Star Wars: Episode VII (December 18, 2015) ***SPOILERS***

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Burhead said:
Which is lame because the Imperial Remnant stories in the EU were pretty good. Also I hate the redesigned lightsaber. The scenes with the X-wings, the Falcon, and the Stormtroopers in the drop ship were bad ass.
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each Jedi or Sith designs his or her own lightsaber, they don't go down to the Jedi equivalent of Olivander's and pick one that's already made.
 
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That totally brought out my inner-nerd. That short clip was better than anything Lucas did with Episodes 1,2, and 3.
 
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MG1968 said:
each Jedi or Sith designs his or her own lightsaber, they don't go down to the Jedi equivalent of Olivander's and pick one that's already made.
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Just my opinion, but I believe the person in the trailer is an ancient Sith that has been re awakened/resurrected. Henceforth I also believe that he is wielding an ancient light saber design with the cross guard and the different light blade.

The cross guard saber had already been introduced/explained in the Star Wars story arc...

Crossguard lightsaber - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Just my opinion, but I believe the person in the trailer is an ancient Sith that has been re awakened/resurrected. Henceforth I also believe that he is wielding an ancient light saber design with the cross guard and the different light blade.

The cross guard saber had already been introduced/explained in the Star Wars story arc...

Crossguard lightsaber - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
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Which technically does not make it canon as that's part of the Expanded Universe. However, Lucas has been known to pluck some material from the EU and into the mainstream.

I'm wondering how much of the minor stuff from the EU will make it into the new series?
 
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Grand Vol said:
Which technically does not make it canon as that's part of the Expanded Universe.
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The way I've read it, the rule of thumb is that things that transpire in the EU is considered canon unless they conflict with the films. If that's the case then of course the film's take precedence.
 
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#259
I love the longsword/greatsword light saber because it gives me hope for an eventual Great Axe lightsaber in the future for a giant sith/jedi.
 
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davethevol said:
That totally brought out my inner-nerd. That short clip was better than anything Lucas did with Episodes 1,2, and 3.
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Yep!

Those 88 second > Episodes 1,2,3. :good!:

The drop ship with the Stormtroopers reminded me of Aliens/Terminator..and I'm not complaining.
 
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The George Lucas Special Edition Trailer...

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Jh6JNBng[/youtube]
 
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk9hd950-9I[/youtube]
 
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I'm guessing the black storm trooper is actually one of the good guys wearing the suit, sort of like Luke and Han did.
 
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vader said:
I would imagine that those clones are all dead by the time of episode VII. If not, then they are really, really old.
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Pretty sure that clone factory didn't shut down...if you look at the teaser again you see one of the stormtroopers sans helmet...still sporting Jango face.
 
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butchna said:
Pretty sure that clone factory didn't shut down...if you look at the teaser again you see one of the stormtroopers sans helmet...still sporting Jango face.
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I know this is EU stuff and way down the nerd rabbit hole, but...

After the failed uprising on Kamino in 12 BBY, Emperor Palpatine came to the conclusion that an army of clone soldiers was far too susceptible to corruption. Thus, he expanded the Stormtrooper Corps to include clones that were created from a variety of genetic templates, effectively marginalizing Jango Fett's progeny into a minority status.[13] In addition to the massive influx of new clone sources, the Corps began recruiting real Human beings to serve in the ranks as enlisted stormtroopers.[19]
If a man between the ages of 18 and 30 scored in the top fifth percentile, an Imperial recruiting agent would contact him and presumably arrange for the extraction of a DNA sampling for cloning. Men who did not score high enough to qualify as a genetic template were still used as regular soldiers. Also, it was preferable if enlisted troopers met a certain standard in height and weight.[source?] Princess Leia Organa was seemingly familiar with Stormtrooper Corps's standards by 0 BBY, perhaps as a result of her work with the Imperial Senate.[2]
For a time, the Stormtrooper Corps remained evenly balanced between clones and recruits, at least until the onset of the Imperial Civil War, which occurred alongside the ongoing Galactic Civil War. Due to the loss of Kamino and its cloning facilities, as well as many other cloning centers throughout the galaxy, clone stormtroopers became a rare commodity that the Empire could no longer afford to sustain.[30] As the Galactic Empire's unity became undermined by various splinter cell factions, a few successor states opted to vastly reform the Imperial recruiting policy. Unlike the old Empire, the Empire of the Hand recruited stormtroopers from a variety of Humanoid sources. Though the stormtrooper ranks remained consistently dominated by Human male recruits, it marked the first time that Non-Humans were allowed to serve as Imperial soldiers.[27]
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The first source to mention that there are clones in the stormtrooper ranks was Soldiers of the Empire!, an article that appeared in Star Wars Official Poster Monthly 4 (January 1978). Unfortunately, this article fell into deep obscurity (most fans still have not heard of it). As a result, most EU authors prior to the prequel trilogy believed that all stormtroopers were recruits. Many Expanded Universe sources mentioned Imperial academies (such as on Carida) and normal human stormtroopers such as Davin Felth and Kyle Katarn. After the prequel trilogy was released, a retcon was necessary to shoe clones into the stormtrooper ranks to mesh these EU sources with the movies and 1978 article.
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In the Thrawn Trilogy, Luke Skywalker realizes that some of Grand Admiral Thrawn's stormtroopers are clones by feeling through the Force that they are all identical. He implies that this is unusual.
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Stormtrooper - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
 
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#274
$5 says it's Darth Revan. Reminds me of the ending of Empire at War: Forces of Corruption where they find Revan's tomb of some sort.
 
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