Hoi guys, I'm still alive. This is not an actual chapter, it is merely an update to let you know that I am not abandoning SotE again. I've just been extremely busy since it's been the last few weeks of a college term, and there have been papers due and exams out the ASS. Also, I've become addicted to Ragnarok again, as you can see by the shocking truth that there is a story in my list that is ABOVE SotE since it was updated more recently.

Anyways. I promise that I'll go back to work on the ending couple of chapters, which will have shit ganked from almost every movie so far, except Empire Strikes Back. No, it will not consist ENTIRELY of stolen elements. This will be proven by the fact that there will be DIALOGUE in it. :D Anyways, I promise to have it up either before or shortly after I see Revenge of the Sith. Like I said to Peptuck, nothing makes you want to write Star Wars more than the biggest collection of PWN in the entire Star Wars saga this side of the upcoming Battlefront 2. Which, by the way, is going to be the best game ever. I mean, come on. It has space battles. Meaning? Death Star trench run. Escape from Hoth (probably; since the Battlefront 1 mod for such kicks ass). Also? Trade Federation control ship raid from Episode 1 (yeah, that one kinda sucked, but it's still a space fight, right?) It's fully confirmed that they will have the HALF-HOUR-LONG opening space battle from Revenge of the Sith. That's just gonna be bitchin'. And the coup de grace? BATTLE OF ENDOR SPACE. Only the single most AWESOME battle in all of Star Wars. Nothing else touches it. Hoth comes close, but only if I'm flying a snowspeeder with my friend Nick as the gunner, and we're proceeding to rape AT-ATs.

Right, now that I've got that blatant advertisement for Battlefront 2 in, I will finish it off before summer. That's a guarantee. :D

So now, I'll do the shout-outs for last chapter, the pitiful few. Guess there were a few reader casualties in that final battle. /swt

madmaz: You really thought it was that good? Sweet. I know it could've been a lot better. I completely ran dry on inspiration. Heaven help me, a whole ass of it will smack me in the face once RotS comes out. And it's going to be a final chapter that covers the celebration and the next day or so, and then I may have an epilogue with a look into the future of a Spira that's all Star Wars-ified. And heh, that'd be awesome if this could make it into a movie. It could be Star Wars Episode VII! Yeah right, maybe if Lucas wan't such a selfish prick. ;(

Wolfy16: Yep, you got it. Highwind FF7, Airship FFX, Celsius FFX-2. Wanted to see Auron, did you? Yeah, that's one of the other things I lost track of in all the excitement. The minor-yet-still-known characters got no screentime. But hey, that can all be resolved. I'm considering a "Shadows of the Empire: Special Edition."

MegIvanParagon: Everyone gets shout-outs, dude. ;p Even you. And yeah, Vegnagun went Death Star on 'em. ; Guess what kids? Return of the Jedi just got rewritten. There was no Executor for the errant A-wing pilot to crash into, and thus the Rebels had a much easier fight. They still won, of course. Any fight where you get Luke and Wedge in the same action is gonna be a win. And I threw in the direct lines from Battlefront to be homage to one of the greatest FPS games since Halo 2. No, correction. THE greatest FPS since Halo 2. Sure, Battlefront is a ripoff of the Battlefield 1942 series from EA Games, but Battlefront is 3458349573985784 times better. Why? It's Star Wars. 'Nuff said. And besides, Battlefront 2 is gonna be so much awesomer than Halo 2. ;) Aaaand I said up there. It's going to be a mix of movie stuff and new.

SevenTowers: Ick. ;( That's bad. You let your kids know that Jedi Knight Yuna wishes them a speedy recovery. ;) Anyways yes, I hope everything's gotten better for you, and that it'll all be settled by the time SotE is finished, so I can hear more entertaining stories about your reactions to my chapters. :D I swear I'll do something funny/stupid/crazy if I hear that you tried to have an Ewok-esque victory bonfire, or something similar. Like get about 50 of your friends, put them in pieces of clone trooper armor, and tell them to party like they just won the Galactic Civil War.

...And if you do do that? Send me one of the sets of clone trooper armor. :D I would KILL for one of those.