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Café Fanfic is a discussion topic centered around fan-fiction. Authors are encouraged to contribute to the café's monthly discussion, which are designed to stimulate ideas and encourage engagement between members of the SWF fan-fiction writing community in a criticism-free zone.

Participants in Café Fanfic are also welcome to submit ideas for the next month's topic of discussion.

Previous topics can be found in the archival list at the bottom of the page.

There are three basic premises for Café Fanfic

1. Please restrict this to stuff from your fan-fiction (written or possibly just conceptualized).
2. You can suggest and make observations, but no condemning other people's work
3. "I don't know" is a perfectly acceptable answer.

October's topic: Talk about a particular vehicle or spaceship that is of importance to your series. What kind of ship is it? What kind of adventures have happened using that ship? What is its significance to its owners?

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Sholush

HRM. I think having a ship that a lot of the story takes place in is one of the things about Star Wars, whether we notice it consciously or not in our writing. Wheras, normally, "home base" would be a building or an office or a house, in Star Wars it's a mobile ship. At least until we get into Prequels, where it's the Jedi Temple. >.>

This in mind, it makes sense that in most stories regarding Star Wars that an author would think of a home ship, even if they don't realize it's something they're unconsciously doing. And why not? Your home base can be a cool ship, and it can double as a method of escape or a way to fight off enemies. It's quite serviceable to a plot. We need them to go here? No need to worry about having to establish a new location, it's still they're home base. Very economical.

Not saying that all Star Wars stories do this, of course they don't, but in stories where there's a lot of traveling it make sense. In stories where everything takes place in only a couple locations, not so much. For instance, in three of the four ficcy things I've really written (or am writing LOOOL), there's a main ship. Most of the story might not take place in them, but there's a ship that's associated with at least one of the characters, because they travel around. It has a special, definite design, usually with a few set rooms (though in one case it's just a cockpit), and with a few definite limitations and strengths that are known to the reader to both build tension and familiarity. Only one of my stories doesn't feature a Home Ship, or any ship at all for that matter: "Rakata." For obvious reasons - there's really only one location.

AS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL SHIPS....

Okay, I don't remember what the name of the ship was in my first ficcy thing (DISCLAIMER: My first ficcy thing sucked. Hard). Anyhoo, it was the one that was essentially just a fighter ship, though it had hyperdrive capabilities (because of course it did <eyeroll>), and was black to make it hard to see in space (this is before I was educated enough to know about heat sigs -_-;). It was used by an assassin. There was no emotional attachment to it - it was practical. It was a way to move the character from here to there in a <airquotes> "cool" looking ship.

The second ficcy thing was a more serial adventure-type thing involving two characters, mostly - a guy and his wife - travelling around the galaxy, getting in various adventures, so the main ship was almost a character in itself. It was called the Bird of Prey and was shaped like a bird's head (I was a dumb kid). It was also blue and silver, so you know it was fabulous. Lemme see if I still have a pic of the dumb thing, I got rid of most of my old stuff.........

<rummage rummage>

I DO! >_<; it so dum. lol

In Fate, there is a kind of home ship, but to tell you guys too much about it might be kinda spoiler-y. Ataru, you poor soul, you know what I'm talking about. :p

So yeah.

ANYHOO. That was long-winded. whatevs. DEAL WIF IT. -Solus ^{Talk to the Hand} 21:26, October 4, 2013 (UTC)

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