Personally, i would love to, because Republic/Imperial Commando is one of my favorite series.

I don't. Because I have no idea who he/she/it/they is/are.

I know Kal Skirata. And that's it.

I'd like to see Temuera Morrison in episode 7, whether he's in there as Random Clone #THX-1138, or "Venku," as a tip of the hat to readers of the Republic Commando books. However, considering the violent thrashing the EU vision of Mandalore got in the Clone Wars cartoon, I sincerely doubt there'd be a Karen-Traviss call-out like that.

Namely, I'm talking about how, in the Clone Wars cartoons, when we finally get to see Mandalore, it's full of pacifist blonde-haired, blue-eyed people with generic Star Wars nobility in generic space-frou-frou costumes, with their peculiarly Star Wars nomenclature whereby leaders who are ELECTED to office have titles like "Queen" or "Princess" or "Duchess." And on top of that, when Jango Fett is mentioned, a government character dismisses "that bounty hunter" as if he's merely some pretender. Like, whoa, please forgive us for having this idea that Boba/Jango Fett might have something to do with Mandalore. It makes me wonder if some writer had a beef with the whole EU idea of the Mandalorians and wanted to present them as something ABSOLUTELY OPPOSITE.

Delta/Omega Squads were cool, but even though the series started out good I gave up on it because of (I think) the third book.

And as the poster above me points out, the garbage treatment of Mandalore is why I stayed as far away from the Clone Wars series as possible. Yuck.

May all of Karen Traviss's work be turned to apocrypha.

The Clone Wars did well with the Death Watch, I thought. I was never a big Traviss fan, though, her version of Boba Fett was invincible.

I'm sure we'll see more Mandalorians. Rebels has that pink-suited (blech) Mando as one of the good guys.

Given that Darman was a clone and modified to age rapidly wouldn't he be long dead by episode 7?

Heck I'm pretty sure that was a plot point in the second book when *Spoilers!*

Given that Darman was a clone and modified to age rapidly wouldn't he be long dead by episode 7?

Heck I'm pretty sure that was a plot point in the second book when *Spoilers!*

I'm pretty sure One of the Nulls showing up in the Legacy of the Force(maybe it was Fate of the Jedi) they may have found a way to live longer and since the Nulls and Omega/Delta squad was a big family I think he may have shared his secret, (or maybe they just pulled some Ender's Game relativistic time stuff)

Given that Darman was a clone and modified to age rapidly wouldn't he be long dead by episode 7?

Heck I'm pretty sure that was a plot point in the second book when *Spoilers!*

I'm pretty sure One of the Nulls showing up in the Legacy of the Force(maybe it was Fate of the Jedi) they may have found a way to live longer and since the Nulls and Omega/Delta squad was a big family I think he may have shared his secret, (or maybe they just pulled some Ender's Game relativistic time stuff)

Yes, they would have perfected the anti-accelerated aging drug in the last book of the series but that novel was cancelled.

I'd like to see Temuera Morrison in episode 7, whether he's in there as Random Clone #THX-1138, or "Venku," as a tip of the hat to readers of the Republic Commando books. However, considering the violent thrashing the EU vision of Mandalore got in the Clone Wars cartoon, I sincerely doubt there'd be a Karen-Traviss call-out like that.

Namely, I'm talking about how, in the Clone Wars cartoons, when we finally get to see Mandalore, it's full of pacifist blonde-haired, blue-eyed people with generic Star Wars nobility in generic space-frou-frou costumes, with their peculiarly Star Wars nomenclature whereby leaders who are ELECTED to office have titles like "Queen" or "Princess" or "Duchess." And on top of that, when Jango Fett is mentioned, a government character dismisses "that bounty hunter" as if he's merely some pretender. Like, whoa, please forgive us for having this idea that Boba/Jango Fett might have something to do with Mandalore. It makes me wonder if some writer had a beef with the whole EU idea of the Mandalorians and wanted to present them as something ABSOLUTELY OPPOSITE.

Yeah, so true, i can't stand the clone wars version of Mandalore.

I know Kal Skirata. And that's it.

If you know Kal Skirata, you pretty much have to know either Darman or Venku, since Darman was Kal's adopted son, and Venku was Darman's son.

Delta/Omega Squads were cool, but even though the series started out good I gave up on it because of (I think) the third book.

And as the poster above me points out, the garbage treatment of Mandalore is why I stayed as far away from the Clone Wars series as possible. Yuck.

I'm of a fairly divided mind about Karen Traviss's work. On the one hand, I appreciated some fleshing out of Mandalore and of the Clone Trooper "culture," and the books were welcome and entertaining diversions during a time when I was having to spend a lot of dead time in airports on layovers for my day job.

On the other hand, I would have appreciated having a little more variety in my viewpoint characters. Some of the things done by our "heroes" are downright bloodthirsty. I would have liked to have, say, some sympathetic Jedi characters who can give a reasonable view of the Jedi viewpoint in the face of some of the moral mess of the whole "clone trooper" situation (i.e., that the Republic Army is reliant upon generating slaves who are going to live short, brutish lives). Having a Jedi who basically renounces his or her status as a Jedi doesn't count.

I really wish that the Imperial Commando "series" would have gone beyond one book, because I felt like maybe, just MAYBE, Traviss was setting up for some of Kal Skirata's views to get challenged -- when he's in the position of taking in a few genuine Jedi refugees (including a Kaminoan). If that had happened, that would've made me feel a little more confident that Karen Traviss's works could share the same creative space as the rest of the Star Wars universe, as opposed to being crudely characterized as "Jedi are dopey; Mandos are AWWWWWESOME!" I want to be sure I'm reading something a little more sophisticated than just "Mandalorian fan fiction," no matter how much I might be keen on all things Fett.

In any case, given the presumed leap forward in time here, "Venku" would be as old as Luke Skywalker (an infant at the time of the birth of the Empire), and "Darman" -- even if his accelerated aging were fixed somehow -- would be a generation OLDER. Boba Fett -- if he were to somehow survive the Sarlacc Pit in the new canon -- was, I think, a teenager at the time of the birth of the Empire, so he'd be somewhere in between. Granted, it's been a while since Attack of the Clones, but I'm guessing that Temuera Morrison would still need some aging makeup to pass for any of those characters.

A little while ago, I saw someone post a link to IMDB that listed Temuera Morrison in the credits for "Star Wars 7" ("proof that Boba Fett lives!") but that no longer seems to be the case, so I'm guessing someone was just yanking chains.

It isn't going to happen. Those were good books, if for no other reason than that they tried to make some sort of sense of a lot of the more bizzarre plot holes in the Prequel Trilogy. They were pretty clever with that. But remember that Traviss never finished the series partly because she was unhappy with the way they were rewriting all the EU depiction of Fett and Mandalore in the Clone Wars series. There's no way that Ep. 7 is going to pay attention to those books, especially after the demotion of the entire EU to "Legends" status.

Given that Darman was a clone and modified to age rapidly wouldn't he be long dead by episode 7?

Heck I'm pretty sure that was a plot point in the second book when *Spoilers!*

I'm pretty sure One of the Nulls showing up in the Legacy of the Force(maybe it was Fate of the Jedi) they may have found a way to live longer and since the Nulls and Omega/Delta squad was a big family I think he may have shared his secret, (or maybe they just pulled some Ender's Game relativistic time stuff)

Yes, they would have perfected the anti-accelerated aging drug in the last book of the series but that novel was cancelled.

Really too bad that was probably one of my favorite Series (probably just behind the X-wing but ahead of the Thrawn/Hand of Thrawn stuff)

Delta/Omega Squads were cool, but even though the series started out good I gave up on it because of (I think) the third book.

And as the poster above me points out, the garbage treatment of Mandalore is why I stayed as far away from the Clone Wars series as possible. Yuck.

I'm of a fairly divided mind about Karen Traviss's work. On the one hand, I appreciated some fleshing out of Mandalore and of the Clone Trooper "culture," and the books were welcome and entertaining diversions during a time when I was having to spend a lot of dead time in airports on layovers for my day job.

On the other hand, I would have appreciated having a little more variety in my viewpoint characters. Some of the things done by our "heroes" are downright bloodthirsty. I would have liked to have, say, some sympathetic Jedi characters who can give a reasonable view of the Jedi viewpoint in the face of some of the moral mess of the whole "clone trooper" situation (i.e., that the Republic Army is reliant upon generating slaves who are going to live short, brutish lives). Having a Jedi who basically renounces his or her status as a Jedi doesn't count.

I really wish that the Imperial Commando "series" would have gone beyond one book, because I felt like maybe, just MAYBE, Traviss was setting up for some of Kal Skirata's views to get challenged -- when he's in the position of taking in a few genuine Jedi refugees (including a Kaminoan). If that had happened, that would've made me feel a little more confident that Karen Traviss's works could share the same creative space as the rest of the Star Wars universe, as opposed to being crudely characterized as "Jedi are dopey; Mandos are AWWWWWESOME!" I want to be sure I'm reading something a little more sophisticated than just "Mandalorian fan fiction," no matter how much I might be keen on all things Fett.

In any case, given the presumed leap forward in time here, "Venku" would be as old as Luke Skywalker (an infant at the time of the birth of the Empire), and "Darman" -- even if his accelerated aging were fixed somehow -- would be a generation OLDER. Boba Fett -- if he were to somehow survive the Sarlacc Pit in the new canon -- was, I think, a teenager at the time of the birth of the Empire, so he'd be somewhere in between. Granted, it's been a while since Attack of the Clones, but I'm guessing that Temuera Morrison would still need some aging makeup to pass for any of those characters.

A little while ago, I saw someone post a link to IMDB that listed Temuera Morrison in the credits for "Star Wars 7" ("proof that Boba Fett lives!") but that no longer seems to be the case, so I'm guessing someone was just yanking chains.

Imperial Commando was going to be two books but the second one was cancelled.