Zoom Rabbit Posted April 16, 2003 Author Share Posted April 16, 2003 Confusion is healthy. What's that in your ear--a winged victory of Samothrace? My. Rocks? More sail, then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikhnaton Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 interesting... all references to Tantive i have seen before refer to planets. Tantive V is included somewhere in one of the games, and Tantive IV is going to be in episode III i believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Rabbit Posted April 19, 2003 Author Share Posted April 19, 2003 Howdy, Ike! Been awhile... Well, actually Tantive IV was the name of the Correllian corvette that Darth Vader captured with his star destroyer at the very beginning of the very first Star Wars movie ('Episode Four: A New Hope' in today's nomenclature.) The Tantive ships were four corvettes purchased by the government of Alderaan for use in courier missions...and occassionally to help the Rebel Alliance (which is why they are more commonly known as rebel blockade runners.) My land yacht was built in 1976, the same year that movie came out. So I call mine Tantive III, the rebel ship the Empire didn't get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 Didn't Star Wars come out in 1977? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Rabbit Posted April 20, 2003 Author Share Posted April 20, 2003 Perhaps... I'm not even sure what year we're in right now. *Schwoot--!* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Beastie Posted April 23, 2003 Share Posted April 23, 2003 Originally posted by Zoom Rabbit The Tantive ships were four corvettes purchased by the government of Alderaan for use in courier missions... Actually, there were five or six, IIRC. They made an appearance in the original X-Wing game, when the player has to take part in the operation that transmits the plans to Capt. Antilles' ship. All the Tantives were holding steady in formation, when the player's X-wing decants from hyperspace. You scan each ship until you find the one with Leia aboard, then a shuttle hypers in to make the dropoff. The Invincible appears instantly, and the group scatters. Exactly how Vader managed to pick out which of the craft had received the transmission (and how he knew exactly where they were headed, to intercept them at Tatooine) is left as a mystery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Rabbit Posted April 24, 2003 Author Share Posted April 24, 2003 Interesting. I have X-Wing, but never got very far into it. I know Tantive III made it. It's sitting right here, docked in the semi-primitive woodlands of Oregon. I don't think I mentioned that the ship has a crew of four kitties. They're pretty good at standing watch, although they don't know yet what to make of the natives. The other morning, crewman Bebee woke me up with a concerned meow to report that there was a deer off the starboard bow. Bebee had neber seen a deer before. "It's a big damn dog," I told her. "It eats cats." Then I went back to sleep... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Beastie Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 That's pretty much the same thing my cat thought about cows. I was walking with him around our cottage (near a farm). When he spotted one cow, he decided he did not want to mess with that thing. When he realized there was a whole field full of them, he sprinted for home as fast as I'd ever seen him move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander 598 Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 Zoom?! Where the **** have you ****ing been?! Six months away without even a ****ing note, messenger, telegraph, hologram or a ****ing phone call! I'm gonna ****ing court marshal you! Welcome Back Zoomie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Rabbit Posted April 28, 2003 Author Share Posted April 28, 2003 Court martial a rabbit? Hmm. Where have I been? Well...I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. Maybe better left unknown. Beastie, interesting you should bring up kitties and cows. Crewman Oreo has been harrassing the cow next door. I saw her stalking it (from a good fifty feet away, mind you) in the tall grasses, but I never saw her rush it. I suspect it looked bigger the closer she got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Beastie Posted April 30, 2003 Share Posted April 30, 2003 There is a rabbit on campus. There is a rabbit on campus. All pilots, report to your fighters immediately. And stay there. I was on my way to the caf (to meet an incredibly kawaii blonde for dinner ) from the site of my last exam, when a small, long-eared brown creature charged out of the bushes, raced across a driveway (in front of a car, no less) and skidded to a halt, eyeing me curiously. This was in the middle of campus, right near the old dorms. On the way home (1.5 hrs. later), I tried to contact the Confederation Park Warren (a.k.a. Watership Downtown) to report, but no one answered. More updates as they become available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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