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• Site Reconstruction

  Working on so much... New request forms, new images, some changes to the layout...

SWGN Staff has their assignments, and the site's nearly ready for them to start filling it

up.

• Warbanners Currently there are over 220 GoA images to replace before we can start on new requests - however - we have a system by which we are going to hammer

out all of those. We will be in contact with current GoA holders on updating to the new Standard.

Contact on replacement has a system too. We're trying to go from the most difficult (in terms of available custom features) to the least difficult, meaning

from the Elders down.

• Custom Lightsabers
  

Nothing New yet.

Deleted SITH Scene Revealed

Lucasfilm fan relations guru Steve Sansweet brought his Star Wars media show to Chicago this week, which included one of the half-dozen or so deleted scenes

from Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith that will be included on the DVD coming November 1. The scene takes place in Senator Bail Organa's office. It is a meeting led by Bail and involves five other senators, including Mon Mothma

and Padme Amidala, as they discuss the goings on in the Senate. Sansweet referred to it as the 'birth of the rebellion' scene.

Star Wars Weekend Loot!

Did you make it down to Disney World for their Star Wars Weekend events? No? Me either, but now you can [buy the merchandise](http://shop.starwars.com/search/?

keywords1=Disney) and pretend you went.

Sad Farewell For Katie

On August 8th 2005, Katie lost her battle with cancer. The 501st founder Albin Johnson's

daughter has been undergoing treatments for months in hopes of irradicating an unoperable tumor on her brainstem. She was seven years old.

Katie's story touched thousands of hearts and rallied support from countless generous people, including George Lucas.

Mac Attack

Aspyr Media Inc. on Tuesday announced that its [Macintosh conversion of Lego

Star Wars: The Video Game](http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/08/09/lego/index.php) has gone “gold master,” the final step before the game goes into production. Aspyr expects the game to start shipping on

Monday, August 22nd, 2005. Lego Star Wars: The Video Game is rated “E” for Everyone by the ESRB and costs $29.99 USD.

Unlike Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - which is now rated AO and goes for about $120 on eBay.

More from the 'Front

LucasArts announced that it will showcase its new videogame Star Wars Battlefront II at Ziff Davis Media's DigitalLife event in October of this year. LucasArts, a leading developer and publisher of videogames, will use DigitalLife to celebrate the

November 1st launch of Star Wars Battlefront II, the sequel to the best-selling Star Wars game of all time. Thousands of gamers and consumers are expected to

attend the three-day DigitalLife event, which will be held October 14-16, 2005, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. See more info here.

You made it to the end! Congrats. I did too.

This week has been filled with e-mail. Questions on the Warbanners, proposals on procedures, general concerns on issues I don't really cover... I've answered

some, deleted others (mostly blank ones - very strange), and ignored a few more. I've caught up with people on IRC to discuss their messages, and I've even

logged into Dessan's TeamSpeak server. It's been a busy "paperwork" week.

I'm looking forward to getting the Warbanners done - only about a dozen done so far.

Hey, for reading this far you get a special treat... Little Known Star Wars Fact #59: Why do Ewoks wear clothing? When Lucasfilm did the first screen

test of the Ewok costumes, the seams were visible. Rather than redesign the costumes, the Ewoks donned hoods and vests.

Besides - it means you see less of them.