From a distance Conqueror now looked like it was a denji hive of activity.
It was hovering in the shadow of the largest of Metellos’ moons, shielding it from obvious view and scans from the planet’s surface. It was a token effort made in secrecy at this point. There had been no hiding the dreadnought as it emerged into the system from the Nexus Route terminus point. Metellos ...
2024-01-12 13:30:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year to you all.
May the coming year be a blessed one for all of us.
In retrospect, I see how my first attempt at Anakin was a bit skewed by the AI model due to the fact that it was overly trained on anime. This one is much better in that respect. Alas, the sticking point is getting the armor to match my vision. After dozens of iterations over days, it kept either ma...
2024-01-02 06:54:27 +0000 UTC View PostI left the bridge six hours later, handing over command to Anakin.
The Conqueror was underway in hyper to its first waypoint, the Rhen Var system and would arrive in eleven hours. The ship’s class 1.5 hyperdrive was an amazing thing for the mass it was pushing.
My first destination, the mess hall.
It was lucky this ship wasn’t actually built solely with droids in ...
2023-12-23 14:04:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Was that truly necessary Ahsoka?”
My fingers paused their typing on the main MFD that Osi Sobeck used to control the entire prison. I gave a brief glance at Obi-Wan who was thoroughly securing the now deeply snoozing former Citadel prison warden.
“Probably not, but the bastard had it coming. A record of all his interrogation sessions are here. I didn’t look at it beyond cou...
2023-12-16 15:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you going to do?”
Dragon considered the question and in a few seconds reevaluated every scrap of data she had on Purity, the very small but rapidly building file she had on Henry Hawkins, Escort, Protectorate policy, the law and found herself arriving again at the same conclusion.
Every sensor she had on the Cawthorne Suit was active and pointed at the ‘animated stat...
2023-12-09 17:06:30 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Yes, his name is 'Even'. Keep in mind to avoid confusion.
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“Just tell me the coordinates. There is no escape.”
Pain.
“There is no rescue coming.”
Pain
“We are in a prison you Jedi built. One we’ve made even more formidable.”<...
2023-12-02 14:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostI leaned back in the pilot’s chair of the Emissary, feet up and perched to the side on the bracket I had installed at the appropriate level, just so I could do this.
The sight, sound and feeling of hyperspace streaming past the ship, including all the cockpit sounds was the best ASMR that I didn’t know I had missed, until we had effectively exiled ourselves into Mortis for a ...
2023-11-25 15:57:17 +0000 UTC View PostAnakin attacked in the next moment.
The power he unleashed forward rumbled the foundations of the citadel, the tiles cracked underfoot, a groaning was heard throughout the structure. The dark clouds above simply ceased existing as they were driven away, revealing the unknown starscape.
It was stupendous.
All that telekinetic power crashed on Bogan, seeking to rob him of the Mo...
2023-11-18 20:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostAt first, I thought I was looking at a tree.
A dead one, that towered over thirty meters tall.
True Sight and normal sight told me it was far from dead. Its many limbs could move with the speed and dexterity of a human arm and it tirelessly held its many victims in multi-limbed grips. The only reason I thought it dead, was because of its color - bone white with no leaves in sight. 2023-11-11 15:55:20 +0000 UTC View Post
By SDXL and I.
Image taken during Padme & Ahsoka's trip to visit Senator Bonterri, just before they crossed behind enemy lines. This is on the observation bridge of a transport.
I've always liked the art style that many sci-fi books used for their covers in the 80's and 90's, so I tweaked until I got something in that vain that I liked. Enjoy.
2023-11-10 19:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostObi-Wan had expected a moment like this to only come much later in his life.
A moment of looking back and observing his journey, celebrating the joys, regretting the mistakes. Yet here he was, literally outside of the universe, in an impossible monastery looking back with the eyes of memory and questioning how he could have been so blind.
Beginning all the way back when he’d been ...
2023-11-04 16:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostMy armor’s internal alarm went off, telling me I had been stuck in a near-sleep state for almost five hours.
My bladder also decided to remind me to attend to it. I was so annoyed at this point that I just let my armor’s internal functions take care of it right there.
I threw off the thin blanket with a grunt and got up, my eyes were caught on the view afforded by the circular w...
2023-10-28 15:23:05 +0000 UTC View PostI sat back and folded my arms awkwardly, given I had my full Aegis armor on, and regarded the vista of space that the cockpit of the Emissary currently afforded.
It wasn’t much considering that the majority of the galaxy was currently ‘behind’ the ship, with our current orientation in the Chrelythiumn system. Only a relative sliver was in view now, but the system itself was...
2023-10-21 20:17:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe day that followed was occupied with the busy work of the preparations for not only getting Shauna integrated onto Earth Bet, but also Henry. The former being way easier than the latter.
With her backstory and knowledge based out of an alternate Earth’s California, specifically Los Angeles being her home city, it was just a matter of getting her up to speed on the minor and major dif...
2023-10-14 14:54:21 +0000 UTC View PostShe had rehearsed this moment in her head so many times as a child.
Then as the years passed on Rattatak, such musings grew distant with every month that passed on that miserable world. It was only as she was taken from there by Dooku that the tiny spark of hope to see the world of her birth, gained strength again.
It was seemingly stamped out by Dooku’s training and the constant ...
2023-10-07 15:31:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Manda’lor, did you really come here for this?”
I met Togai’s eyes briefly before looking at all the datapads strewn around his desk. We were ostensibly reviewing Concordia’s budget, which for a moon of over four hundred thousand people was quite large. Mostly thanks to all the natural rehabilitation projects going on all over the surface and its role as Mandalore’s primary br...
2023-09-30 15:08:57 +0000 UTC View Post
HK in the cockpit of a Fang fighter.
Been toiling away with the AI on this for a while, trying to get a properly sinister/intimidating look to HKs faceplate. AI ended up either making him too goofy or giving the appearance he was partially organic. This one finally hit the mark close enough. His chassis is based on the Guardian police droid, militarized up to nth degree. 2023-09-25 11:49:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The New Mando end of year celebration feast was in full swing in the large audience hall of the palace in Sundari. Dozens of circular tables with guests seated, talking, eating and drinking with superb manners, dressed in their ‘evening best’. Waiters constantly buzzed around refilling drinks and in the background a constant soothing music reached every ear.
Once again I joined the he...
2023-09-23 14:50:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Stop fidgeting, Korkie.”
“Yes, auntie,” he said, automatically adopting the posture hammered into him by what felt like hundreds of hours of physical training.
She gave him a brief stern look over the shoulder from the controls of the Kom’rk fighter-transport, before smiling in approval and returning her attention to the rapidly approaching moon of Concordia.
Every ...
2023-09-16 16:41:41 +0000 UTC View PostFeet thumping on pavement, labored breathing, the dull burn of muscles working harder and harder to keep up; that was all Shauna’s world had been reduced to.
She barely took in her surroundings, only understanding that she had to get away from people and away from anywhere that there could be cameras. They would take one look at her orange jumpsuit and know instantly that there was a pr...
2023-09-09 17:54:02 +0000 UTC View PostJust being able to talk to Senator Bonteri was not a simple matter of making an appointment with her official staff. As far as CIS Intel were concerned, they had been ‘attacked’ by RI to disrupt their surveillance of her. They were currently chasing their tails due to all the false trails I had laid for them but they were also carefully investigating why RI would disrupt Bonteri’...
2023-09-02 19:29:54 +0000 UTC View PostIf anyone had asked Mina Bonteri to write an essay off the cuff about what she knew about the Sith, she doubted she could even fill a paragraph.
Very young, she had been read the ancient children’s tales passed down through the generations of Onderon. Stories of dark powerful sorcerers and fearsome warriors, who were in the end always defeated by the valiant Army of Light. Those stories...
2023-08-26 16:02:47 +0000 UTC View PostI pulled back on the Xanadu’s hyperdrive control lever and the converted Rogue class stealth ship shot itself back into normal space at the designated emergence point exactly on time. My hands on the control yoke, I yawed and pitched the ship onto our new course and pushed the acceleration hard onto our new vector. I didn’t want to give cause for a Coruscant traffic controller to s...
2023-08-19 17:33:27 +0000 UTC View PostDad and I spent most of the morning around the kitchen table brainstorming ideas for his cape persona.
Just settling on a shortlist of names was a constant back and forth, with both of us referencing the Internet and PHO from our phones. Soon we were even bringing down books from the small house library and boxes in the attic that were filled with all of mom’s old reference books on the...
2023-08-12 15:13:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe door of my quarters aboard the Resolute closed.
Finally assured of privacy, I practically fell back against it and struggled in the fight to remain awake for just a little longer.
The ship had finally arrived in high orbit roughly half a day after Astrakane had been liberated, but it felt like an eternity. The aftermath of that town’s liberation was just one problem a...
2023-08-05 16:10:44 +0000 UTC View PostHK-47 pulled back on the hyperdrive motivator lever of his current master’s newest tool of conflict resolution. The tunnel of hyperspace broke apart and he emerged beyond the mass shadow of the latest world to be infected with the scourge of substandard droids that seemed to be everywhere in the galaxy these days.
Mimban was not particularly memorable in the very long list of planets th...
2023-07-29 14:05:09 +0000 UTC View PostIf there was one thing I could say about the Mimbanese or at least the Zhamor Tribe, was that when the chips were down, they worked with a ferocity and determination that would put most other species to shame.
In just two days, they had put the plan we worked out into practical reality.
The droid occupied town of Miststar, which had been hewn out of the sprawling rainforest, was abo...
2023-07-22 15:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe doors to the cargo elevator rose up to reveal the kneeling gray form of Henry the sentient statue.
“Welcome to Fortress, Henry,” I smiled.
“Thank you,” he said, then delicately shuffled off the elevator and rose to his feet after checking the ceiling would accommodate him. Thankfully, the former Endbringer shelter had to be generally built to move around large equipment ...
2023-07-15 14:11:23 +0000 UTC View Post
After much tweaking, generations and screaming at the AI to "Get the eyes right!", I've finally arrived at a Padme I'm reasonably happy with. I also had to go in and fix the background because the AI is very blaster bolt happy when it even gets a whiff of a SW character. "I didn't tell you she's in a fight, you bucket of bolts!"
Anyway, here I imagined her in a palatial setting, lik...
2023-07-14 17:46:11 +0000 UTC View PostWe emerged casually back onto the gaming floor of Szog’s Casino.
‘So how long do you think before the Hutt Council gets a recording of that meeting?’ I thought with amusement to Anakin.
‘Two or three hours, it’d depend how quickly they can get together. The hutts don’t really trust putting their meetings over any medium that can be hacked.’
‘<...
2023-07-08 20:36:04 +0000 UTC View Post