The Haunting of Wedge Antilles #1
Now, for all those ladies complaining about there being too much female nudity in BMS, you’re voices have finally been heard! Welcome to Wedge Antilles week at BMS. All week (with the exception of Wednesday) we will be building up to something special. We’ll get back to Leia’s problems, Vader’s confrontation with the Emperor and of course the full introduction of Boba Fett in the next couple of weeks. But for now, sit back and enjoy more Wedge, Biggs and of course a new story arc in the ongoing Adventures of Grand Moff Tarkin flashback series.
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Could you actually blame Wedge for Biggs fate? Oh, dear i really need to watch that scene again to fresh up my memory
Also, in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, when Kyle Katarns apprentice Jaden Korr works with bigs on a “hit-n-run” mission to an imperial remnant gas-minging staion (I’ve forgotten what the planet below was called), he is reffered to as “General Wedge Antilles”, altough he still wears his rebel pilot-jumpsuit and flies an old x-wing. is that really the way a “general” is to dress/act/travel? i mean, i didn’t expect him to use expensive robes or such, but it feels so strange when all the other lower-standing militariens in SW (such as captan, commander, admiral, etc) Stands on a cruisers bridge away from the very heart of the battle… Alose, WHEN did he became a general? probably after battle of endor, but i mea, was it because of his victories in the films or bravados he made aainst the remnant?
Read the X-Wing series for your answers.
Wedge really isnt all that cocky even considering what he has done (which is why I find these funny)
He always loved being a pilot and turned down several promotions so he could continue to serve in an X-Wing unit. Shortly after the Thrawn crisis (5 years after Endor) he finally accepts a promotion but is allowed to continue to serve in a fighter unit as a special deal. By that time however he commands an entire Fighter Wing (not the only New Republic General to be doing that)
It is because he is command of a successful military unit and an excellent officer. To give you an idea, with roughly 24 fighters, a war frigate, a number of civilian frigates, and resistance members to liberate a planet, cause the defection of an ISD and its crew, and capture a SSD from the empire plus destruction of 2 other Imperial ISDs
He wears the proper uniform when needed. When he is commanding his task force he has a proper officer uniform, when in a fighter he has his pilot uniform. If he is flying of course he will wear a pilot jumpsuit and they picked him because of his love of flying and the fact he IS the best fighter pilot in the galaxy (thats why he is popular, only Luke is a better pilot and that is because Luke has the force, Wedge dosnt)
Oh and remember that there is a difference between navel ranks (capital ships) and air force ranks. In Episode V. Luke is a commander which is actually a rank above captain in the chain of command for the air force. A commander is about even to navel Captain, with General being about even to Admiral.
Hopefully that covered everything for you
My perspective on Wedge comes from having never read the EU works featuring him or played the Rogue Squadron games (if they add any insight that is). So, if Wookiepedia gives that particular quote as the intro the article it either misleads in that it implies he is very cocky, or that he is being sarcastic. In the case of the latter, choosing a quote like that as the intro to his article also misleads… unless he is a highly sarcastic character. Either way, Wedge and Dead Biggs are going to have a lot of fun in BMS. 🙂
Maybe Biggs is so bitter about being dropped originally – he’s willing to blame anyone. OR… perhaps WEDGE used to give him wedgies in the locker room?
What female nudity? Did I miss something? 🙁
It was a joke. I like to get surreal sometimes. 🙂
Daala still looked hot the other day!
LOL “What? Feeling Guilty?” HAHAHAHAHAHA