit, and I just read that one, too... I agree with you, the Eye of Palpatine is just as much a superweapon as is Corran Horn and his apparent invulnerability. I guess I mentioned it because everyone else seems to mention it everywhere else I go. According to the Dark Empire Sourcebook, the class was only planned and construction was begun on the first one--Sovereign--at about the time of the reborn Emperor's bid for power. It fails to mention whether any were completed, but it does mention they were all either destroyed or scrapped by the subsequent warlords of the Deep Core. I think I need Scath present to begin such an interesting and, probably, long discussion, but: This brings up the important question: What defines a superweapon? What, if any standards make a weapon a superweapon? Obviously destructive power has very much to do with this, but how much destructive power? A regular Star Destroyer can lay total waste to a planet, but can't destroy. So apparently the ability to make a planet inhospitable does not count, but clearly making a planet disappear is not the minimum requirement. Thoughts? Please, it's been a while, let's have a relatively meaningful and insightful discussion. This is so exciting!

So, does anyone care to try discussing and perhaps even understanding tofu's insignia? It's quite...festive.

So would you flatlanders describe your landscape as "miles and miles of...miles and miles"?

Oh... Now I feel like a dick for yell-writing...

Wait, wait, but my criticism was too angry-sounding. I should give credit where credit is due and, though the latest ones not so much, Clancy has an ability in military fiction with whom most people can't even compete. Further, most of his books are very enjoyable and easy to read as long as you don't care about understanding every acronym he throws out. I especially liked Rainbow Six, Patriot Games, and SSN. And despite the stereotypes he has in his stories, the novels sell better than most books among the military community.

By the way, nice new insignia tofu.

So would you flatlanders describe your landscape as "miles and miles of...miles and miles"? EDIT: Dammit, what is wrong with me! Wrong thread...

Uh huh. The allusion was actually to a snowboarding accident I had in early 2004 where I forgot the majority of the previous five years. Just ask Scath, Jahld, or any of the other oldies from back then. Probably one of the most traumatic experiences of my life...

Hey, Bad Samaritan, whatever happened to the sexually-explicit stormtrooper avatar you used to have? Do the Sovereign-class warships really count as superweapons? I mean, clearly they were intended to be something along the lines of mini-Eclipses, but because they were never finished, do they count? Oh, and what about that whole Shadow Academy thing in the Young Jedi Knights series? I have two of the compilation books in a box somewhere, but I could have sworn I heard somewhere it was some form of superweapon. Eye of Palpatine

What's the point of the thread? Are we debating the usefulness of superweapons, what defines a superweapon, what were superweapons...? In my personal opinion, I have grown tired of superweapons and there ever-present "evil" throughout Star Wars continuity. It seems every time the writers can't come up with where another bad-guy-Jedi-not-Sith could have been hiding this whole time or another from-the-galaxy-but-not-really-more-of-from-right-outside-the-galaxy aliens invade, they come up with a stupid superweapon. Okay, in ANH, I get it--good guys versus bad guys, bad guys have huge destructive force (Death Star), good guys have to destroy--got it. Death Star in A New Hope represented the total evil of the Empire as a supplement for showing a galaxy-wide evil. In other words, Lucas used Death Star as the ultimate bad-guy-weapon to show how truly evil the Empire was without going around the galaxy showing all the little evils that add up into a big evil (not to mention he didn't have the budget). But Death Star II? Ergh...okay. Classical trilogy, so it's more-or-less excusable. But wait! Another trench-style run?! Right, right, inside Death Star II, but what the hell? Two proton torpedos and a few laser shots? Dammit, it takes more than that to destroy a mere Star Destroyer!!! But fine, I get it. Lucas is trying to say the Empire is SO evil, they not only wanted to build a second Death Star, but had the means to do so. Wait, what?! Sun Crusher. Eclipse. Eclipse II. Galaxy Gun. Darksaber. Centerpoint Station. Jedi trainees who can throw an entire fleet of Star Destroyers across a star system. A stereotypical Corellian ex-cop turned fighter pilot, turned Jedi, turned good father, turned best friends with high-ranking government officials, turned rogue, turned... COME ON, ALREADY! It's stupid and boring! No more superweapons, whether it be in the literal sense or in the Stackpole bad-writing sense (esp. Corran Horn)! NO MORE SUPERWEAPONS!

That's why he's a Grand Moff.

I've never talked to Bob. What am I supposed to do?AH! Stop asking! Figure it out! That's the point!

Congrats! 1,000 posts is quite the milestone.

Yeehaw! Um... I'm not really reading it because I wish the South had won... More out of curiosity since Turtledove is has a doctorate in history and so, accordingly, his alternative history account must be somewhat believable... I used to read a lot of Clancy books back in the day, but got bored and annoyed with his over-specification concerning military hardware, especially weapons. I believe it really slows down the drama and action. I also get tired of his stereotypical military characters, such as Ding Chavez who is nothing but a complete stereotype.

@SOCL: Don't let personal likes distract you. Logic must prevail! instructor (there is no "e") 8O 8O 8O Well, snowboarding is cool. Except when you crash and forget everything...

I meant the older section among the youngsters.

See, that's why I hate math!!! Man, is it already 2006?...

Well, I suppose Oregon isn't exactly beach material. But still... ...weirdo.

A few years? Mad, you haven't been around for even a year and are already past 5,000!

Currently, I'm reading Harry Turtledove's Settling Accounts: Drive to the East, the ninth book in a series where the South won the American Civil War. It's rather interesting and very well written because it goes through how the world would have been different in World War I, the 20s and 30s, and World War II. It also goes into the Nazification of the Confederacy before and during the second world war and the way Europe would have been different had Germany and Austria-Hungary (along with the USA) had won World War I. I'm also reading the second book in the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy, The Scorpion's Gate by Richard Clarke, Father's Sky by Debry Freeman, and a few others, but most of them I've set aside while I finish Turtledove's novel.