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  1. 9 hours ago, sqidd said:

    I don't see them not having her team up with the Predator vs the colonizers. All sorts of message points there.

    That is like a human hunter teaming up with a springbok to fight cheetahs. Utterly nonsensical.

    If he's worried about his diverse hunting experience being ruined by the encroachment of game from another area, he is quite capable of handling the situation without assistance from his prey.

  2. 1 hour ago, Big s said:

    That sounds like a really bad idea.

    It is. They are trained in pairs. They form close bonds as men who go through intense hardship together do. But only one of the pair is selected, after he kills the other. How it turns out in the long run is dependent on how indoctrinated the participants are.

     

  3. 5 hours ago, Big s said:

    I think the only comic I read was shadows of the empire. The only cartoons I watched were the 2d clone wars ones on Cartoon Network and the old droids and Ewoks Saturday morning cartoons. I guess there was also visions and the boba Fett thing in that goofy holiday special.

    I also have never touched the novel’s, but did look through some source material decades ago that pertained to the table top game.

    mostly just the live action stuff.

    Well in Crimson Empire they undergo special training and the Emperor handpicks his guard from amongst them. In order to be selected to serve the emperor each has to perform an act of supreme betrayal to prove jhis absolute loyalty.

    In one scene a single one of them, the protagonist Kir Kanos, slaughtered myriads of attacking stormtroopers and even brought down a Tie Fighter with just melee weapons and small arms.

  4. 5 hours ago, wm cheng said:

    I love HLJ, but I've got a $30 Regult sitting in their warehouse with a $50 FedEx shipping option only - come on HLJ, open up EMS or Slow Boat to help us out in Canada.  (Warning to fellow Canadians, they offer no other forms of shipping to Canada other than FedEx or DHL).  I'm not ordering anything else until some other options for shipping open up.  (when I pre-ordered there were more options, didn't know things would get worse over time - I thought things would get better?)

    Oh flaunt that Canada has a reliable and functional postal service why dont you.😅

  5. 13 minutes ago, Big s said:

    They didn’t do royal guard because other than look amazing, they only really slowly walked in or out of rooms. Then again it would be pretty hard to ruin their backstory 

    I take it you never read Crimson Empire then?

    Aside from that story, the old Imperial Sourcebook had them being recruited from the best of the Stormtrooper Legions, which in that tome were elite troops sent in to deal with the most formidable resistance (cannon fodder being the Imperial Army troopers). They were required to rotate between guarding the Emperor and serving in the field. That I think opens it up to be somewhat less than boring.

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