#dash rendar

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Star Wars: Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels - Dash Rendar's Modified Corellian Engineering Corporation YT-2400 Light Freighter "Outrider"

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With the passing of iconic artist Greg Hildebrandt, we thought we'd take a chance this week to shine a highlight on Shadows of the Empire, starting with the amazing work Greg and his brother Tim put into the ambitious multimedia project, that helped to launch the classic EU as we know it. The Hildebrandt brothers' art defined for many this gigantic leap into expanding the universe, when their artwork was used to capture and tie together scenes from all aspects of the project (book, comic, and game), in a series of Topps trading cards. The process of their endeavor is captured in the artbook "Star Wars: The Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt."

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May the Fourth be with you!

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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (Game) - Dash Rendar Jetpack Concept Art by Jon Knoles

[themuskrater]

I tried Shadows of the Empire and I don't know if this is a hot take, but I think I hate Dash Rendar.

This dude is SO fucking lame. He's every bad stereotype of a 90s self insert protagonist. His whole thing is supposed to be "Han Solo but cooler and edgier".

He's a SMUGGLER working for the Rebels, but not unless they PAY him! He flies the OUTRIDER. It's just like the Millenium Falcon but it's NEWER and FASTER and COOLER! He's BEST FRIENDS with all the main characters like Luke and Leia and Han and Lando and they're all jealous of how fucking COOL he is!!!!

Just give me a break dude. All his lines are shitty one liners and catch phrases that sound like they were written for Duke Nukem. He fights and beats every iconic character because the writers needed him to be cooler and stronger than everyone. His design is trash, he doesn't fit the Star Wars aesthetic and looks stupid next to any other character. And his name is DASH RENDAR for fucks sake. DASH. RENDAR. And what's even funnier is the developers went out of their way to make the main characters say his name as often as possible in these cutscenes. It sounds so unnatural to hear Luke Skywalker say "Dash" 30 times.

This dude sucks, he's the perfect example of why Legends is hit or miss. Kyle Katarn? Hit. Dash Rendar? Biggest damn miss. Missed and fell right into the garbage.

I get that his cheesiness may be nostalgic for some people, but I didn't play this game when I was young and I never read any of the tie in material, so for me it's just obnoxious. He's not even charming cheesy like Kyle, he's just annoying and I hate looking at his stupid shoulder pads.

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Star Wars Customizable Card Game promotional and play cards. “Reflections II: Expanding the Galaxy.” January, 2001.

Decipher’s Reflections II: Expanding the Galaxy series brought a handful of Expanded Universe characters to life including Mara Jade, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Talon Karrde, Corran Horn, Mirax Terrik, Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, and Guri. Decipher also created an exclusive 5”x7” Promotional Oversized “Signature” Card depicting Mara, Talon Karrde, and Corran Horn for the summer ‘01 convention circuit. Model Shannon (Baksa) McRandle portrayed Mara Jade, while Timothy Zahn was made up to depict Talon Karrde, and Michael Stackpole was costumed to resemble Corran Horn. Stackpole had these memories to share on his blog:

The stuff done in a photostudio is really magic. At first glance, the guys they got for Corran and Karrde were right, in general. Good on the overall dimensions, hair color, eye color, etc., but they were just guys off the street. Then the hair and makeup folks went to work. Karrde got a wig and a full makeup job, which sharpened his features and totally changed him. By the end of the process - during which Tim's camera was clicking almost incessantly - I was believing the guy was Talon Karrde.

Once Karrde was made up and costumed, he was taken onto the photostage and lit. That's a fascinating process. If they put a yellow filter on a light, the light is considered "hot." A blue filter makes it "cold." The art director, photographer and photographer's assistant all discussed and debated, pulling lights this way and that, setting them up at angles, getting the model to look here or there. Then they took test Polaroid shots and digital shots and finally agreed that things were right. It was almost anticlimactic when the shooting got done, but the results were great. Talon Karrde lived.

Shannon Baksa actually did Corran's makeup, then he got lit and shot. One of my concerns had been that the model was a bit older than Corran would have been at that point, but the makeup and lighting slashed 15 years off him. And the models, they put up with a lot. At one point, while folks were off debating how Corran should be lit, the guy who had done Karrde's makeup commented that Corran was just sitting there rock-still. Corran said, "I'd move, but I'm afraid they'd have to re-light me."

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George Lucas and Shadows of the Empire Part of a series I’ve put together focusing on the history of the EU. Sources: Howard Roffman (1, 2), Joel McNeely, Steve Perry (1, 2), Greg Hildebrandt (1, 2, Starlog #232), and Jon Knoles.

[zeldasminion]

Will Dash Rendar ever return? 🥺

I don't mean like a book, I mean like a video game or series or even a film.

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My headcanon for Dash Rendar's varying appearance in different official art:

1 year on HRT:

2 years on HRT:

3 years on HRT:

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Not me trying to sneakily convince this man to do a Nathaniel Howe cosplay

Iykyk

[gigantorcrushedmyballs]

Thinking about him again.

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Shadows of the Empire was an ambitious multimedia project that, in both retrospect and at the time, helped to set the standard for what the classic Expanded Universe could accomplish. A movie-sized project "without the movie," it spanned a novel, comic series, video game, trading cards, soundtrack, and toy line that all tied together different parts of the same story. The novel followed the main plotline, which told our core heroes' story of trying to locate and save Han (frozen in carbonite) between Episodes 5 and 6. Luke, Leia, Lando, and Chewie were joined by new cast of fan-favorites such as Dash Rendar, against antagonists Prince Xizor, Guri, and the bounty hunters.

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Luke Skywalker: Dash doesn't have survival instincts. His need to win has overpowered them. Wedge Antilles: That can't possibly be true. Luke Skywalker: Watch this. Hey, Dash! Race you to the bottom of the stairs! Dash Rendar: *jumps out the window*

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Dash Rendar's Modified Corellian Engineering Corporation YT-2400 Light Freighter "Outrider"

Source: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Del Rey, 1996)

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