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These were mighty vessels, not the silly toys in the new films.īig. Star Destroyers, Mon Calamari Cruisers, X-Wings, TIE Defenders. Honestly, what's a Star Wars 4X game if you can't build a damn Death Star? I took a look through the large Prima guide that came with the game and the ships and troops I would have at my disposal. Naturally, I started as the Imperial side first. Massive fleets of ships under my control, worlds to conquer, and all sorts of characters from the films, books, and beyond ready to perform their tasks. Here was the universe I was so attached to, not the garbage currently being spewed forth by LucasArts. I fired up the game and instantly liked what I saw.
I would spend the night at their house every now and then, and my grandfather's toy became the vessel for my galactic conquests.
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As luck would have it, the day I bought Rebellion he had just gotten a brand new PC for "world webbing", which proceeded to only be used for golf sims and my grandmother's custom holiday greeting cards.
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The 50-inch plasma TV that is used mainly to watch golf in standard definition speaks volumes to this fact.
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My grandfather is a sucker for gadgets, even if he doesn't really know how to use them or what they're even for. I would not have a computer of my own until two years later, and since an RTS requires many, many hours of constant play, simply using my school's computers wasn't an option. I happened to have enough cash on hand for the purchase, but wait! PC-only, the box said. Fleets of Rebel and Imperial starships raced towards each other preparing to do battle above a blood-red planet. Was this some part of the great universe far, far away that was somehow untainted by Phantom Menace's sin? I looked at the box, emblazoned with the underside of a massive Star Destroyer. And on a trip through the game section of K-Mart, a little game by the name of Star Wars: Rebellion caught my eye… You see, having had my Jedi fill with Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, I was now harboring a desire for some sort of Command and Conquer-type of Star Wars experience, where I could literally dominate the massive galaxy depicted in so many media. Combined with the collective crappiness of the Black Fleet books and the Dark Empire comics, I was ready to officially declare Star Wars dead to me. Alas, I eventually succumbed to the realization that the excrement George Lucas wanted to call a film was the signal of the downfall of what I held dear. So you can imagine my anticipation of The Phantom Menace, the long awaited beginning of the prequel trilogy.Īt first I tried to convince myself that it was still good, that it was just different. There's a lot of good stuff to be found in said universe-the aforementioned Zahn books, the Rogue Squadron series, the Crimson Empire comics and so forth.
A plucky young lad fresh out of the 8th grade, I had just finished reading Timothy Zahn's fantastic Thrawn trilogy a year earlier, which began my immersion into the Star Wars expanded universe.