Thread by @TheSpaceshipper

THE DEAD SPEAK!

Star Wars: Dark Empire (1991-1992, 1994-1995) appreciation tweets, to celebrate the art of @CamKennedyArt

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@CamKennedyArt So many beautiful ships in these early times of the Expanded Universe.

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@CamKennedyArt Worlds Devastators also appeared in 1998 in Rogue Squadron (the LucasArts/Factor 5 game).

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@CamKennedyArt What? Boba Fett didn't die in Return of the Jedi!

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@CamKennedyArt Fun fact: I disliked these comics for a long time. They were "too much" different from the Expanded Universe.

Now, they're piece of art <3

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The Starlight Intruder (3rd pic) is a modified MB-C1 medium transport. Seen in Shadows of the Empire (1996) & X-Wing Alliance (1999) too.

This ship also appeared in the distant background of the Firefly (2002) TV series!

@CamKennedyArt 7/6: bonus
MANY BOTHANS DIED TO BRING US THIS INFORMATION... in the EU, during the attack on the Suprosa.

First in Shadows of the Empire (book, comic, inside the ship for the game), then X-Wing Alliance (in a Y-wing)

Comics art by Kilian Plunkett (SW Rebels art director).

@CamKennedyArt The World Devastators in Dark Empire & Rogue Squadron (game, 1998).

@CamKennedyArt The original V-Wing (airspeeder) was introduced in Dark Empire too. We could fly it un Rogue Squadron.

But other than an appearance in another book, it has never been reused, and has not been reintroduced into canon under any other name.

@CamKennedyArt Now we have the Alpha-3 Nimbus-class V-wing starfighter, introduced in SW3 (2005) and well known by Battlefront II (2017) players.

@CamKennedyArt Among the many ships introduced in Dark Empire, I have a soft spot for the E-wing.

Not only has it appeared in many books, but it has already been reintroduced into the canon (in the Poe Dameron comic series). Maybe we'll see it again soon.

@CamKennedyArt In short, I love Dark Empire, a cornerstone of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

The (Empire's) End.

@CamKennedyArt As many speak about it: I don't have any official confirmation that the Ore Crawler from SW Rebels is a reference to the World Devastators. It could! But I don't know.

A question for Andre Kirk, Kilian Plunkett or @stevenmelching

@CamKennedyArt @stevenmelching Forgot to add: the MB-C1 medium transport in Dark Empire (1), Firefly (2) and Battlestar Galactica (3).

That's the kind of winks I like.

@CamKennedyArt @stevenmelching @rianjohnson By chance, did you read Dark Empire 30 years ago too? As you said "I've heard something like this described as a Force power, like actually projecting a vision of yourself elsewhere".
Unless it was a proposition of the Story Group?

https://twitter.com/RyanLee_S/status/1018126109555281921

@CamKennedyArt @stevenmelching @rianjohnson (But the Dopplegänger thing has appeared in many other books and games after Dark Empire, in truth.)

@CamKennedyArt @stevenmelching @rianjohnson I forgot: there are some artworks of Dark Empire ships... by Doug Chiang himself!

E-Wing / V-Wing / World Devastator / Eclipse

@CamKennedyArt @stevenmelching @rianjohnson They were published in Bill Smith's The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (March 1996), way before The Phantom Menace.

And more Starlight Intruder:

@CamKennedyArt @stevenmelching @rianjohnson Schematics by Troy Vigil.

@CamKennedyArt @stevenmelching @rianjohnson Last but not least:

In the 1st version of Episode IX, Duel of the Fates by Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly, the heroes were stealing an Eclipse Star Destroyer...

(I don't recognize the artist's signature.)

The real (Empire's) End.

@CamKennedyArt @stevenmelching @rianjohnson I missed the answer somehow: the Ore Crawler from SW Rebels is a reference to the World Devastators. ;)

https://twitter.com/DarkSapiens/status/1313945534433046529

@CamKennedyArt @stevenmelching @rianjohnson And the right drawing from the Suprosa in the Shadows of the Empire (1996) comic.

@CamKennedyArt @stevenmelching @rianjohnson I like these stories.
We started in 1991, we finished in 2019, and we went through a multimedia project, several video games, Firefly, BSG, Rebels, Doug Chiang, an unused script and the latest movies.