This is my user page. Contact me as needed, when needed.

I am a recent honors graduate (magna cum laude) from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia where I studied Ancient History with concentrations in Roman history, particularly the Late Republic, and Ancient Art History, particular Roman urban planning and general ancient art from the Archaic Period to the Roman fourth century. I rarely update this page, with the exception of the literature ratings, and even more rarely contribute to this website. In general I shy away from Wikis, primarily due to the fact that these communities are unmonitored in any professional or academic sense. More to the point, these communities promote a form of "fact building" or "fact creation" based on the concept of "truth by consensus", or whatever it is one calls it. The very idea that fact can be created in the face of verifiable (i.e. cited) facts because a broad majority of users agree is, at best, simply appalling. Luckily, unlike the regular Wikipedia, Star Wars has an office to handle questions about office canon and such, which makes Wookieepedia a "down-and-dirty" way of finding knowledge quickly, albeit running the risk of getting misinformation or wrong information. This is the price we pay for having these sorts of communities. In the end, I would much rather read it myself in source and reference materials where at least I know someone official has scanned it than rely on the word of some fans who are more often than not inclined to insert their little bits of fanon.

More to the point, Wikis, and Wookieepedia in particular, are hobbies, not jobs and certainly not scholarly or academic materials. Thus, with the overall completion of my original goal to document minor characters, warships, and organizations of the latter New Order-era Galactic Empire and the Imperial Remnant, I see very little need to use up my time on this website. It also does not help when users come along and add their fanon to these sorts of articles. This is not a matter of wanting to own the articles so much as a desire to preserve the respective article's integrity. Since this has proved time and again to be nearly impossible, I have all but abandoned Wookieepedia to its own devices and users. Still, with the departure of one particular user and a resurgent interest in the Star Wars universe, I may find myself editing articles after a period of surfing the site, partly out of interest, but more likely out of frustration...

Oh, and I'm rather certain that the Sith Emperor for the upcoming game The Old Republic is not Naga Sadow or Freedon Nadd or some other unknown Sith Lord. No, I'm rather certain the Sith Emperor is, in fact, none other than Revan. (da da dum!)

Things to do & in-progressEdit

Current Project: nothing currently

To do or improve:

• Berrida, General (Force Heretic I: Remnant, 174.)
• Fleet Group Relentless (Force Heretic I: Remnant, 274, 342.)
• Fleet Group Protector (Force Heretic I: Remnant, 274, 342.)
• Fleet Group Stalwart (Force Heretic I: Remnant, 274, 342.)
• Fleet Group Right to Rule (Force Heretic I: Remnant, 274, 342.)
• Imperial remnants
• Sarm (Dark Nest III: The Swarm War, 222-224.)
• Drusan (Choices of One.)
• Tibbale (Choices of One, 52.)
• bridge officer (Choices of One.)

Special PagesEdit

• Analysis of the Imperial Remnant: This is an analysis of the Imperial Remnant and its military forces as of 19 ABY, right before the signing of the Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty. Evidence is drawn from numerous source materials via original research, but centers around the evidence present in the Hand of Thrawn duology. It attempts to make sense of the state of Empire—i.e. the Imperial Remnant—by assessing the regime's origins with special emphasis on the events at Tsoss Beacon in 12 ABY. It's still in sandbox form, though it's really not meant to ever become an article in itself, but rather a source of information to enrich and supplement existing articles.
• Commentaries & Analysis of Imperial Rank Insignia: Coming soon.

Star Wars literature ratingsEdit

Here are a list of the Star Wars literature I both own and have read, though it currently only covers novels. The list of novels I own is much longer, but I am rather slowly wading through them. I originally started collecting Star Wars novels following the gift of the novel Darksaber sometime in 1996, though I did not actually read it until early 2001. After that, I decided to read into some of the Star Wars history alluded to in that particular novel and read the Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy. Heir to the Empire had me hooked on page one and I quickly grew to embrace and love the EU. Darksaber, though, was not my first encounter with the novels. In elementary school I read Champions of the Force and later attempted to delve into Tyrant's Test and can recall my friends reading the Young Jedi Knights series (I had also read and owned the Tales of the Bounty Hunters anthology, but didn't consider it a novel). After reading the Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Academy trilogy in 2001 following the Thrawn trilogy (as I had decided to figure out the back-story to my distant memories of Champions of the Force), I decided to go back and read all of the novels from immediately following Return of the Jedi and onward. This eventually grew to contain a select few prequel EU novels, but only a select few. Since then, in sputters and spurts, I have been reading from The Truce at Bakura to Vision of the Future and then into the New Jedi Order and onward. What follows are my ratings of those novels I have read on a scale from 1 to 5: 1 being "poor", 2 "mediocre", 3 "average", 4 "good", and 5 "excellent". I have afforded some novels a something.5 score, which means it was better than the regular numerical scoring, but not good enough for the next tier. Also, anthology books (such as Tales of the Bounty Hunters or Tales from the Empire) have not been included despite being rather lengthy; in truth, they are short stories. I will eventually devise short story ratings. The lowest score possible is 0.5 and the highest is 5.5, reserved to signify those novels are my personal least-favorite or most-favorite, respectively.

Recommended ReadingEdit

Note: This list is extremely outdated.

OnlineEdit

• De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
• Hannibal Barca and the Punic Wars
• Mobile Suit Gundam: High Frontier
• Star Wars Technical Commentaries

PublishedEdit

• Bagnall, Nigel. The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and the Struggle for the Mediterranean, 1st U.S. ed. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005.
• Bentley, Jerry H. and Herbert F. Ziegler. Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, 2nd ed. Vol. 1. New York: McGraw Hill, 2003.
• Bentley, Jerry H. and Herbert F. Ziegler. Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, 2nd ed. Vol. 2. New York: McGraw Hill, 2003.
• Eckstein, Arthur M. Senate and General: Individual Decision Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264-194 B.C. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
• Goldsworthy, Adrian. The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146 BC. London: Cassell, 2000.
• Harris, W.V. War and Imperialism in Republican Rome, 327-70 BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
• Khouj, Abdullah Muhammad. Islam. Washington: Assembly House, 1996.
• Lamb, Harold. Hannibal: One Man Against Rome. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1958.
• Lazenby, J.F. Hannibal’s War: A Military History of the Second Punic War. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
• Lazenby, J.F. The First Punic War: A Military History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
• O'Neil, Gerard K. The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, 3rd ed. Niagra: Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc., 2000.
• Plutarch. Parallel Lives. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin, Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.

External LinksEdit

These are some of the sites I frequent.

• SWRebellion
• George Mason University
• Wikipedia
• SWRebellion
• Roman Army Talk
• Third Cohort, Legio VI FFC