Behind the scenes: The Remnant Threat

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And now - the all-knowing guide to the formation of The Grand Marshal Trilogy Episode α: The Remnant Threat.

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Pre-production

First off - the idea. It came to some jyineus called Al in the last phase of the year 2005. He was teribly bored, and came to his good friend Jedd wielding a prototype script and a digital camera.

After a few iterations, a serious plot was developed, and a fiendish character called the Grand Marshal (a prieviously unseen rank) and a treacherous plot to undermine the New Republic.

Before that, though, there were original plans, including the plot to star a padawan (later used in the second comic)This idea was later deemed too Mary Sue-ish for the premiere comic. Another plan was to have the plot focus on a GIANT Yavin 4 invasion, complete with giant tank robots. This plot idea was eventually dropped and replaced with an epic space battle and a smaller-scale Yavin 4 invasion, nonetheless with the neat AT-RT set.

The space battle underwent serious modifications. As hard to believe as this seems, Han and Leia were originally meant to ride Ep. 3 era starfighters (in fact we still have the shots of this)! Thankfully the Millenium Falcon came along as a combo birthday-Christmas set (Jedd's). The battle was planned, from the start, to have