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 Paradigm wrote:
Looking at that picture, he looks to be sitting on the bridge of a Star Destroyer... Make of that what you will.

The new republic could be using captured star destroyers. If I remember the lore correctly, weren't the star destroyers superior to the rebel capital ships?

Just remember that Warwick Davis has played other characters than Wicket (the ewok) and he's a well-known Star Wars guy that does lots of appearances and the sort, so he's pretty engrained in the fandom.

There is no guarantee that he'll be playing an ewok.

 Sienisoturi wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:
Looking at that picture, he looks to be sitting on the bridge of a Star Destroyer... Make of that what you will.

The new republic could be using captured star destroyers. If I remember the lore correctly, weren't the star destroyers superior to the rebel capital ships?

It depends what you mean by "superior"

The MC-80 had slightly worse weapon loadouts in terms of pure firepower, but the shielding was far superior.

But the MC-80 had another problem in that every ship was unique. No two were exactly alike. Thats not a good thing if you're looking towards having standardization and cross compatibility(which in the EU led to some rather frustrating problems for the Rebels)

I think the New Republic would use former Imperial ships(both captured and of their own construction) because they had the manufacturing facilities which were already configured to make them. While only the Mon Calamari could make MC-80s.

So its partly a combo of we need ships yesterday, we have access to captured ships, and we have the facilities to make said ships ourselves.

The New Republic had its own line of starships that were distinct from the Mon Cal designs and Imperial designs, however all three sets of designs were in use concurrently throughout the New Republics existence, although towards the end the Republic had phased out a lot of the Imperial designs as they were deemed symbols of tyranny, and the Mon Cal designs as they were deemed subpar and most of the better aspects of their designs were integrated into the Republic designs anyway.

In any case, I think the implication from this art and what we have seen so far is that the Rebellion has either failed (or is still ongoing), or the Republic has 'lived long enough to see itself become the enemy'. The artwork shows imperial designs continued to survive and evolve (both in the background of the image of cyborg vader mask dude as well as the new stormtrooper helmets and types) meaning they were kicking around for a while.

Beyond that, a lot of the artwork features wreckage, the toppled AT-AT for instance (there are actually 2 AT-ATs there as well as an AT-ST), and it looks like in some of the other artwork there are crashed starships, etc. All of this implies the remnants of a war either ongoing or now over (and from the looks of it a pretty brutal one at that).

The one definitive picture we have of the 'good guys', which we can judge from the presence of the Falcon and X-wings (or new versions thereof) shows them housed in underground/camouflaged hangars, which implies to me that they are still a resistance movement trying to remain relatively hidden.

I wouldn't be surprised if they made the back story that, Yes, the emperor and vader died, but the empire isn't just going to fizzle out, its galaxy spanning and still massively in the superior stakes in terms of war materiel.

The best idea would be the death of the emperor and the second death star is that a lot of imp commanders may have jumped ship to the rebels but just as many stayed and the war became a LOT more equal, and has now become a war of attrition and has just rolled on for 30 years.

remember star wars (original 3) takes place over some 8 years or so, its not a short time period.

Or the Empire took stock, elected a new emperor\power struggle and the rebels only won some semblance of freedom, but the empire stayed on?

Would explain all the imp stuff seen in the art and the possibility of a new big bad (hopefully not luke) I want him to be the new obi wan, this robot handed hooded guy could be all new bad guy who was wronged by Luke? and is now heading up some of the empire.

 Rick_1138 wrote:

remember star wars (original 3) takes place over some 8 years or so, its not a short time period.

4 years from A New Hope to Return of the Jedi.

 insaniak wrote:

 Rick_1138 wrote:

remember star wars (original 3) takes place over some 8 years or so, its not a short time period.

4 years from A New Hope to Return of the Jedi.

Here is a handy chart:



It mainly deals with the EU novels, but the movies are placed on it as well.