On July 1, 2008, Squad 66: The Temple Raiders was officially approved by the Legion Commanding Officer and ratified by the Legion Captain of the Guard making them the second official squad of the 70th Explorers Garrison. This follows a vote held in the garrison approving the squad application. Brand...

On July 1, 2008, Squad 66: The Temple Raiders was officially approved by the Legion Commanding Officer and ratified by the Legion Captain of the Guard making them the second official squad of the 70th Explorers Garrison. This follows a vote held in the garrison approving the squad's application. Bra...

A public relations detachment, led by Lord Vader, was welcomed in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Springfield Missouri on March 15th, 2008. The Emperor commanded to instill the love of the empire and the 501st into the citizens of Springfield through music, candy, and photo ops. Not entirely underst...

Go to http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/site/ , click on Gallery, then click on the pic of the two astromechs and you see this...

This is a still from a video about Clone Wars that's playing on StarWars.com. Looks pretty convincing to me!

Johnston Lutton (I think) is currently the most popular story on Digg.com. It's the picture of him re-enlisting, in his armor, while in Iraq.

http://digg.com/comedy/Swear_PIC

1400+ Diggs and counting, Johnston. Not bad!

PS: No I wasn't the one to submit his photo.

Holy cow that was awesome!! Alright 70th, something to live up to for our Weird Al gigs!

70th Explorers Welcome Future Astronauts to the Empire On June 20th five members of the 70th Explorers Garrison, led by Darth Vader, hand delivered a letter of welcome to a group of kids attending the Wonderscope Children's Museum Space Camp. The letter stated "From the offices of the Galactic ...

CJ564 wrote:Neeeeeerrrdddddddd!

Way to respect the Legion Staff there CJ!

Hey Rhonda, I don't think buying this qualifies as being an R2 Builder.

I gave myself a year to complete this project and for some reason I keep pushing myself to complete it faster than that. I just need to slow down with it and stop pushing myself. I gave myself 2 years to complete R2, and I still don't know if that will be enough. 0_o It'd be nice to finish it earli...

For anyone that is interested, Replica Prop Forum has opened up registration for a little while. I just registered.

http://www.therpf.com/

Yay, Rhonda! Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm doing too... buying as much pre-assembled as I can. I'm not that confidant in my building skills either. We'll have to compare notes along the way though. BTW, I *might* have figured out who the local R2 builder is. Does the name Ric Tecilder or Rich Vo...

Well, I don't know if I have what it takes to do this (skill OR finances), but I've just joined the R2-D2 Builders Club, and Astromech.net with the intentions of building my own R2! Right now I'm still reading Wikis, FAQs, and just generally educating myself on the process, but I may be making my fi...

Ha!!!

And we're back in today's strip too.

http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20080510