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SBKImperial

Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:37 am

I remember reading a quote on one of the Ranger sites some time ago and I was wondering if someone could help me locate it. If memory serves, this quote came from a Star Wars book (I believe something from the Rogue Squadron series). There were two characters talking about Antarian Rangers. One male, one female. In a couple paragraphs the female character provides a brief synopsis of Antarian Rangers to the male character. I've checked all the Antarian websites noted in the Ranger Links section. I also did a couple searches through various search engines. No luck.

In advance, thanks for your help!

SBKImperial

Message Edited by SBKImperial on 07-12-2004 08:57 AM

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antwil99

Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:49 am

#2

I remember the post you are referring to SBKImperial, I'll try to help you look for it too, I don't have it saved either unfortunately...

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antwil99

Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:04 am

#3

Fred Skinner Posted it. I remembered the phrases "nearly useless" and "force" and got it on a search.

Post is titled "You Say you Want a direction?"

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=ranger&message.id=37578&highlight=nearly+useless+force#M37578

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Fred_Skinner

Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:20 am

#4

It was not my post originally. It came from the AR PA forum (general forum) in a post by Pryadius at SWGalaxies.net. I don't know who he/she is or what server he/she is from, but here is the quote:

Taken from the X-Wing "Wraith Squadron" book -

"Tell me about these Rangers," Kell said.
She gave him a curious look. "Why?"
"Because I'd like to know."
"All right." She turned on her back and stared up at the featureless ceiling. "It's an old order, the Antarian Rangers. Founded centuries ago to aid Jedi Knights. A few of them, anyway; most of the Jedi tended to be pretty solitary. But some of them appreciated having loyal, reliable warriors to help them. Freedom's Sons were one such order, and the Rangers were another.

"To be a Ranger meant knowing how to move in any environment. To blend in with the forest or grassland, to sail, to swim, to dive, to pilot. To be masters of our surroundings. Were were good spies, good warriors, very adept at intrusion and escape.

"In the old days, there were communities of the Rangers on several worlds, including Toprawa. There was some inter-marrying between the Jedi and the Rangers, which may be where I inherited my own nearly useless talent with the Force. Gradually, there were fewer and fewer Rangers around. The Clone Wars killed off whole clans, and then most of the rest were purged with the Jedi. The rest went underground. My family stayed hidden for decades, and then before we could emerge, Toprawa was bombed into barbarism by the Empire. That's when the last of the Antarian Rangers on Toprawa died."

Frederick Skinner
Antarian Ranger, Ranger(0030), Master Rifleman, CH(4214)
Ranger is not a profession. It's a lifestyle.

SBKImperial

Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:18 am

#5

Thanks so much Fred and others. This is it! I'm trying to incorporate this short piece into my in-game bio...

SBKImperial

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Almagill

Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:58 pm

#6

SBKImperial wrote:
Thanks so much Fred and others. This is it! I'm trying to incorporate this short piece into my in-game bio...

SBKImperial

If you dare say that both your parents were eaten/slain/boiled in vinegar by this faction/that faction and you wre left a penniless orphan on the streets of random_town, I swear, and I don't care if you are the uber-est of uber ubertoons, but I will hunt you down and get you when you least expect it (no, not then, the other time...) and bludgeon you into a jelly with the soggy end of my Tatooine socks....

Oh, sorry, don't know what happened there, came over all aggressive and unRangerlike...

/grin

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SBKImperial

Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:03 am

#7

Almagill,

Sock bludgeoning, eh? Not the way I want to go...

I quickly cut a few lines out of the text Fred posted and there it sits in my bio. Plagerism? Hell yeah. Got me through four years of University...

SBKImperial