The Crucible was underway on the return journey to the Utegetu Nebula.
The hyperspace navigation in the other direction was just as tricky, but now having actual experience under my belt made me feel much better about my ability to guide us back to common hyperspace lanes.
Satisfied that all was well, I left the small bridge and met the adepts in what was the central domain...
2025-08-15 12:08:16 +0000 UTC View Post“For us to have this conversation we need to be in a different place,” I held out the palm of my hand towards the Grandmaster.
Yoda briefly considered me, then gave a look to his holocron, who only nodded.
The weathered three fingered hand touched mine.
The temporary Bond was extended, accepted and I pulled both our consciousness into the endless realm of black stone and w...
2025-08-08 15:24:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe tequila was… different.
Not bad, but it somehow slid down the pipe differently. It had all the right notes of flavor, but there was an extra tangy aftertaste.
Fuck it, he thought.
He downed the whole lot in one gulp, put the glass down and slid it forward. “Drink slinger, another.”
The skinny highrider behind the bar, wearing an apron over a scruffy va...
2025-08-01 10:25:13 +0000 UTC View PostI waved off Captain Typho as he took Padme’s senatorial speeder back into the distant air lanes that surrounded the Jedi Temple.
For a moment, I stood rooted to my spot, only feeling the wind that blasted over the primary landing platform of the Temple.
It was so nice to be on a planet, that deep down in my heart, I considered a home. Yes, Coruscant was in many respects a horrible...
2025-07-25 12:40:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Nubian J-Type Star skiff Veruna decelerated out of hyperspace.
Padme breathed out a sigh of relief that only the emptiness of interstellar space surrounded her after conducting as thorough a scan as possible.
Paranoia was an ever constant companion in her emotions these days. The current events of the war and the politics of the Senate had been especially nasty in the l...
2025-07-18 12:44:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe mass rhythmic thumping of durasteel on stone echoed through the street, a sound that would be forever ingrained in the galactic consciousness.
A drum that heralded occupation, war and destruction.
The droid forces numbered a full company of B1s, B2s with AAT support in the front and rear of the column that marched down the street in the northern sector of Iziz. Their destination...
2025-07-11 13:25:44 +0000 UTC View PostWe let our Sandevistans lapse and reduced the relative speed of our cyberspace back to normal meatspace, returning our perceptions to human standard.
“Who are you, Earthers?” asked an Eclipse, the presumed leader of the party stepped forward to gather our attention.
I almost laughed, it was a neat trick. The actual one who had spoken was to my left, bouncing his radio signal amo...
2025-07-04 10:06:30 +0000 UTC View PostSaw was only dimly aware that he was screaming.
Most of his attention felt like it was being pulled in a thousand different directions by the constant pain as every muscle in his body was forcibly spasmed by the electric current being induced.
His mind struggled to make sense of the sensations, even the words to associate them were not coming.
There was just PAIN.
It was...
2025-06-27 12:24:21 +0000 UTC View Post“You nervous?”
Steela looked up into the ceiling of her room.
How long had it been since she could say that? It felt like forever but was actually just under two years at this point. Ever since the farm had been taken, it had always just been either open sky or jungle canopy above her head whenever she awoke. Now it was a proper ceiling, if slightly dusty from disuse, i...
2025-06-20 13:48:34 +0000 UTC View Post“So you’re the reason the training cubes need so much recharging.”
Saw Gerrera was so utterly surprised by my appearance, he froze for the briefest of moments. The holocubes, which had taken on the appearance of B1s and B2s, nailed him in the back with a mild stun shot that forced him to take a knee.
He impressively kept himself from giving out any outward indication of pain, ...
2025-06-13 22:45:47 +0000 UTC View PostWhen you thought about ‘night’ on Earth, it was the absence of the sun, things cooled down, and the stars came out.
Every land dwelling organism on the planet had evolved around the diurnal cycle in some fashion; birds settled into nests, most feline predators became active, ancient humans went into their caves and a whole host of other adaptations. Then humanity invented fire and was...
2025-06-06 09:42:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe walk down the Skyfang’s ramp back into the oppressive jungle atmosphere felt like I was walking into a plasma oven. Infinitely worse was the sea of grim expectant faces of the Onderon rebels that awaited my word.
I met Anakin and Obi-Wan’s eyes, their eyes telling me that they had already sensed the story, then looked at Saw, Lux and Steela standing prominently at the fro...
2025-05-30 12:33:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe journey to the rebel encampment took just under three hours and traced a winding route through the dense jungle that Steela had no problems navigating by memory alone.
The six other rebels with us also had their own dalgos but most actually preferred to walk next to the domesticated predators, rather than ride them. It spoke of not just good ‘horsemanship’ but also experience, spa...
2025-05-23 10:21:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Can I speak to you?”
I paused the cranking of the hydrospanner and looked down at Maul’s robed form standing next to the Omen’s wing-nacelle.
The robed zabrak was a tight bundle of determination and focus, whilst his anger was buried beneath it and below that, the ever present fear it stemmed from. Yet, the walk and being outside had done him a world of good.
The Vanta would need four hours and two complete orbits to reach rendezvous with our target.
Luthando was kept busy with the orbital adjustments, Zandi made sure the Vanta wouldn’t explode on the way there, whilst Jax, Johnny and I just played passenger.
At least, in meatspace.
In the Relic datafortress, we were both going over the data on the Arasaka shutt...
2025-05-09 12:47:25 +0000 UTC View Post
May the 4th, Star Wars day, has come and gone. I felt like we were overdue for a bit of imagery. This time with the help of newly released HiDream. The first is from the events in the cave against the Inquisitor, whilst the second was just a relative freeform prompt that I let the AI spread its wings on; Ahsoka having an overdue audience in person with the togrutan monarch.
I really like ...
2025-05-06 13:45:45 +0000 UTC View PostAsajj closed the door to the captain’s cabin of the Omen and leaned against it wearily.
It galled her that she would show such weakness, but being a locus for Talzin’s presence even with the ichor vat’s help took a toll. Add the fact that the Mother of the Nightsisters had channeled enough power to worm her way through Maul’s natural defenses…
She wanted nothing m...
2025-05-02 12:24:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Inquisitor was grabbed by the Force Wave and propelled backward with bone crushing speed.
Her surprise lasted for a mere moment and she showed her training; slowing down, bleeding the momentum away, getting her body into an ideal position.
Her feet landed perpendicular on the support pillar, the residual kinetic energy denting it somewhat but not snapping it in two.
I was ...
2025-04-25 14:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe thrumming beats and throaty singing of the Asagar band rumbled through the cockpit of the Omen.
I had the pilot’s seat folded into a reclining chair, with minimal control holos around me, content to just let the view of interstellar space surround me. The deep bass sounds thumped pleasantly into my montrals whilst I read a novel from a datapad as I waited.
Th...
2025-04-18 09:25:56 +0000 UTC View PostActually finding a place to stay in Tycho City long term was not easy.
Almost everything was geared to tourists who had two week or one-month visas to remain, whilst anyone corporate would be put up in their own designated residential buildings. Staying long term in tourist hotels was completely out of the question given the prices.
Johnny and I fell into a very rare category of bei...
2025-04-11 12:59:48 +0000 UTC View PostHis eyes widened as he comprehended what the Dawn was doing and what the rest of the CIS fleet were going to do.
“Bastion wing! I want every repair you can get on the Dawn now!”
A lesser squadron commander would tell Anakin that the Dawn was barely within effective range of the Bastions or hesitate because this was technically still an e...
2025-04-04 10:10:55 +0000 UTC View Post(A/N: Suggest listening to your fav Star Wars space battle music whilst reading. I suggest Samuel Kim Music: 'Clone Wars Season 7 Cinematic Soundtrack Mix' on YouTube for best results. Listening at the 10:15 mark is especially moving near the end of the chapter :-)
“Are we really doing this, commander?”
I tore my eyes away from the forward viewscreen as the Separatist D...
2025-03-28 10:21:10 +0000 UTC View PostI’d captained kilometer long starships, flown starfighters in a dozen odd battles in this war.
Yet that didn’t make actually flying a Lucrehulk an easy thing.
The helm station interface had been optimized for the basic input abilities of a B1 droid with its three fingered manipulator on each arm. As a result, I had to imitate the Vulcan salute on both hands to work the interface...
2025-03-21 10:03:32 +0000 UTC View PostWaking up in a landfill after getting pulled back from death had sucked.
Waking up in my new Gemini body was beyond fucked on that scale.
I had read the testimonies and literature of those who had gone before me in taking the plunge into a practical full body prosthetic. None of them had the same experience, each being as unique as the individual who had taken the journey. Some had ...
2025-03-14 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe scout ship emerged from hyper eighteen hours later on the extreme periphery of the Bith system.
All the cloaking systems flickered to green indicators in front of him and Hunter let out a breath of relief.
The passive scanners displayed that around the more commonly used emergence point was the biggest clanker fleet he had ever witnessed in person.
Entire squadrons of Muni...
2025-03-07 11:52:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe clone war raged on.
The notion of a potential peace summit or even the beginnings of negotiations, an idea that had begun circling around the Senate by a few idealistic senators and because of the war’s mounting costs, was firmly off the table with the events on Naboo.
As much as the funeral for those killed in the battle inside the palace was a local affair, Palpatine and COM...
2025-02-28 12:32:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe beeping of a slow but steady heart rhythm filled the Royal medical infirmary.
Anakin felt like a permanent scowl had etched itself on his face as he stared at the unconscious form of Obi-Wan floating in a full immersion bacta tank, who still had the form and face of Hardeen, as the Royal doctors had flat out refused the idea of reverting or removing the nanotech alterations whilst he ...
2025-02-21 12:09:17 +0000 UTC View PostA moving finger.
Such a simple thing, taken for granted, done without thinking about it at all.
Yet as I stared at the ghostly red digit attached to my ghostly red digital hand, every movement of it caused the shift of an entire universe of data.
Back and forth, back and forth, the finger moved.
We thought we knew what cyberspace was - a sea of 1s and 0s, expressing the ...
2025-02-14 12:25:53 +0000 UTC View PostMy hologram shimmered into existence, letting my senses expand into the galactic holotank planning room within the Temple’s communication center.
Anakin and Mace Windu’s holos appeared next to me, whilst the rest of the Jedi Council stood arrayed around the holotank.
Both Anakin and I were practically blasting a disgruntled anger and disapproval towards every member of the Counc...
2025-02-07 13:41:18 +0000 UTC View PostThere had to be a way.
Eval wouldn’t make this unsolvable. If no one got out of the first trial, that would be disastrous for him as well. There wasn’t enough time for inviting another batch of bounty hunters. Dooku would not be amused at all and probably Force Choke the phindian.
Obi-Wan also couldn’t actively use the Force in an overt fashion, lest he compromise his stealth,...
2025-01-31 12:39:11 +0000 UTC View Post