User:Thefourdotelipsis

"At the risk of sounding negative: No."

- Leela

"There'll be no one to stop us this time!"

- My earliest Star Wars memory

"...it's more encyclopedic"

- Inadvertantly my new catch-cry

"Having a quote that I coined myself here would be arrogance to the nth degree."

- ....

Yo. No fanfic to be found here - I find that stuff to be both tedious and a waste of time. Here's what you need to know -

So there.
 * Films in order of preference (from favourite to least favourite): V, IV, III, I, VI, II
 * Favourite all-time character: Darth Vader
 * Favourite EU character: Borsk Fey'lya, followed closely by Mitth'raw'nuruodo and Gilad Pellaeon
 * Favourite Jedi: Plo Koon
 * Favourite Sith: Darth Vader
 * Favourite Rebel: Lando Calrissian (just because of the way James Earl Jones says Calrissian)
 * Favourite Imperial: Firmus Piett
 * Characters that I find interesting but underdeveloped: Wade Vox, Echuu Shen-Jon, Emon Azzameen
 * Favourite all-time ship: Slave I
 * Favourite starfighter: TIE/D Defender
 * Favourite capital ship: Super-class Star Destroyer Executor. None of this Executor-class Star Dreadnought bull - it's the Super-class, and it always will be.
 * Favourite location: Cloud City
 * Favourite planet: Vjun
 * Favourite game: X-Wing Alliance
 * Favourite novel: Shadows of the Empire

Ethics: "After a really series of complicated events..."
 * The Special Editions are canon. Don't spend your time whining about an OOT long gone...
 * The EU is a part of the story, but I don't consider it when watching the films.
 * Don't spend 90% of your time on Wookiepedia editing your user page, be it tweaking or writing inconsequential and hammy fanon.
 * Be flexible. Be open to others ideas, and don't just arrogantly claim that you are right and that this image of Rune Haako is not going to be changed.
 * Portraits in infoboxes. It's encyclopedic.
 * Wookiepedia is an encyclopedia, not an information stash. I'm looking at you, Palpatine.
 * If you don't like GL, say it, and then let it be.
 * Star Wars: Legacy has the potential of being the biggest mistake the EU has ever made. I'm talking bigger than The Crystal Star or even Dark Empire
 * Matthew Stover, Timothy Zahn, and James Luceno have saved the EU from certain death.
 * Saxonites and fleet junkies: You're at the wrong franchise.
 * Fandalorians: Grow up.
 * Palpatine beat Yoda. Deal with it.
 * Mace out-duelled Palpatine. Deal with it.
 * Aayla is dead. Deal with it.
 * Leland Chee is on something.
 * So is Rick McCallum

- Rick McCallum

Rants and Musings
Some people have Fanon - I have Rants and Musings. Every so often, I'll be posting my thoughts on a certain subject, and you can leave comments, if any of you actually bother to read it. In reality, I'm doing this for my own piece...peace of mind. Maybe I'll dump it all on my starwars.com blog...which I have...right here. If you've got a topic you would like me to talk about, leave it on my talk page. Oh, and these Rants and Musings do not in any way represent Wookiepedia; they just represent me.

Here are the archives - feel free to comment on them, though.
 * Rant I: Star Wars: Legacy: Stradley's childish retort (31 October, 2006)
 * Muse I: Dark Empire: I'm back, baby!

Rant II: LucasArts: "But what about canon?" "Ah, we'll just stick some on the A-Wings"
Star Wars: Empire at War is a fun enough game. You build your armies, forify your bases, and fight reasonably entertaining skirmishes on a variety of planets, from Alzoc III to Hoth. It's not brilliant, but at least the camera doesn't handle like a mini-bus with popped out tyres. The story mode certainly had my eyebrows raised though. We've got Palpatine wiping out a city on Bothawui, Boba Fett doing military services for the Empire, and Vader doing God knows what. But that was just the Imperial campaign. I can only assume that my incredulous look at the screen was matched by Star Wars fans worldwide when Raymus Antilles sent C-3PO and R2-D2 to Wayland. That's right, Wayland. You know, the planet that no one knows about in 10 ABY, save for a few high-ranking Imperial officials? And here we have Laurel and Hardy just waltzing in (though they somehow have no knowledge of it in those later years). To put it bluntly, WTF?

This raises the question...what does the Holocron Continuity Database actually do? I was shocked to find out that it had been around since 2000. And just how many continuity mistakes has the EU suffered since then? Well more than I can imagine. Granted, there have been some nice little moments of the EU tying itself together: Lumiya's return, Kyle Katarn's appearance in Lethal Alliance, but they hardly outweigh the mistakes.

But what's sad is that LucasArts not only contradict outside sources...they contradict themselves. Kyle Katarn steals the Death Star plans. Oh, no, wait, Keyan Farlander was the one involved there...no, no, it was escaping inmates from the Death Star! Ace Azzammeen stole Tydirium...or was it Wedge Antilles? Not only is it disrupting to canon, it's a pain in the neck. We now have to accept the fact that Ace stole the shuttle, only to have it stolen back from him, and then Wedge would go and steal the same shuttle. Ludicrous.

Not only that, but several people under the control of LucasArts blatantly say no to established canon.

"The basilisk war droid version presented in K2 was an intentional departure from the ones presented in Tales of the Jedi, and we are happy, because frankly, those look really stupid. This is much the same reason that many of the designs in K1 are a departure from the ship designs in TOJ, and with good reason. So yes, the basilisk droid version was an intentional departure from the older models, and we take full responsibility. It is noteworthy that LucasArts and LucasFilm agreed with our decision on the first pass, much as they agreed with the decisions made with K1's look"

- Chris Avellone

That's a shame. I'm sure fans would have actually appreciated seeing the TOTJ war droid in KOTOR II, but, hey, you know, it looks, like, "stupid". So when you're reading Shadows of the Empire, and the Virago is described as a top-notch piece of equipment, you can take it with a grain of salt, because its been around for about 3,000 years already.

You would think that they would have learned by now. But, no. We've got San Hill alive during the Galactic Civil War, and the Eclipse floating around post-Hoth. It's nice to be able to play a part of the Star Wars story. But it's almost unbearable when it completely contradicts previously established work. And for that, LucasArts rank right on the bottom of the continuity chain for me. Right below Dark Horse.

You know it makes sense: I'm The Four Dot Elipsis.

Comments

 * Personally, I'd like to see a Lucasarts game where you risk life and limb to steal a set of Death Star plans, rush to tell the Rebel High Command, and wind up rudely interrupting the medal ceremony for the people who only yesterday blew it up. Either that, or a scene in some comic where either Luke or Biggs finds out to his chagrin that there was a Rebel base on Tatooine the whole time, and all they had to do to join the Rebellion was to fly over in Luke's T-16 and sign up. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 04:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, funny about that...And it was in Beggar's Canyon to boot. .  .  .  .  04:06, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * First rant/muse I've agreed with :D. I am increasingly more suspicious of the holocron. It's come to the point where I think that Chee just plain lies about what's in the thing. He thinks it's in there, but is it? We can't be totally sure now can we? Oh and if he forgot to put it in there? Shelve it away, that's S-canon, or N-canon, or What's-with-the-stupid-abbreviations-canon. Let Peña take control of the Holocron please, at least he tries to explain away the contradictions instead of just demoting information. Cull Tremayne 09:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, well we know that Pena knows what he's doing. He pulls some of the slickest retcons I've seen. But Chee..."Rune Haako is that other Neimoidian in AOTC". :( .  .  .  .  09:58, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry I'm late, everyone! My computer got all funky and stuff... anyway, so what's new? Sir You Know My Name, N.K.-S.R.T. 00:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, that Chee. You know, he really should stop sucking up the smoke blowing out of Rick McCallum's arse -- it may do serious damage to his health. Sir You Know My Name, N.K.-S.R.T. 00:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, I actually liked Palpatine rampaging through a city on Bothawui. It just seemed in character somehow. Sometimes, he just has to unwind by killing people at random. But the rest I agree with. :-) -- Darth Culator  (Talk)(Kills) 01:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, it was a fairly fun level. Though those Royal Guards were about as much use as tits on a bull. .  .  .  .  01:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I think you meant "horns on a bull". Hey, no Sam Kekovich quote? Sir You Know My Name, N.K.-S.R.T. 06:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, Fourdot; are you from the UK? That would sort of explain the "tyres". Where I come from, it's an i instead of a y. Peace out, King Fourdot, yo! Sir You Know My Name, N.K.-S.R.T. 07:01, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Australia. And I meant tits. What good are tits on a bull? ;) .  .  .  .  07:17, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Happy St. Nicholas' Day! (No, I'm not Dutch.) Sir You Know My Name, N.K.-S.R.T. 20:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I truly, deeply agree with you, Fourdot. They messed everything up.  You can't disregard the appearance of something because it looks, "stupid".  You might as well throw out the window all the Marvel Comics, Tales of the Jedi material, and other things, saying that "Luke Skywalker looks stupid" and shaping him into a Rambo character.  This is one of the reasons I didn't get that game, the other one being that it didn't get very good reviews. (Despite any discrepancies, I am American.)
 * Which one, KOTOR or EaW? .  .  .  .  22:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * EaW. I actually liked KOTOR 2, but that Basilisk subplot was half-arsed. When I first read that I was going to use one, I was like, "Free some pussy!", but it turned out to be some weird thing that they said had safety issues (which never came to frution, and where's the suspense in that?).   And then, to my suprise, I read that dude's reason WHY. *Long Groan*
 * Personally, I rather liked the Death Star mission in Star Wars: Battlefront II; it gave me rather a rush of nostalgia. Sir You Know My Name, N.K.-S.R.T. 01:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that part was pretty fun, but extremely inaccurate. Just one of the many questions on the list for that one is, "How the heck did ALL the rebels get their original weapons and uniforms in a IMPERIAL PRISON on the DEATH STAR?" Imperials are nothing if not thorough.
 * I know, but that's how all the Rebel characters come. It's the same for every mission. Sir You Know My Name, N.K.-S.R.T. 05:53, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Fourdot, are you busy eating Vegemite again? Sir You Know My Name, N.K.-S.R.T. 22:16, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Vegemite's fantastic stuff. Anyway, I recently saw Casino Royale... fantastic stuff. .  .  .  .  22:34, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Personally, I loved what they did with the gun barrel sequence this time around. And the ending... well, I think you got that feeling, too. James Bond will return! Sir You Know My Name, N.K.-S.R.T. 00:23, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * [*clears throat*] James Bond will RETURN! Sir You Know My Name, N.K.-S.R.T. 23:53, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2008. .  .  .  .  04:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yay! You're back! FOURDOT HAS RETURNED! Sir You Know My Name, N.K.-S.R.T. 20:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Pet Articles
"Slave! I have set my life upon a cast and I will stand the hazard of the die!"

- Richard III


 * Tydirium
 * Rune Haako - Will be featured February 11, 2007. "Easier than the Kessel Run"
 * Maarek Stele
 * Battle of Grassy Plains
 * Battle of Otoh Sancture
 * Panaka
 * Sio Bibble
 * Jar Jar Binks - Will be featured March 7, 2007. "What have I done?!"
 * Rugor Nass
 * OOM-9 - Good Article. "100% success rate, my arse!"
 * Ric Olié - Good Article. "It's got a tick in the corner!"
 * Humungous project that actually came to be | Anakin Skywalker - Revert to Policy. Smartest thing ever.
 * Daultay Dofine
 * Sabé
 * Watto
 * Nute Gunray

Member of

 * WookieeProject The New Essential Guide to Characters

Quote of the Day - Successful Noms
"I have a bad feeling about this."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa, and a whole bunch of others.

Media

 * The Rebel Thief
 * Star Wars Kids (magazine)
 * X-Wing Marks The Spot
 * Imperial Spy

Characters

 * Q-7N
 * Sprool
 * Vors Voorhorian
 * Rogor
 * Tolok
 * Darlen
 * Deen Voorson
 * Willoc
 * Mavis
 * Tarn (Rebellion)

Battles

 * Battle of To-phalion Base
 * Battle of Science Station Youst
 * Mugaari Campaign
 * First Battle of Javin
 * Battle of the Tungra Sector
 * Second Battle of Javin
 * Battle of the Bruanii Sector
 * Battle of Spearhead
 * Battle of Spinnaker
 * Battle of Harte Secur

Droids

 * Sith battle droid

Planets/Locations

 * Dennogra
 * Zio Snaffkin
 * Zio Snaffkin Cantina
 * Incom Factory
 * Science Station Youst

Vehicles

 * Bail Organa (ship)
 * Sabre
 * Pike
 * Musket
 * Halberd
 * Redkihl Rokk's ship
 * Republic's Return

Organisations

 * Dimok (government)
 * Ripoblus (government)

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Books

 * Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Dark Rival
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Fight for Truth
 * Star Wars Episode I Journal: Anakin Skywalker
 * The Phantom Menace
 * Rogue Planet
 * Attack of the Clones
 * Jedi Trial
 * Revenge of the Sith
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * A New Hope
 * Assault on Yavin Four
 * Escape from Thyferra
 * Attack on Delrakkin
 * Destroy the Liquidator
 * The Hunt for Han Solo
 * The Search for Grubba the Hutt
 * Ithorian Invasion
 * Togorian Trap
 * Revolt of the Battle Droids
 * Showdown in Mos Eisley
 * Bounty Hunters vs. Battle Droids
 * The Vactooine Disaster
 * Prisoner of the Nikto Pirates
 * The Monsters of Dweem
 * Voyage to the Underworld
 * Imperial Jailbreak
 * Darth Vader's Return
 * Rogue Squadron to the Rescue
 * Bounty on Bonadan
 * Total Destruction
 * Ghost of the Jedi
 * Splinter of the Mind's Eye
 * The Empire Strikes Back
 * Shadows of the Empire
 * Return of the Jedi
 * The Mandalorian Armor
 * Slave Ship
 * Queen of the Empire (!)
 * Heir to the Empire
 * Dark Force Rising
 * The Last Command
 * Specter of the Past
 * Vision of the Future
 * Heirs of the Force
 * Shadow Academy
 * Vector Prime
 * The Unifying Force
 * Betrayal
 * Bloodlines
 * Tempest
 * Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina
 * Tales From the New Republic

Reference Books

 * Episode I: The Visual Dictionary
 * Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary
 * Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary
 * ''Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary
 * The New Essential Guide to Characters
 * The Essential Chronology
 * Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide

Comics

 * Star Wars Tales Volume 2

(TBC)