Tribunal, The Evil Empire.

[mya]

I am loving the Empire New Evil Theme.

With Grum, Opressant and Vibbletick as resident powerhouses they are crushing all opposition.

Slowly expanding the Empire.

Who will be next?

The Elf's ?

The Duergar's ?

The Dwarve's ?

Crystalmir ?

Just a theme music to remind you of them:

[Ali_gmud]

Ooooooh Mya, I know know why foxx wuvs so you much.

[Croyvern]

I feel like a rebel alliance will be started soon, lets pray we do not see a "I want a Jedi qclass" thread.

[mya]

Sith can be Dk's.

And Crussaders Jedi.

[Croyvern]

Not intending to derail, but I have a star wars question. Why did Ben disappear when struck by Vaders sabre? It cleaved Lukes hand off, should have left a corpse or vaporized Luke too. I have always wondered about that. Ok back to the evil empire....

[jibber]

Because Ben turned into pure energy, thus sacrificing himself before the sabre sliced into him, saving Luke and allowing him and Han to escape.

[Pali]

Not intending to derail' date=' but I have a star wars question. Why did Ben disappear when struck by Vaders sabre? It cleaved Lukes hand off, should have left a corpse or vaporized Luke too. I have always wondered about that. Ok back to the evil empire....[/quote']

When a Light-side Jedi of sufficient power dies, the body fades away as the Jedi becomes one with the Force (Yoda's body also disappeared after he died). Dark Jedi of similar power levels will go out in an explosion of Dark-side energy, like the Emperor did at the end of Return of the Jedi.

[Demiterracotta]

Not intending to derail' date=' but I have a star wars question. Why did Ben disappear when struck by Vaders sabre? It cleaved Lukes hand off, should have left a corpse or vaporized Luke too. I have always wondered about that. Ok back to the evil empire....[/quote']

The force young padawan. Or maybe I should call you Padme. Get back in your closet and watch the movies smurf king! SHOO! Or he ascended, he had the ancients help after he travelled through the stargate to PX1577....your choice.

I am pretty sure there is going to be a HUGE alliance in the works, notice Tribbies expanding? Just the other day I could have swore that I saw a certain number of innocent protectors breaking a certain minotaur out of jail. This event is so awesome.

I'm loving this plot. And I want to have babies with whoever dreamed it up. I keep waiting for Overppoweredressantness (not saying you're cheap or anything but dang, super powerful) to get himself a 'the Shriff of Nottingham' title and just go to town declaring everyone outlaws for not paying taxes. And then Grum is going to go all righteous on him and bring him to his KNEES. I love Grum, I keep waiting for him to just say out of the blue one day 'I guess sometimes there just aren't enough rocks.' :D

Long post of the day quota met.

[Cephirus]

When a Light-side Jedi of sufficient power dies' date=' the body fades away as the Jedi becomes one with the Force (Yoda's body also disappeared after he died). Dark Jedi of similar power levels will go out in an explosion of Dark-side energy, like the Emperor did at the end of Return of the Jedi.[/quote']

To expand on part of this (sorry to derail a little), qui-gon jinn actually teaches this ability to Yoda right after his fight with the Emperor in the Senate room at the end of the third movie (cut from the original theatrical release) and Yoda teaches it to Obi-Wan at the very end referencing Yoda's line about needing to speak with him on a matter.

[Pali]

Eh... I'm going by books, not the new movies. The books established that Jedi of sufficient power fade into the Force (and Dark Jedi explode) long before Lucas decided to rape a stormtrooper.

[mya]

It was an obvious Bloper.

Obi corpse disapearing. Looked cool, but no explanation.

The green smurf is the final cover up.

Vadder corpse never disapeared and he appears at the end of the return of the jedi when they BURN his corpse along with the other two.

[Pali]

Vader's body was mostly mechanical by the time he died - that he didn't fade or explode isn't surprising, as his connection to the Force was weakened by his cybernetics. He also wasn't truly Light or Dark when he died.

[mya]

Yet he appears... Blopper.

Hum... and alliance rising. Time to roll a Power combo for Tribunal.

[Pali]

Again, going by the books, a Jedi remaining as a spirit in the Force after death wasn't a rare thing... Exar Kun lasted 4000 years on Yavin after he died, for instance, until his spirit was basically purged by a lot of Light-side energy.

[Demiterracotta]

You think they don't have enough Power there?

I'd recommend Stone Giant War or Demon Shaman for Tribunal, maybe a Psi.

Edit: I know I'm going to get flamed, but Pali, which books are you referring to? Link please. Not saying you're wrong I've just never read them.And want to.

[Pali]

Example of Dark Jedi exploding upon death: The Last Command by Timothy Zahn, as Joruus C'boath exploded upon death. If you haven't read them and you're in any way a Star Wars fan... find every book Zahn's done for Star Wars. They're ALL worth reading.

Exar Kun was a character in the Jedi Academy trilogy, and later I, Jedi which overlapped with the Jedi Academy trilogy. I'm sure he's also a character in books about the Old Republic and the original Sith War 4,000 years before the movies.

Corran Horn nearly dies at the end of Dark Tide II: Ruin (edit: correction - Dark Tide I: Onslaught is the correct book), and misinterprets the sensation of another Jedi using the Force to save him as his body vanishing and him becoming one with the Force - the wording of the book implies no special training is needed for this to happen, that it's common for most Light-side Jedi. I'm pretty certain there are other examples of it (and I've got a memory trying to surface of an instance where it is flat out said that Light-side Jedi naturally do it), this one just comes easily to mind.

Lucas basically retconned a lot of lore that had been solidly established in the books when he made the new movies. The Clone Wars earlier books had always treated as a clone army invading the Republic and laying waste to lots of the galaxy, there was never any reason to think that stormtroopers were clones (and lots of stormtroopers are identified as being normal people who went through training)... there are a lot of bits of established lore that Lucas decided to just throw out because it wasn't exactly how he wanted things.

So instead he gave us Jar-Jar Binks.

[f0xx]

If you are going to discuss star wars, then this thread should be moved to the spam section (i.e. the OOC lounge).

I for one am not a fan of star wars and would like to keep this very important thread clean out of spam, thank you.

[Pali]

I for one am not a fan of star wars

You're dead to me.

[jekyllvhyde]

Back on Topic: Mya, I think you're running a little late for the Tribunal boom unless you can get trained and to 50 pretty quick

I thought of making a trib when an Erana said in that thread which asked about a timeline, "Tribunal is too weak to exert itself as the dominant political force everywhere, so we cannot call this an imperial age."

I decided then that I wanted to help change that

Now if I could only figure out exactly what Erana wants in order to be allowed to apply, I might be doing good.

It's funny, I so dislike the police/court/law in real life but yet I've played more Justice/Tribunals than any other cabal. I like the RP a lot.

[Pali]

It's funny' date=' I so dislike the police/court/law in real life but yet I've played more Justice/Tribunals than any other cabal. I like the RP a lot.[/quote']

Half the joy of games like this is playing a character very much unlike yourself (or like yourself, but with a huge twist)... as any long-time member of the forums knows, IRL I'm quite anti-faith, but I enjoy playing extremely faithful characters.

[Imoutgoodbye]

Three Words....Grand Admiral Thrawn. **** Jedi.

[Pali]

If any Star Wars movies get made that happen after Return of the Jedi and they do not include Thrawn... I will be very, very unhappy with them.

Thrawn alone is enough reason to read Zahn's books. One of the best villains I've ever encountered... especially because he wasn't actually evil. He'd fit perfectly into Tribunal.

[Croyvern]

Mr. Hyde I would bet Erana will allow any of your characters to apply as long as you; are present in the lands regularly, are dedicated to the Maxim, support your superior officers, are willing to lay down your life for the empire, and, most importantly, are willing to stand back up and do your best again.

I find this to be true of EVERY cabal. Its not about words, as was the popular quote during the womens rights movement "Deeds not Words".

[jekyllvhyde]

Mr. Hyde I would bet Erana will allow any of your characters to apply as long as you; are present in the lands regularly, are dedicated to the Maxim, support your superior officers, are willing to lay down your life for the empire, and, most importantly, are willing to stand back up and do your best again.

I find this to be true of EVERY cabal. Its not about words, as was the popular quote during the womens rights movement "Deeds not Words".

Today it's dr.Jekyll I'm feeling in a good mood. Anyways, if you knew who I was you'd say check, check, check, check and check I'll just keep plugging away until I'm allowed. I'm persistent. I was worried about the Cabal filling up but now with Laence gone that's at least one slot back open. Def gonna miss him though.

[Cephirus]

Peter Jackson is supposedly going to do the next three movies in the series, 7,8,9. Which would involve Grand Admiral Thrawn, since it takes place the next day after the Return of the Jedi.