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Published: 2015-11-11 11:45:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 10716; Favourites: 216; Downloads: 0
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A fledgeling Rebellion receives a communication from a sympathetic smuggler who knows the whereabouts of a Clone Wars cache of equipment. A clandestine meeting is arranged to determine whether this is a genuine gift or a possible trap!!Related content
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When your sci-fantasy universe does not have transporters.
No really: a great scene using a very under-used feature of Star Wars vessels.
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I think this is the first time I have seen the corvette with any ships docked to it's docking rings. Very cool.
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Very cool!Β Β Β Β
I for one like the a lot of the new cannon introduced in both Β
The Clone Wars and Rebels series...Β Β Β
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I was looking at this picture, and all of a sudden, I heard John Williams' music!
(Great picture!)
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So is it, or is it not the Millennium Falcon docked opposite the Ghost?
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Far be it from me to divulge Alliance secrets
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I asked because the ship had similar color tones as the ones the Millennium Falcon had at around the time the events of Episode III took place.
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Hmmm, I .... ahem ... wasn't aware ....
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That little ragtag fleet is how it all started.
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Very nice pic, but highly unlikely.
The A-Wing was developed by Crix Madine, whom came to the Rebel after they were more than just "fledgling".
Swap for X-Wing, Y-Wings or Z-95 Headhunter for the "fledgling" part.
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And yet the A-Wings (as such) appear in "Rebels"??
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This is why the cartoons have fucked more canon up than Lucas himself could have done. They might be considered canon, but personally I look at is as non-canon and just think of the movies as canon while the tv cartoon series are just more of the now non-canon EU.Β
Might not be correct but it's how I look at it.Β
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they didn't fuck up anything they had them in TFU2
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they didnt fucked up anything with this... A-Wings had allready showed up before Yavin in the droids cartoon and in games like X-Wing and Rebel Assault..
they actually made up an earlier variant called R-22 Spearhead and made up an history about the RZ-A1 being made from the R-22 base with upgraded engines, weapons and sensors and a bit modified fuselage (shorter and diferent cockpit windows)...
So there wasnt any canonically source stating the A-Wing was made after Yavin and several non canon sources conflicting on this..
Personally i would had prefered Rebels using Z-95s and Y-Wings ..as they had allready showed them in Clone Wars
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I agree. I tend to separate the old EU canon from the new.Β The old EU is my Prime universe and the new stuff is the alternate. It's like what they did with the Star Trek universe.
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According to the new, official 'cannon' (starwars.wikia.com/wiki/RZ-1_A⦠), the A-wings seen in 'Rebels' are a Kuat Systems Engineering design, and not an Alliance original design. Probably thrown into the show for the cool factor of the Rebels using A-wings. I'd have prefered them starting with Headhunters and Y-wings, then getting the rest of the Alphabet Armada as the show runs, but sadly, they didn't ask me.
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Well wherever possible I'm sticking to 'canon' as much as possible and Rebels is accepted 'canon' now.
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I hate it when such things happen...
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Tell that to the guys in charge of the "Rebels" series.Β The A-Wing's already shown up in the 2nd season opener.Β And the B-wing is scheduled for the upcoming one.
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the a-wing seen in rebels is a prototype
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Maybe the A-wings were these:Β starwars.wikia.com/wiki/R-22_Sβ¦
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that is a possibility. though the guns appear to be rather distinctively different on that shipΒ
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The problem is that the A-Wing allready appeared in the StarWars droids series wich takes place even before Rebels (not cannon) and in shows up in some games (X-Wing. Rebel Assault) before the battle of Yavin.. wich classes against the history that it was developed by Dodonna after Yavin..
so they made the R-22 spearhead wich was also called A-Wing wich was in service way before Yavin... and then they used the R-22 as a base for the RZ-A1 interceptor ...
Rebels actually uses the old McQuarrie drawings in wich its a bit diferent than the one seen in ROTJ (diferent windows and a bit sleeker).. so we can easily asume the A-Wings seen in rebels are actually R-22s
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Β That's what I think too. The A-Wings in Rebels definitely aren't RZ-1s, since it has been established that the modern A-Wing didn't appear until after the Battle of Yavin, so I think they definitely have to be Spearheads. It would fit rather nicely with EU canon, and the Spearhead shown in an encyclopedia or reference book has the similar lack of a split nose.
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I agree with that but just want to point that the part of "it has been established that the modern A-Wing didn't appear until after the Battle of Yavin" its not valid anymore.. because that came from the WEG guide and some other EU sources.. they are not canon so Disney (or Lucasfilm before that) is free to do whatever they please as long as it doesnt contradict their canon
canonically we dont know nothing about the A-Wing except that they first show up in ROTJ.. but we cant know if they were before for long or short time.
What we do know is that the A-Wings in Rebels are diferent that the ones before.. and the story from the EU .. and we can try to make sense with that.. but Rebels uses Ralph McQuire concept art .. that includes diferences like the long neck star destroyers..and the short wings TIE Fighters.. both of wich are suposed to be the oficial ones (except maybe the TIEs because i think somewhere said they were a variant made in Lothal with stronger thicker but shorter wings). so in any moment Disney can step and say "well those are the same A-Wings you see later.. ha ha ha"
still for now we can hold on that they are the diferent versions using nearly same hull ..but with diferent engines, weapons, sensors and flight control systems (R-22 Spearhead and RZ-A1)
while i dont like many things Disney did and is doing (specially after seeing episode VII) this thing of stuff happent before.. take the A.Wing itself... the WEG guide and other EU stuff stated it was create by Dodonna and Blixes after the battle of Yavin to counter the TIE Fighter speed... yet in other material like the Droids cartoon and the X-Wing games you could see A-Wings well before Yavin... so its not like Lucasfilm cared much for EU continuity before....
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Β To be fair, the A-Wings in the Droids cartoons have been post-canonized as Spearwings, and the A-Wings probably only appear early in the X-Wing games for story-segregation reasons.
Β The Essential Guides and related did a very damned good job helping to expand a cohesive universe for Star Wars (as well as always providing for an interesting read), and there is a perfect opportunity to establish the Spearhead in Disney's continuity in Rebels, where they'd be right at home. It'd be a shame not to confirm the name, and make it canon once and for all.
Β I absolutely loved how the Juggernaut was used in ROTS, and the Headhunter in TCW, which felt like it was confirming EU as a valid source. And seeing the Interdictor Cruiser made me hope that for the most part, Disney wasn't going to ignore EU.
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Forgive me for interrupting but I am really liking your conversation. It is very technical and in depth with a gentleman's conversation feel to it.
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Β Not a problem, and thanks! I do my best!
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You sure the A-wing is the prototype?Β 'Cause that's a lot of prototypes...
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yeah, the a wing was made to be a squadron fighter, so they made squadrons to test it in its proper role
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Basically a short production run of the prototype as a means to test it in actual combat.
Makes sense. Somehow. Is Crix Madine involved there?
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i dont think he was with the alliance at this point. but i guess we will have to watch rebels and see.
also its worth noting that alot of stuff the rebels got was stuff designed for the empire that did not get approved
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ThatΒ΄s not unusual, considering how the empire likes certain things, cheap mass-producable units for example.
Stuff that violates this is often rejected.
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Or never got the chance to see, like the X-Wing.
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