You noticed that too, eh?

Now we know where Cylons really came from.  ;)

Yep, it did not go un-noticed...

Cylons?  I put my own spin on it.  :)

This has all happened before.  And it will happen again.

(Says Juragga as he drinks a flagon of Wookiee moonshine)

Every 50 000 years the cycle repeats.

^_^

Those sound like exceedingly unpleasant weapons.  Or alien body parts.

Not sure which.

Unseen footage from Episode IV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X9NFknjTRE

I'm officially nominating this for Understatement of the Year.

Also, I missed a word, the terminal is NOT very far away. That was a bad word to forget.
This message was lightly edited by the player at 19:04, Mon 02 June 2014.

It doesn't seem that bad...  Let's check:

"The terminal is not very far away."  Not too bad.  Not very far to you might be a long way for a Jawa, or a Hutt.  It's all relative.

"The weapon is not loaded."  Again, not too bad.  The weapon's condition can be easily rectified.

"I do not want to be fed to the sarlacc, in whose belly  I will find a new definition of pain and suffering as I am slowly digested over a... thousand years."  Okay, yeah... that's a bad one.  Do NOT forget the word.

Nodnod.

*scribbles notes*

Gotcha boss. Duly noted.

Ewww...was wondering when someone would post the Vader in Love vid.  :)

So, 'not' is right up there with 'void' on the list of 'words to be carefully considered before uttering'.  :)

Understatement is Shard's main skill.

Wait, what?  The terminal is OUT of the chamber?

Okay, so we can see it from inside the chamber?

Fair enough.  Shard's stopping at the door, keeping both the terminal AND Rhijans in her capacity to watch.  There's no way she's fully splitting the team again!

Heh. You wanna revisit that understatement again?

Also, Haarmon clearly needs a wireless device.


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And I'm nominating THAT for least-likely outcome.

:)
This message was last edited by the player at 15:56, Tue 03 June 2014.

I'm amazed that there are no wireless devices in Star Wars.  No wireless in Wars, no circuit breakers in Trek, what's the world coming to?

Also...ack.  Calling TIME OUT!  Must get question answered by GM before posting, and I definitely want to post!  O_O

As I'm sure the GM knows.  -_-

In reply to Shard (msg # 167):

Well, there were barely even any computers in Star Wars. And even Shadowrun, a game partially built around hacking, didn't have wireless anything until 4th edition.

I guess art can only imitate life so far.

And yeah, Star Trek and showers of sparks go together like... ummm... other things that are also intrinsically linked.

*laugh*  Hey, when Star Wars came out, there weren't even home computers, to speak of...I started junior high four years after Star Wars came out, and the computers we had in our school library had a whopping 2k of RAM.  Commlinks were a HUGE leap into the realm of fiction, because even a general broadcast radio was still about half the size of a shoebox...having a personal communication device that could manage a private, person-to-person transmission?  Not even in the realm of plausibility at the time (unless you were way out there on the cutting edge of cellular phone R&D, and then it was still a goal to strive for, not an practical reality).

And it's only been in the last decade or so that wireless technology for computers has become commonplace...when Shadowrun 3E came out, people still thought that Zip disks were revolutionary technology, and having a DVD drive on your computer was REALLY high tech stuff.

Gotta remember to think of this stuff in terms of the era in which it was created...talking about Star Wars not having wireless options is kind of like someone from WWII musing about how unthinkable it was that a major portion of the people in the American Civil War were still using muzzle-loading rifles...

In reply to Rhijans Thanus (msg # 169):

This is all things I know. It's like when you read Heinlein and all the computers are still printing out cards and paper.

People can only step so far out of their paradigm. Even when they're imagining the future they tend to think of the stuff they already have getting faster or better. Rather than radically new stuff showing up.

What's junior high?  We might actually be the same age.  :)

Cyberpunk 2020 did a fine job of having wireless stuff and the like, which I always thought was pretty cool.  :)



It's not quite the same.  :)  It's like WWII era people musing about how futuristic science fiction written in the Civil War era has its characters using muzzle loading rifles.

Though I get your point.  :)  I just find it amusing that oft-times the tech in games or movies just doesn't match up well with our own.

Junior High was grades 7-8-9, when I was in secondary schooling...my class was, as far as I know, the last junior high class in the area where I grew up, because they changed from a 3-year high school program to a 4-year, made the intermediate-level schools 'middle schools' (with grades 6-7-8)...and then, a few years later, did a '6th grade center' and 'middle school' (which consisted of grades 7-8).

I'm 47 now, so that gives you some notion of how long ago all that was...*laugh*

The other thing about computers in Star Wars not being anywhere close to what we have is that, despite all of the automatons in Star Wars, and all the high-tech devices, the setting was not intended to be about the gadgets and gizmos...that's why they use 'hyperspace' and 'light speed' interchangeably in Ep 4, etc...  Since it was never, originally, a priority to the story, they just didn't worry about it and stuck with some pseudo-futuristic version of computers as they were known at the time and focused on the people and the plot (simplistic as they were).  That's also why there's never any discussion about what kind of shielding they'd need on the Death Star to protect all the personnel aboard from radiation from the kind of reactor they'd need to power a laser capable of destroying planets, (never mind the power demands of a small moon-sized space station with the thousands of people aboard, the energy screens, the various turbolasers and laser cannons, the myriad of sensors, etc...)  *grin*

If it was written now, wireless computation would be a given, because it's such a commonplace thing in our world that making it NOT present would be jarring and throw people off (well...that's assuming it would be written with the same attention to making the story as universal as possible that went into the original trilogy, rather than the massively contrived storyline in the prequels...)

(Yeah, I know, this makes me sound like an elitist-geek.  TAing playwriting classes in college for 5 years made me very aware of plot points that serve only to support a writer's unwillingness to build a solid, comprehensive story...like Jedi Knights having to be celibate, midichlorians, or child prodigies who are barely big enough to reach the controls managing to fly fighter craft through the middle of a space battle and destroy the enemy command ship...)

Oh, yes, Star Wars is 'space opera', or 'space fantasy', or whatever one wants to call it.  It's not hard sci-fi, it doesn't follow any logical rules with its science (it's debatable how much other sci-fi does as well, but in the hard stuff there's at least an attempt), etc.

I just find it amusing.  :)

So you have about 4 years on me, then.  Good to know.

Coming next: Shard and Wakuda mud-wrestling in Pricess Leia slave girl outfits!  See?  That's real entertainment!

In reply to Oomba the Hutt (msg # 174):

*buys ticket*

*gets good seat*

*acquires popcorn*

"WAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUURRRRGGGHHH!!"

*queues up next to Haarmon*

Seats?  C'mon...for something like that, I want to be working one of the corners...*grin*