Star Wars Saga: The Dawn of Defiance [OOC Thread]

[Songdragon]

Well... I have no search function. I do not have a Community Supporter Account either, so I do not know if that effects it at all.

And yeah, that might be a good idea!

 

[Dr Simon]

The only communicator I have down for Darius is a short range holo-comlink. Of course, I have the excuse that I didn't do the shopping, but it's not a very good excuse

 

[Binder Fred]

Idem for Sloor: Short ranged scrambled comm build into his holocapable datapad. TB has internal comm thought.

 

[Binder Fred]

Now that I think about it, *are* earbud comms part of the classic Star Wars feel we're going for here? Off the top of my head I can't think of an example of somebody using them in the movies or cartoon, but that might just be my faulty memory. I *can* think of two counter-example though (instances we're quiet comm devices would have made sense and have not been used). One are the commanders of the clone armies (jedis and non-clone officers, basically anybody not wearing a helmet) who all rely on palm-holo devices for communication in the field. The other is battle droids, who actually *talk* to each other instead of using their internal comms.... Thoughts?

I'm still here. Without a communicator, and seperated from the group, Darius hasn't had much of a chance to say much until now.

Well, I was sort of expecting that he'd do exactly what he did when he did want to talk (i.e walk over).

 

[perrinmiller]

Well, we are sort of in the time of Galaxy of Intrigue Source book, yeah?

The original SW was just limited by 20th century ides for the future, why a commlink would be less sophisticated that a smartphone with bluetooth is sort of ridiculous with FTL travel.

Sorry, just had to throw that out there and see if it sticks to the wall.

 

[Binder Fred]

Ah, but Star Wars *isn't* the future (see the very first phrase of the classic scrolling message: "Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." ). To my mind, Star wars is a space fantasy game, not science-fiction. Like Star Trek, actual hard science plays very little role in shapping the worlds of Star Wars -- and in the case of Star Wars, I think it works just fine. As to the expected curve of tech development having to mirror our own - well - you only have to look at any steam-punk creation to see that that's very setting dependant. If you can accept steam-powered clockwork robots before the invention of electricity, then FTL travel before earbud comlinks is a snap.

I wasn't questionning the existance of earbuds anyways, just that, to me, wearing one doesn't seem to quite fit with the image I have of the genre we're trying to emulate: too... modern, I guess. Special Forces/Secret service-y. Now if we were playing Appleseed...

 

[possum]

I think I've seen some earbud-like objects while reading more modern EU stories, so I will certainly allow earbud comlinks.

 

[Binder Fred]

Oh and seems like we've just sashayed past the 1000 posts count yet again on this game. Second time and counting! Congratulations all!

 

[perrinmiller]

The trick is to reach 1000 posts without really doing a whole lot. Then you know you are role-playing well I think.

 

[Binder Fred]

What do you mean "without doing a whole lot"??? Since yesterday morning we've met Darius, were brieffed by Verana, did some long-distance investigation on the way over to Cato Neimoidia, fended off an attack by a swoop bike gang, interrogate the hell out of their leader, convinced Radden to get us a meeting with Darga, won Radden's life in a hotly contested game of "Capture the Radden", partied the night away, didn't get to sleep because we had to *quietly* break into the palace's dungeon, planted a home-made tracer on our carbsickles, cat-napped, foiled a poisoining attempt over breakfast, smoozed the general location of the Tibanna plant off of Demos, broke into his office and revealed his traitory to Darga and finally negotiated a multi-million cred deal between our employer and the entire frekking Empire (or shadow arm thereof)!