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Sadly, there was no victor or loser. The match was supposed to be a demonstration for the Emperor, but the lead actress's character, according to the story, got carried away and nearly slit the throat of Bosarius (who was played by the executive producer, Gary Barbosa). Had it not been for the quick-moving Gladiator master pulling the lead actress's character away, Bosarius would have been a pool of blood. It was actually rather interesting to watch, though just standing in the heat of the day with the duty of holding the crowd back was rather boring. I was hoping we would crucify the lead actress's character for disgracing a demonstration match before the emperor. By the way, that picture was taken during rehearsal. During the actual match, Bosarius had a huge helmet on so you couldn't see his face and we, the soldiers, were at attention.

Point. I see where people want to blame others for the problems in society and the world. We find that a lot of people in the USA's South (this is from observations and polls I took where I live in the South) still have grudges against blacks and Japanese. Interesting to note that they rarely hold grudges against the Germans. Following the logic of blaming a people for a problem (i.e. some in the South still blame of the Japanese for World War II), then shouldn't Germany be put to blame? It's a trend we find that people are hesitant to blame those they are familiar because we find that many Americans are of German descent. Hence why the USA nearly entered World War I on the side of the Germans, hence why the USA nearly did not enter World War II (did not want to fight the Germans), hence why France is seen as "stupid" in the USA (because everyone forgets that Germany has the same stance as France concerning the War On Terrorism; yet without France, the colonists would have lost the American Revolution). People have to realize that the blame game is all motivated by something that has happened in the past, whether it be something familial or political. I find it rather stupid to lay blame on an entire mass of people AFTER the fact. This doesn't mean I think we shouldn't blame the Third Reich for the holocaust, it simply means that it seems rather imature to blame the present Germans for the holocaust. Thus, and no offense Imperator2, I think it's unwise to blame all of Europe for facism, communism, and Marxism--they're in the past. ... I hope what I posted made sense because it seems like my thoughts were all over the place.

So what does the patch do?

By the way, new pictures were added to the website with the Roman event, totally 72 so far. Interestingly enough, there's another picture of me. I'm the legionaire on the right and the lady on the left, nearly out of frame, is my girlfriend, Becca.

I don't own the armor (lorica segmata) or the helmet (Gallic H model), but everything else I own. I made the tunic you see me wearing by hand and purchased the belt, the sandals (caligae), and my sword (gladius, model pompeii). I still lack a dagger (pugio) and those items which I borrowed (armor and helmet). I should be getting my hands on a few soon enough. You simply type "URL[/i]]. After the closed bracket, type in some text, and then finish it with. So it comes out like this:URL[/i]]text Well, my name isn't Andy, but I'm pretty much a newbie and so didn't have anyone around I knew that well. Yes, don't worry, I'll have some soon enough.

Interesting to note, though, that many experts believe it was the American Revolution that inspired the French into revolution.... So, following your logic, wouldn't the American Revolution be to blame for the ideas of Facism, Marxism, and Communism?... Additionally, for the record, one must note that Marxism and Communism were, like Democracy, meant with the best intentions, looking great on paper but being far too ideal and, thus, clashing with human nature (i.e. greed, power, etc.) and turning into the "bad" connotation of today. So, Imperator2, following further on your logic, we might as well say that humans are to blame for those ideas, for it would have happened regardless, it just happened to have occured in Europe.

I got the files but those are the ones I already have... I would really care for the Excel-file that incorporates the current ranking system as well; do you have that as well?Yes, I have those, but they're on my laptop. I'll try my best to hook up my laptop to the Net tonight and e-mail them out to you.

Oh, okay. By what _Thrawn had said, I thought it was like some deleted scenes section where you could watch the original scenes before they had been changed for the DVD edition.

Scath, did you get the correct files or did I send the incorrect ones?

I didn't see it in the documentary. Where is it?

Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore

Is this an official patch or a hack?

Do to the Roman Re-enactment craze that has come over me, I have barely been able to see my laptop, much less play any games. Regardless, I just recently marched on Armenia and am working my through Anatolia to, eventually, fight the other Roman factions and conquer the world. This is my first campaign, of course, I didn't simply play a quickly battle to unlock everything else, I'm going it the less-than-easy way.

Hillarious! Here are a few pictures of Roman Re-Enactors from the event that occured last weekend in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Sadly, they would not allow me to be Caesar and instead chose a guy who, close up, looks like Palpatine. I'm actually in a few pictures at this website, but sadly the pictures are few and normally at a distance or from behind. For instance, in this picture, I'm the legionaire who's in the closest to the camera and looking down. In this other one, I'm the standard bearer on the far left. It was A LOT of fun, and I'll be attending another event in November.

Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry (Original)

So addictive... I suppose it's good that I didn't bring my laptop to the university or else I would be playing the game instead of studying for midterms or going to class.

...I'm not quite sure what's going on, but I would like to see the rank system we have fixed; it has been debated over numerous times and eventually agreed upon. Scath, I've been meaning to e-mail you the revised system for some time, but I haven't been online at home very much lately. For instance, right now I'm at the local university e-mailing you from a computer terminal in the library (this is the university where I will finish my studies while teaching, by the way).

Do not get this game if you have something important coming up, it is addictive! AND IT IS GREAT!

Ouch, how funny--I mean, sad.

I suppose the biggest problem was the Clone Wars. For years it was said to have been the Mandalors who raised an enormous army of clones and started fighting the Jedi/Old Republic. In turn, the Jedi started cloning themselves (i.e. we get the Dark Jedi Joruus C'baoth from the Thrawn novels) to combat this enormous threat. Eventually the Old Republic would start cloning its own army to fight the Mandalors. They would eventually defeat them, but the "mad" Jedi clones would become a HUGE problem, causing the Republic to take an offensive strategy against them, which would eventually be twisted by Senator Palpatine to ALL Jedi being threats. With many systems backing the idea of ALL Jedi being bad (because of not only the "mad" Dark Jedi clones, but also past corruption and abuse of power and whatnot within the Jedi ranks), Palpatine leads a movement to keep a standing army that would destroy them all, led by none other than Darth Vader. With all this "emergency power", Palpatine would eventually declare himself emperor. This is all a composite of A LOT of information from the past from various sources. I suppose the biggest problem is the fact that we lack Mandalors (replaced with robots) and we lack mad Jedi clones (such as Joruus C'baoth). Additionally, we find that Lucas stopped using the term "Dark Jedi" (the original term) and started using the term "Sith", which isn't exactly a huge change (they could be interchangable), but it gives the Jedi this feel of being perfect beings, distincting the good ones (Jedi) from the bad ones (Sith). Dark Jedi, on the other hand, gives the feeling that Jedi are not, in fact, flawless, but are...well...for a lack of better words, "human" (in the sense of not flawless and not species). As far as Boba Fett goes, what I had understood was that he was a Journeyman named Jaster Mereel from Concord Dawn who had killed someone (it's possible the stormtrooper storyline plays in here) and was wanted. With that, he disappeared and found himself doing odd jobs--bounty hunting was one of them. He would eventually find some Mandalorian armor left over from what was, at the time, assumed to be the Clone Wars and used that for his image (the Mandalorians were a feared race, and if he dressed as one, people would fear him). He then changed his name to Boba Fett (not quite sure where he got it) and would work as a bounty hunter until the "Pit of Carkoon Incident". During his absense, a man named Jodo Kast (who was once conned by Thrawn) would find some Mandalorian armor and claimed to be Boba Fett. After escaping death, Boba Fett would find Kast and kill him, taking the man's armor and one again becoming Boba Fett (most people would not realize the change and would actually, for the most part, not realize Boba Fett had actually ever been missing). This is a composite from Boba Fett stories written pre-prequels. With all that in mind, when AOTC came out, quite a few people were pissed off. Not only had the Clone Wars been changed, but so had the coolest character of the Star Wars Universe. People liked the mysticism surrounding that time period, especially the individual storylines of characters, it allowed individual imaginations to run freely...but now.... Concerning the Slave I and subsequent Fett-owned ships; we know that the Slave I was a type of patrol ship (The Guide to Vehicle and Vessels) that Fett went ahead and modified. The prequels do not make this impossible, it could very well be that Jango Fett did this. Boba Fett, according to the stories, had other ships dubbed "Slave". We know of at least four (we know this because the Slave IV was mentioned in Tales of the Bounty Hunters in Boba Fett's story). We also know of what the Slave II looked like from The Guide to Vehicle and Vessels, what we know nothing about is the Slave III. Moving on, we can actually combine Expanded Universe material and prequel material if we use a little imagination. First, Jango Fett could very well be Journeyman Jaster Mereel from Concord Dawn and all subsequent matters concerning that person (expect killing stormtrooper, but the stories don't say Jaster Mereel was wanted for killing a stormtrooper, only that the person who would eventually become Boba Fett was). Additionally, it's quite possible that the Slave I's story still follows that I posted above. After Jango's death, Boba took up his father's image as a bounty hunter (armor and all). From here, with such an enormous galaxy, we can assume that most people didn't know the difference, that in fact, they may have assumed they had heard Fett's name incorrectly as Jango and corrected themselves with Boba ("Boba Fett, ehh? I could have sworn your name was Jango or something... Oh well."). That doesn't have to be included, of course, but it would explain the exclusion of Jango Fett in the EU Boba Fett stories we all know and love. Everything else we know about Boba Fett after Jango's death still stands. Additionally, with such a popular character, all the stories we've heard about Boba Fett could very possibly be just people like Jodo Kast who claim they are Boba Fett. As far as killing a stormtrooper commander goes...well...with a billion and a half brothers who look exactly like you, don't you think there could have been a mix up? Don't you think that someone mistaked a guy who looked like Boba Fett who killed his commander? There's a pretty large possibility. Additionally, who's to say that Jango's death didn't affect Boba and, with some depression added in, he didn't decide to join his brothers, but because of his unique independent mind he didn't disagree with a clone commander and kill him (we're talking about the transition period between AOTC and between ROTS/ANH where some stormtroopers were clones and others weren't). We could also say he was a stormtrooper at one time and killed his commander...period. With some creativity, we can say that the prequels and EU still do agree (expect for the over-all idea of the Clone Wars, but not more ranting in this thread).

I was thinking the same thing. By the way, Scath, guess what I now have in possesion! That's right, the REVISED SWR RANK FILES you sent me! My dad sent them to me when he was going through and clearing his computer's memory of what he dubbed "crap." Expect an e-mail from me soon. We may just succeed this time, my friend.

Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks

I am--was a Roman re-enactor (I don't think I'm a part any longer since I went M.I.A. ). That depends by what you mean by "re-enactors". If you mean people like us who run around dressed-up as Jedi or Stormtroopers and correct people on Imperial ranks and insignia, then yes, there are. If you mean re-enactors like people who re-enact battles of the world wars or whatnot, then...well...I doubt it (after all, where are you going to get a real-life Dewback to re-enact scenes on Tatooine?).

I haven't read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, but everyone I know says it's simply spectacular. I mean, can anyone give me an overview without giving it away? Does it compare to anything recent?

Back to the point of this thread (meaning I didn't feel like going through the pages of useless stuff typed before I returned), how can people say ROTJ is better than ESB? ESB was the revolution for Star Wars, the turning-point where we get more indepth stuff about the "bad guys" and the good guys. I mean, most sequels suck, but Star Wars truly took off with Empire. Without it, Star Wars would be nothing; granted without ANH Star Wars would literally be nothing, but think about it: Empire was what launched the saga because it takes two before it can be such. I hope that made sense.