Imperial Wiki!

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2007-11-07 01:14pm

Is there a FAQ somewhere on how to use a wiki? Like adding hyperlinks, pictures, etc?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-11-07 01:15pm

Lord Poe wrote:Is there a FAQ somewhere on how to use a wiki? Like adding hyperlinks, pictures, etc?

I'm no expert myself, but there's a link in the lower-left sidebar menu for uploading files, and once you upload a file, you can embed it in a page by using the "image" button in the page edit window and just entering the name of the image (no path required).

Terralthra · Post by **Terralthra** » 2007-11-07 01:15pm

http://www.stardestroyer.net/mrwong/wik ... p:Contents

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-11-07 01:17pm

Lord Poe wrote:Is there a FAQ somewhere on how to use a wiki? Like adding hyperlinks, pictures, etc?

Yes, actually.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2007-11-07 01:51pm

I think I found something hooky on the http://www.stardestroyer.net/mrwong/wik ... Death_Star page.

Under "Constructio ntime" it says it took 20 years to build and that when it blew up Aldaaran it had "Never been fired or tested" Isn't this contradicted by the new book out?

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2007-11-07 01:53pm

Crossroads Inc. wrote:I think I found something hooky on the http://www.stardestroyer.net/mrwong/wik ... Death_Star page.

Under "Constructio ntime" it says it took 20 years to build and that when it blew up Aldaaran it had "Never been fired or tested" Isn't this contradicted by the new book out?

That's clearly wrong. It's establish for at least 15 years now, that the Death Star blew up Despayre, the world where it was built, as a test and to wipe out any witnesses. (it was a prison world)

Ted C · Post by **Ted C** » 2007-11-07 02:04pm

ray245 wrote:Is it ok if we contact several ex-members to edit the wiki or something?

Mainly because I was thinking of alyeska and chris...so as to provide a more 'neutral' point of view on SD.net?

The Trekkies can also build their own wiki.

Kane Starkiller · Post by **Kane Starkiller** » 2007-11-07 02:29pm

I created an article about ST weapons ranges and accuracy which is still in it's infant stages mind you. In my opinion all weapon accuracy should be discussed in this single article rather than describing the accuracy under each weapon section.

BountyHunterSAx · Post by **BountyHunterSAx** » 2007-11-07 02:53pm

Tribun wrote:
Crossroads Inc. wrote:I think I found something hooky on the http://www.stardestroyer.net/mrwong/wik ... Death_Star page.

Under "Constructio ntime" it says it took 20 years to build and that when it blew up Aldaaran it had "Never been fired or tested" Isn't this contradicted by the new book out?
That's clearly wrong. It's establish for at least 15 years now, that the Death Star blew up Despayre, the world where it was built, as a test and to wipe out any witnesses. (it was a prison world)

My apologies for the misinformation, I'm glad you spotted it. What I based that claim on was the conversation Grand Moff Tarkin had with Leia, and that one of the commanders had with Vader (shortly before being choked) in ANH. I guess I took it out of context, because it definitely seemed as though they were trying to - for the first time - demonstrate the effectiveness of the DS I's weapon. Still, it's a wiki - edit away. And I concede that that was an oversight on my part. Can you please also edit the Historical Account section to talk about Despayre? I would if I knew the details and/or had the sources in my possession to work off of. Thanks.

-AHMAD

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2007-11-07 03:08pm

I'd Edit, but I don't have the encylapedic knowledge of others.

This

By the time Star Wars IV begins, the Death Star I has been fully constructed and is operational, however it has neither been used nor tested. Since Leia Organa and Luke Skywalker were born toward the end of Star Wars III - around the same time as we see the moon-sized scaffolding - we can establish a lower-limit as to the amount of time needed to construct a fully-armed and operational Death Star, 19 years.

needs to be changed as well.

Where are some of the people who read the new book "Death Star" and could fill in the blanks?

BountyHunterSAx · Post by **BountyHunterSAx** » 2007-11-07 04:29pm

We could either eliminate that, or just change it to read within G-Canon. I still like the fact that the Empire's construction techniques improved so drastically between SW III and SW IV, that the DS I took much more time to build then the partially completed, far superior DS II. I'd be very eager to find the real lower-limit and upper-limit construction time predictions.

-AHMAD

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-11-07 04:33pm

BountyHunterSAx wrote:We could either eliminate that, or just change it to read within G-Canon. I still like the fact that the Empire's construction techniques improved so drastically between SW III and SW IV, that the DS I took much more time to build then the partially completed, far superior DS II. I'd be very eager to find the real lower-limit and upper-limit construction time predictions.

-AHMAD

What makes you think they improved their techniques? Everything is easier to produce after you've created the initial prototype.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2007-11-07 05:09pm

Is the prototype at the Maw installation and its development now relegated to non-canon given what was seen in RotS?

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2007-11-07 05:18pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Is the prototype at the Maw installation and its development now relegated to non-canon given what was seen in RotS?

I partly forgot, but as far as I know, they started building DSI, but then realised that it actually isn't THAT simple, and so the halted the whole thing to begin from scratch and in the process also created the prototype for testing.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-11-07 05:26pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Is the prototype at the Maw installation and its development now relegated to non-canon given what was seen in RotS?

I thought the RotS station was sufficiently different to the Death Star that we decided it was an earlier prototype?

In any case, the DS was built when the Senate was around and before the Emperor took absolute power, so perhaps he was doing it even more on the sly than the secret DS2.

Wyrm · Post by **Wyrm** » 2007-11-07 05:31pm

Okay, either I'm being uncharacteristically dense, or my confirmation e-mails are getting eaten by a black hole. I've looked everywhere in my mail folders for something from stardestroyer.net that even looks like it might be the confirmation e-mail and no luck. This is highly unusual since I'm receiving Topic Notifications as recently as a week ago.

Kane Starkiller · Post by **Kane Starkiller** » 2007-11-07 05:35pm

Have you checked your spam folder? This is where my gmail client put it.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2007-11-07 05:40pm

Stark wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:Is the prototype at the Maw installation and its development now relegated to non-canon given what was seen in RotS?
I thought the RotS station was sufficiently different to the Death Star that we decided it was an earlier prototype?

In any case, the DS was built when the Senate was around and before the Emperor took absolute power, so perhaps he was doing it even more on the sly than the secret DS2.

The RoTS station doesn't match up in any sense to the DS1, so it's used as what the Genosian Great Weapon. So one can easily say it's a prototype.

Wyrm · Post by **Wyrm** » 2007-11-07 06:11pm

Kane Starkiller wrote:Have you checked your spam folder? This is where my gmail client put it.

One of the first places I looked. No dice. I did a global search, of all folders, and not a smell of it.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-11-07 06:12pm

Wyrm wrote:
Kane Starkiller wrote:Have you checked your spam folder? This is where my gmail client put it.
One of the first places I looked. No dice. I did a global search, of all folders, and not a smell of it.

Are you sure the search looks in the spam folder? You can always check manually.

Wyrm · Post by **Wyrm** » 2007-11-07 06:38pm

Bounty wrote:Are you sure the search looks in the spam folder? You can always check manually.

I did check manually. And the global search checks the spam folder. That's how I find some of the e-mails I mistakenly mark spam to remark as non-spam.

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Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-11-07 06:40pm

Can someone add to the help page instructions for creating redirects? For instance, there are many 'username' pages, which should really have the content moved to 'user:username' and the 'username' page made a redirect. Help a brother out?

Wyrm · Post by **Wyrm** » 2007-11-07 06:41pm

Wait a minute... I'm watching this topic, and I didn't receive any Topic Notifications! And I didn't receive my notification of Servo's PM either!

(And I'm still receiving spam, so I know the account's still working.)

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2007-11-07 08:33pm

ON stormtrooper armor

"Due to the sheer firepower of blasters, the protection that any armor can offer is limited; the armor cannot fully protect its wearer from a direct hit, although it may mitigate the impact."

I'd argue that it's actually more effective than is commonly believed.

IIRC; the main blasters we see in the movies are Han Solo's heavy DL-44 pistol (a .454 Casull equivalent) and Imperial issue E-11s. Normal civilians aren't going to have access to those kinds of powerful weaponry; nor will many rebel groups due to weapons restrictions in the Empire.

Secondly, we never see any real quantitative evidence of blaster insta-kills on armored personnel, for all we know, it may reduce a E-11 shot from "instant death to unarmored personnel" to 'cracked ribs, and six days in a bacta tube"

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2007-11-07 08:48pm

The more I look at the WEG Imperial Sourcebook by WEG as I write up the entries on the imperial OBAT; the the more I realize that the fault lies in the stupid EU writers that Lucasfilm recruited, than in the book or any supposed WEG "minimalism".

The book is full of detailed, yet also vague information, which does the job nicely.

For example, they lay down a detailed set of OBATS for the Imperial Navy and Army, and set the minimum amount of men in an Imperial Sector Army at 1.18 million men.

While also elsewhere in the book, they state that the Emperor has thousands of sectors at his command, and also that these are the baseline non-augmented OBATS; when you fully Augment a unit, it swells out massively.

It's certainly better than the alternatives:

A.) There are only three million men in the grand army!

or

B.) The Empire has one trillion trillion trillion personnel under it's command (a number which would break peoples heads anyway)