Why Copters?

I also think the Kashyyyk designs are super, that's why I spent so
much time making a photo collage of the battle. I just hope
that Jar Jar is nowhere on this planet !!

The designs are fine, it's the concept that I don't agree with. Couldn't he (GL) have just let them have ships with repulser lifts and not rotery blades? For all I know they are not rotery blades, just flapping wings like someone stated before. Eather way I think they put too much thought into this one.

They do kinda look like repulsar technology, well at least the 'boats' do. But then we've seen that kind of thing before in Jabba's sail barges and skiffs have we not?

But then I guess their design was determined by the terrain on Tattooine. I don't no much about the terrain on Kashykk but i guess it would quite woody and luxurious like the moon of endor?

ANy thoughts?

Kashyyk has massive trees that grow miles into the sky. The Wookies live in the canopy of the trees because it is extremely dangerous at ground level. In ep3 GL has set the "BATTLE OF KASHYYK" in a lagoon at the edge of the forest. The Wookies that live here live at ground level because the clearings and lagoon are not protected by the large trees as much and don't offer hiding places for the large predators that lurk at the forest floor.

Very imformative, thank you.

I remember in an EU novel I read, Han goes there with Chewie and finds out that they only reason we cant understand chewie is that he has a speech impedement or something like that...anyone remember that?

It has to be in one of 5 books (cos they are the only ones I've read...)

Truce at Bakura

Courtship of Princess Leia

Or one of...

the Tim Zahn Trilogy...

Can't for the life of me remember which one though...

It is in the Thrawn series and it is Leia that goes to Kashyyk. She can understand some of the wookie language and finds it easyer to understand the leaders of the tribe because of the unknow speech impediment.

Thank you Junky. You are the font of all [sw] knowledge...

Talking of Thrawn, he'd be a nice character to bring in, although I guess then you'd have to explain his lack of appearance in the OT...

The Official site stated that we will see an EU ( Expanded Universe) character in EP3 but it has also been stated that it will not be Thrawn. Maybe Bel Iblis, I Dunno.

I just liked the fact that Thrawn was the only non human the Palpatine trusted... and those red eyes would be creepy cool...

Yes it would. There is going to be a SW TV series coming in 2006, we may get to see him then.