/sw/ - Star Wars

Since I forgot to mention it in the OP, this thread is mainly intended for discussion of smaller works to be set in separatist canon and the process of writing them. Bigger things like writing a new era or heavily expanding/revamping an existing one like TORanon or the 200 ABY anon are doing may be deserving of their own threads depending on the scope.

200 ABY Anon here.

I think a good place for us to start would be constructing a style guide. I haven't been able to get my hands on the old 1994 WEG one, but obviously I've seen some of the excerpts. It'd provide a good general guideline outside of just the few rules we've already decided upon. Overall, I just think it's a good move.

As an aside, I might try statting some of my ships in the FFG system just so I have a good point of comparison mentally.

>>26744

KOTORanon here, nice story. Regarding names don't be too hard on yourself, but if you feel like they need to be more Star Wars-y then here's a few generators I tend to use to figure out some names.

>http://www.dimfuture.net/starwars/random/generate.php

>https://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/name/star_wars.html

In one of my posts I made up names for a Muun senator and businessman, and all I did was take pre-existing Muun names and mix the letters while keeping a few sounds in there to keep them Muun-ish, but ultimately it doesn't matter so don't worry too much.

If you want to improve your writing you A; gotta do it more, and B; read good authors you want to write like. Stover and Luceno are my favorite just writers when it comes to general/overall writings, and Salvatore narrates a fight scene so fucking well I'm gonna try to emulate him. Have faith in yourself anon, listen to music when you write and remember to enjoy it, but don't forget that the harshest critic you're ever gonna find is yourself.

This came to mind while I was lurking, but I'd like to propose "No Time Travel" in the style guide. It's pretty un-Star Wars for 99% of people, myself included.

>>26911

I think that's kind of a grey area. Not suspended animation, though, although it leans more on the Sci-fi aspects of Star Wars. It seems fine, considering Holocrons exist, the tech doesn't seem too insane.

Forward only on the other hand is kind of more difficult to define, so I still might consider it no in most cases. But that's me.

>>26911

>>26914

>suspended animation

Has happened before in several areas, so why not?

>>26915

I think it the depends on the tech or method. The only time this would be used would probably be in stories about some character from thousands of years ago waking up in 2 BBY and having no idea how things have changed.

>>26911

I'm okay with those, since they're not too far-fetched. As long as it isn't overused, we shouldn't have too many problems.

>>26914

I think there were a few cases of forward time travel and time dilation. One where some guy's hyperdrive broke and he ended up arriving at his destination 200ish years later during the Separatist Crisis, and another where some ancient fleet just appeared out of nowhere during the Lost Tribe of the Sith arc.

>>26919

It certainly has potential, and is relatively unexplored aside from a holonet article or two.

>>26909

I think we should break this rule in real life, so we can stop Disney from ever gaining control of Star Wars, among other things. But for purposes of telling a story, there was discussion of it in another thread. I enjoy quite a few stories that involve many forms of time travel. But most people seem to hold the view that it's too difficult to integrate it into a story which has a great deal of history established, although it has been done well in rare cases. Generally the opinion is that if you want a good time travel story, your story has to be built around the concept from the get-go, and this isn't the case for Star Wars. If someone floated a compelling story idea that uses the concept in any other way than forward-only jumps or traveling back just to retrieve an object or individual or simply observe the past, I think it's worth considering, but I doubt that anybody will have such an idea. My approach to the question of time travel is treating it the same way as anything else. If you want to use a certain idea, you should have to be able to justify its presence in terms of something it adds to the story.

In more of a meta sense, you could call the resistance against Disney a time war or an interdimensional war between two timelines each fighting the other to be recognized as the real one. There are of course other interpretations of Star Wars which could be viewed as their own timelines in addition to the main two.

>>26925

>In more of a meta sense, you could call the resistance against Disney a time war or an interdimensional war between two timelines each fighting the other to be recognized as the real one. There are of course other interpretations of Star Wars which could be viewed as their own timelines in addition to the main two.

I suppose so. It'd certainly be interesting to have one of the Infinities timelines fully fleshed out.

>>27997

You could always try your best and see if something salvageable comes of it.

>>32442

According to the wiki thread, they're looking for codefags to help with the project. Also separatist canon was handled by a couple of anons who always disappear for long periods of times. I wouldn't be surprised if they're actual writers considering their quality.