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Rebecca Marjorie Rosser (16, Queensland, Australia) aka Amidala_Skywalker joined the Jedi Council boards in July, 2001, immediately after she watched TPM. For some strange reason, when she was younger, she had always resented Han and Leia being a couple and instead preferred Luke and Leia. This was before she realised that they were indeed brother and sister. At JC, she settled into the Fan Fiction forum, where she still remains to this day as a moderator of that forum. She has tried to branch out, but she continues not to stray far from her "native forum."

In her spare time, Rebecca enjoys watching massive doses of any science-fiction she can get her hands on. Her childhood mainly consisted of watching Star Trek: The Next Generation over and over again. Currently, she obsesses over Stargate SG1, which also led her to modding one of the largest SG1 Fan Fiction archives here on the 'net. Although she currently resides in Australia, Rebecca is a native of New Zealand, having been born in Auckland. Throughout her life she has been surrounded by her Kiwi relatives, which meant that she has adopted a mixed accent (Kiwi, Brit, Aussie, and American).

Depending on what happens in the next year or so, Rebecca hopes to attend university to study either a combination of law/psychology or archaeology/anthropology. If she follows the former path, she hopes to join the Australian military and become a legal officer. Unfortunately, her talents do not lie in science and maths - a fact which she regrets considering her interest in space and the stars.

Rebecca hopes that the Fan Fiction forum will continue to bloom after the release of Episode III.

Aaron Brogdon (29, Seattle, WA) aka Bacabachaui was wandering around the world famous Pike Place market in Seattle, WA one day searching for something to keep him occupied (then, just a tourist on vacation). He stumbled upon a comic and game shop where he found the Star Wars Customizable Card Game and was instantly hooked. Over the next several years he cornered just about anyone he could find that was willing to sit down and play a game or two and has been an avid collector and player of all three Decipher Star Wars card games.

He has recently become an advocate for the new Star Wars Trading Card Game produced by Wizards of the Coast. His purpose in joining TFN is to channel his energy, obsession and love for Star Wars TCG into a useful and informative page that fans will utilize whether they already play SWTCG, or are looking for a great way to recreate the fantastic battles of the SW universe every time they pick up a deck of cards. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for the TheForce.Net TCG page. []

Kristina (21, Minnesota, USA) aka Bria, became a Star Wars fan in 1997 with the Special Editions. She's been obsessed ever since. Kristina found the JC boards in May of 1999 and intially started off as a Lit visitor, only rarely venturing out to post in Misc. and Community. In 2001 she branced out, starting to frequent fanfic, fanforce, and the Jedi Council Community. In September 2002 Kristina became a moderator for the JCC and a council member of her local fanforce. In real life (what's that?) she attends college and works partime in retail. In spare time she can be found hanging out with friends, writing, reading, sleeping, or traveling. Often all at the same time. As of the last year Kristina become more and more into Harry Potter. Just what she needed. Another obsession.

Beth (New York), aka Dark Lady Mara is not only a mad-scientist in training but also finds time in her busy schedule of world domination to moderate the Classic Trilogy Forum.

Michael Gunther (29, Los Angeles, CA) aka dehrian was discovered by the forums in late 98, while wandering the aimless streets of the internet searching for truth, justice, and something to occupy the idle hours at work. A lurker before posting, I jumped into the game headlong in March 1999 and spoiled myself rotten for TPM. I've been spoiled ever since (and I'm not just talking about Star Wars). I was born in Long Beach, where the normal course of the day required me to come home from school more bloody than when I'd left. This school of hard knocks prepared me for the rough and tumble world that is the 3SA, where I mod with a joke and stick, not necessarily in that order. I enjoy spending time with my girlfriend, reading, parachuting, skiing, going to the gym, playing guitar, and going to the movies.

David (27, New York, NY) aka dp4m has been a part of the EU Literature Forum since he started at the Jedi Council Forums back in November 2001. Fonder memories still abound of the "Aggie" site that dp4m used to enjoy back in his Carnegie Mellon University days and dp4m still believes he owes Scott royalties for images used. He's lived in New York City all his life (except for college and a brief summer stint at Microsoft) and works for the global Internet division of the third largest financial institution in the world. He also has one of those pins that says he volunteered with the Red Cross when it counted.

Jonathan Bond (20, Florida) aka Errant_Venture is a 20 year old Star Destroyer assigned with the task of defending the Classic Trilogy forum from any and all Rebel and smuggler activity. When not engaged in vaping Rebel fighters, he enjoys spending his time playing Final Fantasy X and well just about all Final Fantasy games. He is an avid reader who is particularly interested in World War II, fantasy and of course the Expanded Universe. He is currently attending a small community college before heading out into the real world known as University of Florida. After college he plans on joining the Peace Corp and then the F.B.I.

He is considered armed and dangerous and his gunners are some of the best trained men in the galaxy. Avoid this red star destroyer at all costs.

Matthew Creelman aka Raven is busy plotting world domination. In his spare time, he moderates the Literature forum, works as the technical administrator, attends Dalhousie University in Halifax, studies the Evil Overlord�s List, and refers to himself in third person. He reads a great deal, though he gave up on Tolkien when he realized that Tolkien spelled the name of a certain wizard wrong.

Scott Morrison (37, Oshkosh, Wisconsin) aka General Kenobi discovered TF.N and the JC forums in the Fall of 1998, shortly after the announcement of the Episode I title. Despite being able to play only a few bars of Yoda's Theme on his guitar, he was invited to join JC team in January 2003 to moderate the SW Music Forum. As one who remembers the barren days before Star Wars was released on videotape, he survived on John Williams' soundtracks, and owns copies of the ANH score on vinyl, cassette, original cd and SE cd. Sorry, no 8-track. GK also keeps an eye on the Census Forum while hosting tournaments there.

Rich (30, U-S of A) aka Grilled-Sarlacc is the "rusty droid of the JC," a title which he unfortunately covets! Rich is the Security Administrator for the Jedi Council, as well as a moderator in the 3SA Forum. In addition to those duties, he also moonlights as the Jedi Council Icon guru.

Elizabeth Dowdy (28, Detroit, Michigan) aka jedi-mind-trick wandered into the JC forums in July of 2001 searching for a place to post fan art and funny film posters. She was asked to join the administration team in August 2002, and currently moderates Fan Sites, SW Community and assists in the icon selection/uploading process. When not sitting in front of a computer screen, she plays the violin and sings in a band, studies history (particularly the RMS Titanic), watches Red Wing hockey, and occasionally finds time to actually go to work. JMT has loved SW since childhood when her parents took her to see ANH in the theater, and maintains that moderating on a SW message board eases the trauma of her mother selling her favorite SW toy (plastic Jabba) in a garage sale.

Kate (35, SF Bay Area) aka Katya_Jade is currently a moderator on the Jedi Council Community forum. As one of the "old folk" on the Mod Squad, Kate has been a SW fan since she saw A New Hope in 1977. When she's not moderating at the JC, she enjoys acting and playing games on her XBox.

Josh L (21, Arizona), aka KnightWriter, is currently a JC administrator/moderator. He mostly lurked for a couple years before registering for good in November of 2001. He attends college (studying psychology), is a big U2 fan, likes good books and discussion and hopes to become a psychologist.

Carmen Nasr (22, Texas) aka MaidenLump� has been lurking around the JC since early 2000. She has watched Star Wars since she was a little girl and her father replayed the Endor moon speeder chase scene for company to show off their new surround sound. However, her obsession was cemented in December of 1999 when she sat down with friends and watched the entire original trilogy in one sitting. Her nerdiest Star Wars moment was waiting in line at for 12 hours at Fox Studios, Sydney, Australia, for the midnight showing of Episode 2, and then calling her younger sister to brag about having watched it first. She's currently pursuing a graduate degree, and is adamantly spoiler free for episode III.

Kurt aka MaxVeers enjoys watching movies, reading, writing, and playing video games when the Fan Films Forum members cut him a break. He is currently attending a university in the Midwest, studying computer graphics. He has helped moderate the Jedi Council forums for about two years.

Kane (18, Victoria, Australia) aka. Protege-of-Thrawn, joined the JC in March 2001 after discovering both firstly the internet and secondly the New Jedi Order: sparking a renewed preoccupation in Star Wars and the EU that had only been a fledgling interest before. Bumbling into the Literature forum he was soon enamoured with the level of like-minded discussion, before journeying to the EUC where most of his posting from henceforth took place.

From the EUC the Role Playing Forum was formed, which Kane now moderates. He believes the RPF provides a good, fun and creative distraction from the daily grind, that any SW fan can enjoy, and works to further the scope and diversity of his forum. Outside the e-world, Kane is currently studying his Bachelor of BioMedical Science at Monash University, in between long bouts of late night social interaction that would make any Aussie proud.

Stephen aka Rogue1-and-a-half is a twenty year old student in Oklahoma, studying for a degree in the Liberal Arts and planning to one day be a published author. It's understandable then that a forum like the Amphitheatre (for discussion of literature, film, music and art) would be the perfect place for him to moderate. Stephen is still a Star Wars fan, but he'd like to remind everyone that there is a great big world out there, filled with more than just Star Wars and that maybe, just possibly, everyone should read a book every now and then.

Josh Radke aka Red84 was born on March 30, 2 Years After Star Wars-Episode IV: A New Hope in his hometown of Bristol, CT. He spent the next 14 years in school. During this time, he found that he had an amazing ability to write words on paper and won his middle school's prestigious Richard Keeler Writing Award when he was in eighth grade.

Josh has no current plans to attend college since he does not believe that it cannot prepare him any better than life experience (which is free) for his two goals in life: 1) to own his own Star Wars collectibles store and 2) to become a full time Star Wars writer whose name might someday be used in the same breath as his writing heroes Michael A. Stackpole, Kevin J. Anderson, Timothy Zahn, and the Emperor himself George Lucas. Josh would also settle to be assistant to the great Collectibles High Chief, Steve Sansweet (hey, we already know that he leans towards people with the name 'Josh').

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