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Site History

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This is a record of major and minor events in the existence of the STAR WARS Technical Commentaries web site. The listing is incomplete, since I began tracking progress only very recently. The list is mainly meant as an aid for readers seeking the newest updates.

Progress on unreleased pages is not documented. At any given time, at least five times as much activity is devoted to incomplete, offline pages as to the documents which are visible to the public. The number of pages under construction greatly outnumbers those which are presently available for viewing.

• Added observation on the term "teräs käsi" in SOTE, as reported by A.Nevalainen.
• Added some of Elwyn Chow's photographs of the Executor at the 2000 Barbican exhibition to the appropriate web page. Also added data on the size of the display case, according to my measurements at the Bradford exhibition in March 2001.

• Added some scans and comments to differentiate the star battlecruisers of Captain Wermis and General Tagge show in the Marvel STAR WARS comic series, in Warships of the Empire: Catalogue.

• Reorganised the Star Destroyer page, with the ship list and game stats shifted to appendix sub-pages.
• Added a scan from Marvel SW #54, indicating Princess Leia's expectation that a star destroyer would render a planetary surface uninhabitable.
• Noted an upper limit to the acceleration tolerances of a star destroyer, as indicated in Marvel SW #54.
• Noted the Executor's intended descent to dock at a planetary facility in Marvel SW #63.

• Added statistics and comments about the Mu-3 shuttle in Lambda-class Shuttles, courtesy of C. Deck.
• Qualified and corrected the comments about the deep-dwelling creatures of Naboo, and their possession of eyes, in TPM Topics: Naboo, after advice by S.Petersen.
• Expanded the discussion of the human composition of military forces in TPM Topics: Galactic Republic, particularly concerning the sociobiological peculiarity of human warfare, after suggestions by S.Petersen.

• Added comments on a Media Excerpt showing the balance between pilot and support personnel associated with a realistic fighter force, which we may relate to the starfighters of the Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance and other STAR WARS governments and organisations.
• The e-mail link at the foot of each web page has been replaced with another one that works. Apologies to those readers whose messages bounced back in recent weeks; I've only just become aware of the problem.

Replaced several hundred old screen-shots from the movies with newer files at higher resolution and colour quality, in Death Stars, Imperial Insignia & Uniforms, and Planets. The renovations are ongoing, will not normally be noted as site updates, and will eventually affect many more of the commentary pages.

• Added commentary on some Imperial armed prison ships from rare Marvel comics, with scans courtesy of A.Tully.

• Updated the (brief) discussion of missile boats and gunboats in the section on the relatives of the Lambda-class shuttle, after suggestions by B.Lotfinia and A.Tse.
• Acknowledged the name Harrow for the ship previously referenced as [anonymous star destroyer #8] in Warships of the Empire: Catalogue, after the correct reference was provided by J.Myers.

• Accommodated suggestions by D.Spinks, B.Lotfinia and A.Tse regarding hyperdrive implications of the wings, assault gunboat/missile boat relatives, and the wing structure of the Delta in Lambda-class shuttles.

• Added a newer draft version of M.Griffiths' profile schematic of the Lambda-class shuttle, based on the morphology of the ILM special effects model, via the Kenner toy.
• Added extra photographs and commentary on Elwyn Chow's photo-survey of the Devastator model at the Barbican.
• Added the Delta-class escort shuttle, from the computer games, to Lamba-class shuttles: related vessels.
• Added a scan of the blueprints for the cockpit seats in Lambda-class shuttle.
• Added mention of M.Griffiths' theory about attitude-control thrusters and the wings of the Lambda-class shuttle.

• Added more pages for exhibition photographs: Exhibitions: Devastator; TIE Fighters.

• Added a new page and a major appendix: Lambda-class shuttles and The Dimorphism Blooper. Neither page is totally finished, but they are at least self-contained.
• Added another new page, Exhibitions: Executor, which is my first page presenting the products of photographic surveys of original STAR WARS props and models.

• Added a scan of the AT-AT on Endor with apparently red windscreen in Military Walkers.
• Added scans of hooka(?) pipes in Jabba's throne room, in Jabba's Decorations.
• Separated the subsections dealing with other furniture in Jabba's Decorations, and added several more images.

• Added a page about some of the miscellaneous technical highlights of The Great Heep animated movie from 1986.

• Added new images from SWHS to new sections of Highlights: SWHS, and also Death Star Survivors, Zoology: Panna monster, Panna mount beast, Panna blue bird.
• Added a quote about the perils of hyperspace from Han Solo's Revenge [p.293], to the novel notes; suggested by W.Poe.

• Added a new page, Highlights: SWHS, to examine some of the technically interesting things seen in the Star Wars Holiday Special. If time and inspiration hold out, I'll add more details of the live-action segements of the show, and then maybe elements from other TV manifestations of STAR WARS.

• Added more screenshots of the multi-bridge warship tower (possibly belonging to the ROTJ communications ship) in Bridge Towers and Warships of the Empire: Catalogue.
• Added AT-ST interior screenshots to Military Walkers.
• Added discussion of Imperial computer keyboards, and the graphics/text relationship in the shuttle screenshots in TPM Topics: Text & Graphics.

• Added some quotations about Base Delta Zero, in response to popular demand, in the Star Destroyers page.

• Corrected the misidentification of a foreground paint spray-can in a photo of the multi-nodular bridge tower in Bridge Towers; pointed out by A.Nilles.

• Updated the description of the Vultan in Humans & Humanoids, with reference pointed out by M.Dolan; and additional scans from The Sith War comic.
• Added a higher resolution scan of an Imperial star battleship to Warships of the Empire: Catalogue, from The Empire Strikes Back Sketchbook.

• Added discussion of the size relationship between the equatorial waistband trench and docking bays of the Death Star II, in Death Stars, after corrections and suggestions by A.Tse.

• Added scans of Lord Flint to the section on Sith History, in TPM Topics: Jedi & Sith.
• Renamed and slightly restructured the page "Survival of Chief Bast" to Death Star Survivors, in recognition that there were multiple Imperial survivors.

• Added new scans of the star battlecruiser of Lord Vader and Captain Wermis from Marvel SW #36, in Warships of the Empire: Catalogue.

• Added a few more images demonstrating AT-AT vulnerabilities in Military Walkers.
• Added screenshots of the ten-letter section of alphabet shown on General Veers' target scope, in Text & Graphics.
• Added a section on the anonymous rimward system at the start of TESB, in Planets.
• Added iconic illustrations of most of the planets and moons in Planets for easier visual reference. Also added global images of Coruscant, Tatooine and Naboo, scanned from Inside the Worlds of Episode I.

• Quoted the population density of Hong Kong for comparison with Coruscant, in Astrophysical Concerns, as reported by M.Wong.

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