My hologram appeared in the center of the Jedi high council chamber.
Awareness of the space blossomed through the Force into my mind quickly; it was second nature by now.
It was a bright sunny day on Coruscant with hardly any cloud cover around the Jedi Temple, a welcome contrast to Umbara’s constant night. The sunlight streamed through the curved ceiling windows in a manner that ...
2024-07-19 12:40:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Didn’t think it’d come to this.”
Fives looked at Jesse and couldn’t help but agree with the sentiment.
Here the three of them were, after having pulled off the impossible and they were facing a court martial for it.
They were stripped of their armor, leaving them in the matt black under suits, with only the armored shoes on their feet leaving any hint that they were...
2024-07-12 12:08:18 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you trying now?”
“I’m thinking H32 plus this latest module I made, this is an awesome mobile lab, by the way,” Bakuda said, looking around the interior of the large van disguised as a UPS delivery vehicle.
“Thank you,” I said dryly, folding my arms impatiently. We were both in one of the vehicles Henry had repurposed for mobile work in the field with regard t...
2024-07-05 12:38:42 +0000 UTC View Post“How many prisoners did we capture?”
“Just under four hundred, sir,” Rex answered as he looked around the command center of the Umbaran air base.
Krell was carefully walking around the space, inspecting the bodies of the umbarans and occasionally pushing them out of the way with a massive foot. “So few? A base like this should have thousands manning it.”
“The maj...
2024-06-28 12:38:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Medium: Hand drawn pencil & digital.
Rationale: A quick visualization of Ahsoka's helmet integrated into armor (Thanks Trickster Mortian for inspiration and impetus to try). This is a later imagining, with a Vizsla Mando helmet integration , combining with an ME style Aegis. After this I really appreciate the headache it must've been to design something that can somewhat comfortably ...
2024-06-25 08:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostThrough the Force, his will crushed down on the mind of his target.
The unfortunate Umbaran militiaman fell unconscious in his dugout cover, Anakin dropped right next to the umbaran from the tree above. His holoshell changed immediately from the featureless void black camouflage to an imitation of the Umbaran armor and a randomized face based on his victim.
The imitation wasn’t pe...
2024-06-21 14:10:20 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Sorry, but reading legalese on this means I can't put the relevant gif here or I might get giphy on my ass.
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He looked into the tactical holo of the capital city of Umbara, its environs and met the eyes of Obi-Wan, seeing his own disquiet mirrored there.
Anakin really didn’t like the intel black hole they were about to land in. Umb...
2024-06-14 14:06:26 +0000 UTC View PostBakuda had seemingly arrived in Brockton with only the tech and clothes on her back.
Her remaining funds were wads of cash folded securely into pockets of her long jacket, which neatly explained her reluctance to even take it off, when I pushed her into the upstairs bathroom to get cleaned up.
Judging by her smell, she’d gone for more than a week without any shower.
“Don...
2024-06-07 14:10:55 +0000 UTC View PostMoments like this showed very clearly that for all I could plan and take every precaution, that my enemy also had the initiative and could make moves faster than I could anticipate, especially if I was on the ass end of the galaxy and he was sitting snug in his center of power under that damn Shroud.
“What happened?” I asked the holo of HK-47.
The droid was projected in the low ...
2024-05-31 15:24:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe ramp leading up into Tank A634 opened with an agonizing slowness that Barriss knew was just her own impatience bleeding into her perceptions.
She didn’t even wait for the thing to properly unfurl before she flexed her legs and pushed off the ground, easily making the height with a Force assisted jump.
The instant she was in the main rear hold she felt it through the Force -
Ahsoka rattled off her plan for destroying hundreds of war droids with what little they had on hand.
It was crazy and simultaneously so brilliantly obvious Barriss couldn’t believe that she hadn’t thought of it immediately.
“They are approaching from the north-west. The marshlands in that direction means very slow going for any landbound force. It’s one of the reasons the Ri...
2024-05-17 12:25:25 +0000 UTC View PostShe fought her first instinct to pinch space and try to leverage every bit of her training into wringing Escort’s neck.
Missy made one step forward but managed to stop herself as rationality and training crashed down onto her instincts.
“Everyone stand down now!” Armsmaster’s voice thundered across the common room and resounded almost painfully in Missy’s ears. She barely ...
2024-05-10 14:03:35 +0000 UTC View Post
In honor of Star Wars Day, I thought I'd share an image that celebrates SDXL finally getting Ahsoka's lekku and montrals to an acceptable level. The armor also just hits the spot nicely. The glaring issue is the eyebrows, but that can be imagined as Ahsoka just using her cosmetic/tattoo kit to imitate that.
Cheers and have an awesome day.
2024-05-04 10:25:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Easy, easy.”
Barriss patted me on the back as I coughed to get rid of the drink that had unfortunately gone down the wrong pipe.
I gave the drink in question a stink eye and used my internal Control to get rid of the last bits of avedame juice from the upper portions of my airway, then reset the nerves to get rid of the now false signals it was sending to my brain.
...
2024-05-03 12:44:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe primary headquarters of the 205th on Drongar was laid out in a standard circular fashion of modular base construction and ring roads to potentially house more than thirty thousand troops if it had to. The base was on one of the largest landmasses of the southern hemisphere, known only as Tanlassa.
Every planetary base had unique challenges in piecing together and laying down the modul...
2024-04-26 16:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe endless soothing sound of waves crashing and rushing up a beach.
Sunshine from two suns, moderated by both distance and atmosphere.
The pleasant warm tingling of it on every inch of my skin that wasn’t covered by the Hapan sling microkini.
Lying back on a wooden deck chair in a sheltered spot on the small resort island on Dac, with no one besides Anakin and Padme - who w...
2024-04-19 13:09:51 +0000 UTC View PostShe shut the front door to her house with more force than necessary, unable to suppress the impulse. Her nerves were twisting up and down her spine, tangling her stomach up in knots and she struggled to regain some form of calm.
Her head leaned against the cool thick wood of the door and she took deep breaths, closing her green eyes to just shut herself away from the world.
The fuck...
2024-04-12 13:18:55 +0000 UTC View PostIf the underwater battles we’d had before then weren’t enough of a paradigm shift in just how to approach a battlespace? Battlewater? Then fighting one on this scale presented an entirely new set of considerations.
As far as I knew from recorded galactic history, no one had fought with these numbers in an aquatic environment. Maybe the peoples of Dac and other water worlds had in the ...
2024-04-05 15:35:17 +0000 UTC View PostSurviving in a constant underwater environment was not easy for us landlubbers.
Every Devilfish sub had most of its mass dedicated to life support systems and each could practically sustain three squads of troopers with oxygen generation. They also contained supplemental food rations, which was another complication. These had to be capable of being squeezed through a tube, which was inser...
2024-03-29 13:23:02 +0000 UTC View PostIn the annals of his people’s history, of all the words said by the kings and queens of Dac, Prince Lee-Char knew that he would probably forever go down in history as the perfect example of foolish naivety. Not to mention the monarch with the worst timing in the galaxy.
How else would you explain the first shot of the Dac civil war happening the instant after he had said: “I do no...
2024-03-22 14:19:50 +0000 UTC View PostIn that moment, my will dominated everyone around me who wasn’t Lung.
I pushed my intent and desires as hard as I could to all ten minds.
The red lights of the cameras remained active.
I had to buy time. “What now, Lung-sama? What do you want?”
His dark eyes behind his mask met mine a moment later and I didn’t even need a read on his aura to interpret the answer ...
2024-03-15 13:57:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Been tweaking the parameters on this one for a while and I can't get the AI to render a decent bowcaster to save it's digital life, which it loves to show firing, but the background and Chewie himself with his armor *chef's kiss*.
2024-03-14 19:35:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Be reasonable, senator. The core worlds are by far the largest tax contributors and are doing the heaviest lifting with regards to the war effort. Surely their voices must be heard.”
“You are unbalancing the scales of democracy with this bill. Now just because one planet’s bank account is larger, they’ll have a greater say in the Senate.”
“We are passing laws critical...
2024-03-08 12:42:08 +0000 UTC View PostIf there was one thing I could say about King Grakchawwaa at my first meeting with him, was that he had little patience for pomp, ceremony or speeches.
In the Force, he was a burning bonfire of frustration and anger that barely tolerated the walking pace of inspecting the parade company of clone troopers.
Grakchawwaa himself was a towering wookiee, easily clearing 2.4 meters. He wor...
2024-03-01 13:30:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Darksaber slashed through skin, muscle and bone with a searing finality.
With a steady cadence of breathing, I let my body relax somewhat and lowered my blades to survey the battlefield’s aftermath.
ARC troopers were emerging from cover and began to check bodies, though in many cases there weren’t any bodies to mark as they’d been largely incinerated.
To one side, Ri...
2024-02-23 16:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Rule number one of this house, if anything appears out of thin air, you do not touch it, inspect it and look further at it. You turn around and shout for me. If I’m not here, you shout for Mr. Hebert. If you’re alone in the house, get your new phone out and call.”
I could see that Theo understood the words, but he was still confused about such an esoteric rule for a modest suburb...
2024-02-16 17:02:33 +0000 UTC View Post“How many?”
“Final count, eighty-three, commander,” Rex said solemnly, yet his broiling anger was simmering under the surface. “Most are wookiees, already rendered to pelts, some even stuffed and turned into lifelike displays. The rest are the mounted skulls of twi’leks, humans, cereans and a few togruta.”
I took in the report as I stared out through the windows of the...
2024-02-09 13:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostI dropped the now sleeping trandoshan hunter to lean against a tree and fought with all my might to not just lop off his head then and there.
His name was Garnac Klal and I felt like I needed brain bleach from just puzzling out and interpreting a few of his memories.
I had little time as he was most definitely not alone and my window of opportunity w...
2024-02-02 14:41:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Glad to hear from you,” said Obi-Wan’s hologram in relief.
“We’re a few minutes out, any last minute requests, master?” I asked urgently.
“The upper left flank of my wall of battle is really getting pressed hard, your fleet would be just what’s needed to firm it up.”
I brought up a system holo from the left armrest of my command chair. With...
2024-01-26 12:44:36 +0000 UTC View PostEyelids fluttered, he was breathing normally, his body and limbs arranged comfortably.
He felt ensconced in a blanket and the feeling beneath his back told him he was on the leather couch in the main living room of the apartment.
It was not the only thing he was feeling.
He was also feeling the rest of the leather furniture in the room. He knew the texture, the di...
2024-01-19 13:14:13 +0000 UTC View Post