Star Wars Galaxies - Fact-Checking, Fan Style

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to this interesting LA Times article regarding Star Wars Galaxies. As well as plenty of background information, the piece talks about how detail-orientated beta testers of the forthcoming Sony-published PC MMORPG are, and includes this choice quotation: "..a German fan was outraged that the cockpit dimensions of an X-wing star fighter varied from those in the movies. Blackman looked into it and found that the game's version was indeed off -- by 6 centimeters."

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wow 6 whole cm!

[Tumbleweed]

Then he's gonna be _really_ pissed when he finds out the Millennium Falcon's size is off in all published Star Wars stuff from that of the movie set by about 40%!

Still, it IS the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, so allowances should be made. :)

Re:wow 6 whole cm!

[Anonvmous Coward]

"Han Solo brags that he can make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time."

Maybe that's how far he had to travel to find somebody who cared.

Re:wow 6 whole cm!

[daeley]

Look, if you're going to start quoting the classics, at least get your measurements right. As every geek worth his/her/its salt knows, there's no such thing as 140 bwiddlethorms, since the bwiddle- (of course, bwaddthle- in the original Outer C!thornic branch from which all dialects in that quadrant descend) prefix can only refer to quantities in multiples of 90 (90, 180, 270, etc.). Don't get me started on the hideously non-canon 'secron' -- that's like saying the Ascetic Malform was a Xenirrific Frumphf, for Ulp's sake! And you call yourself a geek: zappydonks, I say to you, megalazappydonks!

Re:wow 6 whole cm!

[rjh]

There once was a professor named Fisk
Who made love with an action so brisk
The Lorentz Contraction
Came into action
And shortened his rod to a disk.

-- Isaac Asimov

Ph33r the hardcore star wars geeks

[Kethinov]

What's next? Wookies don't make the wookie sound right? The pull of gravity is off in comparison to the total mass of the planet they're on? Hyperspeed is measured in incorrect units? Light saber power sources have incorrect yields?

Sony is messing with the wrong kind of geek here. Unless they get it just right they're not satisfied. Between Star Wars and Star Trek you can't get a more hardcore geek.