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The following interview was published on MINUS SPACE in March 2004 in conjunction with Richard Bottwin's spotlight exhibition.
Rossana Martinez: I would like to start our interview at the beginning of your career. You came of age as an artist during the early 1970s in and around New York City. What kind of work were you making at that time? Were there any specific artists, exhibitions, or events that had a profound impact on your early process and thinking?
Richard Bottwin: My work has always been about geometry and architecture. In 1968, during my senior year in high school, I happened upon Donald Judd's first retrospective at the Whitney Museum. It spoke to me immediately and I still have vivid memories of it. Tony Smith's work also caught my eye, although I was partial to the more horizontal, landscape oriented pieces. In 1971, I saw a large installation by Smith, entitled "Eighty-One More" at the Museum of Modern Art. It filled a gallery on the ground floor off of 53rd Street where the bookstore most recently resided. A very large platform in the shape of a triangle, incised with a diagonal grid, it had four-foot high tetrahedrons scattered on the grid. I was mesmerized. It was a plywood mockup and it was destroyed after the exhibition. That work informed a lot of what I did back then.
My undergraduate instructors at Lehman College (formerly Hunter College's Bronx campus) were almost all involved with geometric abstraction, although it was mostly of the European — Max Bill and Neo-Plastic — variety. They seemed to be more concerned with making "sublime objects" rather than room filling, monumental, industrial constructions. As they were all showing in New York galleries, I had access to their output and it certainly affected me.
More importantly, though, I have been a rabid fan of architecture since I was a small child. I was building little flat roofed modern houses out of scraps of wood when I was six and, by the time I was eleven, I was well acquainted with the work of Wright, Mies, and Le Corbusier by way of library books. My family knew to call a modern building to my attention when we were speeding by one in our car. In the late 50s, my parents, low on cash, would take us on cheap Sunday afternoon outings to Idlewild Airport (later renamed Kennedy). There was a garden of fantastic pavilions being built there to serve the new jet traffic. I was in heaven every time we made that loop around the terminals. It was a very strong need to devour and reprocess architectural issues that fired me up. I was fortunate that when I came into adulthood in the early 70s, the predominant vocabulary of the art world was in sync with my predilection.
RM: For two decades, you've focused your attention on sculpture. Most recently though, you've been producing wall-mounted sculptural reliefs, which I find particularly unique about your body of work. The format is clearly challenging and wrought with contradictions. How did you decide to start making reliefs? What are the specific set of challenges that come with making them (versus free-standing sculpture)?
RB: I blame it all on gravity. I've made pedestal sculpture in the past, but I have come to despise the notion of that white column supporting a small work. The conventions that sculptors commonly use to keep their work from falling over, i.e., vertical poles (sculpture-on-a-stick), slabs and platforms (sculpture-on-a-pancake), disinterest me. By placing a small piece on the wall, gravity simply isn't an issue. The mysteries created by the visual contradictions I construct remain intact.
With the larger, freestanding works, it often is my goal to make it look as is they could not possibly be standing on their own. Engineering this without hidden concrete anchors (cheating) can be a challenge. I try to devise structural systems that appear to be straightforward, but actually support in surprising ways. The reward is to seem to defy gravity when I have, in fact, just used it cleverly.
RM: In addition to your reliefs, you have also realized many large(r)-scale public art projects over the past few years. I am thinking about your installation at Bird Park in Philadelphia (next to Gallery Joe), and more recently, your bench-like sculptures at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. All were architectural or structural in nature and made from raw wooden timbers bolted together. When did you start thinking about your work outside of the gallery space? Can you talk about the interactive/participatory nature of your public pieces? What public projects are you currently developing?
RB: As stated before, my work is primarily about architecture and this informs my vocabulary. I have always planned large-scaled outdoor pieces and built my first one on the campus of Pennsylvania State University at Clarion in 1983. There was another pavilion-like piece in Fairmont Park in Philadelphia in 1987. When my work becomes architectural in scale (in other words, when it gets as large or larger than a person), I like it to function architecturally.
I have no desire to confront someone with a big abstract thing. I'd much rather that the viewer approaches my work thinking that it is a nice place to sit and get some shelter. Then, after it's too late, they realize that the seat is much too high and deep, and they must pull their feet up and themselves into the thing, then I've got them! They will then see the world around them through my vertiginous geometry, and hopefully, try to make some sense of it all.
The next public project? I alternate the larger, quasi-functional works with the smaller indoor pieces that serve as research and development. When an opportunity for an outdoor piece comes along, I'll be on the job.
RM: Your work possesses an aggressively conceptual quality that you describe in your statement as "paradoxical" and "disorienting." A number of your relief works, for instance, such as "Square & Angle #10" and "Square & Angle #14", appear to be sitting on a sort of white "shelf", which is in fact part of the work. Describe how you create visual paradox in your work.
RB: It all comes from a physical problem. When I was three, I was treated for an unusually "lazy eye". One eye being dominant, I never really developed full-fledged stereoscopic vision. Oh, my eyes might converge an image subliminally now and then for my brain to use, but mostly I get by with "relative depth perception" (collecting visual clues and making some sense of them). It works well enough except in low light situations where I might occasionally get mild vertigo and stumble a little (if you see me weaving around in a dark bar, it's my eyes, not the drink).
Anyway, I have always amused myself by looking at things and alternating my perception of them by "flattening them out" and then seeing them in "3-D" again. To recreate this sensation in my sculpture, I distort the perspective in the forms in my work. This distortion interacts with the actual convergence that is occurring for the viewer and that interaction can create those paradoxes. I don't see the shelves in the "Square & Angle" pieces as particularly paradoxical though. I simply wanted to have a square emerging from the wall at an angle.
A fellow artist and good friend of mine, Kevin Finklea, had used small white shelves in his work, so I suppose that this possibility was floating around somewhere in the back of my mind. I thought that I could support the square and create a comment about its angle to the wall by restating a variant of that information in the shelf. The shelf is also one of those architectural details I like to play with.
RM: Craftsmanship is not a word that is commonly talked about anymore. You take great care in how your works are constructed and finished. This is especially evident after visiting your studio. Your precision and deliberateness are some of your work's most memorable qualities, at least in my mind. Please talk a bit about your craft.
RB: Being a neat and careful craftsman does not come naturally or easily to me. I also studied art in a liberal arts institution, not a professional art school, during the iconoclastic late sixties and early seventies. There was no emphasis on learning process and materials. You could learn to weld if you liked (I didn't), but traditional modeling, casting, mold making and carving techniques never sullied my education.
Learning how to fabricate my sculpture has been a constant challenge to me, and I am still figuring out how to do it as well as I'd like it to be done. I was impressed early on that my ideas would not be credible if they were not realized in an appropriate way. I just do what is necessary to communicate the idea. The trick, of course, is to make the materials (especially when there are several in a single piece) look inevitable. At times I have veered too close to the decorative and have had to slap myself back to reality. I do find the process of making things by hand very important to the development of my sculpture. The physical act of manipulating materials and building things seems to stimulate the production of new ideas.
RM: I have a specific interest in your use of materials. In particular, how did you begin applying paint to your sculptures?
RB: I've always thought of the paint as a tactile material on the surface that just happens to be a specific color. At first, I used flat grey Rustoleum enamel because it was thick and smooth, and with the inevitable warm and cool shadows that would be cast in the pieces, it was every color and no color at the same time. When I started to use real color, it was in a very intuitive, painterly way. I used oils and an alkyd medium because of the alkyd's even waxy gloss. I also liked the ease with which it could be used to apply glazes that modulate everything and bring the sculpted forms and paint into focus.
In the late 80s and early 90s, I was making very complex, almost "Rococo" wall sculptures that were painted and gold leafed. Going "overboard" in this way allowed me to collect enough information to really know what I was doing when I became reductive again. Later, I used oil paint and alkyd medium because of its versatility. The oil colors allowed me to vary the opacity and transparency in areas of solid color. That sort of manipulation is one way to make a single color interesting.
Now, I use acrylics because they are easier to handle and less toxic. Golden Paints has developed mediums and paint consistencies that are nearly equivalent to oils for my purposes.
RM: Although your works generally appear very straightforward, even factual, at first glance, upon closer inspection, they are in fact highly intricate structures consisting of shifting angles (rarely 45 or 90 degrees cuts); layers of sandwiched, exposed plywood and (sometimes) exotic veneers; polished, high value colors (always slightly off the primaries and secondaries); etc. They are activated to the point of being kinetic. What kind of effect are you seeking when you combine these various elements? How do you know when you've got it right? What kind of experience are you creating for the viewer?
RB: You've just asked and answered your own question. It is my goal to present something that looks easily understandable at first glance with perhaps just a few mysteries. When you walk around the pieces to figure them out, they change radically and present more questions. As mentioned earlier, I love to play with perspective and, if I get it right, the works might seem to twist and move as you look at them.
The experience? Well, hopefully not nausea. Best results: surprise and a moment of reflection about what we perceive. Oh yes, and humor. Laughter is essential to my existence and I feel compelled to share that.
Distorting geometry and pushing primary colors in weird ways also reflects my desire to subvert some of the dogmas that have grown up with geometric abstraction. The vocabulary I use has been around for almost a century. I am madly in love with the work of Tatlin, Lissitsky, Malevich, Rodchenko and the de Stijl artists, but I really don't need to reinvent what they have already accomplished. A few of my purist college mentors from the 60s and 70s might be appalled with my heresies. Using what is left to us, but also rebelling and messing around with it, well, that's what the next generation does.
Oh yes, for some reason I cannot explain, I am just very partial to 60° angles.
RM: You've had your studio in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood for over 10 years now. I am interested to hear your thoughts about the expanding Brooklyn art scene. How has it has evolved during your time in DUMBO? And what has been the place of reductive work in it?
RB: DUMBO has been a convenient, scenic, and once upon a time, cheap place to have a studio. The DUMBO Arts Center and its director, Joy Glidden, have been a terrific resource and stepping stone for many artists, including myself, so I'm glad that I've been there and that its been there for us. I really don't see any specific relationship between the neighborhood and the content of my work. The great value has been the proximity of the many artists in the area and the productive professional connections that can occur with this kind of density. I imagine that a number of the artists on the MINUS SPACE web site have had this connection.
RM: You've also lived and worked in Philadelphia for a long stretch of time. Historically, both Philadelphia and New York have been hotbeds for artists making reductive art. How has the reception to your work been in Philadelphia? And how has it differed from New York?
RB: I've had some success in Philadelphia, and perhaps, greater opportunities exhibiting with commercial galleries there than in New York. I don't know how I can quantify it with regard to reductive art. Perhaps with having lived and worked there for a while, some opportunities became available. Philadelphia, being smaller than New York, allowed some connections to be made a little more easily. My current gallery affiliation in Philadelphia (Pentimenti Gallery) came about from the dealer, Christine Pfister, seeing my slides at the DUMBO Arts Center in Brooklyn.
With regard to the notion of minimalism having a home in Philadelphia, it occurred to me that perhaps related to that is the fact that Philadelphia is really a city of architects. With Louis Kahn having having worked there and a great number of major firms starting out there (even if they have moved up and on..), it really has been the home and starting point of many influential builders. A short list is: Venturi & Rauch, Mitchell Giurgola, Kohn, Pederson, Fox, Davis, Brody and more… The PSFS building, one of the first international style steel and glass towers built in this country was built there in 1929. There is a perfectly circular wall mounted water fountain in the building that is said to be designed by a youthful apprentice, Louis Kahn.
RM: Finally, I would like to ask you about your thoughts concerning the general perception, appreciation, and support for abstract, geometric art in this country. What are your thoughts on this?
RB: It seems that art viewers in this country need a story that's readily accessible or a moral that's easy to digest. A non-objective, reductive, abstract narrative that's not purely decorative still seems to be a hard sell, even though the genre has been around for over half a century. Of course, there are a handful of artists who have achieved fame, if not fortune doing this. I thoroughly enjoy their work, but sometimes the overbearing scale and arrogance of a lot of this sculpture leaves me uneasy. In a country that values things by how many millions of dollars they cost or how far they'd reach if laid end to end, it seems that making reductive art really, really big might gain it a wider audience.


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[2] McPherson et al. "Social isolation in America: Changes in core discussion networks over two decades." American Sociological Review, 71 (2006): 353-75.
[3] Jennifer M. Silva. "Young and isolated." New York Times, June 23, 2013. SR7.
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Daron Ker
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"Rice Field of Dreams" Review
It's not easy to build an 8,200 mile bridge, but such is the task for Cambodian filmmaker Daron Ker. Born in the "Killing Fields" era of tyranny and violence, Ker has as one of his earliest memories the playing of the Stanley Kubrick film
in an internment camp in Cambodia. Not long after this experience, Ker and his family emigrated to the U.S. and the young man realized that his would be a life of telling stories.
Rice Field of Dreams
is one of the stories.
Rice Field of Dreams
follows Cambodian refugee Joe Cook, who escaped the Khmer Rouge and eventually ended up as a chef in an Alabama restaurant.
Rice Field of Dreams,
as one might gather from the not so subtle nod to another baseball flick, is no cooking film but a film about Cook's efforts to return to Cambodia and start the nation's first ever competitive national baseball team.
The real stroke of genius and wonder in
Rice Field of Dreams
is that Ker so beautifully captures the culture in vision and sound and in the relaxed, remarkably authentic portrayals of those in the story. Ker returned to Cambodia after a nearly 30 year absence to film
Rice Field of Dreams,
his first full-length feature. The film follows the team's travels from Baribo to Thailand to participate in the 2007 Southeast Asian Games, a trip that brought back memories for Ker and, quite obviously, gives the film an emotional resonance even though there's hardly a scene in the film that ever stretches for drama.
While there's no Hallmark greeting card happy ending in the film,
Rice Field of Dreams
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For that matter, so is the journey of Daron Ker.
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- "Twilight Company is fighting a battle for the heart of the galaxy. For the spirit of every ordinary man and woman and Imperial stormtrooper. Stealing food won't help us win. Killing enemies won't, either. Against might on the scale of the Empire, conventional victory is impossible—when our objectives become purely military, we've already lost the larger fight."
- ―Micha Evon, in the aftermath of the battle on Vir Aphshire
The Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, also referred to as the Sixty-First or Twilight Company was a military unit that served the Alliance to Restore the Republic under the command of Captain Micha Evon during the Galactic Civil War. The unit's patch read "Twilight survives" along the top and "Mobile Infantry" at the bottom. Their headquarters was the CR90 corvette Thunderstrike with its escort, the Braha'tok-class gunship Apailana's Promise, which carried the company's two X-wings. The soldiers of Twilight Company fought against the forces of the Galactic Empire before and during the Galactic Civil War.
Early CampaignsEdit
Ferrok PaxEdit
Twilight Company was founded by Captain Micha Evon, nicknamed Howl, some time before the Battle of Scarif. One of its earliest battles was at Ferrok Pax where the company had barely two hundred soldiers. They intended to ambush the enemy and many died of starvation or were killed by the harsh flora and fauna of the planet. When they finally defeated their foe, only thirty-seven of the Twilight soldiers remained, including the Corellian Besalisk Gadren.[1]
Bounty on HowlEdit
During an open recruitment on Veron, a bounty hunter named Brand enlisted and smuggled her kit onboard the Thundestrike. Brand had taken a bounty on Howl following her departure from Tangenine.[1] When the company went on a mission to Allst Prime, Brand decided to make her move. During the battle, Howl and Brand stormed into the Governor's office and Brand stunned Governor Magé. Brand then attempted to kill Howl for his bounty but he already knew her intentions and convinced her to stay with Twilight Company.[2]
Further engagementsEdit
Twilight Company fought on various planets and always had open recruits for any willing civilians. One time on Demiloch, an Imperial Spy disguised as an enlisting civilian shot Howl. Howl woke three days after the incident relieved to know his second, Lieutenant Sairgon had stopped the recruitment immediately after. Another time on Magnus Horn, Twilight Company took such heavy losses that the Alliance High Command attempted to reassign its troops to other battle groups. Howl fought to keep the company together and saved it from obliteration. A similar loss was taken at Asyrphus where Twilight Company suffered an Imperial bombardment that massacred many Twilight soldiers including their comm tech and her droid.[1]
In 0 BBY, Twilight Company fought on Crucival where the Imperial forces armed the civilians and used them as cannon fodder. Most of the civilians died on the first day and the Imperial forces hid under their shield. However, the Thunderstrike's firepower eventually breached the shield and Twilight Company successfully destroyed the transmitter tower the Imperial forces intended to defend. After the battle, Twilight Company recruited numerous civilian militants such as Hazram Namir, who wanted revenge on the Empire for the death of his friend Pira Ten.[1]
Galactic Civil WarEdit
Vir AphshireEdit
During the Battle of Scarif and The Disaster, Twilight Company were a part of Operation Mad Rush and were fighting in the honey fields of Vir Aphshire. There they soon got news of the destruction of the Death Star. Following the battle, Private Hazram Namir was given the battle report, to give to Howl, by Sergeant Fektrin. The young man took it to Howl where he was told of the military doctrine Howl used to plan their attacks.[1]
The Mid Rim campaignEdit
The events at Scarif and Yavin kicked off the Galactic Civil War and Twilight Company assisted the Alliance in an advancement into the Mid Rim. Twilight Company battled on planets such as Phorsa Gedd and Bamayar. During a battle on Blacktar Cyst, Twilight Soldier Pol Andrissus—nicknamed Charmer—was injured by shrapnel, developing a stutter as a result. Sometime later, the advancement into the Mid Rim ground to a halt due to the Alliance Fleet being overstretched. Soon after the Mid Rim Retreat began and rebel forces began evacuating their bases. Twilight Company helped evacuate bases they had helped set up and rescue generals and rebel heroes.[1]
Enter Everi ChalisEdit
- "Thanks to the rebellion, my days in the Empire are numbered. I understand you're recruiting. I want to join your company in return for asylum."
- ―Everi Chalis offers to join Twilight Company
Towards the end of the Mid Rim Retreat, Twilight Company fought the Imperial forces on Haidoral Prime. During the campaign Twilight Company received a message from the Governor's mansion via a mouse droid. The message was from an Imperial willing to defect to the Alliance. First Sergeant Hazram Namir, Gadren, Charmer and Brand were sent infiltrate the mansion where they found the defector, Governor Everi Chalis, among the other senior officers. They killed the other officers and took Chalis back to Howl.[1]
Chalis offered the Alliance information on the supply lines and weaknesses of the "Imperial War Machine" in exchange for asylum in the rebellion. None of the Twilight soldiers were happy of Chalis's presence, with a Haidoral recruit named Corbo going to her holding area with a knife. Soon later, the Thunderstrike stumbled upon an Imperial patrol by coincidence and immediately fell under attack. Chalis's holding area was damaged, injuring the guard, Maediyu. Namir managed to rescue both and Maediyu was put in a bacta tank.[1]
Coyerti CampaignEdit
Twilight Company's next campaign was on Coyerti, where the Empire tested bio-weapons. On the first day, Namir and Sergeant Zab's squads stormed an Imperial camp and destroyed it. At the same time, another dozen squads were sent to take out the Imperial garrison. On the third day, Namir's squad submerged an AT-ST in a swamp after a day of luring it through the marshy forests. Chalis supplied valuable intel on the Coyerti bio-weapons and on the fifth day, Namir's squad were sent to destroy the distillery. Chalis claimed the destruction of the distillery would set back Coyerti's operations by years. During the final actions of the campaign, Sergeant Maximian Ajax's squad was pinned down by an AT-ST and the X-wings could get a shot on it. They were saved by the Coyerti people who stormed and destroyed the Imperial garrison.[1]
Pursuit in the Metatessu SectorEdit
Following the Coyerti Campaign, the Thunderstrike was attacked by an Imperial Star Destroyer. The Thunderstrike escaped with the help of the Apailana's Promise but were then attacked again in the Enrivi system by an Arquitens-class light cruiser with a squadron of Tie Fighters of which they obliterated with ease. When jumping to the Chonsetta system, they were attacked a third time by a squadron of TIE Interceptors which ravaged the starboard side of the troop transport. The company's engineers discovered they were being tracked through a particle leak which gave the Empire their trail.[1]
Raid on an Imperial heavy freighterEdit
- "I propose we locate an Imperial cargo transport, I can get us within range, and your soldiers—can board it."
- ―Everi Chalis proposes raiding an Imperial freighter
The Thunderstrike desperately needed to be repaired so Chalis opted to plan a raid on an Imperial heavy freighter. Twilight Company carried out this raid on a heavy Freighter in the Redhurne system where they sent squads in on boarding pods. Sergeant Fektrin and his squad led a trio of engineers to help them and lost Cappandar to a dozen shots during a fire fight. At the same time, Sergeant Zab and Carver led heavy fire teams through doors to keep the Imperial forces occupied. Meanwhile outside, the Thunderstrike and Apailana's Promise were keeping the freighter in a weak position until an Imperial Gozanti Cruiser joined the fight.[1]
Howl ordered the squads to return to the Thunderstrike as soon as possible. However, Sergeant Ajax and his squad found themselves pinned into a corner. Namir jumped in and managed to release the squad but Ajax was killed with a grenade in his hand, shouting obscenities. Sergeant Fektrin was also killed in the chaos and one of his soldiers Mzun took control of the squad as they made for their pod. Once all the squads were back onto the Thunderstrike, they fled the system. Twilight Company got the materials they needed to repair the Thunderstrike with the loss of eight soldiers.[1]
Loss of leadershipEdit
The Thunderstrike and the Apailana's Promise then traveled to the Elochar sector where a flotilla of a dozen ships, including the Sixmoon, carrying three battle companies. During their time there, the Thunderstrike was being gradually repaired whilst the soldiers visited the other ships. Whilst they were stationed there, Captain Evon, Chalis, Namir and two other soldiers went to Echo Base on Hoth and met with General Philap Bygar for a strategy conference with the rest of the Alliance High Command. Meanwhile, Namir and the two soldiers, Roja and Beak, were doing jobs around the base. Namir got into a fight with an Alliance Special Forces soldier named Kryndal over their views of the war and Namir was punished for it.[1]
Echo Base was discovered by the Empire and Darth Vader's forces attacked. Namir, Roja, and Beak defended Perimeter Outpost Delta until its main defenses fell. They then made it back to the main base on a hijacked Imperial Juggernaut and found Howl unconscious with Chalis at the command area. They attempted to make it to a hanger in time but Vader and his men cut them off. They shot at the Sith Lord and Beak was bisected by Vader. Roja then threw a grenade and it was deflected and knocked out Namir. Chalis, thinking Vader came for her, surrendered but was swept aside. Namir woke to find Roja and Howl dead in the meantime. General Bygar was killed during or after the fight and Namir and Chalis then escaped using Chalis's clearance codes.[1]
Meanwhile, the Imperial spies captured a Light freighter called the Trumpet's Call and killed the rebel crew as it tried to reach the flotilla. The spies then took the Trumpet's Call to the flotilla but the life support failed along the way and Twilight Company had to take them onto the Thunderstrike. The spies then stormed the bridge and killed Lieutenant Sairgon and Commander Paonu but not before Sairgon warned the rest of the flotilla and the ships scattered. Brand and other Twilight soldiers then killed the infiltrators and took back control of the Thunderstrike as the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Herald arrived, the Thunderstrike took damage as it, and the Apailana's Promise, escaped.[1]
Regrouping on AnkhuralEdit
Twilight Company fled to Ankhural where they camped in an abandoned podracing track and rejoined with Namir and Chalis. The Apailana's Promise was repaired in orbit by a skeleton crew. The engineers continued repairing the Thunderstrike and Namir and Chalis made it back to them using a datachip Brand had given Namir in case of an emergency. Roach they funeral for Howl and the officers they lost. Namir took charge of Twilight Company as acting Captain and Commander Tohna of the Apailana's Promise was transferred to take charge of the Thunderstrike.[1]
Operation RingbreakerEdit
Once the Thunderstrike repaired, Chalis proposed Operation Ringbreaker, which would target Kuat Drive Yards. With the local gangs attacking Twilight soldiers such as Maediyu and Jinsol as a threat, they needed to leave soon. Twilight Company started this operation with the warehouse world of Mardona III where they lost Charmer and two of his men to an armoured worm vehicle. Namir, Twitch, Carver and a few others sought to destroy the thing and caught it off-guard as the crew were disembarking. They then decimated the Imperial garrison on Obumubo. After that they wrecked the Dockyards of Najan-Rovi and then took out the Plastic factory on Nakadia.[1]
After two more attacks on Naator and Xagobah it was just Sullust and Malastare left before Kuat. But when they took the factory Inyusu Tor on Sullust, the Thunderstrike was amushed and shot down by the TIE Fighters of Vixus Squadron and the Apailana's Promise fled the system with its X-wings. Twilight Company was stranded with only a matter of time before the Herald would arrive.[1]
Stranded on SullustEdit
With few other options, Namir went down to the nearby capital of Pinyumb to find the Sullustan resistance. He and his soldiers were attacked and they lost Twitch's soldiers. Twitch deserted them and Namir was rescued by Nien Nunb, the leader of the resistance. He took him back to the Sullustan resistance safe house where he met the very small group of freedom fighters. They helped him back to the rest of the Sixty-First back at Inyusu Tor. The Herald arrived and the local imperial forces engaged Twilight Company at the factory. Luckily, the Apailana's Promise returned to keep the Herald from bombarding Twilight Company from above.[1]
Everi Chalis abandoned Twilight Company, stole a shuttle and let herself get captured by the Herald, not knowing she had an Ion bomb inside the shuttle which set off and forced the Herald to flee. After Twilight Company fended off the rest of the ground forces using the lava flow from Inyusu Tor, the Sullustan resistance teamed with the once passive Cobalt Laborers' Reformation Front to take Pinyumb and revolutions broke out all over Sullust, liberating it for the Sixty-First. The Apailana's Promise had barely survived and the soldiers began scavenging the Thunderstrike. The Sixty-First planned to leave Sullust within time as the empire would return eventually.[1]
Equipment and vehiclesEdit
- "Get me the plex"
- ―Hazram Namir, during the Siege of Inyusu Tor
Twilight Company possessed a variety of weapons and equipment to assist them in battle. Their soldiers were always carried into ground battles by a number of dropships. When boarding another ship, Twilight Company typically used their boarding pods, which they had at least six of. Soldiers were usually limited to DLT-20A blaster rifles and had little to no armor on them. More specialized troopers usually bore sniper rifles, heavy guns or ordinance equipment like the PLX-1 portable missile launcher, nicknamed the Plex. Twilight Company had various plex armed artillery weapons for defense as well but they were rarely used as their tactics were typically offensive.[1]
Twilight Company was carried by the CR90 corvette Thunderstrike. The ship was old and heavily modified on the inside but bore a reasonable armament for battle. The Thunderstrike had its own escort, a Braha'tok-class gunship called the Apailana's Promise. The gunship was smaller but had a reasonable armament and carried two X-wing starfighters on its underbelly.[1]
Military organizationEdit
Chain of commandEdit
- "Technically command falls to me, after Howl and Sairgon and Paonu and—well. Sharn…"
- ―Chief Medic Von Geiz
The Sixty-First was one of the many battle groups within the rebellion. The alliance had many battle groups like the Twenty-First, Thirty-Second and Sixty-Eighth and they wouldn't usually have any high ranking officers like Colonels or Generals, usually being led by Captains like So-Hem who was in charge of one of the other three battle groups in the Flotilla in the Elochar sector. In the Sixty-First, the rank structure, from the top, went Captain, Lieutenant, Commander First Officer, Chief Medic and before getting to the non commissioned ranks such as First Sergeant and Sergeant. Therefore, the Sixty-First's command structure before the Battle of Hoth went Captain Micha Evon, Lieutenant Sairgon, Commander Paonu, Commander Tohna, First Officer Sharn and Chief Medic Von Geiz. The Sixty-First's non-commissioned officers had First Sergeant at the top and other ranks below it such as Sergeant, Quartermaster and Forward Air Control Officer.[1]
After Hoth the chain of command had lost Evon, Sairgon and Paonu but stayed the same with former First Sergeant Hazram Namir replacing Evon at the top as captain and the others moving up the chain slightly such as Tohna and Von Geiz. Namir also included notable soldiers and squad leaders in his meetings such as Carver, Mzun and Gadren as they had much experience in battles and leadership.[1]
Infantry organizationEdit
The rebel troopers of Twilight Company were sorted into squads of usually four soldiers. There were at least thirteen squads, and they nearly always worked separately. One occasion where many squads worked in unison was in the Coyerti campaign when a dozen squads worked together to attack the Imperial garrison there. Some squads could be specialized, like Sergeant Zab and Carver's squads, who doubled as heavy-fire teams for a raid on an Imperial heavy freighter. Sergeant Zab's squad also doubled as a sniper team during the Siege of Inyusu Tor. During a battle, each squad would be given a separate task, like in the raid on the Imperial heavy freighter. During that raid, Sergeant Maximian Ajax's squad created a choke point on a main passage way, Pol Andrissus's squad attacked guard posts, Carver and Zab's heavy-fire teams were at the vanguard, smashing through doors and Fektrin's squad took care of the engineering and slicing.[1]
Under the philosophy of Captain Evon, Twilight Company's missions were made to be in favor of the citizens. Howl believed that winning the hearts of the people would give the Alliance a better advantage. Most missions Twilight Company endured during the Mid Rim Retreat were ones meant to distract Imperial forces, allowing the Alliance fleet to gradually withdraw from the Mid Rim. When Everi Chalis came into play, she aided Twilight Company with more tactical missions intended to help cripple the Imperial war machine. Chalis's aim for Operation Ringbreaker was to take out the main source of the Empire's Imperial Star Destroyers, which would've crippled the Empire had the operation gone to plan. Chalis's tactics however contradicted many of Evon's ideas including helping the citizens. Acting-Captain Hazram Namir went against her when wanting to help the people of Sullust and overrode her plan to continue Operation Ringbreaker.[1]
Skills and trainingEdit
- "Out here, when someone above you give you an order, you follow it. When someone tries to teach you something, you pay attention. When someone shoots at you, you shoot back. Don't smuggle alcohol or spice aboard, don't be stupid, and if you have a problem with another soldier, come to Lieutenant Sairgon or me."
- ―Hazram Namir, to the recruits from Haidoral Prime
The majority of Twilight Company's soldiers joined off the planets the company fought on. Most of these recruits will have little to no experience with weapons at all. The new recruits were given a textbook, known only as the White Book, written by Alliance High Command and were taught to shoot with a DLT-20A blaster rifle by more experienced Twilight members[1] like Brand[2] and Hazram Namir. When troopers became more experienced, they may be put given more specialized roles like a sniper or a heavy fire soldier. But soldiers had to show their specialty first before being assigned to it.[1]
Behind the scenesEdit
Twilight Company first appeared as the focus of the Battlefront: Twilight Company novel that was released on November 3, 2015 and written by Alexander Freed.[4] It has since appeared in the short story 'Inbrief' written for Star Wars Insider issue 161[5] and has also been mentioned in the Rogue One Novelization, which was also written by Alexander Freed.[6]
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization (Mentioned only)
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story audiobook (Mentioned only)
- "Inbrief"—Star Wars Insider 161
- Battlefront: Twilight Company (First appearance, simultaneous with Battlefront: Twilight Company audiobook)
- Battlefront: Twilight Company audiobook (First appearance, simultaneous with Battlefront: Twilight Company)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 1.44 1.45 1.46 1.47 1.48 1.49 1.50 1.51 1.52 1.53 1.54 1.55 1.56 1.57 1.58 1.59 1.60 1.61 1.62 1.63 1.64 1.65 1.66 1.67 1.68 1.69 1.70 1.71 1.72 1.73 1.74 1.75 1.76 1.77 1.78 1.79 1.80 1.81 1.82 1.83 1.84 1.85 1.86 1.87 1.88 1.89 1.90 1.91 Battlefront: Twilight Company
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Inbrief"—Star Wars Insider 161
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars: On the Front Lines
- ↑ Battlefront: Twilight Company (Star Wars) on Penguin Random House's official website (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars Insider Issue #161 @ Titan Magazines
- ↑ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization


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As seen below in the clip courtesy of IGN, the first planet featured is Voeld, which happens to be an ice planet that's almost totally filled with snow and that's populated by the angara species. As some Mass Effect: Andromeda fans might expect, the cold weather is extremely hazardous, as it not only affects the well-being and handling of the Nomad exploration vehicle, but also the protagonist Scott Ryder himself, as the health of the main character and condition of the rover in the lower left portion of the screen are impacted by the planet's "harsh climate."
Next up is the planet Kadara, with the Mass Effect: Andromeda video showing off the heavenly body's warm weather, as well as the Nomad's traversal over its rocky and mountainous terrain. Additionally, when Kadara is highlighted in the clip, fans get a glimpse at combat against a giant, brutish beast who has killed two scouts, in addition to a battle between Ryder's crew and some enemy raiders who are presumably protecting an alien structure of some kind.
Finally, the Mass Effect: Andromeda exploration video focuses on the planet Eos, which is mostly "desert-like" and has some incredibly unfriendly creatures that are looking to wipe players off the map entirely. More specifically, the big baddie that's featured is a massive mechanical enemy that was just recently featured in several 4K screenshots released by Nvidia. Fans should expect a difficult fight against the motorized monster, as they will need to have Scott and Sara Ryder at a high level in order to defeat it.
Of course, Voeld, Kadara, and Eos are just a small handful of the celestial orbs able to be visited in Mass Effect: Andromeda, as BioWare has previously confirmed the game's inclusion of over 100 planets for players to explore. Taking all of this into consideration, it's a safe bet to make that gamers are itching to chart a course to the game's Andromeda Galaxy and investigate all that it has to offer.
Mass Effect: Andromeda is set to release on March 21, 2017 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Source: IGN – YouTube


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- If configuration 'using_frontend_proxy' is set, we add the correct middleware to the default middleware list. This way you get the correct and expected behavior if you are starting your application via one of the generated scripts or if you are calling MyApp->psgi_app. Previously if you started the application with ->psgi_app (or to_app) we ignored this configuration option
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Changes for version 5.90079_004 - 2014-12-26
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- Fixes to decoding on file upload filenames and related methods
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- Fixed issue with middleware stash test case that failed on older Perls
Changes for version 5.90079_002 - 2014-12-02
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- MyApp->to_app is now an alias for MyApp->psgi_app in order to better support existing Plack conventions.
- Modify Catayst::Response->from_psgi_response to allow the first argument to be an object that does ->as_psgi.
- Modified Catayst::Middleware::Stash to be a shallow copy in $env. Added some docs. Added a test case to make sure stash keys added in a child application don't bubble back up to the main application.
- We no longer use Encode::is_utf8 since it doesn't work the way we think it does... This required some UTF-8 changes. If your application is UTF-8 aware I highly suggest you test this release.
- We alway do utf8 decoding on incoming URLs (before we only did so if the server encoding was utf8. I believe this is correct as per the w3c spec, but please correct if incorrect :)
- Debug output now shows utf8 characters if those are incoming via Args or as path or pathparts in your actions. query and body parameter keys are now also subject to utf8 decoding (or as specificed via the encoding configuration value).
- lots of UTF8 changes. Again we think this is now more correct but please test.
- Allow $c->res->redirect($url) to accept $url as an object that does ->as_string which I think will ease a common case (and common bug) and added documentation.
- !!! UTF-8 is now the default encoding (there used to be none...). You can disable this if you need to with MyApp->config(encoding => undef) if it causes you trouble.
- Calling $c->res->write($data) now encodes $data based on the configured encoding (UTF-8 is default).
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Europe's security priorities have changed considerably since Russia's annexation of Crimea. But do new threats trump old alliances? DW asks whether the upcoming NATO-Russia Council meeting signals a thaw in relations.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg last week announced that the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) would reconvene after nearly two years since "all practical cooperation" was suspended in the wake of Moscow's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
While Stoltenberg is expected to raise concerns about the implementation of the Minsk Agreements aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Ukraine, "regional terrorist threats" will also be discussed.
In 2014, NATO, alongside EU and US officials, accused Moscow of involvement in the eastern Ukrainian conflict after it effectively annexed parts of the Crimean Peninsula in an internationally-condemned public referendum.
But the NATO-Russia meeting expected later this month is likely due to thawing US-Russian relations, Cor Snijders, co-founder of The Hague-based security consultancy Lowlands Solutions, told DW.
"The primary objective and desire regarding the upcoming NATO-Russia Council meeting in April is most likely to establish a general improvement of the diplomatic ties and cordial relations between the United States, as the most prominent NATO-member, and Russia," said Snijders.
"This is in order to avoid future military incidents between the two nuclear entities in, for instance, Syria or Eastern Europe," he added.
Snijders: "Recently Stoltenberg tempered his remarks regarding an 'imminent threat' from Russia at its eastern borders."
In flux: Europe's security priorities
Meanwhile, Europe's security interests have greatly changed since the early months of 2014. A string of attacks claimed by the "Islamic State" militant group in Paris and Brussels has upped pressure on the EU and its member states to bolster security.
The conflict in Syria has also contributed to a wave of irregular migration to the EU, a challenge that has been met with controversial responses, including a NATO mission in the Aegean Sea and an EU-Turkey deal to swap migrants in Greece for refugees in Turkish camps.
Meanwhile, Russia has been busy raising its foreign policy profile in areas where the EU has fallen short. Moscow stepped in to negotiate an - albeit fragile - ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, for example.
Andrew Michta, professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College, told DW that despite sanctions regimes against Russia, NATO's reengagement with Moscow shows President Vladimir Putin "has clearly broken out of the West's effort to isolate him."
"Russia's success in Syria at propping up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and being now in a position to impact the intensity of that conflict - and thereby to impact the refugee flow from the Middle East and North Africa - has positioned Russia to play a greater role on this critical issue for Europe's security," Michta noted.
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"Due to the fact that the NATO-Russia Council was initially set up in 2002 to discuss security-related issues in a dialogue between NATO and Russia, the current threat of the 'Islamic State' and IS-affiliated organization - also in the Caucasus and against Russian military in Syria - will be put on the agenda as well," Snijders told DW.
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"The 're-establishment' of the NATO-Russia Council meeting, after two years of inactivity, can therefore, indeed, be seen as a step towards rapprochement," Snijders said.
The end of the eastern front?
While the NATO-Russia Council meeting signals a step forward in mending security relations with Moscow, it has not stopped members of the alliance from pledging more troops to the eastern frontier.
Following a meeting earlier this month with NATO chief Stoltenberg, Obama reminded reporters at a press conference that he requested a $3.4-billion (3 billion euros) budget to station an additional US army brigade in Eastern Europe.
Meanwhile, Germany on Monday announced that 5,000 Bundeswehr troops will participate in NATO defense maneuvers this year, up 500 soldiers compared to 2015, according to German public broadcaster "Deutschlandfunk."
"Russia wants to ensure that any decisions on reinforcing NATO's northeastern flank to be taken at the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw are as limited as possible," Michta told DW.
"There is no consensus in the alliance on setting up permanent US and NATO based in the Baltics, Poland and Romania - the allies along the flank continue to press for permanent installations, others reject the idea, and Russia sees an opportunity here to drive the point home directly," Michta added.
Although rapprochement could be on the table, Snijders said the implementation of the Minsk Agreement in Ukraine and NATO's largest military build-up on its eastern flank since the end of the Cold War may be difficult subjects to skirt as the NRC reconvenes.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the experts and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any government entity or affiliated organization.
US President Barack Obama has defended NATO as a "linchpin" of US and European security. His remarks follow Republican candidate Donald Trump's claims that the 67-year old alliance is a waste of US money and "obsolete." (04.04.2016)
NATO ships have moved into Turkish and Greek territorial waters as part of an operation to stem the tide of refugees and migrants. Germany is leading the operation. (07.03.2016)
A second group of migrants has been sent from Lesbos to Turkey as part of a deal with the EU. Human rights activists have said a rush to implement a refugee deal has led to dire conditions for migrants in Greece. (08.04.2016)
NATO and Russian ambassadors will meet in the next few weeks for the first time in nearly two years. NATO suspended cooperation with Russia in the wake of the annexation of Crimea. (08.04.2016)
NATO's head has called for Washington and Brussels to continue sanctioning Russia in a bid to end conflict in Ukraine. His comments come as the Russian president visited Crimea to mark the anniversary of its annexation. (18.03.2016)
Prosecutors have charged four people with terrorism related offenses in connection with the Paris and Brussels terror attacks. Recent arrests have shed light on the "Islamic State" cell behind the two attacks. (09.04.2016)
Russia is taking the lead in mediating between Azerbaijan and Armenia over a flare-up of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh. There are worries that the explosive conflict could spiral out of control. (07.04.2016)
The Syrian ceasefire has led to a "huge drop" in civilian casualties, according to a human rights watchdog. But the UN envoy noted that "success is not guaranteed," signaling uncertainty ahead of scheduled peace talks. (03.03.2016)


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- Chalet Saffron, La Plagne – 10th February 2019
A massive thank you Kim & Elliott. You have both been fantastic hosts. We have thoroughly enjoyed the chalet experience. The food and the cakes were all delicious and so varied. We have never eaten so much bread which was delicious. We appreciate the hard work that goes into feeding and taking care of so many people & their different needs. You really made it look easy. You are both stars.
Wishing you both all the best & enjoy the rest of your season. You will be a pro snowboarder Elliott with such a good teacher – Kim!
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- Chalet Isla, La Tania – 10th February 2019
Dear Sal & Mal, the weather, your kind & thoughtful hospitality have been fantastic! We have had a fabulous week skiing in the sunshine and wouldn't hesitate to come back to La Tania and stay in a chalet hosted by you. You are absolute stars, thank you so much.
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- Chalet Bonin, La Plagne – 10th February 2019
We love Chalet Bonin, this has been another wonderful week's stay. Thanks Mel & Dave for being such great hosts & going the extra mile- certainly will never forget that Valentine's Day cake!
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- Chalet Jacqueline, La Tania – 10th February 2019
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- Chalet Poppy, La Plagne – 3rd February 2019
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