Okay, not really, but I continually think it's a really odd synchronicity that stuff I invent for Star Wars stories appears in Star Wars products years later.
Before you ask, no, I'm not paranoid. I don't *actually* think they're stealing my ideas; it's just one of those weird things where we've thought of the same thing!
Exhibit A: Dreena
In 1994, I began handwriting my own Star Wars novel at the tender age of eleven. (Got to 80 pages before I gave up lol) I made up a planet to be the home world of my villain (with the oh-so-original name of Aaala), and named it Dreena.
In 1995, Dave Wolverton's The Courtship of Princess Leia came out, in which mention is made of a Hapan water world called Dreena.
Exhibit B: Space Needles
In 1995, I came up with a new set of weapons for my villain Aaala to invent and use: tiny little computer-controlled space ships, about the size of large torpedoes, with a single laser cannon at the end. The idea is that they're ultra cheap and quick to manufacture, very expendable, yet a swarm of them can overwhelm a capital ship (especially what with their size making them nearly impossible to target). I also added hyperdrives - they can leap into a system, deal some damage, leap out. I dubbed them LSLM's, the ever-so-imaginatively-named Light Speed Laser Missiles.
In 1998, Barbara Hambly's Planet of Twilight, Loronar Corporation invents the exact same thing, albeit with the better name of Space Needles.
Exhibit C: Yuuzhan Vong
We all know the story by now. In 2000, with R.A. Salvatore's Vector Prime, a race of extragalactic conquerors who are unaffected by the Force invade the galaxy. Their original home planet was a mobile world whose name I forget.
In 1998, I invented a race called the Andors (hey, I didn't know there was already a Star Trek species with the name) who were from outside the galaxy, a mobile planet named Orandisare. They were immune to the Force too.
(Side Note: The Andors are the original incarnation of my notorious character and user name Highemperor, for their leader was the Highemperor Anaximander. xD )
Exhibit D: Bowdaar
In 2010, I wrote a Star Wars short story, set in the Old Republic, involving a Wookiee chieftain named Bowdaar.
In 2011 (or was it 2012?), Bioware releases the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, in which one of the classes has a Wookiee companion named, you guessed it, Bowdaar.
So am I the only one who thinks this is seriously Twilight Zone stuff? xD
"There is nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiastes)
(Or, to put it another way, anything you can possibly think of, has been thought of already.)
Before you ask, no, I'm not paranoid. I don't *actually* think they're stealing my ideas; it's just one of those weird things where we've thought of the same thing!
Exhibit A: Dreena
In 1994, I began handwriting my own Star Wars novel at the tender age of eleven. (Got to 80 pages before I gave up lol) I made up a planet to be the home world of my villain (with the oh-so-original name of Aaala), and named it Dreena.
In 1995, Dave Wolverton's The Courtship of Princess Leia came out, in which mention is made of a Hapan water world called Dreena.
Exhibit B: Space Needles
In 1995, I came up with a new set of weapons for my villain Aaala to invent and use: tiny little computer-controlled space ships, about the size of large torpedoes, with a single laser cannon at the end. The idea is that they're ultra cheap and quick to manufacture, very expendable, yet a swarm of them can overwhelm a capital ship (especially what with their size making them nearly impossible to target). I also added hyperdrives - they can leap into a system, deal some damage, leap out. I dubbed them LSLM's, the ever-so-imaginatively-named Light Speed Laser Missiles.
In 1998, Barbara Hambly's Planet of Twilight, Loronar Corporation invents the exact same thing, albeit with the better name of Space Needles.
Exhibit C: Yuuzhan Vong
We all know the story by now. In 2000, with R.A. Salvatore's Vector Prime, a race of extragalactic conquerors who are unaffected by the Force invade the galaxy. Their original home planet was a mobile world whose name I forget.
In 1998, I invented a race called the Andors (hey, I didn't know there was already a Star Trek species with the name) who were from outside the galaxy, a mobile planet named Orandisare. They were immune to the Force too.
(Side Note: The Andors are the original incarnation of my notorious character and user name Highemperor, for their leader was the Highemperor Anaximander. xD )
Exhibit D: Bowdaar
In 2010, I wrote a Star Wars short story, set in the Old Republic, involving a Wookiee chieftain named Bowdaar.
In 2011 (or was it 2012?), Bioware releases the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, in which one of the classes has a Wookiee companion named, you guessed it, Bowdaar.
So am I the only one who thinks this is seriously Twilight Zone stuff? xD
"There is nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiastes)
(Or, to put it another way, anything you can possibly think of, has been thought of already.)
