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So, I recently opened up an 'almanac' or something of the new canon, think it was called the "maps of Star Wars" or some shit. I was hoping for, you know, actual maps but instead the book was basically a bunch of cartoon timelines of locations; like on Tatooine they'd show little Anakin winning the podrace and then the next event in its history, all drawn up like a cartoon and so forth. The entire thing kind of digusted me, because I'm a huge EUfag, and the everything in new canon is abhorrent to me.
But then I opened up to a page of the battle of Yavin IV, and saw pictures of all the Rebel pilots in their cockpits; you know, Luke, Wedge, Biggs, Porkins, Gold Leader, Red Leader, all those cats.
And this woman.
Just sticking out like a sore thumb, with her perfect lips and beautiful hair, but her name. That fucking name. MY NAME! With an extra 'a' in it, sure. I had to know who this vixen is, who she replaced. To my dismay she was made into the last Y-Wing survivor of the battle, whereas in the past that was Keyan Farlander.
I am compelled to hate her because she is in the new canon, and replaced someone I liked. But why does she vex me so? Why can't I hate her? Why must we exist under these circumstances, on opposite sides of the canon battlefield? I lay in bed at night, thinking of her.
Why must life be pain?
Bentley Cooper
I am not a special snowflake so what ever the color the standard is.
William Rivera
>What design would you paint on your personal flagship? I would paint this woman: , just to trigger user.
Nicholas Taylor
Okay i have to disagree with you there. Keyan Farlander was not a great loss. As far as EU characters go we're not exactly at a loss for ace starfighter pilots who also manifested force powers
Evaan has a lot more punch and connections with Leia because she's an Alderaanian who lost her family.
I do have to agree with you on the almanacs though, I wish that they would include more than just the locations that show up in the movies and selected media spin offs
Gabriel Myers
I rent out portions of the outer hull for businesses to use as ad space, Booster Terrik style.
Jeremiah Parker
>What design would you paint on your personal flagship? Just run-of-the-mill gray with one or two big red Rebel Starbirds. Heh.
I don't actually mind. The old canon was full of white heterosexual male human starfighter pilots who were also jedi already anyway. And then there was Arvel Crynyd (I think) who was played by a woman, but voiced over by a man.
John Myers
>because she's an Alderaanian who lost her family. So, any Alderaanian?
Eli Myers
>Evaan has a lot more punch and connections with Leia because she's an Alderaanian who lost her family. >LaughingWinterCelchu.holo
Zachary Clark
>whereas in the past that was Keyan Farlander.
It's fine. Maybe that was an old style 2seater and she was in there with Keyan.
Andrew Hernandez
that reminds me, why don't the y-wings have a rear gunner?
I mean the Republic era of the ship did, along with more armor in general. it feels like the more modern fighter suffered a serious downgrade
Liam Nguyen
>Implying Disney would ever bring back Keyan He's got as much chance as Kyle Katarn. Force-sensitive white men have no future with Disney.
Colton Harris
Different model/configuration.
Also, the Rebels are consistently undermanned.
Wyatt Phillips
Are the FFG RPG easily adaptable for games set in the Clone Wars or Old Republic eras?
Isaiah Clark
you gotta admit Legends had a problem with making so many background characters from the movies force sensitives.
Yes. There are a lot of clone war era fighters and walkers already statted for you. Unfortunately there are no full setting books, though.
Jose Hughes
I have no respect for any man named Kyle.
Joseph Evans
Ahhh, so is that what the whole Force is Female thing is supposed to mean?
Chase Lee
definitely, the most you need to do is just alter fluff like gear and equipment names. if you're really anal you might want to check wookiepedia to see whether or not certain items would be available but otherwise the system works fine
Luke Baker
This. The rebels used both the BTL-S3 (most common, two-man version) and the BTL-A4 (one man version).
Grayson Campbell
Your Highness You know I am a righteous man Of my virtue I am justly proud
(Et tibit Vader)
Your Highness You know I'm so much purer than The common, vulgar, weak, rebel scum
(Quia peccavi nimis)
Then tell me, Lord Vader Why I see her flying there Why her smold'ring eyes still scorch my soul
(Cogitatione)
I feel her, I see her The gas giant caught in her golden hair Is blazing in me out of all control
(Verbo et opere)
Like fire Death Star Fire This fire in my skin This burning Desire Is turning me to sin
It's not my fault (Mea culpa) I'm not to blame It is the Rebel girl The Jedi who sent this flame (Mea maxima culpa) It's not my fault (Mea culpa) If in the Emperor's plan (Mea culpa) He made the Rebel so much Stronger than his men (Mea maxima culpa)
Protect me, Lord Vader Don't let this Rebel scum cast her spell Don't let her X-Wing sear my flesh and bone Destroy Evaan Verlaine And let her taste the fires of hell Or else let her be mine and mine alone
Hellfire Death Star fire Now Rebel, it's your turn Choose me or Alderaan's pyre Be mine or you will burn
Emperor have mercy on her (Kyrie Eleison) Emperor have mercy on me (Kyrie Eleison) But she will be mine Or she will burn!
some autism for you user
Leo Thompson
Has anyone claimed the Force as his waifu yet?
Xavier Butler
do you guys feel like the empire works better as an enforced atheistic state or one with strong agnostic overtones but no actual ban on religion?
Elijah Russell
How is religion even a thing in the Star Wars universe? They sure as hell would have had cults relating to the Force banned, but other than that?
Bentley Butler
So Legions is coming up and I'm very bad at painting white. However, I dimly recall that the EU had a sort of Warlord Era for the Empire where everybody balkanized--did any of those chucklefucks use an alternate paint scheme? I traditionally play historicals and the concept of making my own scheme is foreign and frightening so it will be my last reserve. If it helps 90% of the paints I own are various shades of brown or green.
Jonathan Hill
>banned I see this user hasn't heard of the Prophets of the Dark Side yet.
Grayson Morales
Some kind of silvered hex-pattern of the Eclipse SSD.
Alexander Evans
It's a pun on the feminist "The future is female" slogan but grognards think it's a commentary on canon
Noah Peterson
There are lots of religions. Most of them only get a few throwaway lines and there's certainly no dominant religion in the galaxy or space catholicism but many faiths seem to exist, usually endemic to a specific planet or sector of space, especially in the old legnds universe
Jordan Rodriguez
I mean, the Force is just an energy field, and some beings are immune to it, so it's not like the Force "made" the galaxy, but many revere it as a religious being. Even still, there are numerous religions in the Expanded Universe and spiritual followings not related to the Force at all.
IIRC the Empire was cool with non-Force religions, so long as it wasn't religion that taught you to go on a holy war or do violent shit.
Easton White
>it's a commentary on canon Hard to see how it isn't, considering the liberal agenda in Disney's SW films.
Thomas Ortiz
Lots of them did, yeah
James Walker
Just go look up Sengoku era Japanese armor and paint them like whatever one you like the most. Hell Vader is wearing what looks like a kabuto on his head, so it's not that far off.
Colton Parker
Where can I find one these?
Blake James
Name a story where Farlander has been relevant
Also he wasn't canonized as the Yavin Y-wing until 2011 as far as I can tell
Hunter Howard
So does this mean R2 is in a rock band
also >agenda
Brandon Wood
Hello, fellow Evan.
Camden Gutierrez
>Name a story where Farlander has been relevant Well, that's easy. The Farlander Papers.
Carson Garcia
Can we not have that yet again?
Jaxon Martinez
The R2-D2 one is about humor. The Force is Female one, unfortunately, is bad optics-wise to anyone who's mildly aware of the so-called cultural civil war going on in the West. To certain feminists it's a "dog-whistle" in support of them, to anti-feminists its a warning sign they're going to screw up SW's canon (not that Disney really needs feminism's help ruining Star Wars. Darth Mickey's doing just fine on his own with his apprentice EA).
Samuel Ramirez
It isn't? Look at how many female OCs we have had since KK took over LFL.
Michael Cook
compared to the number of strong female characters in OldCanon that's a drop in the bucket
Lincoln James
You're an idiot.
The Force Is Female is a slogan for a Nike product line, and has zero actual connection to star wars.
Jackson Carter
I'm pretty sure they meant their surname is Verline.
Kayden Lewis
Female characters aren't the problem. The problem is how they are depicted. Not one is waifu material in your pic. Apart of Aphra of course.
Brody Rivera
Hello, Evan! No, I meant Evan.
Liam Perez
>Not Sloane, Phasma or Jyn Step it up desu
Asher Thompson
>Dr. Sleeve Tat Pleb tier
A-Wing chan is where its at
Juan Hernandez
>Caring about meatbags as waifu material The only waifu material that matters is the ships. Granted, Legends still has nucanon beat in that regard.
Jackson Lewis
>Phasma. You mean the trash lady? What's waifu material about her? She betrayed the First order the first time she could and jobbed vs the janitor.
Jeremiah Brown
true shit
Carter King
Dleet
Andrew Fisher
Whats life like for the Mandalorians exiled from Mandalore? The brief bit I saw in TCW was they seemed to live a more tribal life, but with jetpacks, blasters, and more alcohol.
Jonathan Barnes
>Tfw your Waifus all have been put off of the canon. The only nu-ship worht a damn are the U-wing, Tie Striker and the Profundity, the rest are meh or refits even worse than the originals.
Ethan Russell
The problem is most of these characters suck and reek of being mandated from above.
Hunter Hill
user, acept than your waifu is shit. SHIT!
Jordan Brown
Do you ever worry you're just forcing yourself to hate something you'd otherwise like user?
Adrian Lee
>The Force Is Female is a slogan for a Nike product line
Pics or it didn't happen.
Hell, even if it did, those were Star Wars creative folks wearing them. It's unlikely they were all advertising shoes.
Julian Jones
I think that was just metaphor.
John Cooper
It may well have been, but I maintain.
Xavier Anderson
Are you implying Sabine/Phasma/Sloane/Rey are good characters?
Jonathan Morris
What's wrong with Sabine, and if you say its because she's a darksaber wielding princess I'm going to ignore you because she's neither of those things.
Ian Hill
She is unlikable as fuck, going out of her way to be shitty to the rest of the squad? What you said isn't that hot either. You also forget she is a genious artist and military designer btw. And demolition expert. How come Dark Filony, waifu killer, doesn't have axed her?
Dylan Morgan
Not him, but my only real issue with her/her story is that she was a weapon designer for the Empire at like age 15 or something. Unless she's significantly older than she looks, at least.
Sabine is fine, slightly annoying when not given room to breath but has possibly the best single episode arc of any character in Rebels. Meanwhile, she's sharing the stage with multiple other characters, male and female, all of whom are pretty well written and have had interesting arcs.
Sloane, I can't talk on. I kinda liked her in Aftermath, being a sensible imperial officer, but she didn't redeem the trashfire of every other part of that book so I didn't keep reading.
Rey is in the middle of her arc, and was hilariously more tolerable in TLJ. Seeing more of her actual personality, seeing her fail, seeing her have an arc, all of it helped her character. I dare say there'll be media where she's my favorite character in a few years, although she isn't going to beat Kylo in his performances in both TLJ and the next one.
Phasma's femininity doesn't even come into play, considering she could be male and practically nothing would change. Her book makes her out to be self serving, which fits with how TFA shows her, and TLJ doesn't do much besides show that when she can grandstand and use the infrastructure around her to get what she wants she can.
Michael Martinez
She designed a better weapon than the fucking death star at 14.
Asher Stewart
*gasses your planet*
pffft nothing personal kid
Jackson Ortiz
A dodongo?
Daniel Peterson
how closeted do you have to be to be this triggered about seeing more women
Chase Howard
Her hair looks dumb. Also, she and her XWM TIE are reminders of the infinitely superior ladies of Wraith Squadron, who will never be canon again.
Justin Thomas
>The old canon was full of white heterosexual male human starfighter pilots who were also jedi already anyway. Did Farlander actually get official Jedi training? Only other one I know is Corran Horn.
Brayden Gutierrez
not "on-screen" but yeah, by the NJO (the only EU books he actually shows up in) he's an official member of the jedi order
Jonathan Baker
Regardless of its origin, point about the creative folks wearing them sends bad optics to those sensitive to the culture wars on both sides. Do those who see it as a dog-whistle have their 'culture war' goggles on too tight? Perhaps. Not taking sides on the matter, just observing what I've seen in the community.
>Look at how many female OCs we have had since KK took over LFL. Do we have any hard data on how many female OC main characters versus male OC main characters have been released since she was in charge? Genuinely curious on this.
>compared to the number of strong female characters in OldCanon that's a drop in the bucket Just another reason why axing the entire EU like Disney did was a massive waste in potential.
Owen Sanchez
This is why I feel that the problem isn't that "muh ess jay dubews are ruinin' muh star wars", but rather that there's all kinds of hooks in the sequel for extreme ideologues on both ends of the spectrum to attach themselves to or complain about.
Ian Turner
The Clones wars beat that in Waifus and interesting female characters.
Matthew Garcia
"the creative folks" is kathleen kennedy. one person posing with three fans.
at most, it's a minor PR gaff. It's still not a statement on canon.
Mason Diaz
Wraith Squadron a shit
Elijah Watson
>Just another reason why axing the entire EU like Disney did was a massive waste in potential.
But nothing about the EU was good. It was Palladium-tier power creep one book after another. Axing it was definitely the right choice; it's just they've replaced shit with shit.
Dominic Thompson
Go away, Zsinj.
Angel Harris
I liked the Ssi-ruuk and Xizor. Couldn't get myself to love the vidya characters as much as most people here do, though.
Ian Cooper
upon further review, the pictures in question were taken at an event where Kennedy was the keynote speaker for a film festival at the Archer School for Girls. She wasn't wearing it marching around Comic-con or some shit, but speaking as someone in the film industry to a bunch of film students at an all-girl's school.
but context is for losers FUCK THE LIBERAL AGENDA
Carter Robinson
Are the Falleen still canon?
Jaxson Barnes
Ok the women of Wraith Squadron a shit
Jeremiah Price
Keyan's home planet got replaced by the Bendu's coral planet.
And I really do want to see the Bendu drawn in a giant version of the Agamar disguises from Wraith Squadron.
Brayden Phillips
>but speaking as someone in the film industry to a bunch of film students at an all-girl's school.
That doesn't really fill one with confidence that it was just a coincidence or a non-statement.
Connor Cooper
Why wouldn't they be?
Samuel Foster
Oyah.
user, I'm afraid it is your tastes that are shit.
Lucas Rodriguez
Underrated
Kayden Diaz
Honestly. The EU had reached 40+ years post-RotJ of near continuous narrative, with a number of other works filling in gaps between trilogies and going back 4,000 years. I love the EU, and always will, but it was crowded as FUCK and the only directions left to go were delving into places that were so far removed from classic Star Wars that they might as well have been their own setting.
It had a GREAT run. But you gotta put the dog down eventually, man.
Noah Sanchez
>having this shitty taste
Josiah White
Yeah, they popped up in TCW and a bunch of other stuff
Tyler Morales
Because I haven't seen enough of Rebels to know if something featured them that wasn't Legends.
Zachary Anderson
Ah, okay then. Thank god, I liked the smooth fuckers.
Jace Gray
>Just another reason why axing the entire EU like Disney did was a massive waste in potential.
You all need to stop seeing it this way and be glad the old EU is safe from future bullshit.
Carter Campbell
they don't even do anything, they're as useless as the Disney girls everyone is bitching about while being irrelevant
Bentley Ross
She was tasked with inspiring a crowd of girls hopeful to break into film. She's famous for her connection to Star Wars. If you see her shirt as anything more than an attempt at solidarity and inspiration for the students, you might have a persecution complex.
Easton Green
>If you see her shirt as anything more than an attempt at solidarity and inspiration for the students, you might have a persecution complex.
Having seen what's happened to Marvel Comics recently, I do not think seeing it as more than that is unreasonable at all. At *best*, it's an unintended dogwhistle.
Camden Watson
>they dont even do anything
Oh. So you havent even read the books then. I see.
