Shalimar
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That has to be some kind of record.
Star Wars: Republic and Empire (OOC thread)
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That has to be some kind of record.
Ah, so she knew she was adopted when growing up... Never even occurred to me as a possibility. I can live with that. Just wanted some (even remotely) logical explanation
Wait a second - in standard canon she didn't know she was adopted growing up? She looks nothing like Bail Organa (don't remember if his wife was ever on-screen). Not knowing she was Anakin and Padme's daughter, okay, possible; not knowing she was adopted seems something of a stretch.
Shalimar
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She certainly didn't know who her real parents were but I doubt that she didn't know she was adopted. A galactic senator is one of the top 3 people for the planet, if they are also part of a royal house there is just no escaping that they are big news. Showing up with a baby after no pregnancy makes it fairly obvious she was adopted and I'm sure there would have been dozens of stories if not hundreds. Heck it would be a throw away line in any story that even mentioned Leia. She also isn't dumb.
In Return of the Jedi Luke asked Leia about what she remembered of her mom, and it was pretty clear that she was talking about her biological mom, so she would have had to know that she was adopted otherwise she'd have just said her mom was Bail's wife.
Following up on that, post a character concept (or PM me if you can). I think we could still use another character or two, and there are about 350 people on a Sacheen-class light escort; four are PCs, and three so far are named NPCs (the captain, the tactical officer, and the starfighter squadron commander). One of the things I have to do this weekend is turn stats on Wookiepedia into SWSE stats, while tweaking them as per the alternate timeline.
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Blackrat
He Who Lurks Beyond The Veil
Now that you mention it, some scenes do make a lot more sense with Leia knowing about having been adopted...
It's something that never even occurred to me as a possibility, but now makes perfect sense. Thanks
Well, the advanced capital ship missiles that led to de-empahising fighters didn't appear in action until 11 ABY, and weren't available in large numbers until around 15 ABY; it wasn't until 17 ABY that the Imperials deployed their first proton missile cruisers (the Imperial III class star destroyer prototypes), and the Empire hasn't been able to deploy new designs up and down the line anywhere near as rapidly as the Republic. So Rogue Squadron exists, and has quite a bit of prestige, but most of its major successes were in the decade or so after Endor. After that, starfighter-centric missions tended to be small-scale or covert ops.
Much more recently, the P-Wing project is beginning a bit of a comeback for starfighters. They're less than five years old -- and saw their first large-scale use in slowing down Darth Gaida's initial campaign, and the Rogues were at the forefront of that. At some point, Wedge Antilles was killed in action (hence the Correllian Expeditionary Force flagship being named after him).
Shalimar
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How are you finding the Starship Design Rules? It seems like the prebuilt ships don't really match up very well with the construction rules. Like the ability of the Citadel Cruiser to carry a pair of starfighters when even a Frigate can only fit a single huge fighter in a Hangar.
I haven't looked at them all that closely yet; most of what I've built for other games has just been lightly tweaked existing ships. I'm going to have to for this game, though.
