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Site History

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This is a record of major and minor events in the existence of the STAR WARS Technical Commentaries web site. The listing is incomplete, since I began tracking progress only very recently. The list is mainly meant as an aid for readers seeking the newest updates.

Progress on unreleased pages is not documented. At any given time, at least five times as much activity is devoted to incomplete, offline pages as to the documents which are visible to the public. The number of pages under construction greatly outnumbers those which are presently available for viewing.

• Added and described images of the TIE interceptor as photographed in the Sydney exhibition several years ago.

• Uploaded more photos from the Sydney exhibition, depicting Lord Vader's fighter and the TIE bomber.

• Computer failures at my usual workplace prevent me from checking e-mail or doing my usual research this weekend, so I upload a few more SW exhibition images as a passtime. Additions have been made to costumes, cloud car, Liberty, X-wing and Y-wing pages.

• Noted the discrepant population counts for Naboo: from 600 million to 1.2 billion. The difference probably reveals starvation during the Trade Federation blockade and occupation in TPM.

• Added the Anya Karu to the Warships of the Empire: Catalogue.
• Noted “databank” updates for the Executor length, thanks to W.Poe and J-T. Hammer?, in History of the Five Mile Fallacy.

• Minor ammendment to the Acclamator count at the clones parade ground: the ship with sunward tail raises the strict lower limit to 22.

• Added a subpage discussion of the clones on the parade grounds at the end of AOTC. Added improved estimates for clone numbers in certain subregions (thanks to B.Young); and a stitched partial panorama (thanks to M.Wong).

• Updated Warships of the Empire: Catalogue, fixing the link to concept sketch resembling Admiral Giel's battleship. Previously it was linked to the wrong image.
• Added cropped images from the Dark Empire trade paperback cover, showing ships resembling anonymous star frigate #2 and destroyer #2.
• Updated Military Walkers with cargo AT-TE scans kindly sent by E.Joergensen.
• Added a section about a bipedal walker sent to Kashyyyk in ROTS, found and scanned by E.Joergensen.

• Appended more “Hammertong” quotes relating to the Death Stars, from Spectre of the Past, thanks to A.Gehrls and W.Poe.
• Added quotes concerning IG-88 and the Death Star II construction (with p.49 supplied by W.Poe). Added these quotes to novel notes concerning Tales of the Bounty Hunters.

• Appended quotes and discussion of the suspicious “Hammertong” affair, and its possible relationship to the Death Stars.

• Minor updates related to the Death Stars. Clarified the expression and sources in Death Stars: Hangar Complement; added GG5 quotation about the history of the Death Star II.

• Added fullscreen DVD images of the fleet at Endor, apparently with a side view of the Imperial communications ship, thanks to S.Robertson; with enhanced, noise-reduced image by A.Tully.

• Added discussion of the AT-XT walker, after images and information submitted by D.Krouse and K.Schaefer.
• Added a section about a distinct interdictor star destroyer in Vader's Quest, after submissions by K.Schaefer.

• Added a page of images in the Lucasfilm Archives, captured from Star Wars bonus laserdisk documentaries, in the Exhibitions section. The images were kindly sent by T.Protz.

• Appended measurements of the Imperial Death Star, for comparison with the Separatist Great Weapom.

• Updated the discussion of the Great Weapon with a new picture and measurements of the latitudes of the edges of the dish.

• I consolidate and now present a page that was lingering as an offline draft for about nine years. The page is an overview of Sublight Propulsion, with calculations of some dynamical limits of a few ships for demonstrations. (Depends on some algebra and geometry.)

Added images and commentary about the TIE Hunter, after kind submissions by K.L.Schaefer.

• Added a preliminary image of the Great Weapon from ROTS, thanks to an anonymous benefactor.

• Added some remarks about the Venator-class star destroyers in Warships of the Empire, plus a suggestion (by A.Tully) that the tail of Admiral Giel's flagship may have functions and components similar to the Venator's tail.
• Added more detailed images and observations of [anonymous star frigate #2] from Clone Wars comics, as observed by K.L.Schaefer. This addition considerably extends the quality and scope of observations of this ship class.

• Updated the description of the construction of the Great Weapon, mentioning the differences between the proportions of the unfinished Great Weapon [ROTS] and Grand Moff Tarkin's later Death Star [ANH].

• Added a series of photographs of the dewback head and hide, spectacularly exhibited at Bonhams auction house in London [http://www.bonhmas.co.uk/]. Thanks to P.Briggs for intelligence about the exhibition.

• Noted the page reference of a threat against C-3PO's identity, in TPM Continuity, thanks to Bill Harbert.

• Added detailed image of the dewback from the forthcoming dewback auction in London, after notice by P.Briggs.

• Added a few remarks about the Separatists' incomplete Great Weapon, within the commentaries about the Death Stars.
• The commentary about the Injuries of Darth Vader now includes a few updates incorporating new information from Revenge of the Sith publications. The updates are edited into the pre-existing sections and paragraphs.
• Added a detailed interpretation of Lord Vader's chestplate inscriptions, kindly forwarded by A. Krämer.

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This web site is now over ten years old. The first articles went online late in the February of 1995. Many thanks to all the interested readers and contributors who have supported the STAR WARS Technical Commentaries during this first decade. For how many more decades can it grow? Will it outlast the era of active STAR WARS merchandising? That is the intention.

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• Added scan of the Balance of Power manual cover illustration to 5 Mile Fallacy commentary, thanks to G. Dalton.

• Updated and consolidated the evidence that the droids retained their memories through the Clone Wars era, until at least a few decades after ANH. This is a rebuttal of the naïve "memory wipe" speculation. Added quotations from the radio drama versions of ANH, TESB and ROTJ. The main discussion is in the page TPM: Continuity.
• Added a small placeholder page about the Self-Propelled Heavy Artillery - Turbolaser (SPHA-T walker), as a joint offshoot linked from the Military Walkers and Battle of Geonosis: Index pages.

• Added an image and discussion of star frigates and a star battleship predating the Clone Wars, in the catalogue in Warships of the Empire.

• Minor updates to Injuries of Darth Vader: added images of Anakin's facial scar due to Asajj Ventress. I've also replaced some outdated ROTJ pictures that showed eyebrows on Lord Vader's face.
• Noted the TIE fighter with octagonal wings, dating from the time 6 months after TPM, as shown in STAR WARS Tales #21.

• Noted a possible reduction of the tower/terrace gap in the Allegiance, possibly defining a subclass, as suggested by D. van Antwerp.

• Belated, retrospective and profuse thanks to Anthony Baratta for kindly updating the CGI code that runs the "acknowledgements" form and database (following theforce.net's latest change of servers).

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