We already used that for Celebration though.
My proposals:
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| REBEL SCUM
Rogue One |SPOILER THREAD| Spoiler: They rebel.
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Star Wars |OT| I have a very good feeling about this...
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We already used that for Celebration though.
My proposals:
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| REBEL SCUM
Rogue One |SPOILER THREAD| Spoiler: They rebel.
WadiumArcadium
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Lol that's pretty good.
WadiumArcadium
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Haloid1177
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| Rey is Not in This
Rogue One |SPOILER THREAD| Spoiler: Rey is in This
So many people at work walk into my office, see the TFA poster, and ask if that's the girl in the new movie coming. It's ridiculous.
Rogue One |SPOILER THREAD| Spoiler: Rey is in This
So many people at work walk into my office, see the TFA poster, and ask if that's the girl in the new movie coming. It's ridiculous.
Not yet, and I liked Toa's suggestion but it was already used before by Wadium.
This is also good.
I'm gonna think this over while I'm being told about the story of Darth Plagueis.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| This Thread Is Now The Ultimate Power in the Galaxy
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| A Prequel You'll Care About
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| Make Prequels Great Again
This for the spoiler thread
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| A Prequel You'll Care About
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| Make Prequels Great Again
This for the spoiler thread
Not bad. Not bad at all
I like this one.
In other great news, after 10 years my country will have an IMAX screen again! And it will re-open on the 14th with Rogue One yeaaahh. I hope ticket sales are a success so more will follow in other cities.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |SPOILER THREAD| What If The Movie Sucks?
Also a valid point
Also a valid point
Well in all fairness, even if the movie sucks, the third title still works perfectly.
WadiumArcadium
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Really enjoyed #8 of Poe's comic. After a bit of a dodgy first arc, it's really found it's footing. The look into Terex's past and his
desertion on Jakku was really good. That stormtrooper armour he had reminded me of that samurai stormtrooper figure.
WadiumArcadium
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| Vader | Krennic 2020
Alexander Freed's Rogue One novelization has a cover now. As with TFA, it's the theatrical poster for the film.
Alexander Freed's Rogue One novelization has a cover now. As with TFA, it's the theatrical poster for the film.
I think we have our winner.
KoruptData
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I like how a lot of EU stuff kinda has ties to
Jakku. I don't think we're done with that planet yet in the new trilogy.
WadiumArcadium
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It looks that way.
Especially after learning the Emperor was so interested in Jakku
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
Can you spoil some of it?
Lifejumper
Member
Yeah really enjoying catalyst too 
Again, I'm only about halfway through.
-Galen and Lyra are researching synthetic kyber crystals in the first year of the Clone Wars on the planet Vallt when a pro-separatist faction overthrows the government and imprisons them, trying to get them to aid the CIS. Galen refuses, and as a pacifist he won't help the Republic either.
-After the Second Battle of Geonosis, the Republic "somehow" comes into possession of the Death Star plans (obviously Palpatine's doing) and believes that the CIS is building a superweapon. The Special Weapons Group is tasked with reverse engineering the schematics and building it first, and Lt. Commander Orson Krennic - who was in the Futures Program with Galen - convinces Mas Amedda to rescue the Ersos, believing Galen's genius is crucial to making scientific breakthroughs for the necessary power.
-Krennic pretends to be an employee of Galen's company, Zerpen, and makes a prisoner swap with the separatists for Galen, providing two separatist scientists he had kidnapped, and after the escape the Republic bombards the separatists on Vallt. Krennic takes Galen to his homeworld, Grange, and makes him witness the CIS siege there to try to sway him to join the Republic but Galen refuses.
-The Ersos are kept under watch on Coruscant as the military tries to determine if they are a security threat as possible double agents. Galen is eventually exonerated on Krennic's word but he has trouble finding a job since everything in his field is tied to the war effort. Some other colleagues see him as a traitor. Months pass and Krennic preys on his insolvency getting him a job on Lokori for Helical HyperCom as a QA tech which he hopes will bore him to death and make him strive for more.
-Meanwhile, Krennic slyly convinces Poggle the Lesser, who is in captivity, to help the Republic, since Geonosians by nature need to build and become violent without work. Poggle is reinstated as a Republic vassal and announces to the Geonosian public that the Geonosians will construct their grandest project yet. They are tasked with working on the Death Star which is taking shape in orbit, the most basic ring having been built already by droids. However, Poggle purposefully overstaffs the project, making the drone workers restless, leading to them revolting and sabotaging months of work. In the chaos, Poggle escapes (which ties up a plot hole from TCW since it never explained how he escaped before RotS).
-Lokori comes under CIS assault until the end of the war. The Ersos almost die but are saved when the droid armies are shut down. They relocate back to Coruscant where Krennic proposes a new job as the head of Project Celestial Power, a postwar reconstruction project that he pitches as "the Emperor's dream" since it will focus on supplying cheap power to worlds damaged by the war. Galen jumps at the chance when he learns he will be working with kyber crystals since the Jedi can no longer hoard then, but Lyra is somewhat offended because she doesn't think they should tamper with the Force.
-Galen becomes enamored with his work and Krennic secretly has his notes supplied to a sister site on Malpaz where other scientists can study how to apply his research to weaponization of kyber crystals. However, they accidentally blow up the facility.
-Krennic becomes aware that Tarkin is his rival for the Emperor's interest as his constant setbacks and failure to convince Galen to participate in the program have turned Amedda against him. With the Geonosis asteroid belt mined dry, he convinces Tarkin to sign off on a plot to obtain resources from untouched "Legacy" planets which act as nature preserves by planting weapons caches there and claiming that separatist holdouts use them, giving the military pretext to take control of the planets and then mine them.
-Fearing that Lyra is too indepdendent, Krennic gets her a job on a scouting expedition on Alpinn to research a possible kyber vein, which keeps her and young Jyn out of the picture for months. He shows Galen the destroyed facility on Malpaz and claims that neoseparatist anarchists destroyed it and that their movement is spreading, hoping to convince Galen that his and Palpatine's dream will never be realized if he does not work with the military.
-After the Second Battle of Geonosis, the Republic "somehow" comes into possession of the Death Star plans (obviously Palpatine's doing) and believes that the CIS is building a superweapon. The Special Weapons Group is tasked with reverse engineering the schematics and building it first, and Lt. Commander Orson Krennic - who was in the Futures Program with Galen - convinces Mas Amedda to rescue the Ersos, believing Galen's genius is crucial to making scientific breakthroughs for the necessary power.
-Krennic pretends to be an employee of Galen's company, Zerpen, and makes a prisoner swap with the separatists for Galen, providing two separatist scientists he had kidnapped, and after the escape the Republic bombards the separatists on Vallt. Krennic takes Galen to his homeworld, Grange, and makes him witness the CIS siege there to try to sway him to join the Republic but Galen refuses.
-The Ersos are kept under watch on Coruscant as the military tries to determine if they are a security threat as possible double agents. Galen is eventually exonerated on Krennic's word but he has trouble finding a job since everything in his field is tied to the war effort. Some other colleagues see him as a traitor. Months pass and Krennic preys on his insolvency getting him a job on Lokori for Helical HyperCom as a QA tech which he hopes will bore him to death and make him strive for more.
-Meanwhile, Krennic slyly convinces Poggle the Lesser, who is in captivity, to help the Republic, since Geonosians by nature need to build and become violent without work. Poggle is reinstated as a Republic vassal and announces to the Geonosian public that the Geonosians will construct their grandest project yet. They are tasked with working on the Death Star which is taking shape in orbit, the most basic ring having been built already by droids. However, Poggle purposefully overstaffs the project, making the drone workers restless, leading to them revolting and sabotaging months of work. In the chaos, Poggle escapes (which ties up a plot hole from TCW since it never explained how he escaped before RotS).
-Lokori comes under CIS assault until the end of the war. The Ersos almost die but are saved when the droid armies are shut down. They relocate back to Coruscant where Krennic proposes a new job as the head of Project Celestial Power, a postwar reconstruction project that he pitches as "the Emperor's dream" since it will focus on supplying cheap power to worlds damaged by the war. Galen jumps at the chance when he learns he will be working with kyber crystals since the Jedi can no longer hoard then, but Lyra is somewhat offended because she doesn't think they should tamper with the Force.
-Galen becomes enamored with his work and Krennic secretly has his notes supplied to a sister site on Malpaz where other scientists can study how to apply his research to weaponization of kyber crystals. However, they accidentally blow up the facility.
-Krennic becomes aware that Tarkin is his rival for the Emperor's interest as his constant setbacks and failure to convince Galen to participate in the program have turned Amedda against him. With the Geonosis asteroid belt mined dry, he convinces Tarkin to sign off on a plot to obtain resources from untouched "Legacy" planets which act as nature preserves by planting weapons caches there and claiming that separatist holdouts use them, giving the military pretext to take control of the planets and then mine them.
-Fearing that Lyra is too indepdendent, Krennic gets her a job on a scouting expedition on Alpinn to research a possible kyber vein, which keeps her and young Jyn out of the picture for months. He shows Galen the destroyed facility on Malpaz and claims that neoseparatist anarchists destroyed it and that their movement is spreading, hoping to convince Galen that his and Palpatine's dream will never be realized if he does not work with the military.
That's where I'm at so far.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
Damn. Kennric seems like he's a big player.
The cape didn't give this away?
Dude looks straight up part of the Playa Haters Ball.
Maybe in the last scene when they give the datadisc to Leia
gotta pull some of that CGI sorcery then
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Profile shot from a distance with an obscured face.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Precisely.
Just finished Catalyst, I'll post spoilers for the rest of it tomorrow. I'd say it's up there with the best of the new canon books. It's definitely a Luceno book so some people may find it dry but it makes a great duology with Tarkin. Too bad Dark Lord isn't canon or we would have a really interesting trilogy.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Looks like the last three adult novels are all successes then with Bloodline, Life Debt and now Catalyst. Hopefully I'll get my copy today.
Alright, so here's the rest of the plot of Catalyst.
-After the expedition on Alpinn, Has Obitt (a smuggler Krennic had been using throughout the book to do his dirty work, like kidnap those scientists, drop the weapons on Legacy worlds, and fly Lyra out to Alpinn) has a crisis of conscience and shows Lyra the ruined Legacy worlds. Lyra comes to understand that Krennic is up to something. She gets extra freaked out when Krennic starts spying on her, following her to a playground on Coruscant where Jyn is playing to tell her not to cause stress for Galen.
-Galen drifts away from Lyra, obsessed with his work and thinking that she is wrong about Krennic, making excuses about the Empire making hard choices for the greater good when she tells him about the Legacy worlds. But he starts to get suspicious and looks into secret files on the other scientists and projects, revealing that the material from the Legacy worlds is not being accounted for. He starts to put two and two together and realizes his work is being weaponized.
-After finding out about Has' betrayal, Krennic sets up an elaborate scheme where he hires Has for what he promises to be a last mission to drop cargo in the Salient system to allow the Empire pretext to take it over to hunt for separatists; Tarkin is partially in on it but doesn't realize that Krennic knows that Has will break. When the inhabitants of Salient refuse to allow the Empire to take control, Has gets tangled up in a resistance movement with Saw Gerrera, which bogs down Tarkin for months as his understaffed group is forced to fight an insurgency. Tarkin realizes that Krennic set him up and after capturing Has he decides to use him as his own spy.
-Krennic has a bunch of scientists successfully create an early version of the superlaser using Galen's notes, which they fire on twin black holes. Afterwards he has the scientists, who were based on Hypori (including the Ersos' friend Reeva) disappeared and wiped from the Imperial archives, probably to work on Geonosis.
-The Ersos find out that Reeva and the others have gone missing. Galen finally admits to Lyra that he was wrong and that they have to escape. They sneak out during a holiday celebration, making it difficult for Krennic to follow them due to the crowds. Tarkin sends Has to Coruscant to mess with Krennic, unaware of the situation with the Ersos, but Krennic thinks that Has has come to pick them up. Has uses the confusion to his advatage, telling Krennic he's just meeting with another smuggler, and when they check his records he's right. Meanwhile, the Ersos meet up with Saw Gerrara who takes them to the planet Lahmu where they go into hiding.
-Krennic and Tarkin both hire Has, with Tarkin having Has spy on Krennic while Krennic has Has try to hunt down the Ersos. Obviously Has makes this difficult so that nothing gets accomplished.
-Tarkin is put in charge of the Death Star project due to his successful conquest of Salient and Krennic gets bumped down because of his loss of Galen.
-Galen drifts away from Lyra, obsessed with his work and thinking that she is wrong about Krennic, making excuses about the Empire making hard choices for the greater good when she tells him about the Legacy worlds. But he starts to get suspicious and looks into secret files on the other scientists and projects, revealing that the material from the Legacy worlds is not being accounted for. He starts to put two and two together and realizes his work is being weaponized.
-After finding out about Has' betrayal, Krennic sets up an elaborate scheme where he hires Has for what he promises to be a last mission to drop cargo in the Salient system to allow the Empire pretext to take it over to hunt for separatists; Tarkin is partially in on it but doesn't realize that Krennic knows that Has will break. When the inhabitants of Salient refuse to allow the Empire to take control, Has gets tangled up in a resistance movement with Saw Gerrera, which bogs down Tarkin for months as his understaffed group is forced to fight an insurgency. Tarkin realizes that Krennic set him up and after capturing Has he decides to use him as his own spy.
-Krennic has a bunch of scientists successfully create an early version of the superlaser using Galen's notes, which they fire on twin black holes. Afterwards he has the scientists, who were based on Hypori (including the Ersos' friend Reeva) disappeared and wiped from the Imperial archives, probably to work on Geonosis.
-The Ersos find out that Reeva and the others have gone missing. Galen finally admits to Lyra that he was wrong and that they have to escape. They sneak out during a holiday celebration, making it difficult for Krennic to follow them due to the crowds. Tarkin sends Has to Coruscant to mess with Krennic, unaware of the situation with the Ersos, but Krennic thinks that Has has come to pick them up. Has uses the confusion to his advatage, telling Krennic he's just meeting with another smuggler, and when they check his records he's right. Meanwhile, the Ersos meet up with Saw Gerrara who takes them to the planet Lahmu where they go into hiding.
-Krennic and Tarkin both hire Has, with Tarkin having Has spy on Krennic while Krennic has Has try to hunt down the Ersos. Obviously Has makes this difficult so that nothing gets accomplished.
-Tarkin is put in charge of the Death Star project due to his successful conquest of Salient and Krennic gets bumped down because of his loss of Galen.
WadiumArcadium
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The Star Wars UK Twitter account has a featurette with some new footage and some interviews with the cast.
There's another barrage of posters as well. Japanese character ones this time.
There's another barrage of posters as well. Japanese character ones this time.
BrokenFiction
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WadiumArcadium
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I'd guess at three. I don't think it's out in the open.