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Thread: Whats the big planet in Kessel?
Zhagadska
Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:07 pm
#14
atytula wrote:
As mentioned, Kessel was fully described in the Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J Anderson. Kessel's surface is devoid of life. Only a few structures are seen from space. The place the prisoners were kept was deep underground. There should be no lights visible from space like we see in JTL. There should be about 97 more black holes in the sector too.
i dont think the large planet like object is kessel itself. most likely one of the larger asteroids is the mine.
i have no clue what the large planet is.
Corran950
Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:29 pm
#15
atytula wrote:
As mentioned, Kessel was fully described in the Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J Anderson. Kessel's surface is devoid of life. Only a few structures are seen from space. The place the prisoners were kept was deep underground. There should be no lights visible from space like we see in JTL. There should be about 97 more black holes in the sector too.
I dont know if you were meaning to be funny or not but there is only 5-7 black holes in kessel clustered together. Within the cluster of blackholes there is a imperial research station with 2Star Destroyers and a prototype death star.Also many other niffty gizmos the imperial researchers came up with: tie shields, Sun Crusher, crystal wave gun, etc.
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atytula
Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:49 pm
#16
I remember it being described as many blackholes, could be as many as 100, but the fact remains it is a cluster of black holes, not three forming a triangle. Here is a link that talks a bit more about the system. http://www.theforce.net/swenc/plandesc.asp?search=Kessel&type=Planet
Corran950 wrote:
atytula wrote:
As mentioned, Kessel was fully described in the Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J Anderson. Kessel's surface is devoid of life. Only a few structures are seen from space. The place the prisoners were kept was deep underground. There should be no lights visible from space like we see in JTL. There should be about 97 more black holes in the sector too.
I dont know if you were meaning to be funny or not but there is only 5-7 black holes in kessel clustered together. Within the cluster of blackholes there is a imperial research station with 2Star Destroyers and a prototype death star.Also many other niffty gizmos the imperial researchers came up with: tie shields, Sun Crusher, crystal wave gun, etc.
Caliet
Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:17 pm
#17
If black holes looked like the swirling vortexes in this sector I assume the other are beyond the range of my visual scanning. They say the black holes are tightly clustered, but that is in terms of mass shadows and faster than light travel. They would not neccisarily be tightly clustered visually.
That and I am glad there are not 97 more of them as my video card would choke, anywaysI have a heck of a time tracking fighters against the ones we have already. 
Message Edited by Caliet on 02-04-2005 03:18 PM
Abyssdame
Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:52 pm
#18
I went to look again, this looks like a living thriving planet with big cities on it. It does not look like a mining astroid.
GregorianPipes
Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:44 pm
#19
Jackrabbit187 wrote:
I figured it was Coruscant, seeing as that's the only full planet metropolis that I know of. Does it fit with continuity? I don't know, I don't pay attention to continuity, and neither do the devs.
Continuity fits, placement does not. Coruscant exists in the timeline of SWG, it is the center of Imperial rule. But its not located in the Kessel sector. I believe they have talked about adding Coruscant in an expansion, but haven't worked out how to implement it, since the planet itself is one large city (except for the Menari mountains (sp?), which is the only feature on the planet not covered with metropolis).
XComCaptain
Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:22 pm
#20
Here is what the Star Wars Databank has to say on Kessel The mining planet/asteroid is decribed in other places as being potato shaped and not a spherical shape as normal planetoid. Even the picture in the Databank makes Kessel look like a potato. In the rogue squadron game for N64 in the Kessel mission it has a distinct potato shape. So the planet in the Kessel sector is either some other planetoid in the Kessel system or the devs lack of research into the history of the system, which fits the pattern of previous items in SWG.
Narreem0884
Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:17 pm
#21
It looks like Coruscant from the large city blanketing it. While I'm not much not Star Wars astrological positioning, the size and appearance seems to fit. Even though I'd like to land on Coruscant, if I thought the lag on Naboo was bad, that planet would blow up my computer.
Durgan_Kael
Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:51 am
#22
To be honest, I don't know why there are so many lights...there are still far too few for it to be Coruscant, and Coruscant is far from the Kessel system :-p. No, it's the planet Kessel, but I was always under the impression that much of Kessel was barren, with the main facilities being undergroud in the spice mines. Whatever though, wouldn't be the first storyline reference they borked.
Jackrabbit187
Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:02 am
#23
I figured it was Coruscant, seeing as that's the only full planet metropolis that I know of. Does it fit with continuity? I don't know, I don't pay attention to continuity, and neither do the devs.
Abyssdame
Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:32 am
#24
Jackrabbit187 wrote:
I figured it was Coruscant, seeing as that's the only full planet metropolis that I know of. Does it fit with continuity? I don't know, I don't pay attention to continuity, and neither do the devs.
ChatHandler
Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:19 pm
#25
If you read "Heir of The Empire",part of Kessel WAS a metropolis, mainly home to Imperials. Spice mines were mentioned to be near this city.
BlueBantha
Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:25 pm
#26
heh i thought that too looks like the devs forgotkessel kinda shaped like a potato