The sound of a bionic right fist slamming and denting mild durasteel echoed through the Jedi Temple communication center.
Anakin glared into the giant holotank that currently showed the entire Coruscant system and a visual representation of every ship that had left in the last twenty four hours. Naturally, it was a daunting number and was like looking into a sea of points with coordinates...
2025-01-24 12:37:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe casino floor was left in my wake through a few quick hacks of every surveillance cam with a sightline on me in the street outside.
The station’s dweller was still dealing with the mess that the now dead Arasaka runner had made in his assault, so I had little opposition in slipping through the cracks. I broke the sightline from any casino patron passing by and ducked into a public re...
2025-01-17 13:11:24 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the strangest incongruencies of Coruscant that I had to wrap my head around in the past, was that despite the fact that you had air travel via a million forms of speeder, you could still get ‘stuck’ in air traffic. The trillions of sentients on the city planet did explain it somewhat, but not everyone had access to their own personal transportation.
Even if you had the money, i...
2025-01-11 16:19:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe silence after Yoda’s words was like a vast, terrible, yawning void.
I then realized that it was my own stomach feeling this way, combined with every nerve ending in my back wondering if gravity had suddenly gone away. For the briefest of moments my mind was sent reeling, gibbering at the impossibility.
What had I done?
What had I not done?
Was this a butterfly effe...
2025-01-03 15:22:41 +0000 UTC View Post2024 has gone and we welcome 2025 today.
Fireworks galore, eating delicious food (mostly unhealthy), family and friends.
However you spent this day, I hope it was awesome.
We look forward now to a new year of hope and possibility, for good things, for life to be better. We make our plans and resolutions, some we achieve, some we will inevitably fail. Better though that we had...
2025-01-01 19:15:03 +0000 UTC View PostMy hat was proverbially tipped to Thrawn when he retained his balance after I returned his senses to normality. He didn’t even sit down, breathe hard or visibly show any form of shock at having his worldview pulled out from under his feet.
I had sufficiently proved my prophetic abilities to him enough that he took what I showed him with the seriousness it deserved.
He looked at hi...
2024-12-27 17:10:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Or as it's known in the Corusca Galaxy - Happy Life Day!
2024-12-24 19:55:41 +0000 UTC View PostBack in the clothing and identity of Mrs. Paigles I watched from the crowd of shocked and awestruck One Percenters as they gawped at the mansion going up in flames.
Station maintenance and emergency services had arrived within less than two minutes once my little sabotage had finally kicked in. The fire was already well under control, with various maintenance borgs openly surrounding the ...
2024-12-20 14:41:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Excuse me, General, Commander, Senator.”
Dilvosh nodded at each of us in turn, downed a final glass of wine before striding out of the sitting room, to begin to set the overall plan in motion.
“What was that?” Padme asked in exasperation.
‘That was Fulcrum basically gaining a planet of its own,’ I thought to her.
Her thoughts became disjointed in as...
2024-12-13 14:30:20 +0000 UTC View Post“Frak!”
My hand raised from the head of the slumped form of Duke Solha.
The control room was a distinct mess at the moment, with dead smugglers, a tac droid’s body falling over, a generally smoky haze lingering from burnt out electronics and three unconscious serennians on the floor.
Solha’s emotions had sent up all sorts of red flags to me and I had rushed things a bi...
2024-12-06 15:25:29 +0000 UTC View PostAnakin slammed his right fist into the console in front of him.
His frustration was shared by me. Bloody Shroud. Our speed in getting here on time to meet Thrawn had meant that there could be minimal deviation or waiting for clone trooper backup to catch up to us.
“They have effective weapons, Skyguy. We don’t.”
“Yes,” he let out a deep breath. “We- we can’...
2024-11-29 13:21:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe next gig required some prep work.
I first did a quick check on my virtual Rachel Mcadams. The algorithm running ‘her’ was still going strong with no hiccups and potential behavior anomalies. The real Rachel, still having a naptime in the toilet. There were six hours left on the clock before I’d need to switch her out for someone new.
Next step, new threads.
To that e...
2024-11-22 13:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Medium: AI input and digital touch ups.
I've been working with Flux lately after discovering it. It can do amazing things, especially with something as 'alien' as Ahsoka's lekku and montrals. Its getting them consistently at an acceptable level and I'm looking forward to trying other alien characters. It's only missing trigger finger on the gun in the left image and the outfit is close to...
2024-11-21 17:36:48 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Patreon messing with text size, yay.
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Thrawn ventured into the Omen’s small control center for the first time and couldn’t help but inwardly marvel at it.
Here the ship’s use of holographics went to a new level of immersion for the pilots, with controls hovering around them in abundance. At first it looked too overwhelming i...
2024-11-15 10:37:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take long for Anakin to determine that he was speaking to someone who was both very intelligent and dangerous.
The Meese Caulf language by its very nature was designed to minimize any potential for misunderstanding, which would naturally be bad for business. You didn’t want your future business partner drawing a blaster because you accidentally insulted his family line or an...
2024-11-08 12:55:59 +0000 UTC View PostTwo weeks.
That’s how long it took to get to this moment - traveling in the expansive, very slow elevator up the side of the Senate Apartment Complex.
Eight days of which had been enduring the equally slow ride accompanying the kirosian and other slaves we had purchased. We remained undercover for as long as possible and only when we were back in Republic space, was the veil dropp...
2024-11-01 12:05:28 +0000 UTC View PostThere were moments in the life of a mercenary where you found yourself doing and experiencing events that strained credulity.
Fighting a hacked Militech Chimera experimental tank alongside the President of the NUSA herself with only a smart submachine gun, an assault rifle and quickhacks was one of those moments.
I had to remind myself that I was not V, Smasher’s Bane or any of th...
2024-10-25 12:26:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe large enclosed speeder was one of three mini-bus sized flying vehicles that approached the palace.
It was escorted by a half squadron of militarized speeders of the same type that had ambushed us on the brezak. Every single soul that was currently in the procession of guarding and delivering Scintel back to the palace had been seemingly vetted by Koltal and from what both Anakin and I...
2024-10-18 12:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Quick get on!”
The moment Anakin sat astride the brezak’s saddle the creature rumbled to life from its afternoon snooze and didn’t look too happy about it.
“I really think I should be handling the beast,” Scintel said wearily, as he unwound and grabbed the reins. “Have you ever ridden one of these?”
Anakin had already slapped a Beast Control thro...
2024-10-11 12:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostIn the chaos, confusion and emergency response to the bombing, we managed to get out of the arena without significant problems.
The one issue we had to deal with was disguising Anakin and myself, since we would be both known to the opposition by this point. He had grabbed another assassin’s outfit, whilst for me we managed to find a black jumpsuit, and hooded rain cloak in a maintenance...
2024-10-04 11:31:51 +0000 UTC View PostV, the newest living legend to rise out of the cauldron of Night City. The price to attain it was never an issue, until it truly came due. With the clock running out on her life, recruited by the mysterious Mr. Blue Eyes for a hail mary gig in low Earth orbit, she rolls the dice on a final gambit…
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“So, 80 000 you say? It will take a bit of time to process that amount, not to mention arrange suitable transport all the way to Orvax. When does Sovereign Iballa expect delivery?”
“The factories are sitting idle, with no one working them. Therefore as soon as possible,” Anakin said, idly browsing through a datapad as he and Scintel sat around a small table which had a light lunch...
2024-09-20 12:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostMy bootjets flared as I landed on top of the AAT.
Lightsabers slashed downward, cutting through the hatch.
A Force Pull sent the hatch flying away, exposing the B1 droids inside.
“Hey, that’s rude,” the B1 objected in its nasal mechanical tone.
My only reply was to arm and drop a thermal detonator into the tank.
One Force Jump upward later, I flared my armor...
2024-09-13 15:20:46 +0000 UTC View PostOur eyes opened together.
I was standing over him as he laid on the stone bed in the central Nightsister auditorium. As I watched, the veins of ichor in it flashed, the substance retreating and the channels it had used returned to ordinary contoured stone.
Savage’s eyes now were the distinctive yellow of Dark Side corruption, the inflamed tiny red veins surrounding his cornea were...
2024-09-06 10:57:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Let’s go!”
The high revving of straining engines being pushed to maximum acceleration joined the concussive sound of massive footsteps slamming down on the old road.
The oddest convoy Brockton Bay had ever seen began racing its way out of the suburb.
The PRT vehicle in the lead with Armsmaster driving, Miss Militia in the passenger seat with a thick barreled weapon in h...
2024-08-30 12:11:51 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Asajj Ventress striding through the assembled males and evaluating them was interesting and disturbing in equal manner.
It was like a farmer looking over her cattle, deciding which should breed, go back to pasture or go off to the slaughterhouse. She stood in front of each male, grabbed his arm by the bicep, the leg, then moved on. On occasion she even punched a male hard in the ...
2024-08-23 12:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostI had been to many places in this galaxy by now, fought on the battlefields of numerous worlds, commanded starships and fleets. Seen ships consumed in exotic energies and fire. Fought a Dark side version myself and a Celestial outside the universe in Mortis. A list that was getting fairly extensive at this point.
Yet, when the red lightsaber blade of Count Dooku was surging its way to sla...
2024-08-16 12:18:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Come now, my Jedi friends,” D’rarel said genially, which on a face so naturally fearsome, just made me shudder. “You tried to hide your fighting styles admirably, but when you live as long as I have… There was a time when you Jedi always had a presence on this world, then you packed your bags, closed your chapterhouse and left. As a young boy, I eagerly watched the demonstration duel...
2024-08-09 12:46:23 +0000 UTC View PostShe took in the passing houses of the neighborhood, not really seeing them.
With every passing moment, she came closer to the only thing that mattered to every fiber of her being. To the point where the gaping hole in her heart would be filled again, even if it was just for an hour or two.
The unmarked PRT car thumped as it drove over a few potholes, only briefly pulling her out of ...
2024-08-02 12:17:42 +0000 UTC View PostOur contact left us directions deeper into the city.
So we managed to flag a speeder taxi that would take us to the coordinates.
These taxis were at best a small cottage industry made up of a few hundred off-worlders who had found a niche market to operate in. Given their primary customers were the criminals that called this city home, they had to be very careful of the prices they ...
2024-07-26 12:37:14 +0000 UTC View Post