Forum:Imperial Blitzkrieg

Just food for thought
I am in a strange and nit picky mood and I don't honestly expect this debate to go very far but I would like it to be discussed. I reality I am studying to be a professional Historian, this is what I do. I read documents, I write documents, and I explore vague little nooks and corners of our past. One of the big hurdles for me at the current state of my work is the dangers of anachronistic naming, a danger for when you're researching but not something that should be overlooked. This might not be the correct name for the problem, but I'll explain. In 1090 C.E. there was a military campaign to the middle east. It was crude, not really organized and in most parts awkward. However, it was successful and it created a series of states in the region such as Antioch. We call this the First crusade, but the people of the period didn't. The term Crusades was applied to these events (The first and the several after it) by historians in the  19th and 18th century and it stuck which is fine and it is how we've come to define it. Maybe in the future its name will change again. Okay on to my point: I have never been the biggest fan of the name: Imperial Blitzkrieg. I know there are a lot of people that were involved at the time that were very much in love with World War II history and using Germany as a model for the Empire. Honestly, in many cases that is fine, we have to use points of reference from our own past and events to even try to visualize sometimes what is going on in the game.

What I'd like to do is find a better and more in-game appropriate term for the Blitzkrieg. Something that feels more Star Wars and something that can be agreed upon. While writing on the SW1 wiki we're becoming sort of SW1 historians and anachronistic naming seems alright to me in cases of discussing events. Blitzkrieg just stinks of Nazi's too me, even if Oxford's Dictionary and German linguistics would disagree, but even by using Oxford's and German linguistics to defend the term you're losing the core of the argument: Imperial Blitzkrieg does not sound like Star Wars. As lame as it sounds the: Imperial Bantha Rush, makes more sense to my ears (maybe even to some of that poor EU writing out there) and is more viable. I am not expecting this debate and discussion to changethe name of the event. Rather, I just want to present this argument and see where it goes. I think we should consider alternate names for events that look questionable or don't seem to fit the topics on many different levels. TylerDamion 06:47, 23 January 2008 (UTC)