You all like Star Wars, right? A question...
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  • Posted On: Oct 18 2005 10:09pm
I'm one of those people who - upon reading a book - must subsequently hunt down and find every single book at all related to that book ever written, and read it. I hate loose ends and can't stand unanswered questions. I like to know what happens to people (Strangely enough, especially people who don't actually exist). Upon reading just one Discworld novel a few years ago, I became a man possessed, and now even the slightest inconsistency in one of his dozens of novels sends me into a spiral for weeks trying to either figure it out or forget it. This is the main reason I most of my reading here, where I can be confident that there'll almost always be more sooner or later, and when I have a question or a concern, it can almost always be explained or even rectified in the writing of the author in question.

Recently, I came up with a story idea I wanted to do for TRF, featuring a character from the Star Wars Expanded Universe - specifically, during the Clone Wars. I'd sworn to myself I would never read those books, knowing that if I started I'd have to read all of them. They damnably entangle characters into each other's plots, meaning that even if you read all that there is on one character, it's a certainty somewhere along the line you'll get a glimpse of another's plight, and have to follow them, and before you know it you've bought fifteen books and haven't gotten anything done. Anyone noticed I haven't been around the last couple of days? I was caught up in one of the few remaining Terry Pratchett books I haven't read yet, and more lethally still, one of the Clone Wars series. I'd picked it up on a reccomendation from a friend and because it featured a character I thought might be useful for a story.

Foolishly, I thought I could read the one book and be done with it, it being part of a duology an me willing to skip the first half. My mistake. The character makes other appearances, as do other charactes, and now I'm consumed to read those adventures too - and if that wasn't enough, those adventures include even more damn adventures, which (knowing me) I'll end up reading.

So, to actually get to my question, I decided I might as well get the ball rolling and start reading - what the hell, I'd almost finished catching up on Pratchett anyways - but as is my custom, I want to finish reading about one character before moving to the other. There I've hit a stumbling block, oen that even the mighty internet seems incapable of solving. According to the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia (A useful tool) the character in question next appeared in 'Reversal of Fortune' by Paul Ens, which appears to be neither a novel or a comic, but was instead produced by 'Lucas Online'. I've scoured google, and inspected as many sites as I could come across, but no answer is forthcoming.

Since several here appear to read Star Wars stuff in the Expanded Universe, my question is this - does anyone know what this is and where it can be found?
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  • Posted On: Oct 18 2005 10:19pm
You typed all that, and forgot to mention the name of said character.
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  • Posted On: Oct 18 2005 10:24pm
But I did mention the specific publication (or possibly 'weblication') that I was looking for, Reversal of Fortunes by Paul Ens. I was more asking if anyone had heard of what it was. Apparently it has something to do with the jungle planet which several Jedi Masters go to and are killed on. I think the blue Twi'lek (Aayla Secura) was actually shown in Revenge of the Sith being killed on this planet, although I'm not sure about that. I believe it also includes a character called Zonder, who is a Padawan Jedi.
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  • Posted On: Oct 18 2005 11:18pm
Hmm....I haven't read many Star Wars books/comics at all, but I remember reading a collection of Clone Wars era comics in a graphic novel that had her in the first story. I forget what it was titled, but I am not sure if it's the one you are looking for. Probably not...as it dealt with this thief who was helping another Jedi (whom had forgotten his past if I remember right) track down this crime boss or something, who was a Faalen (sp). It's been a while since I've read it.

I think the whole book was just titled 'Clone Wars', but I only remember the title one of the stories in it: Defense of Kimomoto

I'd google it to see if it would bring up the other story titles....but google seems to be down right now.
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  • Posted On: Oct 18 2005 11:38pm
Ok....I think I got something. From what I pulled up using a different search engine (dogpile.com in this case), it's apparently a webstrip that's exclusively for members of Hyperspace. I'm trying to find the exact article in this blog dogpile.com pulled it up from, but it's being extremely slow. Maybe you'll have better luck...

http://thedweebletter.blogspot.com/
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  • Posted On: Oct 19 2005 12:27am
Thanks. Some leads, at least! I'll see if I can find anything. Again, thanks - there's little more frustrating then hearing there is a continuation of a story you read only to discover the continuation can't be found.
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  • Posted On: Oct 19 2005 12:32am
No, problem and trust me....I know how you feel. *shutters at the memory of trying to find offical info on Trandoshans so she could RP them properly*
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  • Posted On: Oct 19 2005 2:51am
... *blink* I lost track of what you wanted and skimmed to the bottom, before realizing that the question meant nothing without the information supplied.

...so. Here's a useless reply!
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  • Posted On: Oct 19 2005 3:18am
Since he started it...

SPAM


Mwah!
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  • Posted On: Oct 19 2005 8:24pm
Star Wars is for nerds.