{"id":561,"date":"2007-12-24T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2007-12-11T13:46:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:46:51","slug":"amazing-wrecked-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Amazing &#8220;Wrecked&#8221; Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/atat.thumbnail.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Abandoned AT-AT' \/><A HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.amctv.com\/scifiscanner\/2007\/12\/the-rusty-war-e.html\">Sci Fi Scanner<\/A> makes an interesting point about <I>Star Wars<\/I>, which I&#8217;ve never really thought much about:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The portion of &#8220;A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away&#8221; we often forget \u2014 even though it&#8217;s the most important\u2014is the &#8220;long time ago&#8221; part. <I>Star Wars<\/I>, unlike most sci-fi, is not about the future: It&#8217;s about the distant past of alien species utterly unconnected to humanity.<\/p>\n<p>But if we were to fly to Coruscant today, what would we find? Would the city planet be the rusting hulk of a once great capital, the inter-cosmic ruins of Rome? What would archeologists find, exploring Hoth, Degobah [sic] or Tattooine?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was the theme of the winning entry for Starship Modeler&#8217;s recent <A HREF=\"http:\/\/starshipmodeler.com\/contest\/entries.htm\">&#8220;Wrecks&#8221; contest<\/A>: A battle-damaged AT-AT, long abandoned and looking uncomfortably like a wounded animal.  This is just an insanely detailed piece, and even hints at a backstory involving primitive squatters using the thing as a shelter.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/starshipmodeler.com\/contest\/kit_16.htm\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sci Fi Scanner makes an interesting point about Star Wars, which I&#8217;ve never really thought much about: The portion of &#8220;A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away&#8221; we often forget \u2014 even though it&#8217;s the most important\u2014is the &#8220;long time ago&#8221; part. Star Wars, unlike most sci-fi, is not about the future: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}