Traviss Quits The SW EU

Airlocke_Jedi_Knight · Post by **Airlocke_Jedi_Knight** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:36 pm

Good to know that Google now has it's own martial arts discipline. I've been waiting for that to happen. I can finally get that Black-belt that I wanted as a child...

The Dude · Post by **The Dude** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:59 pm

Mr. Oragahn wrote:Talifans are delusional, as the EU has sunk since eons.
An example.

Do people seriously argue that it hasn't been rubbish for decades? The last truly decent book I can remember was the Zahn trilogy.

Perhaps they should make fewer but better products. Well, OK, that has to be hard, when Lucas himself seems to do nothing more these days that shoot entire lengths of tasteless battle sequences of pwee pwee boom vwomm vwomm ksshh ksshh screeee vwomm...

Someone should really steal Star Wars and start writing down some new stuff with new characters people give a **** about, not some turd about Sith v8.45 four generations down the Skywalker lineage *yawn*.

It's probably easier to just churn out what the fanboy's want. Look at the KOTOR MMO, pretty much the same stuff we've been getting for years and the comments on the prequel comic make it out to be the best thing EVAR!

The EU has that terrible habit of giving a book to anything that's been seen in the background of a movie and now the CGI show.

Now, Traviss is gone, but isn't it odd, really, that some people celebrate her departure while she was one of the few willing to spend that much time on a franchise which, as Robert put, holds the role of the constantly abused spouse here?

People are celebrating cause she pooped all over the franchise and it might be a sign that things will improve.

Really, perhaps the EU should really take a break, and someone speed up that live action show with that new band of rogue characters we've heard about.

lol, bet it never comes out. SW is pretty much just a cash cow for Lucas at this point.

ILikeDeathNote · Post by **ILikeDeathNote** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:14 am

Come to think of it...that's a Vong battledroid? Don't the Vong hate technology?

Enterprise E · Post by **Enterprise E** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:24 pm

No, it was called a Yuuzahn Vong Hunter droid. It was designed to fight and kill the Vong. It even had a battlecry in the Vong's own language that was a horrible insult to them. I believe it said, "We are machines, we are greater than the Yuuzahn Vong."

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:39 pm

Enterprise E wrote:No, it was called a Yuuzahn Vong Hunter droid. It was designed to fight and kill the Vong. It even had a battlecry in the Vong's own language that was a horrible insult to them. I believe it said, "We are machines, we are greater than the Yuuzahn Vong."

"We f*** your alien asses with vibrating machines, and your mothers too."

Yuuzhan Vong : . . . gh . . . ghhh . . . DEEEAAAAATH!!!

Airlocke_Jedi_Knight · Post by **Airlocke_Jedi_Knight** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:10 pm

Mr. Oragahn wrote:
Enterprise E wrote:No, it was called a Yuuzahn Vong Hunter droid. It was designed to fight and kill the Vong. It even had a battlecry in the Vong's own language that was a horrible insult to them. I believe it said, "We are machines, we are greater than the Yuuzahn Vong."
"We f*** your alien asses with vibrating machines, and your mothers too."

Yuuzhan Vong : . . . gh . . . ghhh . . . DEEEAAAAATH!!!

Yay, EU bashing. My favorite.

ILikeDeathNote · Post by **ILikeDeathNote** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:47 pm

Post by **Mike DiCenso** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:33 am

ILikeDeathNote wrote:Come to think of it...that's a Vong battledroid? Don't the Vong hate technology?

Good lord, now they're ripping off the talking bombs from Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
-Mike

Airlocke_Jedi_Knight · Post by **Airlocke_Jedi_Knight** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:41 am

Ummm....no, not really.

Post by **Mike DiCenso** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:02 am

It is in principle. A weapon that talks to the enemy as part of a psychological warefare effort and then it kills them.
-Mike

Airlocke_Jedi_Knight · Post by **Airlocke_Jedi_Knight** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 4:46 pm

I guess I didn't see it that way since SW already had battle droids. This is basically a slight modification of what they already have, only this time it taunts the enemy.

I suppose there are some similarities, but I would hardly call this stealing, since SW already had something similar in place.

Post by **Jedi Master Spock** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:16 am

I am curious about two things:

One. I want to know what changes in the canon exactly are coming through the tube. Is it just yet another rewrite of the Mandalorians (who, along with Boba Fett, have had several different backgrounds by now), or something that actually has bearing on the VS debate - i.e., more reversals on the size crap?

Two. Karen Traviss said that Star Wars wasn't making most of her income. She's published nine SW novels and five SW shorts (plus 2 other SW Insider features); eight non-SW novels with six other non-SW shorts and one essay in a collection.

"In the pipeline," as I believe she puts it, are two SW novels and one GoW novel. In other words, half of everything she's published is in the SW franchise, and I would be surprised to find that her original novels have the same sort of distribution. Is Lucas Licensing handing out fees that shoddy, or did she get a really big advance from this "mystery" project she says she's sitting on?

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