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Episode 18 :: Prelude to the Awakening
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.

We&#39;re but days away from The Force Awakens!

Fear not! Our spoilers are tightly sealed behind the blast doors. Your pre-film Star Wars blackout doesn&#39;t have to include State of the Empire!

It&#39;s hard to believe we&#39;re finally here. The journey began in November 2012 when Disney purchas...
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Episode 17 :: The Force Awakens Trailer &amp; The Secrets of Secret Cinema
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.

A great silence followed Force Friday, but now that silence has been smashed and The Force Awakens&#39; hype train is on the move again! Episode VII&#39;s first full length trailer is out and many online ticket services cried out and were suddenly silenced as millions of fans bricked them in ...
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Episode 16 :: Force Friday Frenzy
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.

If you&#39;ve been following State of the Empire since our start at the dawn of the Disney era of Star Wars, then you&#39;ve been on &quot;The Journey to The Force Awakens&quot; for quite some time, but for many that journey begins now. September 4th 2015, aka Force Friday, marked the global pistol cra...
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Episode 15 :: The Awakening at D23
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.

Just when you were almost back to sleep... there has been an awakening! It&#39;s only been two weeks since our last report and there&#39;s already an entire episode&#39;s worth of new Star Wars announcements to cover. The dam has officially burst, the journey to The Force Awakens has truly begun,...
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Episode 14 :: Young Han Solo in... 21 Parsecs
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.

Since Star Wars Celebration there&#39;s been a whirlwind of news from the galaxy far, far away. New films announced, new games announced, new comics announced, new secrets from The Force Awakens, and rumors galore! We stand now on the precipice of a transmedia blitz that could surpass eve...
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”...

...Though for once we&#39;re looking in the right place - We&#39;re on site at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim!

The Star Wars universe is poised to erupt in a fervor not seen since the series&#39; debut. This weekend alone we&#39;ve seen Han and Chewie return to the screen, Rebels season 2 bridge th...
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Episode 12 :: The &quot;Journey&quot; Begins
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.

We&#39;re only 9 months away from the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens and, like a great engine of war, the rumor mill is churning! The printing presses are churning too - because we&#39;re witnessing the first signs of a transmedia blitz that&#39;s ushering in the new age of S...
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Episode 11 :: The Force Awakens
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.

There has been an awakening, folks!

Episode VII has a title and a snazzy and much-debated teaser trailer to boot! What’s more, the Internet was treated to a veritable buffet of leaked production art which appears to be 100% legit. State of the Empire has always been about rampant spe...
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Episode 10 :: Star Wars Rebels Sparks the Rebellion
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.

The big news this month is Star Wars Rebels has premiered – launching the new official cannon of Star Wars! As of this recording we’ve seen the hour-long debut, “Spark of Rebellion” as well as the first regular episode “Droids in Distress”. As faithful followers of the show know, even...
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Episode 9 :: The Master Plan
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.

Disney’s master plan for the the new Star Wars universe is coming together. List leaked from within Hasbro has shown a likely outline for what major projects we can expect from now ’til 2020 including a Boba Fett film, and two suspicious candidates for other films. Creative teams have...
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Episode 8 :: The Ponda Baba Conundrum
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.

It’s a time of celebration throughout the galaxy. May the Fourth has brought jubilation to countless systems and the cast of Episode VII has finally been announced! But – there are still many secrets surrounding the burgeoning new film. Rumors of a mysterious cast member still to come...
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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.

The Star Wars universe we know is changing rapidly. Like the cycle of rebirth, the old must be burnt away before it can come back familiar but new and (hopefully) stronger. With game-changing shake-ups like this we had to convene for a new State of the Empire.

The Expanded Universe i...
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Since last we convened, the Episode VII saga continues to unfold as the balance of power in the universe has once again shifted. Michael Arndt – Episode VII‘s celebrated screenwriter, and our greatest hope for the New Trilogy, is off the project. We don’t know why, nor do do we know m...
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When last Nerdy Show assembled to discuss Star Wars, LucasArts and Star Wars: The Clone Wars had fallen to the might of their new masters and rumors of a television series that would bridge the original and new trilogies had surfaced. It has been three months since Nerdy Show’s last report. We join them now, Cap, Hex, Marc, Matt, and Doug – still looking for news in Alderaan Places…

We discuss...
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Like a phoenix purging the lands to make way for new growth, Disney, the new rulers of the Star Wars franchise have rained fire down upon the Lucasfilm landscape. Will it be for better or for worse? Only time will tell. In this episode we mourn the loss of LucasArts and speculate over what could come of the new Star Wars gaming partnership with EA. There’s a lot of new developments and hints as...
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It is a time of great speculation. Months after the announcement that there would be a new Star Wars film, there is still much that we do not know. That’s why we launched State of the Empire! Nerdy Show leaves no escape pod empty, no wampa un-stomped – we’re looking for news in Alderaan places, and a few of the right ones too.

Star Wars’ new masters are shaking things up in the world of Lucasf...
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Lock S-foils in attack position, ’cause some serious Star Wars news is on the move. Amidst rumors and refuting, J.J. Abrams has emerged as the official director for Episode VII. Find out who else turned down the position, our initial speculation on Abrams, and our thoughts on rumors of what the Newer Trilogy’s plot might be. Continuing our tradition of looking for news in Alderaan places, Cap, ...
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It’s only been three weeks since the announcement of Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm and the continuation of Star Wars – and already more news is flooding in. Episode 7 comes out in 2015, we couldn’t just sit here. We had to do… something.Presenting State of The Empire, Nerdy Show’s ongoing Star Wars speculation series.

Join Cap, Hex, Doug, and Marc with a C as we put the pieces together of jus...
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Welcome to State of the Empire – the Star Wars Speculation Podcast where we look for news in Alderaan places!

This series is now a part of the Consequence Podcast Network, but when it started back in 2012, it was a special episode of the podcast, Nerdy Show – recorded when we got the surprising news that Lucasfilm was sold to Disney.

We&#39;ve chronicled the entire life cycle of Star Wars in the ...
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Episode 0 :: Disney Buys Lucasfilm: A New Hope for Star Wars
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On October 30th, 2012 the world was delivered some insane news: Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise have been sold to Disney. We’d grown comfortable presuming that nothing would change for Star Wars as long as George Lucas lived – but this changes everything. What’s more, it’s been announced that new films are planned and the first will come out in 2015.

As long-time Star Wars fans, both fil...
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