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Welcome to the site!  If you're here, you're obviously a Star Wars fan, and you may be new to the world of fan films.  I myself sort of stumbled into this world early in 2008, and I was shocked at what I had been missing.  I had seen Troops at some point a few years back, but I never connected it to a large group of great films that are available for free on the web.  The other thing that I found was that there were a few sites that had some of the best films pulled together, but there were TONS of films out there that you had to dig and hunt to find.  So, I thought "why not put together a site where they can be found in one place?".  It started out with that simple thought.  Not long after that, I thought that I also needed to try to offer something that you couldn't find on some of those other sites.  So, I tracked down the director of "the Dark Redemption" and asked if he was interested in offering his film in a higher-quality version than what was available (at that time, it was available to download in 5 parts, at low-resolution).  He was all for it, and I quickly realized two important things:  1)  these film-makers are generally great people, who are glad to see people interested in their films, and 2)  these film-makers feel a great sense of community, and they are quick to jump in and help out.  I got into this with no real appreciation of what would be involved, and I couldn't have done so much without some help from some great people.

So, this is the first post in the blog, and (other than blabbering about why I have this site) I want to set some expectations for what I will use the blog for.  As I start this, my intention is to do updates at least bi-weekly, but maybe more often.  Mainly, I want a way to tell visitors what's new, what plans I have for the site, etc.

So, what have I been working on lately?  I haven't added as many films over the past month or so, and some of that has just been a busy 'real-world' life, and some has been behind-the-scenes work.  I got an external hard drive about two months ago to archive these films, and some of the work the past month has been to better organize all of that on my end.  I've also be synching up with the files up at the phispace host to make sure everything on the hard drive is represented on the host.  That's nearly finished, so the next process is to organize and synch the stuff that I have been collecting over the past few weeks.  In a nutshell, that means that there will be a pretty decent amount of new offerings here over the new couple of weeks.  Other things I'm working on are:

- A page for teasers and trailers.  There's a lot to look forward to!

- Info on some great, free software that I've used that has been a huge help.

- Tracking down more DVD versions of films, and upgraded downloads.

So, thanks for your support, and keep an eye out here regularly.  Bookmark!

If you have questions, concerns, comments, etc., you can e-mail me at

kuatengineer@yahoo.com