User:DigiFluid

This is my user page. I am not a redlink.

Articles I've worked a lot on

 * Darth Malgus' Sith Empire
 * Death Squadron
 * Emperor's Wrath (Cold War)
 * First Great Schism
 * Grand Plan
 * Great Galactic War
 * Meetra Surik
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic

Articles I've created

 * Dracen
 * Hurdenn
 * The Imprisoned One
 * This page

Random quotes I like
"It's so flawed that it looks as if all they're trying to do is to maroon as many generals in as many stupid places with inadequate support as they can."

- Republic Commando Corr, commenting on the overall strategy of the Clone Wars

"So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."

- Padmé Amidala, to Bail Organa following the Declaration of a New Order

"I find your lack of faith disturbing."

- Darth Vader to Admiral Motti

"Do not underestimate the powers of the Emperor."

- Yoda to Luke

VHS

 * Episode I
 * Episode IV
 * Episode V
 * Episode VI
 * Star Wars Trilogy

DVD

 * Episode I
 * Episode II
 * Episode III
 * Original Trilogy
 * Original Trilogy

Blu-ray

 * Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy
 * The Clone Wars
 * The Clone Wars: Season One
 * The Clone Wars: Season Two
 * The Clone Wars: Season Three

Old Republic

 * 5000 BBY – Lost Tribe of the Sith I: Precipice
 * 5000 BBY – Lost Tribe of the Sith II: Skyborn
 * 4985 BBY – Lost Tribe of the Sith III: Paragon
 * 4975 BBY – Lost Tribe of the Sith IV: Savior
 * 3960 BBY – Lost Tribe of the Sith V: Purgatory
 * 3960-59 BBY – Lost Tribe of the Sith VI: Sentinel
 * 3954-50 BBY – The Old Republic: Revan
 * 3653 BBY – The Old Republic: Deceived
 * 3650 BBY – Lost Tribe of the Sith VII: Pantheon
 * 3643 BBY – The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
 * 3000 BBY – Lost Tribe of the Sith VIII: Secrets
 * 1003-1000 BBY – Darth Bane I: Path of Destruction
 * 1000-990 BBY – Darth Bane II: Rule of Two
 * 980 BBY – Darth Bane III: Dynasty of Evil

Rise of the Empire

 * 67-32 BBY – Darth Plagueis
 * 22 BBY – Republic Commando I: Hard Contact
 * 21 BBY – Republic Commando II: Triple Zero
 * 21 BBY – Republic Commando III: True Colors
 * 19 BBY – Republic Commando IV: Order 66
 * 19 BBY – Imperial Commando: 501st
 * 19 BBY – Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight
 * 19 BBY – Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows
 * c. 19 BBY – Book of Sith
 * 18 BBY – Coruscant Nights III: Patterns of Force
 * 15 BBY–19 ABY – Tales of the Bounty Hunters

Galactic Civil War

 * 4 ABY – Tales from the Empire
 * 4 ABY – Tales from Jabba's Palace

New Republic

 * 6 ABY – X-wing I: Rogue Squadron
 * 6 ABY – X-wing II: Wedge's Gamble
 * 7 ABY – X-wing III: The Krytos Trap
 * 7 ABY – X-wing IV: The Bacta War
 * 7 ABY – X-wing V: Wraith Squadron
 * 7 ABY – X-wing VI: Iron Fist
 * 7 ABY – X-wing VII: Solo Command
 * 9 ABY – Thrawn Trilogy I: Heir to the Empire
 * 9 ABY – Thrawn Trilogy II: Dark Force Rising
 * 9 ABY – Thrawn Trilogy III: The Last Command
 * 11 ABY – I, Jedi
 * 12 ABY – Darksaber
 * 17 ABY – The New Rebellion
 * 19 ABY – Hand of Thrawn I: Specter of the Past
 * 19 ABY – Hand of Thrawn II: Vision of the Future

Other

 * 1996: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels
 * 1999: Episode I: The Phantom Menace promo booklet
 * 2007: The Essential Guide to the Force
 * 2009: The Essential Atlas
 * 2012: The Essential Guide to Warfare

Old Republic

 * 3956 BBY – Knights of the Old Republic
 * 3951 BBY – Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * 3643-41 BBY – The Old Republic

Rise of the Empire

 * 22-19 BBY – Republic Commando
 * 22 BBY–3 ABY – Battlefront II
 * 18-2 BBY – The Force Unleashed
 * 18-2 BBY – The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition

Galactic Civil War

 * 1 BBY – The Force Unleashed II
 * 1 BBY–4 ABY – Empire at War + Forces of Corruption
 * 0 BBY–3 ABY – X-wing + Imperial Pursuit + B-wing
 * 0 BBY–1 ABY – Dark Forces
 * 0-3 ABY – Rogue Squadron
 * 3 ABY – Shadows of the Empire
 * 3 ABY – Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire
 * 3 ABY – TIE Fighter + Defender of the Empire + Enemies of the Empire
 * 3-4 ABY – X-wing Alliance

New Republic

 * 5 ABY – Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
 * 10 ABY – Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
 * 12 ABY – Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
 * 14 ABY – Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

Non-canon

 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
 * Rebellion

Board games

 * Monopoly: Star Wars Classic Trilogy Edition
 * Parker: Star Wars: Escape from the Death Star
 * Puzz-3D: Millennium Falcon
 * Trivial Pursuit: Classic Trilogy Collector's Edition

Toys

 * Animal Magic: Darth Vader (plushie)
 * Funko: Boba Fett (bobble head)
 * Galoob: Darth Vader head that flips open to be the Cloud City carbon freezing room
 * Hasbro: CW15 Asajj Ventress
 * Hasbro: SL02 IG-88
 * LEGO: Stormtrooper (ballpoint pen)
 * LEGO: Vulture Droid Fighter
 * L.G.T.I. Star Wars Action Fleet: AT-AT
 * L.G.T.I. Star Wars Action Fleet: Slave I
 * L.G.T.I. Star Wars Action Fleet: Y-Wing
 * MB: Star Wars Special Edition Poster Size Puzzle
 * Micro Machines: many of them (currently missing, MOM)
 * Mr. Potato Head: Artoo-Potatoo
 * Mr. Potato Head: Darth Tater
 * Mr. Potato Head: Spud Trooper
 * Rubik's Cube: Darth Maul
 * Tonka: 12" plastic X-wing toy
 * USB Drive: C-3PO (mimobot)
 * USB Drive: Darth Vader (Tyme Machines)
 * Clone Trooper helmet from some cereal or another

Clothing

 * T-shirt: Darth Vader (freebie for pre-ordering 2004 DVD set)
 * T-shirt: The Old Republic - Sith Empire

2012/01/12: Some scattered thoughts on Star Wars
I love the TotJ/KOTOR/TOR era to bits. Far and away my favourite EU time period, and I'm incredibly torn on whether I should be hoping that it gets some official movie/TV/whatever love, or whether I should be hoping that Lucas stays right away from it.

Nothing could have salvaged Episode I. Nothing.

The Phantom Edit of Episode II, however, was phenomenal and just goes to show how even one determined Star Wars fan can turn disaster around into a fantastic film.

The Clone Wars is awesome, and I wish my fellow SW fans would stop being so butthurt over it. An expanded universe that's contributed to by dozens and dozens of writers/authors means there will ALWAYS have to be revisions to fit new works into the grand scheme of things. This is the nature of the beast, and this is what you signed on for when you became a fan of the SW EU. Deal with it.

The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie, period. It's SCIENCE.

I REALLY wish that Lucas would restore Boba Fett's real voice in the more recent versions of ESB. Having Temeura Morrison dub the lines is ludicrous, illogical, inconsistent, and completely guts the character. This lone edit makes the DVD (and beyond) versions of ESB completely unwatchable for me, even though I quite like the other changes.

The Blu-ray edit to ROTJ (you know the one..."no, nooooo!") is the only reason that I patently refused to buy the OT on BD. Which is a complete shame, because I would love to see how the films look in high-def.

While some of it is certainly a little dodgy, for the most part I enjoyed the New Republic era of the EU.

The NJO era, however, I avoid like the plague. I've never read any of it, and having read bits and pieces about it here on Wookieepedia, I have zero interest in ever reading any of it. Were it possible to have negative interest, I would--I'm so repulsed by the entire idea of it all.

2012/01/16: On The Clone Wars
This is a copy/paste of something I wrote for the Senate Hall not too long ago. It's....it may well have been off-topic, as pointed out in a response that it got. And I can certainly see how it could be taken that way, in the context of that thread, so I decided I'd like to back this up here in case it gets scrubbed from the SH thread.

OPENING DISCLAIMER: While prompted by the OP's comments, the comments below are in no way intended as a specific attack on any one individual. This, rather, is a comment more on the general state of fandom with regards to The Clone Wars.

To be frank, I'm completely and utterly sick of the amount of whining to come out of the Star Wars community regarding The Clone Wars. Rule NUMBER ONE about the Star Wars universe: it's George Lucas's universe, and he can do whatever he likes with it. In the grand scheme of things, EU writers are nothing more than licensees who have been granted the high privilege of playing with GL's toys. If he decides he doesn't want Writer X to have control over it anymore because he wants to play with it, then tough s--t. They're his toys and this is what Writer X signed up for when they got on board.

This is doubly true for us on the fan level, who have no say in the writing of canon. If god himself cracks open the sky to say "hey, Subject Y is going to look like this now," it doesn't matter what Preacher Joe says to the contrary. 'Subject Y looking like this now' is the reality of things, no matter how much anyone stamps their feet and moans to the contrary.

This is why we, as both Star Wars fans and Wookieepedians, live and die by a strict hierarchy of canon. With G- and T-canon at the top of the pyramid, as effective word-of-god for the SW universe, we don't have canon contradictions, nor does G- or T-canon ever violate canon. All we have is a state of affairs in which old sources are incorrect and require retconning.

This is not something to whine and be upset over, nor is it anything new. With dozens and dozens of authors involved in the EU since 1978 (34 years ago), contradictions whether possible or in-fact have always been both potentiality and reality. Dozens of writers means dozens of different perspectives and interpretations of events that may or may not have been the intention of either George Lucas or other EU writers.

As to Karen Traviss, I simply have to say "good riddance." As much as I enjoyed the Republic Commando series, and am still enjoying her work in the Gears of War universe, her exit from Star Wars was immature at best and downright petulant at worst. She knew very well everything I've elaborated on above, and rather than either live with the circumstances of what she had signed on for, or just to simply wait until the Mandalorian issues were resolved--which DID happen in the long run, just as everyone else knew it would be--she chose to have a tantrum and walk out. Besides being a deep disservice to the fans who lined her pockets by buying her Star Wars books, this was also staggeringly unprofessional.

Now, to The Clone Wars itself: nobody, least of all EU writers, can say with a straight face that they couldn't see this coming. Lucas is a VFX man, always has been. Whether referring to his 2002 announcement of intent to make an animated series, or the 2005 announcement that they were planning a 3D continuation of said series, or even just basic logical reasoning, anybody and everybody should have known that the Clone Wars were just waiting to be portrayed in official media. In all bluntness, whining about TCW is like swimming in gasoline next to an open flame, and then being indignant when you're lit on fire. If you (the general "you", not referring to anybody in specific here) didn't see this coming, you probably deserve that stinging slap on the back of the head that you're feeling like you got.

One final point here: length of time. The Clone Wars, specifically, has been known about since 2005--seven years now. And it's been releasing material since 2008--four years now. Whether you agree or disagree with any or all of the above, it's time to stop acting shocked and/or using excessive punctuation whenever something doesn't go precisely the way you'd prefer it had. This is the way things are, and this is how they've been for 4-7 years. It's long since past time when anyone can feign surprise over anything about the series.

Put succinctly: deal with it.

2012/04/07: Star Wars games I want

 * The Force Unleashed &mdash; TFU2 was only 5h long; I'd like to see the other 3/4 of a game I paid full retail price for on release day. And if there's to be a TFU3, it better be at least 20h long or I ain't buying it.
 * Jedi Knight III &mdash; Yes there was Jedi Academy. And it sucked. I want a real JK3.
 * Knights of the Old Republic III &mdash; Some people complain that we got TOR instead of KOTOR3. I'm not one of them; I do really enjoy TOR. But I still want a real KOTOR3
 * TIE Fighter &mdash; Either a modernized remake a la Serious Sam HD, or even a TIE Fighter 2, either way. A TIE Fighter 2 set from the POV of the Imperial Remnant could be interesting
 * A Battlefront-style game set during the Mandalorian Wars and Jedi Civil War