Be Back Soon

Wow.... Okay.... I'm really sorry, everyone. I haven't been blogging for almost 20 days. I've just been so busy with so many other things, and I almost forgot about my blog. I'd just like to say that I will be taking a little bit of a longer break, but don't worry, I will definitely be back soon.

A Glance into the Past: DaS Entertainment

In the past few days, I have been looking for somethings cool to post on my blog while I prepare my stories. If you go on the Internet quite frequently, you will most likely know about archive.org, the place to find all sorts of awesome things that are no longer available on the web. While looking on the Wayback Machine (a.k.a. the thing on archive.org which allows you to travel back in time to see loads of website screenshots), I found a website entitled “das-entertainment.com.” After looking at a few more screen dumps, I realised that this website was the predecessor to bathtub-productions.com, which was Damien Valentine (a.k.a. Darth Angelus)’s main website before codedtransmission.com and chroniclesofhumanity.com. I managed to download a few files from here, including the original poster to Damien’s first part in the four-part machinima series Star Wars: The Darkness Saga (http://www.das-entertainment.com/gallerythingy/images/poster3.jpg), Falling into Darkness, as well as the original poster for part two (http://www.das-entertainment.com/gallerythingy/images/poster%20by%20nessa.jpg), The Darkness Consumes. After some really good hunting I found a huge collection of short stories (the stories were: Escape and Discovery, War, Falling into Darkness, The Day I Joined the New Republic, Sacrifice and New Command) which tied into the series, a large character profile and timeline (https://web.archive.org/web/20080510224613/http://www.bg-hunter.tk/), along with a lot of other things.

What I was really excited with though were the videos. 4 videos, not available on YouTube, Vimeo, or any other site for a matter of fact. The four videos were: Battlegroup Hunter, which is a little bit of an introductory to a small group that Damien was part of, Star Wars: Episode II & III Teaser, which is a trailer to Star Wars: Episode II – The Darkness Consumes and Star Wars: Episode III – Armageddon, Star Wars: Falling into Darkness Trailer, which was the original trailer to Episode I – Falling into Darkness, and, the best of them all, Star Wars: Episode I – Falling into Darkness, which is NOT the 2005 machinima fan film by Bathtub Productions, this is the original 2-D animated 2002 fan film Falling into Darkness, which is not available ANYWHERE unless you have the link!

So, if you want to watch these videos, follow the links (Links 1-4 are the original AVI and RM videos, click the links and they will automatically download. Links 5-8 are the MP4 videos, click the links and you will be able to download them from Google Drive [converted by Convertio].)

1. Battlegroup Hunter (AVI file, 6.99 MB)
2. Star Wars: Episode II & III Teaser (AVI file, 2.38 MB)
3. Star Wars: Episode I – Falling into Darkness Trailer (AVI file, 2.93 MB)
4. Star Wars: Episode I – Falling into Darkness (RM file, 16.1 MB)
5. Battlegroup Hunter (MP4 file, 2.77 MB)
6. Star Wars: Episode II & III Teaser (MP4 file, 1.06 MB)
7. Star Wars: Episode I – Falling into Darkness Trailer (MP4 file, 1.14 MB)
8. Star Wars: Episode I – Falling into Darkness (MP4 file, 47.9 MB)

I’ll also be creating a Darkness Saga timeline for fun, so check it out just under the heading, next to Home and The Complete Star Wars Legends Timeline. Well that’s a wrap, so see you next time on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

Fandom Favourites, Part 2: Darth Angelus

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

You might remember my first post in a series entitled “Fandom Favourites,” that specific favourite being Joe Bongiorno’s TheStar Wars Expanded Universe Timeline. This post is not about one specific website, but about one fan, who is Damien Valentine, a.k.a. Darth Angelus. Damien is probably most well-known for his work on the sci-fi series Chronicles of Humanity, although he has created some awesome stuff, his latest being Chapter 2 in an animated adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire novel. If you have come across Damien’s work before, you will most likely know his video “The Death of Jar Jar” (whether it’s the original version, The Fall of Naboo version, or the Supreme Edition), which is hilarious and amazing and I can’t think of any other words to describe it. He is also the creator of the machinima-styled “Darkness Saga,” which is a four-part fan-film series, containing Falling into Darkness, The Darkness Consumes, Darkness Unleashed, and A Galaxy in Darkness. In 2016, he also created Imperials, which is a must-must-must-must-must-must-must-must-must-must-must-must-see remake of Falling into Darkness. Well, below is a collection of links to his various paces on the web:

Darth Angelus on YouTube

Darth Angelus on Vimeo
Darth Angelus on the RP Repository
Darth Angelus on Slartist
Darth Angelus' Meditation Chamber
The Death of Jar Jar Website
Bathtub Productions Website
The Darkness Saga Website
Coded Transmission Studios Website
Star Wars: Imperials Website

To get you pumped to see all of Damien’s work, I have placed his amazing “Supreme Edition” of The Death of Jar Jar below, and, also don’t forget to subscribe to his channel, DarthAngelus:

As for the rest of Damien’s work, check out his channel, and stay tuned for more exciting content on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

A Glance Into The Past: Valhalla Returns

You might remember my article on Han Solo and the Lost Hungarian Legacy, which explained a whole lot about Valhalla Páholy’s Star Wars novels. Now, after some interesting searching, I have found that only did Valhalla publish Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, Brian Daley’s Han Solo trilogy (along with the omnibus), and a four-book sequel series, they also reprinted many of Bantam Spectra’s classic 1990’s novels, and the novelizations of the original trilogy. Including the aforementioned 9 novels, they produced an additional 14 novels. Altogether, the 23 novels are:

·         A Birodalom örökösei (The Thrawn Trilogy Book 1 – Heir to the Empire)

·         Sötét erők ébredése (The Thrawn Trilogy Book 2 – Dark Force Rising)

·         0: Erőpróba (Splinter of the Mind’s Eye)

·         1: Han Solo hadjárata (Han Solo at Star’s End)

·         2: Han Solo bosszúja (Han Solo’s Revenge)

·         3: Han Solo küldetése (Han Solo and the Lost Legacy)

·         4: Han Solo nomádjai (Han Solo at Doomsday’s Edge)

·         5: Han Solo a birodalmi ügynök (Han Solo’s Gambit)

·         Csillagok háborúja (A New Hope)

·         A Birodalom visszavág (The Empire Strikes Back)

·         A Jedi visszatér (Return of the Jedi)

·         Az utolsó parancs (The Thrawn Trilogy Book 3 – The Last Command)

·         6: Han Solo és a fejvadászok (Han Solo and the Bounty Hunters)

·         7: Han Solo háborúja (Han Solo’s War)

·         1-3: Han Solo legendája (The Han Solo Adventures)

·         Különbéke (The Truce at Bakura)

·         Szökevények (The Courtship of Princess Leia)

·         A koréliai rajtaütés (The Corellian Trilogy Book 1 – Ambush at Corellia)

·         Új Rend (The Jedi Academy Trilogy Book 1 – Jedi Search)

·         Sötét oldal (The Jedi Academy Trilogy Book 2 – Dark Apprentice)

·         Az Erő bajnokai (The Jedi Academy Trilogy Book 3 – Champions of the Force)

·         Mos Eisley mesék (Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina)

·         Fekete kard (The Black Fleet Crisis Book 1 – Before the Storm)

I still am not sure if these novels are even partially official, despite the fact that the actual interior content has been approved. Either way, Valhalla Páholy (translating as “Valhalla Lodge” in English) sure tried to make the novels seem official, going so far as to using the name of the father of Carrie Fisher (who played Princess Leia), Ed Fisher, as a pseudonym for András Gáspár, who apparently “translated Pendragon Books’ (an earlier name of Valhalla) Han Solo at Doomsday’s Edge into the Hungarian language.” The trend of using the real author’s name as the Hungarian translator carried on through the fake Solo novels, when Nyúlzi Zsolt (or Zsolt Nyúlzi), whose pseudonym was Dale Avery, translated all of, well, erm, Dale Avery’s novels from English to Hungarian.

P.S. If you want to see the list of these fake books, along with the covers, search for the article “Valhalla Páholy Star Wars könyvei” on Kaminopedia, which is the Hungarian counterpart to Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki, or just go straight to the link below:

https://starwars.fandom.com/hu/wiki/Valhalla_P%C3%A1holy_Star_Wars_k%C3%B6nyvei

Thank you for reading, and see you next time on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!