Favorite SW universes/settings:

TV/Movies-

1. Babylon 5

2. Firefly

3. BSG (reimagined)

4. Star Trek

5. Star Wars

Books-

1. David Drake- "Hammerverse"

2. Jerry Pournell- Co-Dominium

3. Harry Harrison- Stainless Steel Rat

4. Star Trek (novels)

5. Star Wars (novels)

Gaming-

1. Traveller (RPG) universe

2. "Hammerverse"

3. Babylon 5

3. Star Trek

4. Star Wars

In nearly every category, Star Wars is at the bottom of my list. So, why do I love this game so much? In a word... I get to fly an X-wing (actually my favorite is the Y-wing- I always seem to be attracted to the... "other"...). The rules are simple and the I really like the minis (once I repaint them... ).

In general, I prefer more science in my Sci-Fi and Star Wars is pretty much a "Space Opera" (but one I enjoy).

*GW's universe (Sci-Fi or Fantasy) is right out!

Star Wars is actually my #2.

The #1 universe is Battletech.

Gadge, I gotta say, you and I share some favorite scifi.. though I'm jot a huge fan of warhammer, I haven't really read the mythos for it.. so there is that.

All the rest though.. Star Trek, Stargate the movie, and the series.. Blakes 7 Old Doctor Who, all thos crazy 70s and 80s scifi movies aand series.. I gotta admit I love them all.

I have been a sci fi fan since probably 77 when I saw Star Wars in the theatre. Mostlikely I was a fan before, but star wars is my first real memory of the love of sci fi. I remember reading the hobbit and the lord of the rings, back in 76.

I have always been a reader, and sci fi and fantasy have always been the fave..

Star Wars is great, but it isn't science fiction except in the broadest sense. It's hackneyed, cliched fantasy with a "space-ish" setting. It's fun to watch and pushes the important visceral reward buttons, but in terms of Science Fiction quality it is near the bottom of a very long list. Blade Runner would be near the top, for me (but I prefer my futurism dystopian rather than utopian, so Star Trek loses out).

Basically my feelings. I've always greatly prefered fantasy to sci-fi. Star Wars is a D&D campaign setting with lasers and spaceships. I mean heck, there are an order of holy knights who use psionic powers to maintain peace with an opposing force of anti-paladins and doom wizards who conquest for non-specific revenge and evil.

So for me I love the simple but enjoyable plot that has a huge and rich set of background details and flavour elements, the characters, and the ship and droid designs. Gotta love me some astromechs. :3

This may sound Inconceivable but I found this quote to be the reason the SW universe is great.

"... Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles..."

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And since people have been listing favorite Sci-fi universes I'll go with:

Star Wars

Wing Commander

Starship Troopers

Star Trek

Macross / Robotech

I've recently really got into a fantastic graphic novel called 'Saga' , its very similar in tone to star wars and very science fantasy but defintily not for children as its got some very dark and adult themes.

You've got a galatic war, you've got weird aliens and you've got a romeo and juliet style couple from one part of the main factions each in love with each other and on the run.

Might sound naff but its almost had me in tears at times its so well crafted. The characters in it are so real.

If you've not heard of it really do your self a favour and check out saga, you wont be dissapointed.

I also adore battletech but preferred the secession war stuff. Clan stuff was cool but way overpowere in the game, i preferred the warring houses.

When clans came out we had a house rule fix. We'd agree on say a '400 tonne' game but then we'd bid to play clans.

Whichever player bid the least tonnage to take on 400 tonnes of inner sphere got to play clans

as ton for ton a 35 ton clan mech could rinse 100 tons of inner sphere lance.

The only problem i really had with battletech was the 'armour made of clay'... your mech might have 200 points of armour or whatever and a missile might do 10 points of damage and a machine gun 1 point... so *technically* with enough time you could destroy a 100 ton assault mech with a vehicle mounted mg by chipping away its ablative armour. there was no real mechanic for saying 'that gun couldnt scratch that mech'.

MGs were also problematic in that in large numbers on say a mech like a pirahana they did unfeasable amounts of damage at close range

and in inner sphere mechs they were suicide to carry as you normally had 200 rounds that did one point of damage each per mg but if you got an ammo explosion you took all that damage to that location and it transfererred to nearby ones.

Always seemed a bit crazy that a machine gun exlpoding on your wrist was almost certain death for your mech

Good game otherwise. I used to play loads of it but gave all my maps and rules away to a mate recently.

Here is a link to what SAGA is all about.

check it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_%28comic_book%29

I really don't care for most Science Fiction or Space Operas. I became interested in Star Wars because of the dogfights. I'm much more interested in Epic Fantasy (not this game of thrones garbage).

I did enjoy Stargate until like season 7.