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Lucky
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Bios and Poisoning the well at Wookiepedia

Post by Lucky » Sat Jan 11, 2014 12:38 pm

I was trying to find dates things came into print, and i started noticed this:

The New Essential Guide To Vehicles & Vessels
I checked the Speeder Bike entry and the Swoop entry, but could not find this typo. Where is it?
I checked the MTT entry, but could not find this typo.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Essential_Guide_to_Vehicles_and_Vessels wrote: Home One's illustration is the incorrect type of Mon Cal cruiser.
Correct in that the picture marked Home One is not Home One, but a different Mon Calamari Cruiser in an article about Mon Calamari Cruisers in general.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Essential_Guide_to_Vehicles_and_Vessels wrote: On the Home One schematics "Turbolaser Pod" is "2" whilst "Sensor Array" is "3", however the schematics show "Turbolaser Pod" as being "3" instead of "2".
For once I could find this typo, but we have no way to know if they meant for it to be a sensor array or not.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Essential_Guide_to_Vehicles_and_Vessels wrote: The front and side views of the AT-AT have different leg positions.
The head on view is stepping with its left front foot, and the side view is stepping with its right front foot. This is considered a mistake?
15.5 meters was the offical size on Starwars.com for a time
http://web.archive.org/web/201109091728 ... index.html
Which isn't actually wrong. The Executor has been given many lengths over the years ranging from 8 kilometers to 19 kilometers.

According to this the actual is 13.469 kilometers long
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Essential_Guide_to_Vehicles_and_Vessels wrote: Fighter Acceleration is scaled without consideration of ROTS era fighters such as the Eta 2 Actis, V-wing or ARC-170 that they were designed to replace and have inexplicably lower performance statistics in spite of sources such as "Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader" stating that TIE Fighter was to outperform the V-wings and Eta 2s as well as Vader flying the TIE Advanced x1 in ANH rather than an Eta 2, which is due to it having been published prior to the release of Revenge of the Sith.
Technological development had stagnated in Star Wars for hundred if not thousands of years before the PT with no changes if not regression between the Prequel Trilogy and the Original Trilogy. T.I.E. salesmen lie.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Essential_Guide_to_Vehicles_and_Vessels wrote: The affiliation for the A-wing is listed as Galactic Empire instead of Rebel Alliance.
The book does say that.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Essential_Guide_to_Vehicles_and_Vessels wrote: Guri is claimed to be Xizor's cyborg aide when "she" is a human replica droid.
Guri is made to be as close as possible to a human implying she is likely made with flesh making her also a cyborg.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Essential_Guide_to_Vehicles_and_Vessels wrote: It is stated that the Battle of Endor is the "final battle" of the Galactic Civil War, however the war actually ended 15 years after Endor upon the conclusion of the Battle of Yaga Minor.
When Palpatine dies he loses his emergency powers, and no one is there to take his place. The Republic reverts to its pre-Empire constitution, and the Republic Senate must choose a new Chancellor.

Because the Rebel Leadership was made up of a number of Senators this means the Rebellion is over, and that they achieved their goals. Episodes 2 and 3 thoroughly gutted the post Endor Star Wars Extended Universe which had often assumed that the Empire had been conqured the Republic through force of arms rather then what happened.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Essential_Guide_to_Vehicles_and_Vessels wrote: Captain Tarpals' "Ouch time" line is used as the quote for the AAT, despite the line actually being in response to the activation of the battle droid ranks.
That is disputable.

Most likely Ouch Time refers to the coming battle in general.



Then I checked the Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Incredible Cross Sections
Not a single mistake mentioned, but the more conservative book had every tiny mistake pointed out. I don't have a problem with picking at every mistake, but you need to do it all source equally. No one has bothered to point out that without the turbine generator the turbolasers are just lasers.

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