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7. "RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here"
In response to message #6
 
   >Well, for the background, if not the protagonists themselves, I have
>to acknowledge a significant debt to Karen Traviss, author of what I
>guess I must now get used to calling the Republic Commando
>tetralogy (Order 66 came out on Tuesday; I haven't read it

I've read them, and quite enjoyed them. I will also add, as another viewpoint of how the clones think, and what they think of Jango in particular, The Cestus Deception by Stephen Barnes. I wanted to toss large chunks out of that book (basically, anything that wasn't dealing with the ARC Trooper)

>That is to say, the Mandalorian society that Jango, Fenn, and Khyra
>came from in UF wasn't much like what you see in the Republic
>Commando
books - but what they're trying to reinvent it as in
>present-day UF has many parallels. They come from the very end of
>that civilization, when it was entrenched, hidebound, and in severe
>decline - indeed, it ceased to exist within a year or two of their

This is the section from the KOTOR games?

>Just how authentic their vision of ancient Mando'ad virtue
>is might be debatable - none of them was an historian, and
>modern sources for information on the ancient Mandalorians is
>virtually nonexistent - but to them it's also irrelevant. It's easy
>to dismiss them, and many observers have, as posers, full-time
>roleplayers, like SCA reconstructionists who are so into the drill
>that they refuse to act like normal people the rest of the year, but
>they don't care. Their vision of a reborn Mandalorian culture is what
>it is, and if you don't like it, well, they don't remember inviting
>you to comment anyway.
>
>>This makes you wonder...what would Boba have been like if Jango had
>>lived?
>
>Indeed. That's more or less what I was exploring in the flashback
>sequences here. Mind you, I'd like to think the UF models live in a
>saner galaxy, but still...

Well, you have to wonder. I mean, it's obvious that Jango loved Boba as a son (at least, as much as a person like that can). So, if he hadn't gotten killed, in front of him, by a Jedi (I have whole chunks of wondering about how that did or did not screw with him. After all, his 'father' fell in battle to a worthy opponent. Would he feel the need for vengance? Did it screw with him at all? I dunno.)

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-Pasha
What was that feeling again?
Oh yes.
-Rage-


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   RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here drakensis Sep-18-08 1
   RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here WengFook Sep-18-08 2
      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Peter Eng Sep-18-08 3
      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-18-08 5
   RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Pasha Sep-18-08 4
      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-18-08 6
         RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Pasha Sep-18-08 7
              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-18-08 8
                  RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here MOGSY Sep-18-08 9
                      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-18-08 10
                          RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here MOGSY Sep-18-08 11
                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here mdg1 Sep-18-08 12
                                  RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Zox Sep-18-08 13
                                      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here MOGSY Sep-18-08 14
                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-19-08 17
                                  RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here mdg1 Sep-19-08 18
                                  RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here FubarObfusco Sep-19-08 19
                                      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here MOGSY Sep-19-08 20
                                          RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Peter Eng Sep-19-08 21
                                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Wedge Sep-19-08 22
                                          RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here FubarObfusco Sep-19-08 23
                                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-19-08 24
                                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here mdg1 Sep-19-08 27
                                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here dstar Sep-19-08 30
                                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Senji Mar-23-19 36
              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Mephronmoderator Mar-22-19 35
   RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here VA_Wanderer Sep-19-08 15
      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-19-08 16
          RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Mephronmoderator Sep-19-08 25
              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-19-08 26
                  RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here CdrMike Sep-19-08 28
                      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-19-08 29
   RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Nov-22-08 31
      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here BZArchermoderator Nov-23-08 32
      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Zuki Nov-24-08 33
          RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Nov-24-08 34


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