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 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2022 12:42 am Post subject: Empire: The Publius Files |
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This was passed on to me from the Fractalsponge Discord. A while back, a member of the Stardestoyer.net forums named Publius did several treatises detailing the structure of the Empire, all heavily referencing official sources, especially WEG. I'm just now getting into reading it, but I can already tell this is potentially a very valuable resource for anyone wanting to introduce useful details about the Empire and its various branches into their campaign.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2022 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| This will be a great resource for me. Thanks so much for posting. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2022 12:47 am Post subject: Re: Empire: The Publius Files |
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| CRMcNeill wrote: | This was passed on to me from the Fractalsponge Discord. A while back, a member of the Stardestoyer.net forums named Publius did several treatises detailing the structure of the Empire, all heavily referencing official sources, especially WEG. I'm just now getting into reading it, but I can already tell this is potentially a very valuable resource for anyone wanting to introduce useful details about the Empire and its various branches into their campaign.
Publius Analysis .zip File |
Wow, this is intense. I brought up the longest document and quickly scanned it. I love all the footnotes. But this very long and it would take me a long time to get to reading this. When you get through it all, please share your response to it here. And anyone else who reads it.
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CRMcNeill
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I'm maybe 1/3 of the way through the longest document, and that's with just skimming the footnotes. I'll let you know when I'm done, although it may take multiple read-throughs to fully grok what's in here.
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CRMcNeill
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So, I finished the core document, and the first concrete impression I have is that this thing really needs a glossary and a series of organizational charts (ala what WEG did for Imperial Intelligence and COMPNOR in the Imperial Sourcebook) to help keep track of who and what goes where.
There are some interesting word choices; the author refers to Stormtroopers exclusively as "Imperial Marines", and cites as his reasoning a single reference from the game guide for Galactic Battlegrounds. A quick search shows only a single instance where the term 'stormtrooper' is used in the main text, with all other references being found in the footnotes. I'm tempted to go through and replace 'Marines' with 'Stormtroopers' or 'Stormtrooper Corps' since this is the commonly used term in-universe.
There are a few plagiarized terms, such as using 'kanly' (a term from Dune to describe a blood feud between noble houses), but considering the amount of detail he goes into (which necessitates making a lot of things up), a certain degree of crossover is inevitable and tolerable.
Worth the read, on balance.
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CRMcNeill
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| Whill wrote: | | I'm not sure what his motivation would be to rename Imperial Stormtroopers. It's film canon and it's the vast majority of reference in "canon" (EU) (and it's an overt intentional real world reference). Why not "stormtroopers"? |
I don't know, and I have no idea how to contact the original author to ask. Some of his word choices lead me to believe he's European, so it may be a cultural thing where 'Marine' was preferable to 'stormtrooper'.
There might be some worth in editing the document into more manageable chunks (or at least bookmarking the existing document) and cleaning up some of the word choices alongside making a glossary.
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