SW3: A thought about General Grievious

[Taelorn76]

I'll get more details when I get off work tonight but a quick recap is IIRC
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Grievous was a great warrior from a race of lizards people. I can't recall who took him down durring a war, but needless to say there was not much left of him. He was then put into the machine that we have grown to love.[/sblock]
Like I said when I get the book in front off me I'll fill in the details. Hope that can satisfy you guys for a few hours.

BTW if you have not read the novel I do recomend it. It is a good "prequel" to RoS. You see how Palpatine was captured and other backround info.

 

[Ryngard]

Boba Fett is alive and well in the Star Wars universe. He did indeed survive the Sarlaac and has most recently been seen kicking Yuuzhan Vong arse in the second to last novel in the NJO series. He is rumored to become a key player in the Legacy of the Force series just getting ready to start. He is reviving the Mandalorian tradition and had a squad of impressive warriors during that fight. He also spoke with Han and told him that it was never personal, he was after the Jedi or something like that. It was kinda nifty.

The whole real name thing, Jaster Mareel or whatever, has been thrown out due to Lucas, but the rest is as canon as it gets without being in a movie.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

More on Grievous' background...

[sblock]He was actually the Separatist General BEFORE getting all mecanized. The Banking Clan arranged for his shuttle to crash, leaving him pretty much dead. They then went in and 'saved' him, altering his mind and a few other things to make him more controllable for the war effort.[/sblock]

And on the note of Fett...Jaster Mareel has been given a new identity, but as one of the men who taught Jango Fett the Mandalorian ways, not Boba's 'real name'.

 

[Zulithe]

BTW if you have not read the novel I do recomend it. It is a good "prequel" to RoS. You see how Palpatine was captured and other backround info.

But we see this in the Clone Wars animated series. Is it in agreeanace with that?

 

[Taelorn76]

But we see this in the Clone Wars animated series. Is it in agreeanace with that?

It is but it fleshes out the story a little more. I enjoyed it and it was a very quick read

 

[RangerWickett]

. . . *yoinks idea for my own Star Wars fix/rip-off*

I did run a Star Wars adventure after Ep II where Boba Fett went to a secret Geonosian cloning space station, where they were trying to not just recreate the body of Jango Fett, but to implant the mind of him, for pre-made bad-asses. Boba wanted to get his father back.

Also on the space station was a strange humanoid with horns ringed around his head. He was also a clone, apparently created from the dead son of a Republic senator. In truth, the Jango Fett clone experiment was all an attempt by Sidious to be able to clone Jedi. Or, in this case, Sith. He wanted his favorite weapon back, and in the middle of the adventure a mad scientist injected the horned guy with the serum to give him Darth Maul's knowledge. For a while he acted weird, and then he vanished, and they only found odd strips of flesh left behind.

When they found him again, he had stolen a pair of light sabers, and they could see that he had sliced open his face to recreate the markings of Darth Maul. And they got to fight both Jango Fett and Darth Maul.

It was pretty stupid.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

But we see this in the Clone Wars animated series. Is it in agreeanace with that?

Actually...no.

Mainly in the details of the abduction of Palpatine. The book does it much, much better IMO...if only because we good a Mace vs. Grievous showdown on top of one of the fast moving vehicles across the city. Also, I don't remember Mace doing the force grip on Grievous at all.

Its really the entire abduction thing that's completely different, beyond that things work fairly well.

 

[DanMcS]

I did run a Star Wars adventure after Ep II where Boba Fett went to a secret Geonosian cloning space station, where they were trying to not just recreate the body of Jango Fett, but to implant the mind of him, for pre-made bad-asses. Boba wanted to get his father back.

Also on the space station was a strange humanoid with horns ringed around his head. He was also a clone, apparently created from the dead son of a Republic senator. In truth, the Jango Fett clone experiment was all an attempt by Sidious to be able to clone Jedi. Or, in this case, Sith. He wanted his favorite weapon back, and in the middle of the adventure a mad scientist injected the horned guy with the serum to give him Darth Maul's knowledge. For a while he acted weird, and then he vanished, and they only found odd strips of flesh left behind.

When they found him again, he had stolen a pair of light sabers, and they could see that he had sliced open his face to recreate the markings of Darth Maul. And they got to fight both Jango Fett and Darth Maul.

It was pretty stupid.

Well, yeah, especially since neither Jango nor Boba were in any way tough. Sam Jackson decapitated Jango without breaking stride, and Boba got taken out by the equivalent of a half-trained padawan. Why clone those wussies?

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Isn't the Clone Wars cartoon considered "canon" by GL?

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well, yeah, especially since neither Jango nor Boba were in any way tough. Sam Jackson decapitated Jango without breaking stride, and Boba got taken out by the equivalent of a half-trained padawan. Why clone those wussies?

Agreed. I never saw the love for the Fetts. A couple of chumps IMO.