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I’ll start cleaning AMG since Strat has HB 2.

AMG has already been released somewhat privately and incomplete I might add

as a commission by someone. I’d prefer we show ourselves of higher quality, so

I’ll still work on releasing it.

Basically Del Ray force fed Zahn a book to try to connect the prequiels with the EU, and it was trash. You can clearly feel it’s forced and many grades below his normal writing. Vong series and after they mutilate so many characters and kill off ones established across many of the prior novels… it’s senseless. Basically Del Ray and Lucas felt that the universe wasn’t dark enough, too positive, so they slaughtered it. For an example, they have Han and Leia’s kid’s kill each other, but not before killing Luke’s wife with a poison dart, which she was specially trained against as an assassin, and spent nearly a whole series of books at death’s door fighting poison off with the force. Zahn who designed her character, and is honestly the most well known, offered Del Ray to write a book for free, just to close out her character so to speak… Del Ray told him to shove off.

Zahn started the EU, it might as well be it’s George Lucas, but actually good. So there you go….

So… stay within that zone if you want good books. As of now the EU is basically it’s own thing. Disney is doing their own reboot with elements from it… and that scares a lot of traditionalist fans.

A note towards strat_guy, is that I feel we need to take a good look at some of the English

translations we’re doing as a quality check. Some of it just doesn’t sound quite right.

I know I’m not able to check it all everyday, but I’m trying to get around to it.

I’m also probably going to stop trying to translate the sidebar text from A!MG, the stuff is just too error prone with the quality of scans we get. Granted it’d be a leg up over what anyone else has done but it’s taking 8-10 times longer per page to get a rip. I could finish all of the remaining 20 pages roughly in a handful of hours, or spend another 3-5 days on it.

The early bird gets the worm in this business so to speak, this needs to get out there so we’re visible. Plus it’s the long awaited 25th anniversary 300th chapter. So we need to get it done, with our name on there.

So I’ll probably be switching gears with that. Otherwise, I’ll try to go back and proofread any pages done thus far…. probably need a new “tag” of some sort for the title.

I might also talk to dagon at some point about the finished results and how we’ll organize the subforums, since we’re really close on the Heisei-ban 2.