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Hawke 141 edits since January 23, 2006

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Hawke is the nom de plume of a substantially well-placed Design & Internet Professional who has been actively online since 1993. He was on the pioneering wave of Internet development through the mid-90's, established a Dot-com in 1998 (only to have it liquidated in 2000 as one of the first dot-coms to bite the dust), and worked on numerous projects across all facets of Design and multimedia interests. He's also used the screen-names Zephyr, Arkhangel, and Fusebox.

Hawke was also responsible for The Star Wars Satellite, a website that ran from 1995 - 2000. It was awarded a prestigious "Top 100" listing, and was featured in the Incredible Internet Guide to Star Wars.

Currently located in Milwaukee, WI, he continues his work in the Internet -related fields, with expertise shown in website crafting (he dispises the term "web designer", since these folks are usually poorly trained hacks working with tinker-toys), multimedia development, and computer & network outfitting. He is also an Environmental Designer (AKA Environmental Graphics), working alongside architects and interior designers to create interactive, usable spaces.


[edit] Hawke believes...

  • That Star Destroyers are to be considered as battleships and battlecruisers, with the occasional (read "rare") "freak" Star Dreadnaught or Super Star Destroyer (however one would want to call it).
  • That comic book artists (specifically from Dark Horse) should have their fingers broken, or non-anetheticized lobotomies, for drawing some of the most incredulous and pathetic starships, vehicles, and objects ever to curse the Sci-Fi genre.
  • That Ewoks were the creation of a member of Lucas's creative team, who was a closet Furry.
  • That West End Games (WEG) did more to damage and affoul the lustre of Star Wars than any other meddling or "contribution" by any other authoritative source.
  • That game-crafters should knock it the h3ll off.
  • That material made by or for video games should not be considered canon.
  • That those that froth at the mouth over the canon-ness of video game material should be slapped.
  • That there were several hundred capital ships, of both sides, at the Battle of Endor. Cinemagraphic technology limitations does not dictate how many ships were there canonically.
  • That "squadron colors" (Red, Gold, Green, etc.) are com-designations of squadrons, and are terms, not specific names of squadrons. Any one squadron can be Red one week, and then Gold the next, depending on their mission profile.
  • That an Imperator-class Star Destroyer can, could, should, and better hold more than 72 TIE fighters in its hangars, and the only thing keeping it at 72 is a WEG "un-creative moment" (or snafu).
  • That Timothy Zahn knows how to write a good story.
  • That Kevin Anderson is an unimaginative hack.
  • That Darth Maul really and truly is dead... cut in half... and that anyone that implies differently is a clod.
  • That the TIE Advanced and the TIE Avenger are one in the same. Video game-crafters screwed this up.
  • That A-Wings are "da poodoo", and several entities really dropped the ball on the history surrounding them. Hawke isn't against R-22 Spearheads, but doesn't understand why we can't just retcon all that junk that the video games chucked out there that created this mess in the first place.
  • That the same can be said about Mon Calamari Star Cruisers. WEG and the video games took a potential goldmine of creative potential and "poodoo'd" all over it.
  • That Tatooine is one happenin' place.
  • That every effort should be made to keep Microsoft away from Star Wars. (See FASA and MechWarrior)


[edit] Hawke would like to request that George...

  • Reshoot the space battle scene(s) of the Battle of Endor, to bring them up to "modern" standards. Most of the conflicts on this, or any, Wikipedia-based reference material is based around the limitations of technology in the 1970's and 1980's, and would be greatly "cleaned up" if certain sequences were re-shot to the technological and contextual standards laid down in Episodes I - III.
  • Reshoot the Battle of Hoth. Yes, the original Go-Motion sequences were cutting edge for their time, and this engagement is Hawke's favorite, but if you do the Battle of Kashyyyk to such eye-blowing standards, you have to go and redo the Battle of Hoth. (see above)
  • Come out and explain just what the h3ll a Mandalorian is or was, just to set the record straight. (Hawke believes that Mandalorians don't really exist, and that Jango Fett had some really cool armor (which Boba Fett inherited) that a whole bunch of geeks are jealous of, and thus conjured up a whole race of cool-armor wearin' dudes so that they can claim to be Bobo The Mandalorian at the next costume convention).
  • Re-replace Sebastian Shaw in the final scene of Return of the Jedi instead of that whiny poseur Hayden Christensen.