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benTantilles

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Posted in: Luke vs Wedge dogfight- who'd win? read first and then vote!
  benTantilles
11-08-2003, 2:14 AM
#15
need help, folks.... there's this best pilot poll on theforce.net, and i'm valiantly defending wedge against the half-baked opinions of some farmboy fans. while wedge was initially in the lead, he's losing out to skywalker now.... so if u all truly b...  [Read More]
Posted in: hottest star wars chick? (don't get TOO carried away)
  benTantilles
10-23-2003, 9:51 AM
#78
If you fantasise about screwing characters in books with no pictures than you are a sick man !!!!! :P It is also a tribute to the power of your imagination !!!! I cant visualise that well, thus none of the pages are stuck together in my copy of Dark...  [Read More]
Posted in: hottest star wars chick? (don't get TOO carried away)
  benTantilles
10-19-2003, 2:15 PM
#70
shannon baska's her name, i believe. while she's undoubtedly less mara-looking than the drawings of her, she's actually pretty damn good when compared with the other models DECIPHER got for their characters (dash rendar really sux....as does corran h...  [Read More]
Posted in: hottest star wars chick? (don't get TOO carried away)
  benTantilles
10-19-2003, 2:43 AM
#64
ok..... now that the Eu boards are being frequented by more & more people, i feel it is my duty to resurrect this thread and see what public opinion has to say. who's the hottest sw chick?...  [Read More]
Posted in: anyone?
  benTantilles
09-06-2003, 12:35 PM
#19
Hey, have you seen things like 'Battlefield 1942'? They can do some pretty cool stuff, and I know nothing about programming. That had planes and everything... and the AI to pilot them. that's true..... but still, to include ALL the effects of vong t...  [Read More]
Posted in: anyone?
  benTantilles
09-05-2003, 2:00 PM
#17
NJO however would be something completely new. true, but can u IMAGINE the amount of effort it would take to create a game like that? all the influences of black holes, yammosk telepathy & countless other vong bits of tech, the sheer scale of th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Thing Vader would NEVER say....
  benTantilles
11-15-2003, 1:24 PM
#48
Battle of Yavin, ANH. x-wings make their run on the death star... biggs: they're coming in too fast, i can't shake em! luke: hold on, biggs! *vader blows biggs to pieces* vader: now this is podracing! In the emperor presence, various occasions......  [Read More]
Posted in: How Come...
  benTantilles
10-23-2003, 10:41 AM
#86
well...in response to the ORIGINAL question...the stormtroopers suck because the empire realizes that Darth Vader is badass enough to make up for their incredible suckiness hear, hear! here's to darth vader, the most badass villain to be seen on scr...  [Read More]
Posted in: Favorite EU book
  benTantilles
10-16-2003, 8:39 AM
#5
hmmm..... well, personally, i found aaron allston's starfighters of adumar to be the most enjoyable sw book i've read. i'm drawn to the ways of a fighter pilot, though, and have an instant liking for any of wedge's exploits, so the average fan may no...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Danni Quee Fan club
  benTantilles
10-19-2003, 2:27 AM
#5
And she's obviously stunning which is the only reason i'm joining this fan club of yours..... http://theforce.net/books/bookcovers/jpn/images/hr/refugee.jpg woo! Lynk: Better to make it a URL instead of an IMG, okie ben...  [Read More]
Posted in: Star Wars Music by Echo Base
  benTantilles
09-07-2003, 11:56 AM
#4
Any ideas??? compose heavier stuff.....ya know, more rock-oriented things. metallica's imp march rage was so friggin cool.......  [Read More]
Posted in: Star Wars Music by Echo Base
  benTantilles
09-07-2003, 10:46 AM
#2
now THIS sounds familiar..... out of curiousity, besides dark horse & lucasforums, what other boards did u pin this thread on? and lucasforum guys- give echobase some support & go listen to the song, ya? it's catchy & fun to listen.....  [Read More]
Posted in: Vale
  benTantilles
09-04-2003, 10:16 AM
#3
she's both. neimodians=duro. here's an excerpt from a particularly good sw site on the officiality of the EU.... Lastly, we have a the case of the Neimoidians and the Duros, who have been declared as the same species. In the years between ANH and T...  [Read More]
Posted in: Beyond EU: Star Wars Infinities
  benTantilles
09-05-2003, 5:15 AM
#3
i'm no big fan of the infinities, but i do agree that it's a good idea to have introduced them to the star wars universe.... offers whole new worlds of possibilities of what could've happened in the sw universe. your story, for example-- like lord se...  [Read More]
Posted in: If You Were A Jedi.................
  benTantilles
09-01-2003, 7:36 AM
#2
at LAST...a post here at the EU section... if i were a jedi, i'd be clad in a predominantly red Mandolarian outfit with an additional pair of holsters of my two red-bladed lightsabres...i'd have dark red hair of reasonable length....and human, if n...  [Read More]
Posted in: Some things I never got about SW but are fun to wonder about...
  benTantilles
11-04-2003, 12:15 PM
#29
Ship armour is pretty tough.... not dooku's ship. like jan said, he was piloting that bike of his which didn't look particularly durable. furthermore, he was exposed to enemy fire. and luke...sure, a straying shot might've hit dooku. but palpatin...  [Read More]
Posted in: Some things I never got about SW but are fun to wonder about...
  benTantilles
10-23-2003, 10:52 AM
#24
It might have been adressed already, but i think the reason the clones did not shoot down dooku is because palpatine told them to keep him alive, since he was his apprentice and dooku was imperative in palpatine's plans. that's actually a pretty goo...  [Read More]
Posted in: Some things I never got about SW but are fun to wonder about...
  benTantilles
09-08-2003, 10:24 AM
#14
what i wondered about star wars is what keeps the lightsabers from going right through their handles? or, for that matter, how do they limit the length of a beam of light? really...i have no friggin idea how a lightsabre works so i'm stumped there.....  [Read More]
Posted in: Some things I never got about SW but are fun to wonder about...
  benTantilles
09-07-2003, 11:09 AM
#12
Endor, by the way, is Elvish for "Earth" or "The world", from The Lord of the Rings. actually, i believe tolkien got that from the ole' good book itself. yes, there is mention of a witch from endor somewhere in the old testament....  [Read More]
Posted in: Some things I never got about SW but are fun to wonder about...
  benTantilles
09-01-2003, 7:29 AM
#7
hmmm.....strange....my previous reply wasn't noted... after it was posted, the number of replies to this thread was still listed as 4 and jan was still the last poster of the Classic trilogy forum... can u all read the post? or this one, for that mat...  [Read More]
Posted in: Some things I never got about SW but are fun to wonder about...
  benTantilles
08-30-2003, 2:40 PM
#6
1) In Empire Strikes Back.. how come Han, Leia, and Chewie can walk outside the Falcon in apparent earth-like gravity (and only need simple breathmasks, not full space suites) inside the belly of that space slug on an asteroid (while hiding from the...  [Read More]
Posted in: B-Wing squadron?
  benTantilles
11-20-2003, 2:59 PM
#14
b-wings were developed not by the Rebels but by some aliens whose species start with a V the verpines helped develop it. and from that point of view, the rebels technically didn't develop any of their craft... the x-wing was designed by incom which...  [Read More]
Posted in: B-Wing squadron?
  benTantilles
10-23-2003, 11:12 AM
#10
If you saw the movie you pretty much know that when they were hypering, there wasn't enough fighters to compose four wings(144 fighters) THere was obviously not that much(if you see it arcording to the movie only). that's on the assumption that the...  [Read More]
Posted in: B-Wing squadron?
  benTantilles
08-23-2003, 7:18 AM
#4
good question. it's been a long time since i've looked this up, so i might have mixed some things up...but anyway, according to canon, b-wings belonged to grey squadron. but the cockpit structure of grey leader, whom u can see when he sounds off in t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Empire like the United States?
  benTantilles
09-08-2003, 11:19 AM
#27
jedispy- excellent points. in fact, the only reason why the US could be likened 2 the empire is coz both are in dominant military positions. lukeimyourdad & tk8252- both of u are right--and wrong. The US is not extracting any oil for their ow...  [Read More]
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