Review: Order 66 by Karen Traviss

This is a review of Traviss's latest work, Order 66, courtesy of our very funny friends at Stardestroyer.net.

They make her look like an absolute moron.

Enjoy.

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=127782

That was almost as good as LS's enormous post ranting against one of KT's books. Did you notice that my master was quoted?

"General Soontir Fel" pwns Traviss!

A very detailed history about Traviss, her minimalism, and the battle she had with those who disagreed with her interpretation of the numbers.

http://www.mrpoesmorgue.com/swds/talifans/travissty000.html

That link made me dislike Traviss even more than, I didn't think that was possible. 😐

Yeah, good link, lol. Traviss is a *****.

Wow, I had little respect for Karen Traviss before, but this... this is something I hadn't seen.

What a *****.

HA!!!!

originally posted by Karen Traviss
Driven to the brink of ripping someone's trachea out of their pitifully unworthy neck,

originally posted by Karen Traviss
This wasn't helped by Traviss also casting aspersions about the mental illnesses these types of fans must have, and their apparent inability to distinguish between fiction and reality.

Stuff like that makes it much harder to hate Karen Traviss. Anyone who can insult like that like that can't be all bad.
Also, while I agree that 3 million is a unrealistic number, this argument was actually good and actually makes Traviss less blameworthy:

]originally posted by Karen Traviss
the only references to hard numbers are:
* that the army on Kamino was now “nearly one million strong”, and that the cloning centre could make millions more - not that it had. (And only millions - not billions, quintillions or any other figure.)

* Lama Su the Kaminoan PM says to Obi Wan: “...200,000 units, with a million more on the way.” On page 54, it cites the 1.2m number.

* And...there’s a clear mention on page 63 of clones training local militias on planets, “making it possible for a handful of clones to trigger a planetwide uprising”.

There’s a mention of millions - not billions - of Spaarti clones appearing towards the end of the war - which fully supports my retcon as in the Vader stories, where the clone production is expanded to meet Palps' push of occupation upon Ep III - not the war for the previous three years. (Although that "millions" is still a little low for my tastes for a galactic army of occupation - which is a very different task to fighting the orchestrated and controlled Clone Wars.) There are several mentions of small forces throughout the CW section in the NEC, and “hundreds of...troopers” each week arriving injured at the RMSUs. If your theory was correct, there'd be thousands - no, millions crowding into them each.

So while 3 mil is still pathetically weak, it was actually established that the clones only numbered in the millions beforehand, '“nearly one million strong”. Although if a unit equals about 30 then surely “...200,000 units, with a million more on the way.” would equal about 30-90 million instead.

Meh, I'm not too fussed.

Originally posted by Captain REX
Wow, I had little respect for Karen Traviss before, but this... this is something I hadn't seen.

What a *****.

If Traviss ever comes 'round to these forums, you'll let us flame her to within an inch of her life, right?

Eh, dunno about that, but I don't think she is ever going to come here.

The 'noble 3 million' number just doesn't make sense because other sources list the droids as being in the quintillions and up, not to mention 3 million is like... absolutely nothing on a galactic scale. How is the Republic going to fight a war with absolutely nothing? I believe one of the members in the arguments against Traviss stated that almost half that 3 million figure is just defending Coruscant anyways!