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[Futurion]

Tarkin was the supervisor of Death Star project. I can't imagine story about DS without him involved a lot.

 

[Tom Day]

Tarkin was the supervisor of Death Star project. I can't imagine story about DS without him involved a lot.

We may hardly spend anytime in the DS in the movie.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Tarkin was the supervisor of Death Star project. I can't imagine story about DS without him involved a lot.

Tarkin designed the Death Star. That's from 1977. Not sure what mess the EU made of that since.

 

[pixletwin]

Tarkin designed the DS? Where is that from? I never got that impression. Is it in the Alan Dean Foster book or something?

 

[Wor-Gar]

Tarkin designed the DS? Where is that from? I never got that impression. Is it in the Alan Dean Foster book or something?

Not sure where it came from but anyone who was around in 1977 should know this. He didn't just "supervise" it, whatever that means. He designed it; was supposed to be his idea, his baby.

I find your use of Alan Dean Foster greatly insulting. That's an infraction right there.


Like I said, Lucas or the EU has clearly altered that long ago for some other consideration. That history for Tarkin may have ended up like Darth's first name -- reinvented to be something else.

 

[pixletwin]

I don't remember ever having that impression. I always thought of him as a Prison Warden. Certainly the highest ranking officer, but I wouldn't ever assume the Warden designed the prison. Tarkin, same thing. Weird. I only brought the ADeansterF because he ghost-wrote the novelization. I thought maybe you pulled it from there. I am intrigued to know what you have against ADF.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I don't remember ever having that impression. I always thought of him as a Prison Warden. Certainly the highest ranking officer, but I wouldn't ever assume the Warden designed the prison. Tarkin, same thing. Weird. I only brought the ADeansterF because he ghost-wrote the novelization. I thought maybe you pulled it from there. I am intrigued to know what you have against ADF.

Force snakes. Among other things.

Anyway, I can't find any further reference to back up my memory of Tarkin's background other than he has always 'overseen' the Death Star project. Ashame I think, as I remember reading somewhere that he had an architectural background prior to the Empire and that he made the primary designs for the Death Star as well as the laser canon. He was put in charge of the development and construction and rose up the ranks in the Empire in that way. As a non-military person, he was ultimately given the rank of Governor. Or something like that. But this was 1977 and I don't think Lucas had the "marketing" potential completely realized yet.

I have a box in the garage of everything I could get my hands on in 1977 -- magazines, books, articles, Starlogs, everything -- and I bet I could find the reference in there. It's like a 1977 Star Wars time capsule that I haven't looked at since 1977. Going to be fun to open that box one day.

 

[Wor-Gar]

That seems to be the canon now, yes. But like everything else Star Wars, that is not his origin.

I think he's far more interesting as the mad scientist behind its creation rather than just some Imperial thug placed in charge of it without any attachment.

No wonder no one ever makes figures of Tarkin with the piss poor backstory they've given him.

 

[pixletwin]

That seems to be the canon now, yes. But like everything else Star Wars, that is not his origin.

But based on what? Your credits are no good here. I need something real.

 

[Wor-Gar]

But based on what? Your credits are no good here. I need something real.

Sorry bud, I ain't a library, but I do have a memory. Unfortunately, with the internet, memory no longer qualifies as truth. Only what anyone can add to the growing altered history of the net written in this limited time period.

Someday the truths you've come to know will be wiped away. Like Disney with SW canon. There will come a generation that literally has no idea about the silly EU stuff you hold dear... and I'm sure they'll ask you to prove it.


To me the most fascinating thing about Star Wars is that its a perfect microcosm of religion (not the movies, the phenomenon)... in how it changes over time, how its altered by nothing more than Man's desire, and how it creates such divides... like between the OT purists and the PTers. It's something that really should be studied.

 

[pixletwin]

To me the most fascinating thing about Star Wars is that its a perfect microcosm of religion (not the movies, the phenomenon)... in how it changes over time, how its altered by nothing more than Man's desire, and how it creates such divides... like between the OT purists and the PTers. It's something that really should be studied.

Yeah I've noticed that too. It would make for a fascinatin study... more so during the whole Medicom/Sideshow wars of yesteryear.

 

[greedo737]

But based on what? Your credits are no good here. I need something real.

I'd take a Watto figure, now that you mention him [emoji6]

 

[Wor-Gar]

Yeah I've noticed that too. It would make for a fascinatin study... more so during the whole Medicom/Sideshow wars of yesteryear.

Well that too... but I meant more like how it is changed, mostly by Lucas until now, at a whim of wanting to sell more toys. Like Ford said about being told Han couldn't die in ROTJ because of the toys. And the constant chipping away at things just to expand -- midichlorians, Darth's name to a title, Fett's family history, and, yes, Tarkin's original backstory (which I can't prove, sorry). Clearly somewhere in the late 80's or early 90's Lucas decided that Tarkin was not fit enough to hold the entire Death Star backstory all by himself... and he started divying it up with an assortment of characters.

 

[pixletwin]

I remember me and my friends in high school joking that 1000 years hence religion would be an odd mix of Jesus, Luke Skywalker, and Elvis.

 

[Wor-Gar]

That's Scientology, isn't it?

 

[pixletwin]

Touche.

 

[TonTon]

Thanks for reminding me that I bought that recent Tarkin book, guys. I should get cracking on it before Rogue One.

Tarkin was very devoted to the DS. He was like a captain going down with his ship.

 

[Futurion]

Imperial officer who designed the Death Star ... far as i remember, the DS was already designed in the EP III by the Separatists.

 

[Tom Day]

Imperial officer who designed the Death Star ... far as i remember, the DS was already designed in the EP III by the Separatists.

What Episode III? Disney hasn't made the prequel trilogy yet.

 

[devilof76]

Everything the Separatists were doing was orchestrated by Palpatine.