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Are they talked about in any books? We know nothing about them. Do you think they will be in EP2?

I don't know anything about them but I'm guessing that they won't be in EP2. It seems like groups who try to pull that sort of stunt (historically) and fail tend to fall out of favor and become insignificant. And I would think that Rune Haako and Nute Gunray would be imprisoned anyway.

in the original by GL, in the prologue, it says something vague like, "palpatine rose to power on the support of the fringes of trade and corrupt commerce." that's about it as far as i know.

The Trade Federation will be "absorbed" by the Empire.

What do you mean by that?

The Trade Federation was "working" for Darth Sidious/Palpatine. Therefore in a way the Nemodians were part of The Empire. After the Nemodian invasion failed, their war machine was confiscated by Darth Sidious/Palpatine. Of course we all know that Darth Sidious/Palpatine will make use of his new weapons in his plans of expanding his Empire.

Darn you Heinous. I wanted to cover that. I hate harvest season

Oh God that's funny!!

What's funny?

TFN say that their are Neimodion(spelling) pilots in Ep2 so I guess we are seeing the Trade Federation then.

Yeah I noticed that too...I wonder if they're still in cohoots with Palpatine or if these are just innocent bystanders.

"these trade federation types are cowards"

there is no way they will be involved in any battles....&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp I'm surprised to see that any of them would have the guts to pilot a ship either....

Maybe this Nemroidians are good guys? Hey, it could happen

I thought that as well. Maybe they could fight alongside the republic. A lot could have happened in 10 years.

Yeah, lets hope they're not all going to be stunted slime

hmmm...it's ganna take longer than 10 years to forget the invation....(kind of like the pearl harbor feeling to it...)

Hey most American's have forgivin the Jap's.Plus alot of them are dead from that era now.

If the whole Glaxy is at war then people will have to fight alongside each other even if the don't get along. Look at the British and the French. Hundreds of years of conflict then they had to be on the same side to fight the Nazi's and now they are arguing again. It could happen.

EJ don't forget that we nuked the Japanese...So they had to forgive us too...

Okay..Why aren't the French and British getting along now?...sorry, I don't have TV and I'm American and they show about 30 secs of international news anyway...

I just meant politicaly. When Britain wanted to join the Eurpean Union years ago France were the only country to say no. Their has been things like this going on for a while between the two countries. I still think the trade fedaration could be good in the next film. XC says they are cowards so why would they fight for Palpatine?

They'd fight for Palpatine if they were greedy cowards..That's why they were in cahoots with him in the first place.

I just think they were scared of Palpatine. And they didn't really fight for him, they used droids. The TFN report says that they are pilots. That means they actually fight.

I think it's safe to assume that if you're in control of the force that is fighting that you can be considered to be fighting..As for the pilots...There's a good chance that they fight...but they might smugglers or something.

On a big cruiser is anyone considered a pilot?...I'm talking about the controls officers on the bridge...just wondering.

I dont think so, on a cruise there would be a hell of a lot of job functions.

Pilot
Engineer
Navigatopr
Captain
Weapons Control
Doctor
Etc,etc

When they said pilots I thought Tie Fighter style pilots. Has anyone seen the pictures on TFN of new ships. They are smaller versions of Star Destroyers but for only one pilot.

I only saw that one triangle shaped one. Is there more?

I think there were two of them or maybe it was the same ship from a different angle. Who's ship do you think they could be? Trade Federation fighters or Jedi ships? I say TF.

I don't know but I'd guess that they're not Jedi..they are to geometric and don't have any of the design qualities of what we've seen of the jedi. It seems like GL likes to relect the diffent societie's design motif in their ships...

I think the Jedi will have X-Wing style ships and the clones Tie Fighters although they will still have to look different.

Maybe something like a X-wing but with a linear quality a bit like a Naboo fighter. I think the Jedi might have something with a kind of fluid feel to it.