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  Topic: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
ForbinProject

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PostForum: General Star Wars   Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:12 am   Subject: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
-The rebel bombers. They show one getting destroyed; it gets engulfed in flames and just goes down without disturbing the ones flying near it.


Later, in another bomber the crewman states that the ...
  Topic: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
ForbinProject

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PostForum: General Star Wars   Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:04 am   Subject: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)



Smack Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0QPCS4a84k


Has an entertaining review of The Last Jedi and what's right and wrong with it.
  Topic: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
ForbinProject

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PostForum: General Star Wars   Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 6:00 am   Subject: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
I mentioned it because that was one of my first reactions:
"Why the bloody hell are those ships so bloody slow???"

Shortly after the WWII bomber analogy hit me, and I was like "Ahhh ...
  Topic: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
ForbinProject

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PostForum: General Star Wars   Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:03 pm   Subject: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
Hey, how about Phasma's armor taking a full on blaster bolt like that, and the bolt just ricocheting off?

I wonder what that would look like under D6.

She didn't even flinch.


If it gets exp ...
  Topic: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
ForbinProject

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PostForum: General Star Wars   Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 9:51 am   Subject: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
I think it was mentioned earlier in this thread...about references to WWII.

The bombers are a clear analogy to the WWII bombing runs...where the flying fortresses would be required to be clustered ...
  Topic: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
ForbinProject

Replies: 236
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PostForum: General Star Wars   Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 9:59 pm   Subject: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
Yep, I saw on the net a page from TLJ Visual Dictionary. The MG-100 Starfortress bomber dates back to the Galactic Civil War. It's old.

Oh good to hear. I did like the bombers, my only real probl ...
  Topic: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
ForbinProject

Replies: 236
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PostForum: General Star Wars   Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 4:13 pm   Subject: The Last Jedi (original spoilers thread)
Spoiler complaint

A single fighter takes out ALL of a dreadnoughts turbolasers and anti-starfighter weapons?

Bombers flying so close together they fratricide?

And shouldn't bombers that big h ...
  Topic: What class hyperdrive does the resurgent class battlecruiser
ForbinProject

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PostForum: Ships, Vehicles, Equipment, and Tech   Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:07 am   Subject: What class hyperdrive does the resurgent class battlecruiser
Why did Lucas film sell Star Wars to Disney?

Lucas wanted the 4 billion dollars.
  Topic: Medpacs (and what irks me about them)
ForbinProject

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PostForum: Ships, Vehicles, Equipment, and Tech   Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 1:47 pm   Subject: Medpacs (and what irks me about them)
You might be missing the point. The morphine example serves as a quick, one-size-fits-all aid to healing that is administered in one combat round.

That sold me on the medpac, the thinking being th ...
  Topic: Medpacs (and what irks me about them)
ForbinProject

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PostForum: Ships, Vehicles, Equipment, and Tech   Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 9:37 am   Subject: Medpacs (and what irks me about them)
Morphine doesn't actually heal anything. It just masks the pain.

Which is why I mentioned SW tech. The tech is there for a solution that is injected into a being--that works with most known being ...
  Topic: The M-TIE
ForbinProject

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PostForum: Ships, Vehicles, Equipment, and Tech   Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 2:19 pm   Subject: The M-TIE
Here's a few rough text sketches.

tie fighter l-0-l
tie bomber l-00-l
tie interceptor <-0->
tie hunter >-0-<
  Topic: U-Wing Variants
ForbinProject

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PostForum: Ships, Vehicles, Equipment, and Tech   Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 9:27 pm   Subject: U-Wing Variants
They have up to 12 people stuffed into something smaller than most studio apartments up to 10 days with no toilet.

It explains why the redshirts were so eager to go on away teams in Star Trek despi ...
  Topic: Shiny New Fleet
ForbinProject

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PostForum: Ships, Vehicles, Equipment, and Tech   Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 12:02 pm   Subject: Shiny New Fleet
After thinking more about it I could also see old Venator's being converted to serve the roles of a mothership for exploring/surveying solar systems, or espionage/long range observation intelligence g ...
  Topic: Shiny New Fleet
ForbinProject

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PostForum: Ships, Vehicles, Equipment, and Tech   Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:04 am   Subject: Shiny New Fleet
After thinking more about it I could also see old Venator's being converted to serve the roles of a mothership for exploring/surveying solar systems, or espionage/long range observation intelligence g ...
  Topic: Speeders... [LONG]!!!
ForbinProject

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PostForum: Ships, Vehicles, Equipment, and Tech   Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:00 pm   Subject: Speeders... [LONG]!!!
Just found out that my stuff here is on the


Thank you for whatever you created that got put on that site. I go there all the time.
 
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