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    Star Wars Fanfic Ideas, Recommendations, and Discussions Thread

    Here's an interesting POD in the Disney version of Star Wars: When Grogu is kidnapped by Moff Gideon, one other person joins the rescue effort: Ahsoka Tano.
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    Star Wars The Sequel Trilogy - Done Right (Some Legends Elements, OCs)
    Threadmarks: Chapter Three

    Ben Solo made good distance – about 18 miles – in the first night, and had gone to ground. His shelter not only kept him cool during the hot daytime hours, it had thermo-optic camouflage capabilities. The second night saw him make his way another 15 miles, where he’d seen a collapsed AT-AT...
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    Star Wars The Sequel Trilogy - Done Right (Some Legends Elements, OCs)
    Threadmarks: Chapter Two

    The village militia was all of 22 beings with older or makeshift blasters. Against eighty stormtroopers, they really had no chance. Still, they fought. The stormtroopers were out in the open, and a fierce, but brief firefight raged. Soon, most of the militia was dead or wounded. Poe Dameron and...
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    What If? Marvel held on to Transformers and added them to the MCU

    It could even be a separate group from the Autobots on Earth... kind of like the Japanese Headmasters continuity...
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    United States 2nd Amendment Legal Cases and Law Discussion

    Not by the 4th Circuit, but if cases get to SCOTUS. Obama managed to flip that circuit. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York will be a big tell. Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh are very strong on the Second Amendment, and Gorsuch appears to also be as well...
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    Star Wars The Sequel Trilogy - Done Right (Some Legends Elements, OCs)

    No Vong at all in this one. NJO was where the EU began going off the rails, IMO.
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    Star Wars The Sequel Trilogy - Done Right (Some Legends Elements, OCs)

    Somewhat... Darth Krayt was being held captive by the Vong in the NJO era, and was a Dark Jedi/Sith by then.
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    Star Wars The Sequel Trilogy - Done Right (Some Legends Elements, OCs)

    Pretty much the following: Elements of the X-Wing series Large Portions of The Thrawn Trilogy Large Portions of Dark Empire/Dark Empire II/Empire's End Elements of Jedi Academy Elements of Timothy Zahn's Hand of Thrawn Duology A few characters from NJO A few characters from the Cade Skywalker...
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    Star Wars The Sequel Trilogy - Done Right (Some Legends Elements, OCs)
    Threadmarks: Chapter One

    The Star Destroyer closed in on the planet Jakku, where three decades ago, a major battle had been fought between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. It had been a gambit by the Empire to recover after Endor, and it had gone badly for them. Endor had seen the Emperor die, the second Death Star...
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    Star Wars The Sequel Trilogy - Done Right (Some Legends Elements, OCs)
    Threadmarks: Episode VII Crawl

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away… STAR WARS EPISODE VII THE FORCE AWAKENS It is a perilous time in the galaxy. The sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire, and struck a blow against the NEW JEDI ORDER, leaving only a handful of the guardians of justice remaining...
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    Crossover (TGG) Anatomy of a War 5th Anniversary Edition

    I look back at some of my earlier works and by comparison, they are nowhere near as good as my later ones. Still, I found the Federation/ADN conflict to be one of the more mesmerizing, as well as the collapse of the Federation. There is a very rich drama you can get when your protagonist and...
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    What If? Marvel held on to Transformers and added them to the MCU

    Ironically, to call back to the early Transformers comics, have Spider-Man meet Bumblebee... who cons his way in as a Stark Industries prototype. Tony Stark then deploys the suit, and blasts Bumblebee. "Peter, in what universe do you think I'd come within twenty feet of a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle?"
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    What If? Marvel held on to Transformers and added them to the MCU

    One interesting note: When Transformers first appeared on the pop-culture scene in 1984, their comics were done by Marvel. There was even a crossover with Spider-Man. So, suppose Marvel hadn't allowed Transformers to slip away... and the Avengers were fighting alongside Optimus Prime...
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    United States Worse President In the Past

    The problem I have with George W. Bush is not what he did as President - for the most part, I think his reaction to 9/11 and the plan for the War on Terror was on point. The problems were what he FAILED to do. 1. He failed to ask for a larger force structure to handle not just he War, but to...
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    United States Worse President In the Past

    I'll go on the indisputably bad presidents from most recent to present. I will ignore the restriction, since the most recent ones did play a part. Barack Obama - George W. Bush had the War on Terror stabilized in Iraq. Obama threw all that work away. He pretty much donned kneepads for the...
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    Democrat Debate and Caucuses 2020 (Or, rather the state thereof...)

    Thinking back over the last twelve years, I am beginning to think we as a country dodged some real bullets. In 2008, Hillary was beaten by Obama in the primaries. Had she won in 2008, and had she been presented with the Citizens United ruling, I think that we would have seen very thoroughly...
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    Star Wars Fanfic Ideas, Recommendations, and Discussions Thread

    I've always thought that it was pretty lazy to have Ben Solo go all Dark Side - like his grandfather. Suppose, instead, Ben had followed his father's path - and became a smuggler? He was, after all, half Han Solo...
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    Crossover (TGG) Anatomy of a War 5th Anniversary Edition

    To be honest, I found your "deconstructed" Federation to be very intriguing - and enjoyed TGG very much at SD.net. I think it would have had a lot of trouble had it come across other, dynamic societies, and it would have come into conflict with them. Pure good vs. pure evil is not as realistic...
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    United States Feds drop charges to avoid ruling that would invalidate Gun Control Act.

    Which didn't work for them. I heard via a friend who knows a SCOTUS watcher that the threats in the Sheldon Whitehouse brief on that NYC case may have backfired.
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    Your Political Beliefs

    I am. But Plan B has been OTC for a while now.
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