On 5/18/2019 at 4:38 AM, Drasnighta said:

On Alderaan:

The only way the Death Star accomplishes it’s design intent is for it to be known.

Thus, feared.

Just like Drogon in GoT.

I'm always amused at how many people think the word Aurabesh is a reasonable replacement for the word alphabet. Aurabesh is a kind of alphabet. The English alphabet is a kind of alphabet as well, we just don't have a special name for it. The argument just feels a bit silly to me.

Pretty happy that they're doing a TIE Fighter series, though. That's good news.

On 4/18/2019 at 6:01 PM, Animewarsdude said:

Based off issue 1 as early as issue 2. Not all of them, but at least one seems like she clearly intends to break away or had been a rebel spy for some time.

Here's hoping she defects and the others are forced to hunt her down. I could see it being deeply emotional but still keeping them loyal to their empire. Duty in the face of personal feelings etc.

But knowing Disney they may not do it this way. I'll be very disappointed though if we end up with a very short arc because they all just defect. Ugh that's so dumb.

Think about it: You can make enjoyable movies/shows about everyday firefighters, police, and soldiers doing their jobs, and that's just in the real world today. How much more interesting would it be to see these people put their lives on the line pursuing law and order in a galaxy far, far away? If you don't want it to be morally questionable then set them against slavers, pirates, and crime cartels (the Empire had plenty of those to fight as well as Rebels) or even just the more extremist rebel terrorists. I really don't mind. I tend to get annoyed how people make it seem like everyone who ends up on the wrong side of history was just a nefariously hateful person who took pleasure in killing innocent people. It's just not true. There are good people who do things we wouldn't expect, who make mistakes, who get their reasoning or priorities wrong, who make poor choices, who decide to be loyal to something they don't even believe in, etc.

What is really missed is that while you could break down the Good/Neutral/Evil as perhaps Rebel/Scum/Empire, at the same time you have to break down the Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic as Empire/Rebel/Scum. There are so many Lawful Neutrals and even Lawful Goods that would have sided with the Empire for reasons of principle. It's frustrating.

On 4/18/2019 at 6:37 PM, DarthEnderX said:

Yeah, but in Star Wars it's literally called "The Aurebesh" not the "Aurebesh alphabet".

The Alphabet is named after the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. Alpha and Beta.

Likewise, The Aurebesh is named after the first two letters in the Star Wars alphabet. Aurek and Besh.

It's not just a specific alphabet, it's the Star Wars word FOR Alphabet.

Both are actually acceptable, but alphabet actually tends to be more common.
Alphabet (in Universe) stems from Tionese (our Greek alphabet) and works its way into the High Galactic alphabet (which we are reading now).
Aurebesh is its own system and is more commonly used throughout the galaxy, but it has also been described in-Universe as an alphabet - as have other writing systems.

Regarding the Alphabet Squadron, the name moves fairly naturally from our writing systems.

We call this Latin alphabet an alphabet (from Greek, not Latin), rather than The AyBee or something derived from the names of the Latin letters. This is a holdover from The Latin writing system's derivation from the Greek. Similarly, the High Galactic writing system stemmed from Tionese and the name alphabet carried with it.

So even though all of the X-/A-/Y-Wing fighters have names from the High Galactic alphabet, the Tionese name for writing system sticks around and works fairly naturally. Just like we can reference the Latin Alphabet even though it contains neither an Alpha nor a Beta.

I remember this actual article from when it came out, I wish it were still up.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Written_Word:_A_Brief_Introduction_to_the_Writing_Systems_of_Galactic_Basic

2 hours ago, ClassicalMoser said:

Here's hoping she defects and the others are forced to hunt her down. I could see it being deeply emotional but still keeping them loyal to their empire. Duty in the face of personal feelings etc.

But knowing Disney they may not do it this way. I'll be very disappointed though if we end up with a very short arc because they all just defect. Ugh that's so dumb.

Think about it: You can make enjoyable movies/shows about everyday firefighters, police, and soldiers doing their jobs, and that's just in the real world today. How much more interesting would it be to see these people put their lives on the line pursuing law and order in a galaxy far, far away? If you don't want it to be morally questionable then set them against slavers, pirates, and crime cartels (the Empire had plenty of those to fight as well as Rebels) or even just the more extremist rebel terrorists. I really don't mind. I tend to get annoyed how people make it seem like everyone who ends up on the wrong side of history was just a nefariously hateful person who took pleasure in killing innocent people. It's just not true. There are good people who do things we wouldn't expect, who make mistakes, who get their reasoning or priorities wrong, who make poor choices, who decide to be loyal to something they don't even believe in, etc.

What is really missed is that while you could break down the Good/Neutral/Evil as perhaps Rebel/Scum/Empire, at the same time you have to break down the Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic as Empire/Rebel/Scum. There are so many Lawful Neutrals and even Lawful Goods that would have sided with the Empire for reasons of principle. It's frustrating.

Which is one of the reasons I love Lost Stars, it shows people in the Empire who have good intentions, how they have to logically twist things to preserve their loyalty at times, and all in all showed some good characterization of non-straight up evil Imperials. Its effectively a Star Wars version of Romeo and Juliet but has been one of the strongest pieces I've seen in the new canon. And for those who haven't read it, they even made a comic/manga adaption of it.

I'm liking Tie Fighter a lot so far. The best part of issue #1 is where the old Imperial commander is calling the Rebels "Separatists" and the squad are all looking like "What?"