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Re: One thing against Halo, sadly
Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com>	Date: 7/11/11 8:27 a.m.
In Response To: One thing against Halo, sadly (Dagoonite) : I just remembered one thing that SW had in its favor that Halo doesn't. West : End Games. : Who is West End Games, you ask? They're a now-defunct role-playing game : company that existed way back when. In the early 80's they got their start : with board games, but moved on to pen and paper RPGs. : So what? They released a little game called Star Wars The Roleplaying Game. : The writing was considered by many to be top notch and included a great : deal of information on the things that were never discussed in the movies. : In the case of the Aurebesh alphabet, they codified it into an actual : alphabet instead of random set dressings, which was later used in the : movies. Enough so that just a short time later, Lucas Arts started giving : their books to writers who wanted to work on the Expanded Universe as : source material material. It was considered by Lucas Arts to be a good : standard, and an excellent place to build off of. : John Terra's work was especially hailed, to the point where when it was : announced that he would return to writing for Star Wars sourcebooks, he : was contacted by several of the old-school authors asking if they could : buy his notes when a book was released. (If you aren't into RPGs, I'd : still suggest picking up his book Interview with Evil -- it's fiction : based on an RPG, and a wonderful first-person telling of a villainous : overlord's life and helped shape how I think about the generic "evil : for evil's sake" villains in my own work. Such class and charm!) : It sounds odd, but the work of an RPG company ended up helping the Star Wars : franchise considerably through its expansion of the existing materials. : Unfortunately, no such thing exists for Halo with any degree of canon : (save for a small handful of fiction novels) making such "EU" : books (such as what you want) harder to do. : Do I still want it? Sure! Again, I'd almost be willing to pay them to work on : the fiction and research for it. Would they accept nickles? It's just that : it would take far, far more work than what the SW universe has. (Then : again, if it's worth doing it's worth working for.) I'm not a role player, but I own the Sourcebooks from that game. The general one, the Rebel, the Imperial. The Death Star blueprints book. AWESOME stuff! I got it mostly for the layouts and detailed ship diagrams. In fact I bought the Heir to the Empire sourcebook solely for the top-view cutaway of the Imperial Shuttle. :) I'd love to see book like this for Halo, even if it wasn't for a game. I'm actually working on figuring out the full deck layout of the Forward Unto Dawn right now. Only a small part of it will be canon, but it'll be a neat exercise to figure out where every room is on all (as I counted them) 21 decks.

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Dear 343...	Postmortem	7/10/11 10:38 p.m.
Re: Dear 343...	ZackDark	7/10/11 10:52 p.m.
Re: Dear 343...	Postmortem	7/10/11 10:56 p.m.
Re: Dear 343...	ZackDark	7/10/11 11:06 p.m.
Re: Dear 343...	Postmortem	7/10/11 11:19 p.m.
Pherus *SP*	Quirel	7/11/11 5:37 p.m.
Pheri? j/k *NM*	Postmortem	7/11/11 7:07 p.m.
Re: Dear 343...	DHalo	7/11/11 6:09 a.m.
Re: Dear 343...	Dagoonite	7/10/11 11:02 p.m.
Ditto *NM*	Postmortem	7/11/11 12:04 a.m.
One thing against Halo, sadly	Dagoonite	7/11/11 7:32 a.m.
Re: One thing against Halo, sadly	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	7/11/11 8:27 a.m.
Re: One thing against Halo, sadly	Dagoonite	7/11/11 8:47 a.m.
Re: One thing against Halo, sadly	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	7/11/11 9:21 a.m.
Re: One thing against Halo, sadly	Dagoonite	7/11/11 10:14 a.m.
Re: One thing against Halo, sadly	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	7/11/11 11:01 a.m.
Re: One thing against Halo, sadly	Dagoonite	7/11/11 11:14 a.m.
Re: One thing against Halo, sadly	SonofMacPhisto	7/11/11 11:22 a.m.
Re: One thing against Halo, sadly	Dagoonite	7/11/11 11:28 a.m.
Re: One thing against Halo, sadly	SonofMacPhisto	7/11/11 11:39 a.m.
Re: One thing against Halo, sadly	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	7/11/11 12:37 p.m.
Re: One thing against Halo, sadly	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	7/11/11 12:41 p.m.