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    Aurilee, Chirrut originally introduced himself as a "Jedha monk". Since the Peace Moon happened to Jedha... I suppose he switched to "monk at large".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yana View Post
    Aurilee, Chirrut originally introduced himself as a "Jedha monk". Since the Peace Moon happened to Jedha... I suppose he switched to "monk at large".
    That just means he will be...

    The Last Jedha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Glyphstone View Post
    That just means he will be...

    The Last Jedha.
    It's time for the Jedha to end.

    Does that mean he has to train Bria to become a Jedha?

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    Ben? No dessert for you tonight.

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    Er, that's "I defected" as in "I switched sides", Keybounce, not "defective" as in "not working correctly."
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    That look...
    Bodi's definitely regretting he came aboard instead off staying behind in that massive explosion.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
    Er, that's "I defected" as in "I switched sides", Keybounce, not "defective" as in "not working correctly."
    Hee hee. I know, but defect, defect.
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    I'm going to go with the commentators here. Letting the homicidal droid drive was a bad idea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
    I'm going to go with the commentators here. Letting the homicidal droid drive was a bad idea.
    You say let as though they could stop her.
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    There's a reason droids should have restraining bolts built into their circuitry. Actually, there are lots of reasons.

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    Hey keybounce, did you know how the Germans found partisans in WWII? They waited until the band had made 6 or 8 raids and then just drew lines across the map to connect the points (12 to 6 o'clock, 2 to 8 o'clock, etc). Where the lines crossed was the base.

    It's really easy to get people to tell you where they live.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
    Hey keybounce, did you know how the Germans found partisans in WWII? They waited until the band had made 6 or 8 raids and then just drew lines across the map to connect the points (12 to 6 o'clock, 2 to 8 o'clock, etc). Where the lines crossed was the base.

    It's really easy to get people to tell you where they live.
    This only works if the raiders are operating in a circle around their base. If they are based off of a highway and are making raids along the highway, then all your lines end up going along the highway. However, knowing this strategy, I would plan my raids so the center was the residence of the local occupiers.
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    why they changed Jyn's name to Bria? Like, I get that they changed Saw to Kyle because they wanted to be consistent with what they had previously said had been Jim's character, which itself was based on the EU that is no longer canon. Was Bria another Legends character that they mentioned and I forgot about? Or did they just decide to change her name for no apparent reason (or for a reason we haven't gotten to yet)?

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    why they changed Jyn's name to Bria? Like, I get that they changed Saw to Kyle because they wanted to be consistent with what they had previously said had been Jim's character, which itself was based on the EU that is no longer canon. Was Bria another Legends character that they mentioned and I forgot about? Or did they just decide to change her name for no apparent reason (or for a reason we haven't gotten to yet)?
    Bria Tharen was also named as one of Jim's characters.
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    why they changed Jyn's name to Bria? Like, I get that they changed Saw to Kyle because they wanted to be consistent with what they had previously said had been Jim's character, which itself was based on the EU that is no longer canon. Was Bria another Legends character that they mentioned and I forgot about? Or did they just decide to change her name for no apparent reason (or for a reason we haven't gotten to yet)?
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    Yes, Bria was another Legends character. A love interest of Han Solo who died before ANH. I cant remember if they name dropped her in D&D as one of Jim's characters or not though.
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    Yes, Bria was another Legends character. A love interest of Han Solo who died before ANH. I cant remember if they name dropped her in D&D as one of Jim's characters or not though.
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    Technically I don't need to spoiler this, since everything EU has been de-canonized and tossed into an industrial wood chipper, but better safe than sorry.

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    Bria Tharen is the primary female character from The Han Solo Trilogy by A.C. Crispin. Han rescues her from slavery in a drug lab, loses her because he's too poor for a rich girl like her, regains her when she hires him to help raid her former captors but loses her again because the Rebels betray everybody who helped them.* With everyone else treating Han as poison because he vouched for Bria, he's forced to work for Jabba to pay the bills, leading to the Kessel Run and dumping the cargo of drugs. Bria meanwhile leads a raid on Toprawa to steal the Death Star plans**, which gets the plans but gets everyone killed (including her). A surprising messenger brings Han the news just after Jabba handed him a bill for the cargo (at multiples of the price) and a running interest rate that makes loan sharks look like pikers. Han decides he needs a stiff drink, and heads to a certain bar...

    *Note that this is the explanation for Lando's line about 'having a lot of nerve after what you pulled'.

    **Also a reference to an adventure for West End Games D6 Star Wars on the subject. Anyone who survived to the end was personally executed by Darth Vader in GOD MODE.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
    Technically I don't need to spoiler this, since everything EU has been de-canonized and tossed into an industrial wood chipper, but better safe than sorry.

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    Bria meanwhile leads a raid on Toprawa to steal the Death Star plans**, which gets the plans but gets everyone killed (including her).
    I wonder if there's some sort of list somewhere of every time in the EU / Legends / current canon that the story of the Death Star plans getting stolen has been told? The Wookiepedia Legends article on the plans is somewhat useless because it's explicitly written from the perspective of trying to unify all the conflicting versions rather than trying to document the numerous conflicts.
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    In the EU, the Bothans grabbed the plans for the DS2 in Shadows of the Empire. The third book of the HS Tril dealt with events feeding direct into Ep IV (and is itself consistent with the game). And one of the anthologies had a story about somebody trying to sabotage spare parts for the DS2 superlaser array. As far as I recall, that's about it, and I read everything back in the day.

    For anything since the PT hit, you'd need to find another geek.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
    In the EU, the Bothans grabbed the plans for the DS2 in Shadows of the Empire.
    From what I remember about that, it felt like a rather cheap way to explain the "many Bothans died to bring us this information" line. There's a space battle, a squadron of Bothans in starfighters is involved, and a missile unceremoniously blows them all up. No valiant heroics, or extraordinary risks taken for an important cause, and certainly not the long chain of such things that line gave me the impression of, just one battle they didn't expect to be all that serious and one unexpectedly powerful missile.

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    **Also a reference to an adventure for West End Games D6 Star Wars on the subject. Anyone who survived to the end was personally executed by Darth Vader in GOD MODE.
    I'd be tempted to complain about railroading, but "it took frikkin' Darth Vader to kill my character" is a pretty badass boast for Star Wars.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
    In the EU, the Bothans grabbed the plans for the DS2 in Shadows of the Empire. The third book of the HS Tril dealt with events feeding direct into Ep IV (and is itself consistent with the game). And one of the anthologies had a story about somebody trying to sabotage spare parts for the DS2 superlaser array. As far as I recall, that's about it, and I read everything back in the day.

    For anything since the PT hit, you'd need to find another geek.
    Where does Kyle Katarn figure into this? He was canonical, I think, at least prior to everything getting rebooted, and he stole the Death Star plans in the first Dark Forces game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aquillion View Post
    I wonder if there's some sort of list somewhere of every time in the EU / Legends / current canon that the story of the Death Star plans getting stolen has been told? The Wookiepedia Legends article on the plans is somewhat useless because it's explicitly written from the perspective of trying to unify all the conflicting versions rather than trying to document the numerous conflicts.
    Be sure the list includes the Phineas and Ferb version.

    **Also a reference to an adventure for West End Games D6 Star Wars on the subject. Anyone who survived to the end was personally executed by Darth Vader in GOD MODE.
    A Paranoia adventure for Star Wars? :-)
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    And that could pretty easily be refitted to be about Jyn.

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    In case you don't know yet Keybounce, Krennic is the one in the hat. The one who had the cape and was self-important seeming.
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    But doesn't the transcript at the bottom shows who is saying what?

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    But doesn't the transcript at the bottom shows who is saying what?
    They may not have that when getting the pre-reads.
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    That true.

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    Ah, continuing the fine tradition of splitting the party far more than is remotely wise I see.
    “Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”

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    Hey, at least they're all still at the same table. I've had games where the GM put us in separate rooms (on different floors) after we split up one time too many.

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