Holonet news!

By Inquisitor Tremayne, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

So THIS happened.

And I think its pretty awesome!

This is Golden :)

COMPNOR at its work.

That is pretty sweet. And this looks like it is from Disney/Lucasfilm, I like how they are using the Aurebesh Letters that WEG created, making this canon.

Well aurebesh has been canon for years, seeing as the Clone Wars is riddled in it!

Very nice! Too bad it looks like just a Rebels thing, FFG could do their own version super easy. I actually make stuff like this all the time for my real job.... though I'm not sure I like being compared to COMPNOR....

Edited by Ghostofman

Love this stuff I hope they keep making more.

They should be able to. Since they are just using the concept art and a recorder the cost to produce this is extremely low.

Good stuff!

I bet our GM would make these if he had more time. He writes similar things and reads them before sessions.

That's neat. Be fun if there was some way to make custom ones, like the crawl creator.

I'm definitely going to have to figure out how to do this for my game. I currently do something similar to the Clone Wars news updates. Since the game has moved from the Dark Times into the rebellion era, this would be more fitting.

Very cool - they did something similar back in 2002-ish when Attack of the Clones was about to drop: https://web.archive.org/web/20020328073040/http://www.holonetnews.com/

Although that version was all text, it was significantly more extensive than just the three news stories we get here. Same URL too. . . .

That's neat. Be fun if there was some way to make custom ones, like the crawl creator.

All it'd take is an image editor, a movie maker, and a microphone.

Played around with Windows Movie Maker for like a few minutes. A combination of "Fade from White" or "Fade from Black" and a screen wipe animation between two identical images will give a passable "hologram ripple effect," like the distinctive TV ground-loop effect that Star Wars holograms have.

Just an idea :) Movie Maker is free for any current Windows machine.