Foshjedi2004

Luke had a vision when he went into the cave on Dagobah in the Heir to the Empire book showing that when R2D2 fired the lightsaber into the Air it would have gone to Mara who would have a force grip on it far before Luke would have.

In Rebellion it is called the NR Star Destroyer.

The first Death Star held 27,048 officers, 774,576 crew including troopers, pilots and crewers, 400,000 support workers and over 25,000 stormtroopers. It also carried assault shuttles, Skipray Blastboats, strike cruisers, drop ships, land vehicles, and support ships as well as 7,200 TIE Fighters. For surface protection it sported 200 Turbolaser batteries, 2,500 ion cannons and at least 700 tractor beam projectors, plus, of course, the superlaser. The second Death Star corrected several flaws of the original design. The two-meter exhaust vent that doomed the first station was replaced with millions of millimeter wide tubes, each designed to seal if excess energy was detected. The second station also boasted far more turbolaser batteries with redesigned targeting systems, allowing them to target starfighters more easily. The greatest concentration of turbolasers was located near the Emperor's throne tower. The second Death Star, if completed, would have featured over 30,000 turbolaser batteries, 7,500 laser cannons, 5,000 ion cannons and 768 tractor beams.

Foshjedi: God??? Neh. Marcus, Me and G_S: Acive Posters Trying to keep the forum Alive!! However I am starting to slow down on posts as I have nothing to say as everyone else is getting the Info while I'm Asleep, then talking about it before I can get online.

Runs in and says "Na-na-na-na-na" I'm not at school yet!!! Sorry Guys. GB is great. Its gonna be a long term for us brits though. Anyway only 9 months of School Left ever!!! Then it's off to Uni

There's been an explosion along the seafront. I am beginning to think that it could be a chemical explosion. Run for the Hills!!!!

The Death Star prob. will only be the superlaser firing thing at planets. I mean it'll suck but so far the Petro team hasn't shown us the light!!!

Ok Here is the Lowdown guys!! Mara Jade: She was taken from her homeworld as a child and was trained by the Emperor to be an extension of his will. He named her the Emperor's Hand and sent her to sort out problems like rogue admirals and sedition of govenors. She was sent to Tatooine and became one of Jabba's Dancers so that she could kill Luke Skywalker when he came to save Han. She would have succeded if Jabba had let her come on his Sail Barge to the pit of Carkoon. She then became a loner for a few years before hooking up with Talon Karrde. After that she helped the Republic destroy the Emperor's Storehouse on Wayland and completed his Last Command to her of KILL LUKE SKYWALKER. She became one of Lukes initial Jedi Trainees. She fled the Acadmey when she became bored with his teachings and after her Headhunter was stolen by Kyp Durron. Mara then began her own shipping company for a few years after searching for Jor'j Cardas with Lando. She amalgamated her company with Karrde's and then became his successor when he semi retired. Later on she would take a trip to Nirauan where she and Luke get trapped by the Chiss and discover a clone of Thrawn in hibernation. They destroy the area and Mara agrees to marry Luke. Just before the YV invasion she is infected by a YV Coomb Spore and only the birth of her son Ben could finally cure her. She is currently a Jedi Master and is Jaina's Mentor sharing the role with Kyp Durron. Kyle Katarn: Kyle Katarn was an elite Rebel agent entrusted with some of the most crucial missions of the Rebel Alliance. It was Katarn that single-handedly infiltrated an Imperial installation on Danuta, securing the technical plans of the Empire's Death Star battle station. A former Imperial, Katarn was born on the Sullustan colony moon of Sulon, living a simple existence as a farmer with his father Morgan. Unaware of his father's Rebel sympathies, Kyle joined the Imperial Academy at Carida. He was indoctrinated and became a decorated Imperial trooper. While in the Academy, Kyle's father was killed. Official records indicated that the elder Katarn had been murdered by Rebel dissidents. Kyle learned the truth, however, from a Rebel agent named Jan Ors. His father was killed by the Empire for treason. Disgusted with the institution he had joined, Kyle discarded his badges and merits, and cast away his Imperial trappings. He resolved to join the Rebellion. Kyle became a highly capable and recommended Rebel agent, vouched for by the respected Jan Ors. Kyle drew the attention of no less than Mon Mothma, leader of the Alliance. She entrusted Katarn with that fateful mission to Danuta, and after the Battle of Yavin, Katarn was instrumental in quelling the threat of the Imperial dark trooper project. Returning to Sulon, Kyle learned that his father had been aiding a refugee effort on the barren world of Ruusan. Morgan had discovered ancient ruins on Ruusan pointing the way to the Valley of the Jedi, the fabled battleground between the ancient Jedi and Sith. The Valley represented a great focal point of energy that if exploited could turn the tide in the perpetual battle between light and dark. Kyle knew that the location of the Valley should never fall into Imperial hands. Others were already on the path to discovering the Valley, however. The Dark Jedi Jerec and his six henchmen, Gorc, Pic, Maw, Sariss, Boc and Yun, were determined to seize the nexus of power. One by one, Katarn defeated them, though in his aggressive strikes, he came dangerously close to succumbing to the dark side of the Force. Deep in the Valley of the Jedi, Kyle confronted Jerec, the very man who had killed Morgan Katarn. The two did battle, and when Kyle slew Jerec, he fulfilled an ancient prophecy. The spirits of long-dead Jedi, trapped in the Valley for a thousand years, were finally freed. With this energy unleashed, the Valley of the Jedi's worth as a weapon was effectively eliminated. Long used to operating independently, Katarn at first refused Luke Skywalker's offer to become a Jedi apprentice. Instead, he continued to serve the Alliance, now the New Republic, on many important missions. After a troubling run-in with the dark side on the forgotten Sith world of Dromund Kaas, Katarn conceded that he would benefit from Skywalker's tutelage, and joined the Jedi Master's fledgling Jedi academy. Kyle is human male with rugged good looks and an athletic build. He brandishes a green-bladed lightsaber, though he has been known to have access to a veritable arsenal of personal weaponry. He often travels with Jan Ors aboard the battered starship, the Moldy Crow

Old topic to bring up....Looks cool btw, hope it get's modded in as the Tector class! This is the New Republic Star Deatroyer. It is crewed by half the amount of a normal SD and has slightly less weapons.

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Ok People here we go the full List of questions. Post 10 numbers that you want to see handed in. It is going to run similar to the 1st interview process with a Moderator tallying up the posts every day. This will carry on untill Sunday at 12pm BST when I shall lock the topic after doing a final Count. And Send the questions to Cain and Ismael so that they can hand them to the Petroglyph Team. There are 66 questions to go through, read them all and if you have any problems Pm me and I will either edit or completely remove them. Let the posting commence!!! You have 4 days to put in your votes!!! Only 4 Months to go till the main release guys!!! Foshjedi2004. 1. Can you describe the overall effects of the ground base defenses like the Ion Cannon and Laser Cannons. 2. We have seen a general increase of ships appearing in the trailers and Screenshots. Can you reveal any new designs added to the ship lists. 3.Will there be AT-TE's? 4.What percentage, roughly, of the game have been we been shown? 5. In the videos, the fighters tend to clump a lot. Is this a limitation of system requirements, or are there different foemation/movement options? 6. Skirmishes in all the C&C series generally are very quick and decisive. However, fans of Star Wars know that SW battles generally play out much slower. What are your goals for skirmish speed in EAW? 7. Is there a tech tree? If there is how large is it? 8. Outside of the Death Star, will there be any other WMDs? 9. Can you reveal any new details on the multiplayer? Such as how the server list be set up, will there be a stats system, will there be a quick player match up based off stats (if there is a stats system), and what measures are being taken to prevent cheating? 10. How is base building/expansion going to be handled? 11. Can the Death Star fire on the Capital Ships like it did in Episode VI and Rebellion? 12. Will there be a skirmish battle for single player or just campaigns and multiplayer ? 13. Is it possible to show us couple more units or is it top secret till later ? 14. We remember hearing a interview from E3 about recording video from ingame. Exactly how will this work ? Will we be able to record freely or will it just be normally recorded and freeroam in it ? 15. Can the Imperial (and if there is a Rebel scout) Scouts on their bikes get off and snipe or set up traps or are they only scouting types only on bikes ? 16. Will it be possible to script a neutral AI to engage in trade between planets. Not really trade but just allowing a neutral AI to be scripted to go to planets and land to conduct business and then leave the planet for another planet. 17. We've seen ground based heros, and a sample of their power in Darth Vader. What can we expect from space 'hero' units such as the Moldy Crow and Rogue Squadron? Will they have abilities of their own, or can existing Heroes be applied to different spacefaring vessels, will it have an effect other than an attribute boost (to damage and accuracy for example)? 18. What is the average length of a battle? 19. The rebels have the T23 speeders. Will the Imperial side have any similar aircraft to use in ground battles? 20. Can multiple Death Stars be Built? 21. To what extent can capital ships bombard the surface of a world? Can they fire at the ground with their turbolasers, just call in a few tie bombers as we saw at E3, or somewhere inbetween? 22. Are Super Star Destroyers in the game, and will they be buildable or will they be a hero unit? 23. What happens when one faction controls the surface of a planet while the other faction controls the space? 24.Will EaW Make an offical classes of all ships, with offical stats and size. Will petro be working with LA to make an offical cannon of ships and stats?There is great debate everywhere what certain classes of ships look like, armlements, size ect. Especially with more unknown ships like the Mon Cal classes. 25. Will there be an artificial population cap/limit? 26. Will grand strategy mode have more to it than just building your army/navy up (such as sabotage, espionage, covert ops, etc)? 27. Will large ships be produced out in the open and will we be able to see them slowly be built? 28. Will we be able to capture buildings? (ie: space staions shipyards, etc.) 29. Will there be a variety of characters or just the few main characters in the movies and previous games (Kyle Katarn and Mara Jade). 30. Will there Be a Death Star Surface map? 31. Will there be any artificial limitations on the Death Star unit in the game such as being only able to build one of it, not allowing it to target other ships like in the movies, forcing it to be a stationary object during battle, etc? 32. How will bombing be handled, or, in other words, is there a limit to the number of bombing runs you can have on one ground attack? 33. What is the final number of planets that will be in the game? 34. Will b-wings and tie interceptors be in the game? 35. Will the following cam view be available for fighters since its used for cap. ships? 36. Will there be a "recall" ability for fighter sqaudrons during space combat, to recall them back into the hangar of your starship/s? This would be for situations where you would only want your starships to fight, for example, when victory is assured with only your capital ships and you wouldn't want to risk losing some of your fighters. 37. What will a ground battle on Coruscant (Imperial Center) look like? Will it live up to all our wildest Star Wars expectations and be a multi-leveled, planet-spanning megalopolis? 38. What kind of map editor can we expect and can we use it to create our own planets and campaigns? 39. Will you be using any EU sources (such as the Thrawn Trilogy) to create material for the game. 40. How will planets like Coruscant and Bespin work in the game? 41. Will there be a strengths and weakness' point table. IE ISD > Nebulon Frigate > TIE Fighter however ISD < TIE Bombers 42. Do you plan to create a community website ? Forums ? Before or after the release ? 43. What do you think of critics about the graphic engine toward for example the AOE 3's ? 44. How will planetary defenses be set up manually placed or automatically placed and how strong will they be compared to units? 45. Since the Super Star Destroyer is probably in the game, how will the Rebels counter it? 46. Are hard points predetermined? For example some can only have weapons built into them or some can only have shields built into them. 47. From the reports we know that the ships in the battle must first get into postion before firing. They ahve more firepower on the port and starboard arcs so that they can turn right or left during the battle and still be able to fire loads of weapons. What happened if the enemy destroys the weapon subsystems on the left side. Would the ship automatically turn to get the weapons on the right side in position or will the controller have to manually order a 180 degree rotation?? 48. Can you give us a more detailed explanation on how the 2-player "campaign" will work? 49. How does the Death Star work? How is it destroyed, does it have defenses against other ships, and what happens when planets are destroyed? 50. How are new unit type aquired? For example, the X-wing would be obtained by raiding the production facility. Are there any other similar "quests" for units? 51. Are big ships built in shipyards, or in the "galactic map" mode like other units? 52. Are there plans for an expansion of any type? 53. Will the game be playable over LANs with only one CD? 54. Do Mon Calamari capital ships have random appearences, or are there several different types which look different? 55. Will we see all of the space units seen in Return of the Jedi? 56. Will the TIE defender and Phantom variants be in the game?? 57. What will ion cannons do to enemy capital ships? 58. Will there be sub-groups to the Rebels/ Imperials. IE can we get the Hapan Ships and the Chiss Clawcraft?? 59. Will there be an world wide ladder system - WOL style. Basically something as comfortable as we had in RA2 / with Quickmatch, Clantag and Clanladder etc... Plz don't tell me we will get a Gamespy(-server) based system. 60. I've been told that the game will be very moddable and use data driven XML files. Can you give an example of an entry in these files(such as the X-Wing)? Also how many files would we need to edit to put in a new unit? 61. Will people be able to play the same side in a multiplayer skirmish? ie empire vs empire......take it it's a given you can't in the story multiplayer 62. Can teammates in multiplayer games share control of units and buildings or is it simply shared vision and victory? 63. The heroes seem very strong in the videos. Could you give us a since of how powerful and intergral heros are in combat? Can they be killed fairly easily if you are reckless with them? 64. At E3 it was said that the powercore will be outside of the shields on planets “true to star warsâ€

I follow the same plan as Josh. Thats how I managed to make such a F.ing massive fleet. When they were all together for the final assault on Coruscant they were utterly destroyed. I found that 20 X-wing squads and 10 B-wing squads per planet works just as well as 80 x-wings. Be carefull though as the Imp. Fighters always go for the bombers first.

umm... Some of the Legacy books have potential. Aaron Allston is back and so is Anderson I think.

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The above poster wants to give me all of their money...............MMMOOONNNEEEYYY!!!*force mind trick*

I think that that could show the Leaning of the planet. Which side controls it. If you win then it fills completely up.

Hello Everyone. We have hit 9000 posts. Woohoo!!! Isn't it time for the Petro team to release another few screens for us??

I think that the prices are cumulative. Basic cost = 800. Upgrades - a lot higher. The things on the end are upgrades I think.

Wow. We have a Galaxy God here!!! Best game to play when bored. Ricbr, why don't you get in contact with the SOE people and make your feelings felt??

Welcome to the forum. I echo Cain when saying enjoy your stay. Thanks for the Description Cain. Don't belittle your's and Ismael's creation. This is a great Forum!!!

Yes the image is confirmation of Luke Skywalker: http://images.pexsus.com/games/empireatwar/misc/gamesconvention/news/3f003ca44c7c79bf7ad0097b2f0db041.jpg

I think that like Rebellion Luke will be weak at the start of the game. He will be that moisture farmer. However he will get extra leveling up bonus' compared to the others as he uses the force. Then when he and Kyle meet there could be Jedi Training and both get a lot more powerfull. Then Luke will meet others like Corran Horn and Tyria Sarkin leading to an all Jedi fighter Squadron. I wonder what characters we will have. We have Red Squad, when they fight the Death Star will some die and the squadron become Rogue squad and get Tycho, Corran, Gavin, Asyr and Ooryl?

Loads of Imperial Players against me with the Rebels. What an Idea. 7against1 painful. I'd probably forfeit as I would be so outnumbered.

Vader. There are Hundreds of Volcanoes in the Uk. Some of them are Supervolcanoes. The only problem is that they are dormant or extinct.

Well For Episode 1 i'd get rid of this whole Slave thing. Anakin will be a pod racer and will pilot loads of things like fighters and stuff they will already live with the Larses and Only Quin jin Gon will bring anakin to coruscant. Obiwan will have been doing the trials on Coruscant. Then Obiwan will meet Anakin at the end of EP I at the Jedi Temple and they will go and have an Adventure in the underworld. The at the End Qui Jin Gon has a Duel with Darth Maul and is killed when Count Dooku joins in and is impaled. Palpatine then coerces him to the Darkside. EP2: Attack of the Clones Obiwan a new Knight has been training his padawan for 10 years they are like brothers. Obiwan is attacked and Anakin reflexively uses the force to kill the attacker. He is so wrought with grief that he seeks consolence from a friend in the senate whom he met a few years before on a Diplomatic mission- Amidala. They meet in a passionate embrace and spend the night together. Anakin then goes on a Diplomatic Mission to Anchoron where he and Obiwan discover the slayer of Qui jin Gon and some Spaarti Cloning Cylinders and The Seperatist's Clone Army. They escape as massive Trade Federation (death Star like things) rise and move away towards the Republic. Then the Clones assault the republic Army training centre on Carida with Obiwan and Anakin and a legion of Jedi beginning to fight back. Anakin Jumps into his Delta7 Fighter and destroys legion after legion of troops as they assault the Training Complex. the Jedi have won. EpIII.Revenge of the Sith Recent events have hit Anakin Hard, he has killed through the force and is angry about his trust in some of the Jedi who are using the dark side to fight the Seperatist clones. Anakin is Leading a force of Jedi across the Sluis sector finding these "dark Jedi swarms", Yoda has recently left coruscant as he feels the Dark Side growing and needs to try and turn these Dark Jedi back to the light. one of his former Padawans has captured a freighter and is fleeing from Yoda and crashes onto Dagobah. (massive battle between them and when it ends the Dark jedi explodes in a flash of blue light) Yoda finds a gentlemen and a lady on the freighter. He recognises one of them as Amidala and senses soemthing Familiar in her and recognises Anakin. he nurses her and Jor'j Cardas back to health. He modifies Cardas' memory to ensure that he cannot remember Amidala and lets him go. Yoda then takes amidala to Obiwan and as she dies they feel Anakin's Shout into the void. He loved here and felt her death. He had sent her and Cardas on his personal transport away from Mustafar where he Slaughters all the Jedi and Dark jedi Alike while on Coruscant Palpatine has ordered a massive bombardment of the Jedi Temple. Thousands of jedi are dead the Jedi library is gone. Obiwan realises that Anakin has turned and with yoda's leave travels to Mustafar to battle him and try to save him. They battle and he cuts off Anakins legs arms etc. Anakin is then saved by agents of Palpatine who say they can save him if he swears fealty to the Emperor. He does and the film ends with him Attending Amidala's funeral in his Dark suit. It was effectively just a pressure suit. After that he designs the suit we all know and love.