ICS: Good Representation of the SW Universe?

Flectarn · Post by **Flectarn** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:43 pm

PunkMaister wrote:
Mr. Oragahn wrote:Mmm... year, 0 - 18, even Kane doesn't bother. Or maybe he's part of the 18? :)

Still, part f SFJN's success is due to the censorship on certain topics about SW. In my eyes, the whole ICS affair has never evolved so fast as when this board came to life.
What exactly is that this board censors when it comes to SW?

i'm not sure, but i think he means censorship of ICS topics on other boards. giving life to discussion of it here

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:58 pm

Flectarn wrote:
PunkMaister wrote:
Mr. Oragahn wrote:Mmm... year, 0 - 18, even Kane doesn't bother. Or maybe he's part of the 18? :)

Still, part f SFJN's success is due to the censorship on certain topics about SW. In my eyes, the whole ICS affair has never evolved so fast as when this board came to life.
What exactly is that this board censors when it comes to SW?
i'm not sure, but i think he means censorship of ICS topics on other boards. giving life to discussion of it here

Mmh, yes, I realize the sentence was kinda ambiguous, but that's what I meant.

PunkMaister · Post by **PunkMaister** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:18 pm

Mr. Oragahn wrote:
Flectarn wrote:
PunkMaister wrote: What exactly is that this board censors when it comes to SW?
i'm not sure, but i think he means censorship of ICS topics on other boards. giving life to discussion of it here
Mmh, yes, I realize the sentence was kinda ambiguous, but that's what I meant.

OH OK...

GStone · Post by **GStone** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:24 pm

ILikeDeathNote wrote:Hmmm, I don't suppose I can go so far as to ask what company and where? Maybe I'll sign up with them :)

Merck, but they just spent a shitload of money buying this one company, so they put a freeze on hiring for now.

watchdog · Post by **watchdog** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:38 am

To put everyones mind at ease, I am the single yes vote, not because of the firepower figures, those figures are all a load of bull that is really easy to disprove simply by looking at everything else with the name "Star Wars" on it. The original question did not specify which ICS and so I voted on all of the books as a whole. They are all visually entertaining (which is what Star Wars is all about), and visually speaking, give a good idea of what the inner-workings look like.

Yes much of the text is silly and ridiculous, calling into play phenominal levels of power that are compleatly unsupported by everything else with the name Star Wars (you cant find evidence for the power figures in any movie, animated show, radio broadcast, comic book or novel), but looking past that, the books, all of them are visually entertaining.

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:37 pm

We would not jump on you even if you voted yes because you thought it made sense, although it's also true that most of us would probably point to what has already been said here and there about the material Saxton worked on (actually at least four books).

Post by **Mike DiCenso** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:58 pm

I would still somewhat disagree with the idea about the ICS books visually showing an accurate picture of the interior workings of SW technology, simply because for some things the movies and now TV series are showing something almost entirely different. For example, look at the first ICS book's cutaway of the first Death Starm while visually impressive, it actually looks very little like what we see of the schematics shown in either ANH, RoTJ or AoTC, nor especially the Death Star actually at a very early stage construction in RoTS.
-Mike

Praeothmin · Post by **Praeothmin** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:37 pm

Yeah but Mike, even the DS schematics shown in the movies differ from what we actually see... :)

Flectarn · Post by **Flectarn** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:06 pm

Praeothmin wrote:Yeah but Mike, even the DS schematics shown in the movies differ from what we actually see... :)

misconstruction re-design...

*palpatine* could you move the bottomless pit to the left corner of the room.

*contractor* but sir, that would require redesigning 3200 decks

*palpatine* are you questioning my wisdom (raises hand menacingly)

*contractor* no

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:56 am

Go figure, only ANH's schematics feature a different reactor section.

This is what the OT ICS used as a model, by making the huge upside hemisphere (with stalactites) part of the superstructure, just above the spherical reactor, instead of making it smaller and hanging in that large cavern like we see in the DSII.

Trouble is, the large cavern thing is also seen on the Geonosian DS, and the AOTC:ICS shows that the Trade Federation core ships have power cores with the exact same cavernous configuration.

Now, I know there's been some attempted justification from the EU for that, that there were two plans, one Kyle Katarn picked, and another one or something like that.

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ICS: Good Representation of the SW Universe?

Is the ICS a good representation for the SW universe?