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I had a thought in the shower (where all the best thoughts happen): what about "Early Empire" "Late Empire" and "First Order"?
We know that R1 and Solo have been using ANH styles (for the most part), so that could be Early Empire (along with the brief shot from Episode III). Then ESB and ROTJ for Late?
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So based on Mr. Crossman's email, it seems like "Science Officer" is just service dress after all?
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17 hours ago, Exaldear said:
Ok. So I would like to start moving on to revamping the CRLs, either the name of some as has been suggested or in some cases the actual CRL (I know some people want the navy trooper CRLs worked over). Before then, I want to know, do people want to change the layout, or keep it the same. Do we go with
Republic officers
High command
Fleet officers
ISB
Navy troopers
Crewmen
Imperial officers
High command
Fleet officers
ISB
Navy troopers
Crewmen
First Order officers
High command
Fleet officers
ISB
Navy troopers
Crewmen
Or just go with
High command
Fleet officers
ISB
Navy troopers
Crewmen
And ignore eras?
I rather like this idea (although I'm not sure on all of those subdivisions). Doing by film trilogy gets muddy, as mentioned before, and is only going to continue getting muddier as more "A Star Wars Story" movies come out.
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5 hours ago, Hask said:
Saw the film again last night, there is one straight leg that looked like he had all blue tiles and there was one wearing Jodhpurs and high boots
Oh I know they're there. I just meant we're calling it one thing when it totally could be another. He could actually be a science officer.
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The only thing with that is, we're making up the term "Mess Dress." We don't know for certain that guy at the party isn't a science officer. We don't know that it's not a totally formal uniform for some other branch that can't wear jodhpurs for practical reasons (the Narrow Hallway Officer Division?). Maybe he's another governor wearing a military-style uniform of his own making like so many other Moffs have done in canon.
I'm not saying those things are true, or likely, either. Just that it may be premature until we get more information.
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Thanks.
MazCave and Magnoli both look reasonably priced, so now I have a budget to work with. I'll definitely be pushing for Imperator as Line Officer in the future.
Meanwhile, I've got proper boots for bridge crew, so expect that Imperator submission soon
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The hat seems okay to me. The boots appear correct, too, but I'm not entirely sure about that curve shape at the top so I'll let a better expert answer.
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Hi.
I'm going to officially withdraw my request.
After my last event, way back on May the 4th, my rank bars fell apart and the collar hook-and-eyes came off (again). I have dreaded fixing them, as easy as it is, because I'm really just not happy with this uniform. I'll wear it to events when other officers are around, but my bridge crew is going to be my primary now. Even after stiffening the flares, I just... don't feel like this is Imperator quality:
I'm working on a TIE Pilot, but when that's all done, I'm going to save up and get a really good line officer uniform. It's still something I want to dress as, it's my first love for Star Wars costuming, but it's just really frustrating and difficult with Cosplay Sky.
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I really enjoyed Solo. Alden isn't Harrison, sure, but I still felt like his version of Solo was compatible. He's younger (by maybe 10 years?) than New Hope Solo, and lots still to happen to make him more cynical and brash.
As far as it's success or failure at the box office, it still made plenty of money; it just didn't make as much as some random bean counters thought it was going to make. That's the problem with those predictions, and the press who hears reports of bad things on the set and runs with it without any evidence or proof.
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Oh also!
I need more Imperial March in a major key propaganda version in my life
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I was at a WW2 reenactment this weekend, and there were a couple guys there as German Polizei. Their cuffs and colors immediately reminded me of this thread, so I found some photos and thought they might help shed some light here:
http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/deutsche-polizei-forum/ww2-german-polizei-uniform-634338/
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Congrats!
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At the scale of Lego it doesn't bother me too much, but... it does bother me somewhat.
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That's amazing.
Are they still using grey for the Lego minifigs?
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Just as another update:
I got a lot of cool things done with this, even fixed up the flares on the jodhpurs (I think - you guys will be the judge of that - literally). But I wore it for a May the 4th event and one of the hook-and-eyes came off from the collar, so I have to fix that before taking photos again. Busy week ahead, but hopefully this weekend (although it's Mother's Day).
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Neither of them seem to have yokes that go as high as the standard uniform.
Also it's hard to see the seams from the comic one, probably from the art style. They're there and then not there depending on the scene.
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18 hours ago, DarthFunk83 said:
Just one example of Grand Admiral Thrawn, and then another Grand Admiral (Miltin Takel) standing next to him
Neither of them would ever get to L3 with all those wrinkles!
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I'm actually pretty excited, even if it's anime style (as long as that just means the animation style and not the story tropes). Dave Filoni is great, and there's a lot of stories that can come out of that gap between the OT and NT.
Was the empire really evil ?
in The Officer's Lounge
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I think, unequivocally, yes. The Empire was evil.
Was every person in the Empire evil? No, probably not. But much like the "clean wehrmacht" myth, they're more complicit than they are stupid.
As far as things going pretty well, I don't think that's really true, either. Entire species were enslaved, freedom of speech was nonexistence, everything we consider to be human rights in real life (and I guess we'd call something else since not everyone's a human in Star Wars) were suppressed. They definitely didn't have "basic rights."