Topic: True Colors

I'm eagerly awaiting my copy of True Colors - I ordered it online.

An interesting point was made in the News section - do you think the Commandos take away some of the mystery of Boba Fett?

Personally I don't think so. They are individuals with their own thoughts and ideas. They might be of the same genetic material but I really don't see them as being anything like Boba Fett - well except for kicking butt rather well. :P

What's your thoughts?

The same genetic material doesn't make the same person, so I don't think so either. I think of every clone as a different person.

Yeah, same here. The Fett question applies better for LotF.

Apart from that, TC is lookin pretty nifty so far, I received my copy today.

Yes. Or "A Practical Man," also by Traviss.

But clone troopers are more Fett than anything else: Darth Vader, ewok, et cetera. This is the question at hand.

i was in borders a couple days ago and i saw the lady putting the new books in the shelf i asked her if she had true colors and she had it!!! YAY ME im going to read all NIGHT!!!!

Yep, like I said in the newspost, I totally understand your point of view here. ;) Sorry for my nitpicking...

I gotta say, the early first chapter of TC was totally up my alley. Reading about paratroopers from the 2nd Airborne was ori'kandosii, especially since there's been next to no other official coverage of them, and a year back or so I wrote a clone trooper fanfic about the Battle of Utapau, from the view of one of these paratrooper squads - not Parjai, but my own Prudii squad. :P

It's moments like that that make being a Star Wars fan so damn awesome. :D

Gah, I may have to go get this book tomorrow... don't spoil it guys! ;)

Kandosii!

Best of the SW RC series so far. I cant wait for the next one!

Ditto

Well Order 66 will be out during the summer
and Revelation in Feb.
It will be sad to see it end though...
(like always) :)

i know, right? hey, good to see ya here--and nice name!

TC was great, and TZ. cant wait for Order 66, and revelation. Karen Traviss has done a great job with mando'ade

I just finished this like a month ago, good read, but not much happened. Although... I have a new favorite ARC... Mereel!!
That said, Hard Contact is still by favorite, by far.

I just hope Order 66 is a satisfying end to the series...

Is it wrong to not be able to choose a favorite? I know some people dislike Traviss and all but I really like this series. I recently reread The Cestus Deception (Hey I've had a bad knee and I read fast) and the clones in it aren't the same. I mean  there isn't anything wrong with them, its just different in the treatment, ie perspective is almost exclusively from non clone chararcters. Traviss' commando series to  me is just more comfortable. That all said I think Sev and Scorch are tied for my favorites. I like to think that I would be the right gal for Sev, as I seem to think similarly. (I guess i am fully nutty now).

i finished true colors last night, and i think it was a great book but i agree with Si Titran, the troopers in the cestus deception are completely different in the way they come across but that might be because they are alpha ARC, at least i think they are its been a while since i read it

Really? That's interesting, I'll have to read the Cestus Deception... they are most likely different because CD isn't written by Traviss.

its not, but it seems to focus more on obi-wan and kit fisto, , and it has mando'a in it, but ints not really mando'a, at least not the mando'a we all know and love

Thats very true. I just wish I was more adept at languages so that I could pick up on the Mando'a faster. CD is very much focused on the force users involved. But it does show that clones can have/ want a life outside the GAR, which is an obvious feature in Traviss' work.

yes it is, even thought it focuses more on the ARC troopers wanting a different life, but it also shows what the Jedi think of the clones,

well put. i've read it too--it was decent, but the clones were VERY different from KT's. and why would anyone dislike her? she's done a GREAT job with both the Commandos and with the Mandos--both virtually unexplored or known. I say kandosii, for doing such a great job with so little.

i think that we can all agree on that much :)

Heer Heer!

Yes. Those that "dislike" Traviss work weren't from this board, but another one. It might have been also about her work in the entire Star Wars galaxy and not just her Comando work.

i dont see why anyone would have a problem with her

Either do I. I was just repeating what someone somewhere else was saying.  Shes way better than say, Kevin J Anderson or Barbra Hambly in my opinion.

I feel that anderson did well on the books he wrote, but if i remember right weren't most of his books directed at a younger audience?

I might, if i wasn't a fan of Mandos and Commandos--she killed Mara! i know it wasn't her idea, but still......i was highly annoyed

what did anderson do again?

taken from a KJA bio
"His STAR WARS “Jedi Academy” books were the three top-selling SF novels of 1994. His three original STAR WARS anthologies—TALES FROM THE MOS EISLEY CANTINA, TALES FROM JABBA’S PALACE, and TALES OF THE BOUNTY HUNTERS are the best-selling science fiction anthologies of all time. He has also completed numerous other projects for Lucasfilm, including the 14-volumes in the bestselling and award-winning YOUNG JEDI KNIGHTS series (cowritten with his wife Rebecca Moesta)."
well it was just luck of the draw that she killed off mara,  i was pissed off at Salvatore for killing off Chewbacca and then refering to him as the family dog but i still love his books

oh yeah........young Jedi knights was good, but young, and Jedi academy good too. Read I, Jedi for a different perspective on that story. Corran Horns the main character.

yeah, i guess. I liked Mara a lot, and i knew Chewie and anakin would die, so i was less upset--read "Betrayal" before NJO, i think...oops. I liked mara more than Chewie, actually...

yeah i read I,jedi before the academy trilogy, and when i found out the two where related i went and bout the trilogy

oh--I, Jedi was great--I've read X-Wing, so i love Corran Horn. great character.

i like the simple fact that he doesnt rely solely on the force

It was the same thing for me. I read I, Jedi first and then when I started reading Anderson's triolgy I was like "oh I get it... different narritives on the same thing. Neat." I like Corran Horn too. I have a lot of respect for the Rouges. ( I LOVE Wedge Antillies almost as I do Boba and the Mandos.)

I happen to dislike the killing off of main characters, but that's almost a running theme through the Star Wars universe. Everyone dies sometime. Even if we consider examples just within the cannon of the six movies there are many.

EPI: Qui- Gon Jinn and the ever graphic Darth Maul.
EPII: Jango Fett. Shimi Skywalker ( although I'm not sure if she would count, but her death is infulential on a main character.)
EPIII: Padame, Count Dooku, General Grevious and other CIS leaders, almost whole of Jedi Order including Mace Windu.
EPIV: Obi Wan Kenobi
EPV: Ok I can't think of anyone importiant for this one. Just mainly bit rebels and imperials.
EPVI: Yoda, Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader/ Anakin Skywalker and Jabba the Hutt.

Hey guys, when discussing books that some people may not have read yet, can you please post a ***SPOILER WARNING*** before writing about certain characters... 'cause I had no idea Mara Jade died... >:( >:( >:(

Thanks a lot. >:(

Sorry Manji. There was nothing about the specifics so that still will be new.

My apologies Manji

really sorry about that. are you reading Legacy?

yeah--hes funny, at times, and a great fighter pilot. But i love the back and forth joking of Wedge and his friends in "Starfighters of Adumar" and in other books since.

i do not think i have read that one

but i do like the fact that

possible spoiler

That it seems like all the famous Rouges have joined the jedi against Jacen

yeah--gavin, tycho, wedge--most are friends with han and leia, and some Jedi--Corran, Luke, and their smart

spoilers

that part in fury, where wedge "shoots" tycho was hilarious

you know what the info i had posted earlier about bard'ika was relevent because it was released the same time as this book!

um may i ask how do you start topics

Um....this definitely isnt the topic to ask that question...but youre new here so ill help you out. Go to the message boards section and click on the topic section with your own topic would fit into, general or fans or etc. Then it should say somewhere on that page "add new topic". Click that and follow the instructions.

This questions is better suited to the Introduction topic under the general sub-forum  There you can meet and greet other members.

http://www.bobafett.com/boards/viewtopic.php?id=323&p=20

But to post a new topic you go to the sub-forum you want eg. Fans.  Once there you should see something that says "Start New Topic"  right across from where it says "[Insert Forum name here] Forum"