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Star Wars
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Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas. It depicts the adventures of characters a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The franchise began in 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars and it was followed by the successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, these three films constitute the original Star Wars trilogy. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, which received mixed-to-negative reactions, a sequel trilogy began in 2015 with the release of Star Wars, The Force Awakens. All seven films were nominated for Academy Awards and have been successes, with a combined box office revenue of over $7.5 billion. Spin-off films include Star Wars, The Clone Wars and Rogue One, Star Wars also holds a Guinness World Records title for the Most successful film merchandising franchise. In 2015, the value of the Star Wars franchise was estimated at USD $42 billion. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion and earned the rights to all subsequent Star Wars films. Walt Disney Studios owns digital distribution rights to all the Star Wars films, the events depicted in the Star Wars franchise take place in an unnamed fictional galaxy at an undetermined point in the distant past. Many species of creatures are depicted. Robotic droids are also commonplace and are built to serve their owners. Space travel is common, and many planets in the galaxy are members of a single galactic government. In the prequel trilogy, this is depicted in the form of the Galactic Republic, at the end of the trilogy and throughout the original trilogy. Preceding and during the trilogy, this government is the New Republic. One of the prominent elements of Star Wars is the Force and it is described in the first produced film as an energy field created by all living things surrounds us, penetrates us, binds the galaxy together. While the Force can be used for good, known as the side, it also has a dark side that, when pursued, imbues users with hatred, aggression. The sequel trilogy introduces the Knights of Ren, an order of practitioners of the side of the Force aligned with the First Order. The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25,1977 and this was followed by two sequels, The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21,1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25,1983
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Temuera Morrison
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Temuera Derek Morrison MNZM is a New Zealand actor, first gained recognition for his role as Dr. Recently he became known for voicing Chief Tui the father of the title character of Disneys Moana. Morrison was born in the town of Rotorua, in the North Island of New Zealand, the son of Hana and Laurie Morrison and he is of Māori, and some Scottish and Irish, descent. His sister was performer Taini Morrison and his uncle was musician Sir Howard Morrison and his secondary education took place at Wesley College, Auckland and Western Heights High School, Rotorua. Morrison lives in New Zealand, and divides his time filming there and in Australia and he has an adult son, James from a relationship in the late 1980s with singer Kim Willoughby from the all-girl group When The Cats Away and a Daughter Aorangi from Peata Melbourne. Morrisons partner of seven years Ashlee Howden-Sadlier is 26 years his junior and is of Tūhoe and his first role was as Rangi in the 1973 film Rangis Catch. He trained in Drama under the New Zealand Special Performing Arts Training Scheme, one of his earliest starring roles was in the 1988 film Never Say Die, opposite Lisa Eilbacher. In 1994 he received attention as the violent and abusive Māori husband Jake the Muss Heke in Once Were Warriors, the film became the most successful local title released in New Zealand, and also sold to many countries overseas. The role won him acclaim and he received the 1994 award for best male performance in a dramatic role from the New Zealand Film. He reprised the role in the sequel, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted. for which he received the Best Actor award from the New Zealand Film Awards. Despite the acclaim he received for his performance, Morrison said in 2010 that he felt typecast by the role and he has appeared in supporting roles in Speed 2, Cruise Control and The Beautiful Country. In 2005, Morrison became the host of the talk show The Tem Show on New Zealand television, in the 1996 Queens Birthday Honours, Morrison was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to drama. He started writing an autobiography in 2009, which he hoped would inspire others to reach for the stars and he released his debut album, Tem through Sony Music Entertainment NZ in late November 2014. The album consists on covers his father and uncle, Sir Howard Morrison, in recent years, Morrison has won attention for his role as the bounty hunter Jango Fett in Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones. Part of the plot involves an army of clones created with Jangos DNA, Morrison also provided acting. He has since portrayed Jango Fett and his clones in a number of Star Wars video games, Morrison was again featured in Star Wars, Bounty Hunter, a game centered around himself, as Jango, in which reveals the origins of Jango Fett. He played Boba Fett in the 2006 game Star Wars, Empire at War and he also reprised his roles uncredited as Jango Fett, Boba Fett, and various clones in the video games Star Wars Battlefront, Renegade Squadron, and Lego Star Wars, The Video Game. Morrison voiced Boba Fett again in DICEs Star Wars Battlefront in 2015, Temuera returned to Shortland Street for six weeks in June/July 2008 to reprise the role of Dr Hone Ropata. In 2008, Morrison also appeared on New Zealand skit comedy television show Pulp Sport where he appeared in a sketch that made fun of him being cloned, Morrison portrayed Abin Sur in the 2011 superhero film Green Lantern
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)
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The series debuted on the US version of Cartoon Network on October 3,2008. Each episode has a time of 22 minutes to fill a half-hour time slot. In 2007, Star Wars creator George Lucas stated there will be at least 100 episodes produced, dave Filoni is the supervising director of the series. There is also a comic, depicting story-snippets between the single episodes. The first trailer for the series was released on the official Star Wars website on May 8,2007, the series was launched with an animated feature film, which was released in theaters on August 15,2008. Season 2 ended on April 30,2010, Season 3 premiered on September 17,2010, with the complete second season releasing on Blu-ray Disc and DVD October 26,2010. Season 4 premiered on September 16,2011 with the Complete Season 3 on Blu-ray Disc, the fourth season was released for Blu-ray Disc and DVD release on October 23,2012. Season 5 premiered on September 29,2012 with a new slot of 9,30 A. M. Season 5 and the series in the Collectors Edition Box set were both released in October 15,2013. On March 11,2013, Lucasfilm announced that Star Wars, super RTL, a German TV network, began airing the episodes on February 15,2014. The sixth-season episodes were available in the U. S. for streaming on Netflix, along with the entirety of the series. A project known as The Clone Wars Legacy adapted unproduced story arcs into other formats beginning in August 2014. After viewing some of the footage of the early episodes on a big screen. Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, and Samuel L. Jackson reprised their roles as Count Dooku, C-3PO, Season 1 shows a wide variety of battles and adventures with Grievous and Dooku as the lead antagonists. Many of the episodes are stand-alone, but a common thread throughout the season is that the Republic, in Season 2, the Sith resort to hiring bounty hunters and mercenaries to steal objects and intel or to assassinate targets for them. Meanwhile, the Jedi lead the Republic forces in an assault on the battle droid manufacturing facility. The first half of both Season 3 and Season 4 are diplomatic in nature, Season 3, in particular, has many stories that take away from the battlefield. How different races and planets are affected by the war are shown
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George Lucas
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George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm, before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Lucas wrote and directed THX1138, based on his earlier student short Electronic Labyrinth, THX1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was the film, American Graffiti, inspired by his teen years in early 1960s Modesto, California, the film was critically and commercially successful, and received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Following the first Star Wars film, Lucas produced and co-wrote the following installments in the trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back, along with Steven Spielberg, Lucas co-created and wrote the Indiana Jones films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade. Lucas also produced and/or wrote a variety of films through Lucasfilm in the 1980s and 1990s, Lucas also returned to directing with the Star Wars prequel trilogy, consisting of The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. He later collaborated on the story for the Indiana Jones sequel Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, five of Lucass seven features are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is one of the American film industrys most financially successful filmmakers, Lucas is considered a significant figure in the New Hollywood era. Lucas was born and raised in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas and he is of German, Swiss-German, English, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French descent. Growing up, Lucas had a passion for cars and motor racing, on June 12,1962, while driving his souped-up Autobianchi Bianchina, another driver broadsided him, flipping over his car, nearly killing him, causing him to lose interest in racing as a career. He attended Modesto Junior College, where he studied anthropology, sociology and he also began shooting with an 8 mm camera, including filming car races. At this time, Lucas and his friend John Plummer became interested in Canyon Cinema, screenings of underground, avant-garde 16 mm filmmakers like Jordan Belson, Stan Brakhage, and Bruce Conner. Lucas and Plummer also saw classic European films of the time, including Jean-Luc Godards Breathless, François Truffauts Jules et Jim, thats when George really started exploring, Plummer said. Through his interest in racing, Lucas met renowned cinematographer Haskell Wexler, another race enthusiast. Wexler, later to work with Lucas on several occasions, was impressed by Lucas talent, George had a very good eye, and he thought visually, he recalled. Lucas then transferred to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, USC was one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to motion picture film. During the years at USC, Lucas shared a room with Randal Kleiser. Along with classmates such as Walter Murch, Hal Barwood, and John Milius and he also became good friends with fellow acclaimed student filmmaker and future Indiana Jones collaborator, Steven Spielberg
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Voice acting
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Voice acting is the art of doing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user. Voice acting is also done for small handheld audio games, performers are called voice actors or actresses, voice artists, or voice talent. Their roles may also involve singing, although a voice actor is sometimes cast as the characters singing voice. Voice acting is recognised in Britain as a specialized dramatic profession, Voice artists are also used to record the individual sample fragments played back by a computer in an automated announcement. The voices for animated characters are provided by voice actors, for live action productions, voice acting often involves reading the parts of computer programs, radio dispatchers, or other characters who never actually appear on screen. With a radio drama or CD drama, there is freedom in voice acting, because there is no need to match a dub to the original actors. In the context of voice acting, narration is the use of commentary to convey a story to an audience. A narrator is a character or a non-personal voice that the creator of the story develops to deliver information to the audience. The voice actor who plays the narrator is responsible for performing the lines assigned to the narrator. In traditional literary narratives, narration is a story element, in other types of narratives, such as plays, television shows, video games. One of the most common uses for voice acting is within commercial advertising, the voice actor is hired to voice a message associated with the advertisement. This has different subgenres, television, radio, cinema, the subgenres are all different styles in their own right. Voiceover used in commercial adverts also is the area of voice acting where de-breathing is used. De-breathing means artificially removing breaths from the recorded voice and this is done to stop the audience being distracted in any way from the commercial message that is being put across. Dub localization is a type of voice-over and it is the practice of voice-over translation altering a foreign language film, art film or television series by voice actors. Voice-over translation is an audiovisual translation technique, in which, unlike in Dub localization, actor voices are recorded over the audio track. This method of translation is most often used in documentaries and news reports to translate words of foreign-language interviewees, automated dialogue replacement is the process of re-recording dialogue by the original actor after the filming process to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes. ADR is also used to change original lines recorded on set to clarify context, improve diction or timing, in the UK, it is also called post-synchronization or post-sync
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Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
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Star Wars, Galactic Battlegrounds is a real-time strategy video game set in the Star Wars universe. It was developed by Age of Empires developer Ensemble Studios and LucasArts, the Japanese version published by Electronic Arts and Squaresoft Joint Venture Electronic Arts Square. It was released in November 11,2001, an expansion pack, Clone Campaigns, was released in May 14,2002, adding two new factions and campaigns. Later that year, both Galactic Battlegrounds and Clone Campaigns were released in a box set, Star Wars, Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, the games were built on the Genie engine, the same one used in Age of Empires and Age of Empires II. The player starts the game with a Command Center, a scout, the player search and gather resources such as Food, Carbon, Nova Crystals, and Ore and then using the resources in order to create new buildings, units, workers and so on. Food is used for units and troopers, as well as the work force. Carbon is used in place of Wood in Age of Empires 2 for buildings, Nova Crystals create the more high-end units and can be gathered through getting special holocrons. Ore is used for structures as well as the Gungan unique unit Fambaa. The player can build separate units at separate buildings designed specifically for different types of units, the player can advance through the four Tech Levels by paying a certain amount of resources. When a player advances a Tech Level, more units, buildings, there are a total of seven military structures in the game. These are the Troop Center, the Shipyard, the Mech factory, the Jedi Temple or Sith Temple depending on the faction, the Heavy Weapons Factory, the Airbase, the Troop center produces cannon fodder early game units. These are the Grenadier, the Anti-Air trooper, the Mounted Trooper, the Shipyard produces ships, these being the Frigate, the Destroyer, the Cruiser, and the Anti-Air Frigate. The Mech Factory produces Scouts, Assault Mechs, Strike Mechs, the Jedi Temple or Sith Temple is a depository for Holocrons and produces Jedi Padawans/Sith Apprentice and Jedi Knights/Sith Knights as well as Jedi Masters/Sith Masters. The Fortress serves as a structure and produces the civilizations unique unit and an anti-jedi Bounty Hunter, as well as long-range cannons. It fires high-damage, area-of-effect shells at air, sea or ground targets over long reload times while being durable and it is the most directly powerful unit in the game If Victory is set to standard, the player can win in three different ways. The player may win by destroying all of the enemies buildings, also, the player can use a Jedi/Sith to bring all of the Holocrons to the Jedi/Sith Temple and preserve them for 200 days. The final way to win is to build a monument that is available at Tech Level 4. If the monument stays standing for 300 days, then the player wins, tutorial - The campaign sees the player assume the role of Chewbaccas father, Attichitchuk
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Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
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Star Wars, Jedi Starfighter is a 2002 action video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Released before Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones opened in theatres, it is the sequel to Star Wars, Jedi Starfighter takes place just prior to the events of Attack of the Clones and during the Battle of Geonosis. The game writing by veteran Star Wars game developer W. Haden Blackman who had created a new game development company called Hangar 13 a wholly owned subsidiary of 2K Games. On November 17,2015 it was re-released for the PlayStation 4 in North America as part of the Star Wars Battlefront limited edition console bundle, many old favorites from the original game are now in this one, including Nyms chattery Toydarian partner, Reti. In the game, the player controls different star fighters from the Star Wars Universe, each mission revolves around protecting friendly ships and destroying enemy ships. Each mission also has one bonus and one hidden objective completing of which unlocks bonus missions, videos, in Cooperative mode, the second player either controls a ship or a turret, depending on the mission. Starfighters are equipped with different weaponry which can be effective in certain missions. The use of the weapons in the Jedi Starfighter present a unique aspect to the genre. Force weapons are activated by holding a button which begins to turn the screen purple, holding the button for just the right amount of time will cause the force weapon to last longer or destroy more targets. Holding it too long or too short will reduce its effectiveness, although unlimited in number, force weapons take several seconds to recharge while Adi is regaining her mental strength. Jedi Starfighter was met with positive reception upon release, gameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 81. 96% and 81 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version, and 78. 35% and 78 out of 100 for the Xbox version. Official UK PlayStation 2 Magazine thought highly of the game, giving it a score of 8 out of 10 and describing it in this way, in Japan, Famitsu gave the PS2 version a score of 32 out of 40. List of Star Wars video games Star Wars video games Star Wars, Jedi Starfighter at MobyGames
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Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
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Star Wars, Bounty Hunter is a Star Wars video game developed and published by LucasArts for the GameCube and Sony PlayStation 2, released in 2002. The game was re-released on the PlayStation Store on November,2015, in the game, players play as the bounty hunter Jango Fett, featured in the 2002 film Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones, to which this game serves as a prequel. The main objective of Star Wars, Bounty Hunter is to hunt Dark Jedi Komari Vosa. During the game, it is revealed why Jango Fett was chosen as the template for the Grand Army of the Republic, how Boba Fett, his son was born. Players also fight many bosses, such as Montross and Longo Two-Guns, There are also side objectives, such as collecting secondary bounties, that open special bonus items in the game. When the player beats a chapter, blooper reels - comedic machinima productions - are unlocked, Star Wars, Bounty Hunter is played in third person. Jango Fett has access to an array of weapons in the game. In game, Jango can make use of his abilities by somersaulting and jumping to the side to backflipping to avoid enemies. He automatically targets enemies, and holding a button allows Jango to move around an enemy while keeping them targeted. If the player is using Jangos pistols, up to two enemies can be targeted at the same time. There are also many pickups, powerups, amassing enough credits unlocks concept art. Each level also has a feather, which unlock Wizards of the Coast cards, if all feathers are found. After every level, pages of the comic Open Seasons are unlocked for viewing, Bounty Hunter tells the tale of Jango Fett that begins as he receives a transmission from Darth Tyranus inviting him to participate in a special hunt. for a special prey. The reward is five million credits for the capture of the leader of the Bando Gora, Komari Vosa. The Bando Gora are a group of Force-worshiping criminals who are proving a thorn in the side of Tyranus, Jango agrees to the hunt despite his friend Rozatta acknowledging the danger in attempting to defeat such an adversary. The Bando Gora are behind narcotics shipments of a known as death sticks. Jango pursues a death stick dealer named Jervis Gloom and he captures Gloom and coerces him into revealing his sources. This leads Jango to a processing plant run by a gangster named Groff Haugg, when Jango arrives he encounters Montross, a fellow Mandalorian bounty hunter, who has already killed Haugg. Jango learns that they are pursuing the same prey, Jango fights Montross, who flees after finding a message on Hauggs computer from a co-conspirator, Senator Trell
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Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005 video game)
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Star Wars, Battlefront II is a 2005 first- and third-person shooter video game based on the Star Wars film franchise. Developed by Pandemic Studios and published by LucasArts it is a sequel to 2004s Star Wars, Battlefront and the second game in the Battlefront series. The game was released in PAL regions on October 31,2005, on the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox platforms and it was later updated to be backwards compatible for the Xbox 360. It was also released on the PlayStation Store on October 20,2009, the PSP version was developed by Savage Entertainment. The game features new vehicles, characters, game mechanics, maps, gameplay additions over Battlefront include the use of Jedi, additional game modes such as hero assault, and objective-based space battles. Battlefront II was well received, with the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions scoring in the mid 80s at aggregators GameRankings, the PC version scored slightly lower at both sites, scoring a 76. 60% at GameRankings and 78 at Metacritic. The PSP version was the worst received, scoring 70. 93% at GameRankings and 69 at Metacritic, reviewers generally praised the narrative-based story, however, some felt that the upgrades from the original were not enough to merit the price. Like the original game, it was a commercial success, GameSpy Technology scheduled a shut-down across all titles using the service for May 31,2014, which included Star Wars, Battlefront II for PC, PS2, and Xbox. Electronic Arts announced it would extend support for Battlefront II until June 30,2014, the extended support ended on July 25,2014, taking all GameSpy online video games across all platforms offline. The Windows version was added to a list of supported games on GameRanger on May 31,2014, Battlefront II is fundamentally similar to its predecessor, albeit with the addition of new gameplay mechanics. The general objective in most missions is to eliminate the enemy faction, players have the ability to choose between six classes during gameplay. Four class types are common to all factions, infantry, heavy weapon, in addition to the four standard classes, each faction has two unique classes which unlock by scoring a predetermined number of points. Battlefront II also features heroes - a special class that allows the player to control characters from the Star Wars universe. Heroes serve as a bonus to players, and are unlocked by meeting certain criteria, differences between Battlefront II and its predecessor include the ability to sprint and the ability to roll forwards. In addition to utilizing heroes in conquest matches, the game featured a hero assault mode in which heroes were pitted against villains in a team deathmatch format. There are a total of 18 missions, four of which are optional space missions, the PSP version of Battlefront II does not feature the Rise of the Empire campaign. Instead it features three single-player Challenge modes, Imperial Enforcer, Rogue Assassin, and Rebel Raider, in Imperial Enforcer the player is sent to eliminate indigenous species on several given planets, such as Gungans on Naboo and Ewoks on Endor. Rogue Assassin requires the player to eliminate all Imperial officers on a given sets of planets, bonus points are awarded for any other kills
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Star Wars: Republic Commando
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Star Wars, Republic Commando is a tactical first-person shooter video game, set in the Star Wars universe, released in 2005. It was developed and published by LucasArts for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows, the game uses Epic Games Unreal Engine. As of April 19,2007, this game is compatible for the Xbox 360 with a downloadable patch. The game received positive reviews at release, many critics praised the story and combat, but criticized the short length and average multiplayer. The game features gameplay elements that resemble features in other first-person shooters. The heads-up display shows the characters helmet, with a tactical visor. The player acts as leader of a squad of four elite troops, the squadmate order system allows the player general tactical control over the three non-player characters squadmates that round out the four-man commando team. Many objects in the environment will highlight when the crosshair is placed over them. Where possible, the squadmates will usually take their preferred roles, the player can also order the squad to move to secure any position, or perform search-and-destroy. Also, there are orders to command the squadmates to group up or spread out according to the players discretion for the situation, in single-player mode, the player and squadmates do not die when they run out of health, but rather are incapacitated. If the player character is downed, the player can order the members to attempt to revive the player or to continue with their current orders. Therefore, the game is truly over when the player. While reviving a downed commando restores a small amount of health, Republic Commando maintains a first-person perspective throughout the game, presenting the story from the eyes of Delta 38. Mission information is received via radio commands from a Clone officer, the game is set during the events of the Clone Wars that started at the climax of the movie Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones. In the game, the player takes command of a Clone commando team and these Clone commandos have been specially bred at the clone factories on Kamino. The commando team travels to locations in the Star Wars universe, including Kashyyyk, Geonosis. About two years pass from Delta Squads first mission to the end of the game, at the beginning of the game, Delta Squad is deployed from the RAS Prosecutor individually into the front lines of the battle of Geonosis. There, Delta RC-1138 meets up with Deltas RC-1262, RC-1140, delta-38 has been selected to lead this unit and guides them on their mission to assassinate the Geonosian leader Sun Fac, chief lieutenant to Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser
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Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron
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Star Wars Battlefront, Elite Squadron is a third-person shooter video game, part of the Star Wars, Battlefront series released November 3,2009 on the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable. Elite Squadron allows players to participate in combat on foot, in vehicles or in space. Players are also able to enter capital ships and, once the shields are down, the ground-space transitions are accompanied by short cutscenes while the game loads the next area. The same is true of entering or exiting a capital ship. This is the first Battlefront game to players to fly from ground to space battles. The consequences of each battle will depend on the players actions, the battlefront will not be one giant, seamless map, but a compilation of inter-connected, smaller size areas, each one capable of affecting the other. It includes playable characters such as Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, The Emperor and Kit Fisto, and the Heroes and Villains mode last featured in Star Wars, Battlefront II. Also included is General Rahm Kota, a character from Star Wars, The Force Unleashed, as well as characters from Renegade Squadron. Also, the Galactic Conquest mode features a new mechanic not seen in previous versions, players are also able to mix characters from the Star Wars saga and put them into locations and situations that never happened within canon. The story mode has been called a step up from previous story modes. As players made progress in the story and completed objectives, they would unlock customization props, during the campaign, the player controls a clone trooper called X2, who was created from the DNA of a Jedi Master. X2 also helped train the clone army, X2 is given the job of hunting Jedi in Order 66 with his clone brother, X1. In the beginning, X2 is part of Jedi Master Ferrodas group of clones, later, X2 kills Ferroda when Order 66 is executed, something he later regrets. The PlayStation Portable version was developed by Rebellion Developments, who developed the previous Battlefront game and it features twelve campaign missions and a deeper customization system than Renegade Squadrons, boasting the deepest customization options ever seen in a Star Wars Battlefront title. Players can customize weaponry, armor, species, and other physical attributes, sixteen player multiplayer is supported, with statistic tracking. The game is played from the third person, over-the-shoulder perspective. On October 25,2009, a demo was released on the PlayStation Store allowing players to play on the planet Tatooine and this version features eleven campaign missions and up to four players via wi-fi connection. The game features no customization, but instead uses the traditional class-based system and it uses an isometric view, similar to a modern dungeon crawler
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
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Star Wars, The Force Unleashed is an action-adventure video game and part of The Force Unleashed project. The game was released in North America on September 16,2008, in Australia and Southeast Asia on September 17, LucasArts released downloadable content for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. An Ultimate Sith Edition of the game, containing new and all previously released expanded content, was released in November 2009, which also came out on Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. The project bridges the first two Star Wars trilogies, acting as a story for both the united Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Civil War depicted in the Original Trilogy. Despite this, the game was a bestseller in the United States and Australia, as of February 2010, the game has sold over seven million copies, and it is the fastest-selling Star Wars video game. A sequel, Star Wars, The Force Unleashed II, was released in October 2010, the Force Unleashed is a third-person action game in which the players characters weapons are the Force and a lightsaber. Developers treated the main characters lightsaber like another Force power, and wanted to ensure something visceral, the game has a combo system for stringing lightsaber attacks and for combining lightsaber attacks with Force powers. Experience points earned by killing enemies and finding artifacts can be used to increase Starkillers powers, the gameplay is intended to be easy to learn, the development team included horrible gamers to help ensure the games accessibility. Players can casually run and gun through the game, but the game rewards those who take a stealthy, the game includes enemies that are easy to overcome, game difficulty arises from presenting these enemies in large numbers that can wear down the players character. Additionally, enemies learn from the characters attacks, using the same attack on different characters can sometimes lead to the players character doing less damage. The enemies, which number over 50, have various strengths and weaknesses, the Force Unleashed begins with the player controlling Darth Vader as he searches Kashyyyk for the Jedi. After defeating the Jedi in battle, Vader discovers his child who is strong in the Force and raises him to become his apprentice, unbeknownst to the Emperor. When the apprentice reaches adulthood, Vader sends him to kill the remaining Jedi as training for his ultimate goal, Starkiller is given command of his own ship, the Rogue Shadow, piloted by Imperial officer Juno Eclipse, and is accompanied by PROXY, a training droid. Vader sends Starkiller to an Imperial shipyard to locate and kill General Rahm Kota, after fighting him, Starkiller blinds Kota and throws him from the shipyard. Starkiller is also sent by Vader to destroy Jedi Kazdan Paratus and Shaak Ti, presently the Emperor discovers Starkiller and Vader is forced to dispose of him, but later recovers the unconscious apprentice. Vader instructs him to form a rebellion against the Empire in order for them to distract the Emperor, Starkiller discovers a very-much alive Kota in Cloud City who has taken to living in squalor. Starkiller informs Kota of his plan to fight the Empire and they leave, during his time amassing allies, Starkiller is forced to rescue Kotas contact Bail Organa and his daughter Princess Leia to help his cause. Bail, Leia, Mon Mothma and Garm Bel Iblis meet with Starkiller, however, upon doing so, Vader arrives with Imperial soldiers and arrests the group
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Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
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Lego Star Wars, The Video Game is a Lego-themed, action-adventure video game based on the Lego Star Wars line of toys, and the first game in TT Games Lego video game franchise. It is the only Lego game from TT Games to be rated E by the ESRB for consoles while other Lego video games 2005-onward are E-10 and these initial versions were published in April 2005. A Mac version, developed by Aspyr, was released in August 2005, a Nintendo GameCube version of the game was released on 26 October 2005. All versions were published by Eidos Interactive and LucasArts, gameplay in Lego Star Wars is geared towards family play, and does not feature a game-over scenario. Given a specific set of characters in each scenario, based on a scene from each of the movies, studs can be collected by finding them, smashing or using the force on certain objects, or defeating enemies. Players lose studs if their character is destroyed and these studs can be spent on unlocking new characters for Free Play mode. Certain segments of the game feature players controlling spaceships flying on a flat plane, there are also several minikit canisters hidden throughout each level that, when collected, combine to form a vehicle. When the player first starts the game, they must first complete Chapter I of The Phantom Menace, however, once that Chapter is completed, the player may choose to play any unlocked levels from the other two movies in their desired order. The background music is the music used in the Star Wars movies. For instance, the soundtrack for the Binary Sunset was used in the second Chapter of Episode III. In The Complete Saga, these tracks would later be removed and replaced with ones from Episode III, Lego Star Wars contains a total of 59 playable characters for LEGO Star Wars,56 in the GameCube, PS2, Xbox, and PC versions. The three missing are Gungan, Tusken Raider, and STAP, playable in the GBA version, though the Gungan, the playable characters are modelled like actual Lego parts and, on dying, they fall to pieces and also lose studs. There is a variety of characters included in the game. Characters are divided into groups according to certain skills, for instance, Jedi and Sith can double-jump, use lightsabers, and have control of The Force, which they can use to activate or lift Lego objects or defeat certain enemies. Darth Maul has a double-ended lightsaber which improves his defence from laser fire, Jar Jar Binks, General Grievous and his bodyguard have the super-jump, which allows them to reach obstacles that the Jedi and Sith can not jump to. Characters like Padmé Amidala and clone troopers, who carry blasters, have the ability to grapple to reach higher places, droids, while unarmed, can travel through the game without being intentionally attacked by enemy characters. Protocol droids and astromech droids can open special doors, characters such as Boba Fett and Young Anakin can fit into tight places. Every character, other than the PK Droid and Gonk Droid, however, if the player unlocks the last level, Darth Vader, a stormtrooper, a rebel trooper and Princess Leia become available
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Kid Beyond
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Kid Beyond is a voice actor, singer, beatboxer, throat singer, songwriter, and live looper based in the San Francisco area. Chaikin attended Brown University and was a leader in the co-ed fraternity Zeta Delta Xi and he sang in the Jabberwocks, a student a cappella group. He graduated in 1991 and moved to San Francisco to form the House Jacks with Deke Sharon, recording Naked Noise and he left the House Jacks in 1997. In 2004 Kid Beyond made an appearance as an actor in the music video Maximum Wage. He released his first solo EP, Amplivate, in 2006, Kid Beyond has toured nationally with Imogen Heap. He has also performed at music festivals, including sets at Burning Man atop a Unimog, the Langerado festival, the 2007 Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival. His song from Amplivate, Mothership, was used in NBA Live 08 by EA Sports, while opening for Buckethead in San Francisco on February 15,2008, Kid Beyond mentioned recording vocals for Free Bird and other songs for Guitar Hero II. Kid Beyond performed at the inaugural w00tstock shows at the Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, Kid Beyonds performances often include some traditional beatboxing as well as live looping. The looped pieces make use of Abletons Live software on a laptop to layer. Prior to concerts, the software is configured with the tracks that will be used in each piece, including any necessary effects and levels, but lacking any audio. A set of MIDI controller foot pedals allow Kid Beyond to control the software during performance, enabling him to record, play, in some cases, a single press of a pedal performs multiple actions, such as muting one track while initializing recording on another. In recognition of his techniques, Ableton made him a featured artist on their website. The associated footage was shown on a number of viral video sites, recent Telltale Games characters include a few pirates in Tales of Monkey Island and Narrator, Papierwaite, and a Moleman in Sam & Max, The Devils Playhouse. He also voiced Biff Tannen in Back to the Future, The Game, Grendel in The Wolf Among Us and he has also provided his vocal talents for the cover versions of the songs from Konamis Karaoke Revolution video game series starting with Karaoke Revolution Volume 2. His song Mothership is on Tap Tap Revenge 2 and he has appeared in the official video game adaptation of Iron Man 2 as the villain Ultimo and JARVIS. He appears as Penny Arcades Tycho Brahe in Poker Night at the Inventory and he portrayed Dio Brando in the 2004 English dub of the JoJos Bizarre Adventure OVA. Amplivate, Taking Beat-Boxing to a New Level, jon Carroll - I Need to tell you about Drum Guy. Cutting-Edge One-Man Band - Kid Beyond
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Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
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Star Wars Battlefront, Renegade Squadron is the third entry in the Star Wars, Battlefront series of video games, first released on October 9,2007 in North America and later in Australia and Europe. The game was designed as a PlayStation Portable exclusive and features the eponymous Rebel Alliance covert ops unit Renegade Squadron, Renegade Squadron was one of the first games available in a bundle pack with the newly released PSP redesign. The single-player campaign follows the exploits of Renegade Squadron from its inception by Han Solo throughout its operational history, during play the Renegades participate in several battles, including those of Yavin and Hoth. The game also features several types of multiplayer modes, in contrast with previous titles in the series that require characters to have a set class, players in Renegade Squadron are able to build their character as they see fit. Renegade Squadron received a reaction from the video gaming community. The game was considered superior to its predecessor and it was praised for its customization options and online play, opinions on the graphics were mixed, and the controls were generally described as inadequate. The overall structure of Renegade Squadron is similar to games in the Battlefront series in that it is a war game played primarily from a third-person view. Each map has a set number of posts, and it is beneficial for the player to occupy as many as possible. Each side has a set number of reinforcement tickets at the beginning of the time a soldier dies. To win a match, a player must capture every command post or reduce their opponents ticket count to zero, the player gets 100 credits to purchase weapons and equipment for their character. In previous games in the series, players chose a class before battle from a list of pre-made options. Each class had a combination of weapons and equipment. Before Renegade Squadrons release, LucasArts stated that the engine would allow millions of different character combinations. Another new feature allows players to enter asteroid bases on some space maps, in addition, players can earn medals by achieving set objectives, such as destroying a certain number of spaceships. There are three options for single play, the campaign, instant action, and galactic conquest, during the story campaign, the player takes control of Renegade Squadron, under the command of Col Serra and occasionally Han Solo. The final mission features the Battle of Endor, where the objectives are similar to the footage in Return of the Jedi. With instant action, players are able to part in battles against computer-controlled opponents. There are four types of missions and these heroes span the Clone Wars and Civil War periods and include Asajj Ventress, Jango Fett, and Kit Fisto
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Human
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Modern humans are the only extant members of Hominina tribe, a branch of the tribe Hominini belonging to the family of great apes. Several of these hominins used fire, occupied much of Eurasia and they began to exhibit evidence of behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago. In several waves of migration, anatomically modern humans ventured out of Africa, the spread of humans and their large and increasing population has had a profound impact on large areas of the environment and millions of native species worldwide. Humans are uniquely adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression and the exchange of ideas. Humans create complex structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families. Social interactions between humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals. These human societies subsequently expanded in size, establishing various forms of government, religion, today the global human population is estimated by the United Nations to be near 7.5 billion. In common usage, the word generally refers to the only extant species of the genus Homo—anatomically and behaviorally modern Homo sapiens. In scientific terms, the meanings of hominid and hominin have changed during the recent decades with advances in the discovery, there is also a distinction between anatomically modern humans and Archaic Homo sapiens, the earliest fossil members of the species. The English adjective human is a Middle English loanword from Old French humain, ultimately from Latin hūmānus, the words use as a noun dates to the 16th century. The native English term man can refer to the species generally, the species binomial Homo sapiens was coined by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th century work Systema Naturae. The generic name Homo is a learned 18th century derivation from Latin homō man, the species-name sapiens means wise or sapient. Note that the Latin word homo refers to humans of either gender, the genus Homo evolved and diverged from other hominins in Africa, after the human clade split from the chimpanzee lineage of the hominids branch of the primates. The closest living relatives of humans are chimpanzees and gorillas, with the sequencing of both the human and chimpanzee genome, current estimates of similarity between human and chimpanzee DNA sequences range between 95% and 99%. The gibbons and orangutans were the first groups to split from the leading to the humans. The splitting date between human and chimpanzee lineages is placed around 4–8 million years ago during the late Miocene epoch, during this split, chromosome 2 was formed from two other chromosomes, leaving humans with only 23 pairs of chromosomes, compared to 24 for the other apes. There is little evidence for the divergence of the gorilla, chimpanzee. Each of these species has been argued to be an ancestor of later hominins
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Bounty hunter
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A bounty hunter is a person who captures fugitives and criminals for a monetary reward. The term bounty hunting is now not often used or liked by many in the due to its historical context. While bounty hunters may be skiptracers as well, bounty hunting is a civil matter, when undertaking arrest warrants, agents may wear bullet-resistant vests, badges and other clothing branded with BAIL ENFORCEMENT AGENT, or similar titles. Many agents also use two-way radios to communicate each other. Many agents arm themselves with firearms, or, sometimes, with lethal weapons, such as tasers, batons. In the United States, the National Association of Fugitive Recovery Agents is the association representing this industry. If the fugitive eludes bail, the bondsman, not the bounty hunter, is responsible for 100% of the bail amount. This is a way of ensuring clients arrive at trial, as of 2003, bounty hunters claimed to catch 31,500 bail jumpers per year, about 90% of people who jump bail. Bounty hunters have varying levels of authority in their duties with regard to their targets depending on which states they operate in, barring restrictions applicable state by state, a bounty hunter may enter the fugitives private property without a warrant in order to execute a re-arrest. A bounty hunter cannot, however, enter the property of other than the fugitive without a warrant or the owners permission. In some states, bounty hunters do not undergo any formal training, in other states, however, they are held to varying standards of training and license. This may have been accurate at the time the decision was reached, as of 2012 Nebraska and Maine in addition to the aforementioned Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon and Wisconsin prohibited surety bail bonds. Another three states, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, as well as the District of Columbia heavily restrict bounty hunting, some of the more advanced schools offer specialized training in the area of tactical firearms to prepare BEAs for conducting dangerous recovery operations. Illinois abolished commercial bail, so it has no bail bondsmen, Kentucky prohibits bounty hunting in any form. Only a peace officer may make an arrest on a warrant that is issued in NCIC and this is because the state does not have a system of bail bondsmen. Earlier in state history, it was allowed, louisiana requires bounty hunters to wear clothing identifying them as one. As of 2012 Maine prohibited surety bail bonds, as of 2012 Nebraska prohibited commercial bail bonds. A Nevada bounty hunter is referred to as an enforcement agent or bail enforcement solicitor
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Fictional universe
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A fictional universe is a self-consistent imaginary setting with events, and often other elements, that differ from the real world. It may also be called an imagined, constructed or fictional realm, fictional universes may appear in novels, comics, films, television shows, video games and other creative works. What distinguishes a fictional universe from a setting is the level of detail. A fictional universe has a continuity and internal logic that must be adhered to throughout the work. So, for instance, many books may be set in conflicting fictional versions of Victorian London, however, the various film series based on Sherlock Holmes follow their own separate continuities, and so do not take place in the same fictional universe. The history and geography of a universe are well-defined, and maps. When subsequent works are written within the universe, care is usually taken to ensure that established facts of the canon are not violated. Even if the fictional universe involves concepts such as magic that dont exist in the real world, a famous example of a detailed fictional universe is Arda, of J. R. R. Tolkiens books The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. He created first its languages and then the world itself, which he states was primarily linguistic in inspiration and was begun in order to provide the history for the Elvish tongues. Another, more recent, famous fictional universe is that of the Avatar film series, as James Cameron has invented an entire ecosystem, also, he commissioned a linguistics expert to invent the Navi language. Virtually every successful fictional TV series or comic book develops its own universe to keep track of the episodes or issues. Writers for that series must follow the story bible, which becomes the series canon. This creates a universe that future authors can write about. These stories about the universe or universes that existed before the retcon are usually not canonical, Crisis on Infinite Earths was an especially sweeping example. Some writers choose to introduce elements or characters from one work into another, for example, the character of Ursula Buffay from American sitcom Mad About You was also a recurring guest star in Friends, despite the two series having little else in common. Fellow NBC series Seinfeld also contained references to Mad About You. L. Frank Baum introduced the characters of Capn Bill and Trot, the two characters made a number of subsequent appearances in later Oz books. Sir Thomas Mores Utopia is one of the earliest examples of a fictional world with its own rules and functional concepts
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Mercenary
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A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national or party to the conflict and is motivated to take part in the hostilities by desire for private gain. Mercenaries fight for money or other recompense instead of fighting for ideological interests, in the last century, and as reflected in the Geneva Convention, mercenaries have increasingly come to be seen as less entitled to protections by rules of war than non-mercenaries. However, whether or not a person is a mercenary may be a matter of degree, Protocol Additional GC1977 is a 1977 amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions. Article 47 of the protocol provides the most widely accepted definition of a mercenary, though not endorsed by some countries. The Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, a mercenary shall not have the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war. All the criteria must be met, according to the Geneva Convention, according to the GC III, a captured soldier must be treated as a lawful combatant and, therefore, as a protected person with prisoner-of-war status until facing a competent tribunal. That tribunal, using criteria in APGC77 or some equivalent domestic law, may decide that the soldier is a mercenary. The only possible exception to GC IV Art 5 is when he is a national of the authority imprisoning him, if, after a regular trial, a captured soldier is found to be a mercenary, then he can expect treatment as a common criminal and may face execution. As mercenary soldiers may not qualify as PoWs, they cannot expect repatriation at wars end, the four mercenaries sentenced to death were shot by a firing squad on 10 July 1976. The legal status of civilian contractors depends upon the nature of their work, on 4 December 1989, the United Nations passed resolution 44/34, the International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries. It entered into force on 20 October 2001 and is known as the UN Mercenary Convention. Article 1 contains the definition of a mercenary, Article 1.1 is similar to Article 47 of Protocol I, however Article 1. – under Article 1.2 a person does not have to take a part in the hostilities in a planned coup détat to be a mercenary. Critics have argued that the convention and APGC77 Art,47 are designed to cover the activities of mercenaries in post-colonial Africa and do not address adequately the use of private military companies by sovereign states. While the United States governed Iraq, no U. S. citizen working as a guard could be classified as a mercenary because he was a national of a Party to the conflict. S. However, those who acknowledge the United States and other forces as continuing parties to the conflict might insist that U. S. armed guards cannot be called mercenaries. The laws of countries forbid their citizens to fight in foreign wars unless they are under the control of their own national armed forces. If a person is proven to have worked as a mercenary for any other country while retaining Austrian citizenship, in 2003, France criminalized mercenary activities, as defined by the protocol to the Geneva convention for French citizens, permanent residents and legal entities
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Clone trooper
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Clone troopers are fictional soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. Clone troopers are genetically modified humans cloned from bounty hunter Jango Fett, under the command of the Jedi Order, clone troopers fight for the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars, which takes its name from the troopers. At the end of the Wars, they are forced by a surgically implanted inhibitor chip to carry out Order 66, after the conversion of the Republic into the Galactic Empire, clone troopers become known as the stormtroopers and are eventually phased out in favor of recruits. During development of The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas initially conceived of a planet of clones that caused the Clone Wars mentioned in A New Hope, the armored troopers in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith are computer-generated images voiced by Temuera Morrison, who played Jango. Younger clones were played by Bodie Taylor and Daniel Logan, who played the younger Boba, unhelmeted clones were played by both Morrison and Taylor, who wore bodysuits to isolate their heads, and some clone troopers featured a blend of the actors features. In the animated The Clone Wars film and television series, adult clone troopers are voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, George Lucas later came up with the alternate concept of an army of clone shock troops from a remote planet used by the Republic in the war that followed. Lucas intended for the trilogy to depict the evolution of the galaxys fighting forces. Clone troopers were designed to strongly suggest the evolution into the Empires stormtrooper army. Concept artist Jay Shuster said of the design, It follows the formula for a lot of the prequel trilogy. Take something pre-conceived in the trilogy and de-generate it. Initial concept models implied that the first generation armor was thicker and bulkier than stormtrooper armor, Lucas expressed a desire for individualized trooper armor from the beginning of art development for Revenge of the Sith. Several variations were largely dictated by environmental needs, but others were influenced of the 2003 Clone Wars animated series and the desert stormtroopers of A New Hope. In Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, all troopers are computer-generated images and are voiced by Temuera Morrison. Taylor was filmed multiple times and composited to fill out crowded shots set in Tipoca City, Commander Cody, seen in armor without his helmet in Revenge of the Sith, was played by Morrison. He wore a blue bodysuit and only footage of his head was used for Cody, like Morrison, Taylor also played armored and unhelmeted clones in Revenge of the Sith, wearing a blue bodysuit that isolated his head. Some clone troopers were entirely digital and featured a blend of Morrisons. The armor was match-animated to the actors bodies, the clone troopers are voiced by Dee Bradley Baker in the 2008 animated film The Clone Wars and its related animated television series of the same name. Each clone was voiced individually, with all the lines for the episode recorded at one time before moving to another character
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Galactic Republic
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The Galactic Republic, often referred to as simply the Republic, is the name of the interplanetary State used in the fictional Star Wars universe prior to the establishment of the Galactic Empire. The form of government, ruled by the Senate, was introduced in the prequel trilogy. By the time of the trilogy, it is referred to as the Old Republic. It was a democratic, though eventually ineffectual, constitutional republic tied up in layers of bureaucracy, the Republic, as it was commonly known, was a republican government that was able to sustain itself for over twenty-five thousand years. The Republic itself was formed in 25,053 BBY when the first Galactic Constitution was signed on Coruscant, the Republic was made up of several hundred thousand worlds. The Republic began as a protection and economic alliance among a number of planets in the Galactic Core. Each member world chose a Senator to represent them in the Republic Senate, Senators were ambassadors of their homeworld, and member worlds were able to maintain their government and society in accordance with local beliefs, customs, and traditions. There were a variety of different local governments along the political spectrum. In some systems, the senator was elected to that post, when the Republics power and influence expanded, many new areas of the galaxy were incorporated into the Republic. A reorganization of Senatorial representation occurred 1,000 BBY during the Ruusan Reformation, the most common organization for these new territories was to group regions into Sectors of about 50 inhabited worlds. Each sector is represented by a Senatorial Delegation, when the number of sectors became too large, sectors were organized into roughly a thousand regions, each represented by one delegation to the Senate. The Senate served as the body of the Galactic Republic. The Senate, according to the Star Wars. com Encyclopedia, was a building containing 1,024 floating platforms, each of which contained a senator. Each platform in the senate represented a sector of the galaxy, with one senator for that sector accompanied by a delegation of aides, some platforms represented individual worlds bringing special pleas to the senate, others the special interest groups such as the Trade Federation. Along with the senators, the leaders of the individual member planets apparently also had the power to vote in the Senate, each senatorial delegation had one vote. In the spirit of C-SPAN2, Senate cam droids, also known as Senate hovercams, were floating cam droids used in the Galactic Senate to record the legislative sessions. The members of the Senate then elected a Chancellor from among their ranks who served as the Senates presiding officer and as the Republics de facto leader. The Chancellor was assisted by the Vice Chair, who is elected in the same manner as the Chancellor
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Boba Fett
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Boba Fett is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. In The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, he is a bounty hunter hired by Darth Vader and he was also added briefly to the original film Star Wars when the film was digitally remastered. Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones establishes his origin as a clone of the bounty hunter Jango Fett raised as his son. His aura of danger and mystery has created a following for the character. Boba Fett first appeared at the September 20,1978, San Anselmo Country Fair parade and he also appears in Marvel Comics Star Wars newspaper strip. Bobas first canon appearance was in The Empire Strikes Back as the major villain behind Darth Vader. Fett tracks the Millennium Falcon to Cloud City, where Vader captures its passengers and tortures its captain, wanting to collect a bounty on Solo, Fett confronts Vader about whether Solo will survive carbon freeze. Vader promises that the Empire will compensate Fett if Solo dies, after Solo is determined to be alive, in the digitally remastered Special Edition version of the original Star Wars, Boba Fett briefly appears outside the Millennium Falcon while Jabba confronts Han Solo. The 2002 film Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones revealed that Boba Fett is an unaltered child clone whom Jango Fett raises as his son, Boba helps Jango escape from Obi-Wan Kenobi, but later witnesses Jangos decapitation by Mace Windu. Boba Fett also appears in the CGI animated series Star Wars, Boba is featured during the second-season finale, and later the fourth season. In the 2017 novel Star Wars, Aftermath, Empires End, in November 2016, Disney announced that the contract with Josh Trank was terminated due to Josh Tranks behavior on the set of Fantastic Four. It was reported that the film was still in stage of development at Lucasfilm with the film being filmed in London, Boba appears extensively in the non-Star Wars canonical Star Wars Legends expanded universe of novels, comic books, and video games. The young adult Fett book series released after Clones depicts Fett taking his fathers ship, some Expanded Universe stories released before Attack of the Clones depict other accounts of Fetts origins. These stories include him being a stormtrooper who killed his commanding officer, a leader of the fabled Mandalorian warriors, and Jaster Mereel, karen Traviss novel Bloodlines, published four years after Clones, states that Fett seeded some of these false backstories himself. Various video games and books depict Fetts work as a bounty hunter, for which he charges famously expensive fees and that he undertakes only when the mission meets his harsh sense of justice. K. W. Jeters Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy depicts Fett as more communicative than in the films because the books plots require Fett to show an ability to convince people as well as kill them. Works such as Dark Horse Comics Dark Empire series describe Fett escaping from the Sarlacc and he would have occasional run-ins with Han Solo and his family over the years, before fighting against the Yuuzhan Vong and becoming the leader of the Mandalorians. In the Legacy of the Force series, Jaina Solo asks Fett to train her to help her defeat her corrupted brother and ends up helping fight against Jacens troops
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Django (1966 film)
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Intended to capitalize on and rival the success of Sergio Leones A Fistful of Dollars, Corbuccis film is, like Leones, considered to be a loose, unofficial adaptation of Akira Kurosawas Yojimbo. The film earned a reputation as one of the most violent films ever made at the time, and was refused a certificate in the United Kingdom until 1993. Nero reprised his role as Django in 1987s Django Strikes Again, Nero also made a cameo appearance in Quentin Tarantinos 2012 film Django Unchained, an homage to Corbuccis original. John Sayles is working on a third instalment in the film series. The bandits are dispatched by henchmen of Major Jackson – a racist ex-Confederate officer – who prepare to kill María by crucifying her atop a burning cross, the drifter, who identifies himself as Django, easily shoots the men, and offers María protection. The pair arrive in a ghost town, populated by Nathaniel, a bartender, Nathaniel explains that the town is a neutral zone in a conflict between Jackson’s Klansmen and General Hugo Rodríguez’s revolutionaries. Jackson and four of his men arrive at the saloon to extract money from Nathaniel. Django verbally confronts two of the Klansmen when they harass a prostitute, and ridicules Jackson’s beliefs, Django then shoots his men, and challenges Jackson to return with all of his accomplices. Afterwards, he seduces María when she thanks him for his protection, Jackson returns with his entire gang. Using a machine gun contained in his coffin, Django guns down much of the Klan, allowing Jackson, while helping Nathaniel bury the corpses, Django visits the grave of Mercedes Zaro, his former lover who was killed by Jackson. Hugo and his revolutionaries arrive and capture Jacksons spy, Brother Jonathan, as punishment, Hugo cuts off Jonathans ear, forces him to eat it, and shoots him in the back. Later, Django proposes to Hugo, who he had saved in prison. As Django and the escape, Jackson gives chase, but is forced to stop when the thieves reach American territory. Django asks for his share of the gold, but Hugo, wanting to use it to fund his attacks on the Mexican Government, when Ricardo tries to force himself onto María during the post-heist party, a fight erupts between Django and Ricardo, resulting in the latter’s death. Hugo allows Django to spend the night with María, but he chooses another prostitute, Django has the prostitute distract the men guarding the safehouse containing the gold, and enters the house via the chimney. Stealing the gold in his coffin and activating his machine gun as a diversion, María implores Django to take her with him. Arriving at the bridge where they first met, Django tells María that they should part ways, when María’s rifle misfires, the coffin falls into the quicksand below. Django nearly drowns when he tries to recover the gold, miguel crushes Django’s hands as punishment for being a thief, and Hugo’s gang leave for Mexico
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Franco Nero
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Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero, better known by his stage name Franco Nero, is an Italian actor. He is best known for his role as the title character in Sergio Corbuccis Spaghetti Western film Django. Since then, he has performed leading and supporting roles in a variety of films, including The Bible. In 2012, Nero made a appearance in Quentin Tarantinos Django Unchained. Nero is known for his ties to the Redgrave family, and has had a relationship with Vanessa. Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero was born in San Prospero Parmense, the son of an officer in the Carabinieri. He grew up in Bedonia and in Milan and he studied briefly at the Economy and Trade faculty of the local university, before leaving to study at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Neros first film role was a part in Pelle viva. In 1966 from Django he went on to appear in eight films released that year including Texas, Adios. In 1967, he appeared in Camelot as Lancelot, where he met his longtime romantic partner, following this he appeared in the mafia film Il giorno della civetta opposite Claudia Cardinale released in 1968. He has appeared in over 150 films, and has written, produced and starred in one, more recently, he starred in Hungarian director Koltay Gábors Honfoglalás in 1996, in Li chiamarono. Briganti. by Pasquale Squitieri and subsequently in Koltays Sacra Corona in 2001, in 2009 he played an eccentric author called Mario Puzzo in Mord ist mein Geschäft, Liebling. In 2010, Nero appeared in the film Letters to Juliet with Redgrave, in 2011 he appeared as a guest star on the season 13 premiere episode of Law and Order SVU. His character, although Italian, was based on Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in the same year, he received a star on the Italian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2012, Nero made a appearance in the film Django Unchained in one scene alongside Jamie Foxx. In the scene Nero plays the original Django, an Italian Mandingo Fighter manager, Neros Django then questions Foxxs Django about how his name is spelt, and asks him to spell it, referencing a scene from Neros role as Django in the original Django film. Upon learning that their names are spelt the way, Neros Django says I know to Foxxs Django. His romantic involvement with British actress Vanessa Redgrave began in 1966 when they met on the set of Camelot, in 1969, they had a son, Carlo Gabriel Redgrave Sparanero, a screenwriter and director
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PlayStation Portable
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The PlayStation Portable is a handheld game console developed by Sony. Development of the handheld was announced during E32003, and it was unveiled on May 11,2004, the system was released in Japan on December 12,2004, in North America on March 24,2005, and in the PAL region on September 1,2005. It primarily competed with the Nintendo DS, as part of the generation of video games. The PlayStation Portable became the most powerful system when launched. It was the first real competitor to Nintendos handheld domination, where many challengers, such as SNKs Neo Geo Pocket and Nokias N-Gage and it also features connectivity with the PlayStation 3, other PSPs and the Internet. It is the handheld console to use an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc. The original PSP model was replaced by a model with design changes in 2007. Another remodeling followed in 2008, PSP-3000, which included a new screen, a complete redesign, PSP Go, came in 2009, followed by a budget model, PSP-E1000, in 2011. The PSP line was succeeded by the PlayStation Vita, released in December 2011 in Japan, the PlayStation Vita features backward compatibility with many PlayStation Portable games digitally released on the PlayStation Network, via PlayStation Store. Shipments of the PlayStation Portable ended throughout 2014 worldwide, having sold 80 million units in its 10-year lifetime, Sony first announced development of the PlayStation Portable at a press conference before E32004. Although mock-ups of the system were not present at the conference or E3. Then-CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Jose Villeta called the device the Walkman of the 21st Century in a reference to the multimedia capabilities. Several gaming websites were impressed by the handhelds computing capabilities and looked forward to the potential as a gaming platform. Nintendo had been dominating the market since launching its Game Boy in 1989, with the only close competitor being Segas Game Gear. Later offerings from both SNK and Nokia also failed to cut into Nintendos share, the PSP was called the first legitimate competitor to Nintendo’s dominance in the handheld market by an IDC analyst in 2004. The first concept images of the PSP appeared in November 2002 at the Sony Corporate Strategy Meeting and showed a PSP with flat buttons and no analog stick. Although some expressed concern over the lack of an analog joystick, in addition to announcing more details about the system and its accessories, Sony also released a list of 99 developer companies that had pledged support for the new handheld. Several PSP game demos, such as Konamis Metal Gear Acid and SCE Studio Liverpools Wipeout Pure were also shown at the conference
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Count Dooku
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Count Dooku is a fictional character from the Star Wars franchise, appearing in Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. As the founder of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, he is instrumental in the Clone Wars, Dooku was trained by Yoda as a Padawan learner. He says that the Republic is corrupt, and that its politicians are more interested in maintaining the bureaucracy and enriching themselves than in helping poor, Dooku recruits bounty hunter Jango Fett to assassinate Padmé Amidala on Coruscant, the attempt on her life fails, however. When a fight with Obi-Wan Kenobi forces Fett to flee from Kamino to Geonosis, after capturing Obi-Wan on Geonosis, Dooku tells him that hes attempting to save the Republic, explaining that thousands of senators are under the influence of a Sith Lord named Darth Sidious. When Obi-Wan refuses to him, Dooku promptly sentences him to death. After an army of Jedi and clone troopers rescue Obi-Wan, Anakin Skywalker and Padmé, Dooku tries to flee, but Anakin and Obi-Wan engage him in a lightsaber duel. Dooku subdues Anakin with a blast of Force lightning, and wounds Obi-Wan with his lightsaber, when Anakin comes to Obi-Wans defense, Dooku cuts off the young Padawans arm. Just as Dooku is about to escape, Yoda confronts him, unable to match Yodas speed and agility, Dooku distracts his former master by using the Force to dislodge a large pillar and send it hurtling toward Anakin and Obi-Wan. While Yoda is busy saving them, Dooku escapes, after he arrives on Coruscant, Dooku shows the Geonosian designs of the Death Star to Darth Sidious and informs his master that their plan is working, The war has begun. Anakin and Obi-Wan board Grievous ship and confront Dooku, who knocks Obi-Wan unconscious, Anakin gives in to his hatred of Dooku and taps into the dark side to overpower him, severing both of Dookus hands and leaving him helpless. Palpatine then tells Anakin to kill Dooku on the spot, after initial hesitation and this act sets off a chain of events that leads to Anakins fall to the dark side and transformation into Darth Vader. In the 2008 CGI film Star Wars, The Clone Wars, after Ziros agents deliver the Huttlet to the planet Teth, Dooku contacts Ziro again to arrange for his minion Asajj Ventress to take custody of Rotta. When Jabba requests Jedi assistance to rescue his son, Dooku plans to frame the Jedi for the crime, Dooku duels Anakin for the first time since their encounter in Attack of the Clones. The duel ends in a draw, and Anakin and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano eventually foil Dookus plan, in the 2008 animated series Star Wars, The Clone Wars, Dooku is the leader of the Separatists. The plan falls through when Duchess Satine Kryze of Mandalore urges the Galactic Senate to hold off a military force, in the third season, Dooku is forced to eliminate Ventress to prove his loyalty to Sidious. Ventress survives, however, and works with Mother Talzin to kill Dooku by giving him Savage Opress as a replacement apprentice, during a confrontation between Dooku and Ventress, Savage turns on both. In the fourth season, after defeating Anakin in three separate lightsaber duels, Dooku gets his revenge on Ventress by having Grievous order the systematic genocide of the Nightsisters. Believing both Ventress and Talzin have been killed, Dookus knows the only left to him is Savage while sensing his eventual meeting with Darth Maul
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Nute Gunray
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Zam Wesell
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Jedi
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The Jedi /ˈdʒɛˌdaɪ/ are the main protagonists in the Star Wars universe. They are depicted as an ancient monastic and academic meritocratic organization whose origin dates back to c.25,000 BBY. The Jedi Order mostly consists of polymaths, teachers, philosophers, scientists, engineers, physicians, diplomats and warriors, by serving others, the Jedi give of themselves through acts of charity, citizenship, and volunteerism. A Jedis ideology and strict way of life as a challenge to live up to is a recurring theme in the Star Wars universe. Their traditional weapon is the lightsaber, a device which generates a blade-like plasma controlled by a crystal, the fictional organization has inspired a real-world new religious movement, Jediism. As depicted in the canon, the Jedi study and utilize the Force, in order to help, like their counterparts, the Sith, their main weapon is the lightsaber. By training the mind and the body the Jedi seek to improve themselves by gaining unfettered access to the Force while also seeking to improve those individuals, the film Rogue One suggests that it relates to the planet Jedha, source of the kyber crystals used in lightsabers. George Lucas acknowledged Jedi concepts have been inspired by many sources, the work of the mythologist Joseph Campbell, especially his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, directly influenced Lucas, and was what drove him to create the modern myth of Star Wars. The Lost Twenty was the given to a group of Jedi Masters—numbering twenty in total—who left the Jedi Order throughout its history. The first twelve of these ‘Lost Twenty’ left the Jedi Order before the Third Great Schism, these twelve Masters later became Dark Jedi who eventually founded the first Sith Empire. In the years preceding the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Dooku left the Jedi Order as a result of differences with his fellow Jedi, to commemorate these former Jedi, memorial statue busts were displayed at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. The prequel films depict the Jedi in their prime, dealing with the presence of the dark side of the Force and determined to fight their mortal enemies. Once corrupted, Vader helps Palpatine hunt down and destroy all of the Jedi, leaving very few left, such as Jedi Masters Yoda. The first person to be issued this order was Clone Commander Cody, Darth Vader led Operation, Knightfall against the Jedi Temple with the 501st Legion while the rest of the clone army around the galaxy carried out Order 66. Palpatine convinced the people of the Republic that Jedi were corrupted warmongers responsible for prolonging the Clone Wars, Darth Vader continued to hunt and execute surviving Jedi by the thousands during the first 10 years of the Empires history. The Jedi are first introduced in the 1977 motion picture Star Wars as an order of monks who serve as the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy. Obi-Wan Kenobi explains that the Galactic Empire had all but exterminated the Jedi some twenty years before the events of the film, Darth Vader is also established as the Jedis main enemy. By the end of the film, Luke is on the path to becoming a Jedi, the third film in the original trilogy, Return of the Jedi, ends with Luke redeeming Vader and helping to destroy the Empire, thus fulfilling his destiny as a Jedi
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Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Obi-Wan Ben Kenobi is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed by Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor in the films. In the original trilogy, he is a mentor to Luke Skywalker, in the prequel trilogy, he is a master and friend to Anakin Skywalker. He is frequently featured as a character in various other Star Wars media. Obi-Wan Kenobi is introduced in the original Star Wars living as the hermit Ben Kenobi on the planet Tatooine, when Luke Skywalker and the droid C-3PO wander off in search of the lost droid R2-D2, Ben rescues them from a band of native Tusken Raiders. At his home, R2-D2 plays Ben a recording of Princess Leia which explains that R2-D2 contains the plans for the Death Star, Leia asks him to deliver the droid and the plans safely to the planet Alderaan in order to help the Rebel Alliance. He gives Luke his fathers lightsaber and asks Luke to accompany him to Alderaan, Luke declines, but promises to take Obi-Wan as far as Anchorhead Station. After Luke finds his uncle and aunt killed by Imperial troops, he agrees to go with Obi-Wan to Alderaan, in the spaceport city Mos Eisley, Obi-Wan uses the Force to trick Imperial troops into letting them through a military checkpoint. They enter a cantina and make a deal with two smugglers, Han Solo and Chewbacca, to fly them to Alderaan in their ship. During the journey, Obi-Wan begins instructing Luke in lightsaber training and he suddenly becomes weak and tells Luke of a great disturbance in the Force. Emerging from hyperspace, the party finds that Alderaan has been destroyed, the trio chase the TIE fighter to the Death Star, and subsequently get caught in the Death Stars tractor beam. On board the Death Star, Obi-Wan shuts down the tractor beam, Obi-Wan uses the duel to distract Vader as Luke, Leia, Han and Chewbacca escape to the Falcon. Although Vader strikes Obi-Wan down, his body mysteriously vanishes the moment he dies, at the climax of the film during the Rebel attack on the Death Star, Obi-Wan speaks to Luke through the Force to help him destroy the Imperial station. In The Empire Strikes Back, Obi-Wan Kenobi appears several times as a spirit through the Force, on the planet Hoth, he appears to instruct Luke to go to the planet Dagobah to find the exiled Jedi Master Yoda. Despite Yodas skepticism, Obi-Wan convinces his old master to continue Lukes training and he appears later to beseech Luke not to leave Dagobah to try to rescue his friends on Cloud City, although Luke ignores this advice. In Return of the Jedi, Obi-Wan again appears to Luke after Yodas death on Dagobah, Obi-Wan acknowledges that Darth Vader is indeed Lukes father, revealed by Vader in the previous film and confirmed by Yoda on his deathbed, and also reveals that Leia is Lukes twin sister. After the second Death Star is destroyed and the Empire defeated, Obi-Wan appears at the celebration in the Ewok village, alongside the spirits of Yoda, in Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan Kenobi appears as the Jedi Padawan of Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. He accompanies his master in negotiations with the Trade Federation, which is blockading the planet Naboo with a fleet of spaceships and their ship is damaged in the escape, however, and they are forced to land on Tatooine, where they discover a young Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon senses Anakins extraordinarily strong link to the Force and brings the boy to Coruscant to begin Jedi training, when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan return to Naboo to defeat the Trade Federation, they are met by Sith Lord Darth Maul
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Mace Windu
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Mace Windu is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed by actor Samuel L. Jackson in the prequel films and voiced by voice-actor Terrence C. Carson in other projects. Several early incarnations of the character have been developed in the original Star Wars drafts as the narrator, Princess Leias brother and Luke Skywalkers friend. Through the process of redrafting and copyediting, his character was removed from the trilogy but was reintroduced in 1994 when series creator George Lucas began writing the prequel trilogy. As the prequel trilogy would call for Windus death, one of Jacksons conditions for portraying the character was that Windu be given a death scene rather than be killed off ingloriously. Introduced in Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace, in Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Windu initially refuses to believe that the assassination attempt on Padme Amidala on Coruscant was authorized by former Jedi master Count Dooku. Having learned of Obi-Wans whereabouts on Geonosis, Windu arrives to save Obi-Wan, Padme and Anakin from their sentence in the stadium. With his fellow Jedi and the army for the Galactic Republic attacking the planet. In Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Windu and their suspicions only grow when the Senate grants Palpatine a vote on the Jedi Council by appointing Anakin a personal representative. While they grant him a seat, the Council declines Anakin the rank of Jedi Master, after Obi-Wan kills General Grievous, Anakin informs Windu of Palpatines true identity as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. Acting swiftly on this revelation, Windu and three other Jedi Masters attempt to arrest him, but Palpatine mercilessly kills Windus companions and fights the Jedi Master. Windu subdues Palpatine by knocking away his lightsaber and deflecting the Sith Lords Force lightning back into his face just as Anakin arrives. Over Anakins objections not to kill Palpatine, Windu assures him that Palpatine has control of both the Senate and the courts and that he must be killed, however, Anakin intervenes on Palpatines behalf, severing Windus lightsaber arm and leaving him helpless. Palpatine then uses his Force lightning to send Windu plummeting to his death, in his fourth film appearance, in the animated film Star Wars, The Clone Wars, Mace Windu has a supporting role. In Star Wars, The Clone Wars, Mace Windu has a supporting role. Windu appears extensively in the Star Wars Legends of novels and comic books. Mace Windu is a character in Genndy Tartakovskys Star Wars, Clone Wars micro-series. The characters likeness in the series is based on that in The Phantom Menace, in final chapters, he and fellow Jedi Master Yoda help defend the planet Coruscant from an attack by General Grievous. In the midst of the battle, he realizes that the attack is a ruse to distract the Jedi from Grievouss true objective, to kidnap Palpatine. The novel establishes that Windu has the talent of seeing shatterpoints, or faultlines in the Force that could affect the destinies of certain individuals
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Computer-generated imagery
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The term CGI animation refers to dynamic CGI rendered as a movie. The term virtual world refers to agent-based, interactive environments, Computer graphics software is used to make computer-generated imagery for films, etc. Availability of CGI software and increased computer speeds have allowed artists and small companies to produce professional-grade films, games. This has brought about an Internet subculture with its own set of global celebrities, clichés, the evolution of CGI led to the emergence of virtual cinematography in the 1990s where runs of the simulated camera are not constrained by the laws of physics. Not only do animated images form part of computer-generated imagery, natural looking landscapes are generated via computer algorithms. A simple way to generate fractal surfaces is to use an extension of the triangular mesh method, relying on the construction of special case of a de Rham curve. The creation of a Brownian surface may be achieved not only by adding noise as new nodes are created, thus a topographical map with varying levels of height can be created using relatively straightforward fractal algorithms. Some typical, easy-to-program fractals used in CGI are the plasma fractal, modern architects use services from computer graphic firms to create 3-dimensional models for both customers and builders. These computer generated models can be accurate than traditional drawings. Architectural animation can also be used to see the relationship a building will have in relation to the environment. The rendering of architectural spaces without the use of paper and pencil tools is now an accepted practice with a number of computer-assisted architectural design systems. Architectural modeling tools allow an architect to visualize a space and perform walk-throughs in an interactive manner, Architectural modeling tools have now become increasingly internet-based. However, the quality of internet-based systems still lags behind those of sophisticated in-house modeling systems, in some applications, computer-generated images are used to reverse engineer historical buildings. Computer generated models used in animation are not always anatomically correct. However, organizations such as the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute have developed anatomically correct computer-based models, Computer generated anatomical models can be used both for instructional and operational purposes. To date, a body of artist produced medical images continue to be used by medical students, such as images by Frank H. Netter. However, a number of anatomical models are becoming available. A single patient X-ray is not a computer generated image, even if digitized, however, in applications which involve CT scans a three-dimensional model is automatically produced from a large number of single slice x-rays, producing computer generated image
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Shaak Ti
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Aurra Sing
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Darth Vader
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Darth Vader, also known by his birth name Anakin Skywalker, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. The character was created by George Lucas and has been portrayed by numerous actors and his appearances span the first six Star Wars films, as well as Rogue One, and his character is heavily referenced in Star Wars, The Force Awakens. He is also an important character in the Star Wars expanded universe of television series, video games, novels, literature and comic books. Originally a Jedi prophesied to bring balance to the Force, he falls to the side of the Force and serves the evil Galactic Empire at the right hand of his Sith master. He is also the father of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa, grandfather of Kylo Ren, Darth Vader has become one of the most iconic villains in popular culture, and has been listed among the greatest villains and fictional characters ever. The American Film Institute listed him as the third greatest movie villain in history on 100 Years. 100 Heroes and Villains, behind Hannibal Lecter and Norman Bates, however, other critics consider him a tragic hero, citing his original motivations for the greater good before his fall to the dark side. After the success of the original Star Wars, series creator George Lucas hired science fiction author Leigh Brackett to write the sequel with him and they held story conferences and, by late November 1977, Lucas had produced a handwritten treatment. The treatment is similar to the film, except that Vader does not reveal he is Lukes father. In the first draft that Brackett would write from this, Lukes father appears as a ghost to instruct Luke, Lucas was disappointed with the script, but Brackett died of cancer before he could discuss it with her. With no writer available, Lucas had to write the next draft himself, in this draft, he made use of a new plot twist, Vader claiming to be Lukes father. According to Lucas, he found this draft enjoyable to write, the new plot element of Lukes parentage had drastic effects on the series. Anakin battled Kenobi on the site of a volcano and was badly wounded, meanwhile, Kenobi hid Luke on Tatooine while the Galactic Republic became the tyrannical Galactic Empire and Vader systematically hunted down and killed the Jedi. This change in character would provide a springboard to the Tragedy of Darth Vader storyline that underlies the prequel trilogy, after deciding to create the prequel trilogy, Lucas indicated the series would be a tragic one depicting Anakins fall to the dark side. He also saw that the prequels could form the beginning of one story that started with Anakins childhood. This was the step towards turning the film series into a saga. For the first prequel, Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Movie trailers focused on Anakin and a one-sheet poster showing him casting Vaders shadow informed otherwise unknowing audiences of the characters eventual fate. The movie ultimately achieved a goal of introducing audiences to Anakin
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Star Wars (film)
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Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment in the Star Wars film series, it stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew co-star in supporting roles. The plot focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia, and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empires space station and this conflict disrupts the isolated life of farmhand Luke Skywalker, who inadvertently acquires a pair of droids that possess stolen architectural plans for the Death Star. Star Wars was released theatrically in the United States on May 25,1977 and it earned $461 million in the U. S. and $314 million overseas, totaling $775 million. It surpassed Jaws to become the film of all time until the release of E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial. When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the film in North America. It received ten Academy Award nominations, winning seven and it was among the first films to be selected as part of the U. S. Library of Congress National Film Registry as being culturally, historically, at the time, it was the most recent film on the registry and the only one chosen from the 1970s. Its soundtrack was added to the U. S. National Recording Registry in 2004, today, it is often regarded as one of the best films of all time, as well as one of the most important films in the history of motion pictures. It launched an industry of tie-in products, including TV series spinoffs, novels, comic books, and video games, the films success led to two critically and commercially successful sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, followed by a trilogy beginning in 2015. In 2016, Rogue One was released as a prequel to the original Star Wars film. The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war, spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empires Death Star, a heavily armed space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia has the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of the evil Darth Vader, before she is captured, Leia hides the plans in the memory of an astromech droid, R2-D2, along with a holographic recording. R2-D2 flees to the surface of the desert planet Tatooine with C-3PO, the droids are captured by Jawa traders, who sell them to moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker. While cleaning R2-D2, Luke accidentally triggers part of Leias message, the next morning, Luke finds R2-D2 searching for Obi-Wan, and meets Ben Kenobi, an old hermit who lives in the hills and reveals himself to be Obi-Wan. Contrary to his uncles statements, Luke learns that his father, Anakin, Obi-Wan tells Luke that Vader was his former pupil who turned to the dark side of the Force and killed Anakin. Obi-Wan then presents to Luke his fathers weapon – a lightsaber, Obi-Wan views Leias complete message, in which she begs him to take the Death Star plans to her home planet of Alderaan and give them to her father for analysis
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Star Wars expanded universe
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The Star Wars expanded universe is a collective term for all Star Wars fictional material produced by Lucasfilm or officially licensed by it. This restructuring left the Star Wars theatrical films, the Clone Wars animated film, a number of works have subsequently been produced, including the Rebels animated TV series, the 2015 film The Force Awakens, and multiple novels and comic book series. Fosters 1978 novel Splinter of the Minds Eye was commissioned by Lucas as the basis for a potential sequel to Star Wars should the film prove unsuccessful. A Star Wars comic book series from Marvel Comics ran from April 1977 to May 1986, former Marvel Editor-In-Chief Jim Shooter credited the titles strong sales for saving Marvel financially in 1977 and 1978. Marvels Star Wars series was one of the top selling titles in 1979 and 1980. The material was used as a resource by some novelists that followed, StarWars. com wrote in 2014 that the novel jumpstarted a publishing program that endures to this day and formalized the Expanded Universe. It introduced, among others, the popular characters Grand Admiral Thrawn and Mara Jade and this so-called Thrawn trilogy is widely credited with revitalizing the Star Wars franchise. In The Secret History of Star Wars, Michael Kaminski suggests that this renewed interest was a factor in Lucass decision to create the prequel trilogy. Around this same time, Dark Horse Comics acquired the Star Wars license and launched a number of series set after the film trilogy. In 1999, Star Wars book publishing moved from Bantam Spectra to Del Rey Books, New Jedi Order, set 25 to 30 years after the original films, introduced a new threat, the Yuuzhan Vong, a powerful alien race attempting to invade and conquer the entire galaxy. The bulk of Expanded Universe storytelling explores the time period after Return of the Jedi, subsequent novels and comics were set before, concurrent with, and after the events of these works. In 2004, USA Today reported that over 1,100 Star Wars titles had been published, including novels, comics, non-fiction, then-president of Lucas Licensing, Howard Roffman, estimated that there were more than 65 million Star Wars books in print. He said, The books are a way of extending the fantasy of Star Wars, the movies have had a really profound effect on a couple of generations. Star Wars has become a cultural touchpoint, and our fans are avidly interested in exploring more stories, the animated television series Star Wars, The Clone Wars ran from 2008 to 2014 and was set between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Lucas discussed ideas for a sequel trilogy several times after the conclusion of the original trilogy, in October 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion. In April 2014, Lucasfilm rebranded the Expanded Universe material as Star Wars Legends, the companys focus would be shifted towards a restructured Star Wars canon based on new material. The announcement called these works the immovable objects of Star Wars history and it was also made clear that a planned Star Wars sequel trilogy, and subsequent works developed within the restructured canon, would not be based on Legends material but could possibly draw from it. Lucas had previously used the character Aayla Secura, introduced in 2000 in the Star Wars, Republic comic book series, in Attack of the Clones
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Star Wars: Battlefront
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Star Wars, Battlefront is a series of first- and third-person shooter video games based on the Star Wars films. Players take the role of soldiers in either of two opposing armies in different time periods of the Star Wars universe, the series was launched in 2004 by LucasArts with Star Wars, Battlefront, developed by Pandemic Studios for LucasArts. The game received reviews and sold well. In 2005 Pandemic developed a sequel, Star Wars, Battlefront II, the games were followed by Star Wars Battlefront, Renegade Squadron and Star Wars Battlefront, Elite Squadron for handheld consoles and Star Wars Battlefront, Mobile Squadrons for mobile devices. LucasArts made several attempts to get a third major Battlefront game off the ground, subsequently, EA DICE acquired a license to develop a new game, titled Star Wars Battlefront which was released on November 17,2015. Maps take place in the Star Wars galaxy, with battlezones varying in theme, across the battlefield are multiple command posts that act as spawn points, and can be controlled by either the player or the computer. Units can spawn from any friendly command post, and vehicles regularly spawn at their command posts when destroyed. Units can capture neutral or hostile command posts by approaching them, the time to capture quickens with more friendly units within the capture zone. Some vehicles act as command posts, and must be destroyed as they can not be captured. On some maps, certain structures also act as posts that can not be captured. Command post capturing works differently on certain campaign missions as well, playable heroes and villains play a significant role in changing the course of battles. The objective of most matches is to all of the opponents reinforcement tickets or to capture the command points. Reinforcement tickets are used whenever a unit is killed, or when one faction controls a majority of the posts on the map. Only one objective needs to be completed, when all command posts are captured, the team with no command posts has twenty seconds to recapture or neutralize an enemy command post. If the team take over a post in this time. Certain campaign levels and multiplayer have requirements that differ from the game play. The games Conquest mode is based on the Battlefield game mode of the same name. Star Wars, Battlefront is the first installment in the Battlefront series and it was released on September 21,2004, with a Mac port by Aspyr released in July 2005
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