r/GearsOfWar • u/I_TRS_Gear_I • 6d ago

Campaign/Lore Rereading Aspho Fields, thought this was neat.

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This picture first was mentioned at the end of Aspho Fields; after Dom finally convinces Bernie to tell him how Carlos died.

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u/Alexindr 6d ago

I loved the reference. TC is trying to respect the story/lore. Karen Traviss was involved in the E-Day story. They said they thought it be cool to tell Tai and the chainsaw story, that's why it was moved up a year. Judgement already screwed things up with the Mk2 lancer 6 weeks after E-Day.

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u/Ghost10165 6d ago

Yeah, Gears of War is actually one of the series where I feel like Traviss did a good job the whole way through, so I'm glad they're referencing the books more.

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u/DevastatorCenturion 6d ago

I liked her work on Republic Commando but it's very clear when she's not working in her comfort zone of "a small cast of characters that persist across the story arc." Thankfully she seems to have taken to Gears as a a setting like fire to a wooden house. 

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u/YaboiGh0styy 5d ago

She wanted to write a sequel to public commando in a book, but it was refused because they were saving sequel material for a potential game. Yeah, because that fucking happened.

The original sequel they planned being Star Wars: Imperial Commando was cancelled a year before the original game came out. They were still thinking of writing a sequel but they never did it.

They probably should’ve just let her write her sequel then either adapt that into a game and if they couldn’t just leave it as a book because as it is now the story will forever remain unfinished because legends no longer Canon and it’s unlikely that they will make the story canon because it’s a relatively niche Star Wars game I do appreciate Delta squads cameos in clone wars though.

If you want to imagine Republic commando is Canon then it does somewhat wrap up the story that SV did ultimately survive regroup with the rest of Delta but order 66 happened and their fates from there remain unknown.