The Xanadu dropped out of hyperspace at a decidedly unconventional spot, over three hundred thousand kilometers z-negative of Nal Hutta itself.
Its form shimmered briefly briefly in the void before vanishing.
I checked the cloaking system briefly, getting only green status lights from the diagnostic. ‘We’re good to go, master,’ I thought to Anakin. ‘We didn’t even get pinged by their traffic control grid.’
‘Seems like it was worth...
2023-07-01 17:22:07 +0000 UTC
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Flying on the Xanadu was infinitely more comfortable now.
Now that its interior had been properly designed by Temple engineers to support Jedi having to travel long distances in secrecy with its cloaking device. It had enough onboard consumables to support four people for a month. There were two rear passenger seats just behind the pilot and co-pilot seats which could collapse into reasonably comfortable single beds. Behind those were a WC on the starboard side and a tiny kitch...
2023-06-24 14:35:23 +0000 UTC
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I had hoped to never wake up in one of these.
It was a foolish hope, given that I was fighting in a war.
My eyes lazily opened and all I saw was bubbly water? No, wrong viscosity and the feel of it against my eyes was also wrong. It was actually comfortable and didn’t have the slightly stingy feel when H20 was introduced into direct contact with my eyeballs.
Oh yeah, full immersion bacta tank. Yay.
My thoughts were incredibly slug… gish.
I was half-awake, sti...
2023-06-17 12:02:25 +0000 UTC
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“Dad!”
“Ooof, easy there, little owl,” he winced visibly in pain.
I backed off from the hug like I’d been scalded with hot water. “Are you hurt? Of course, you are. What a stupid question.”
Pitter closed the door to Coil’s office and had an amused smile on his face. “He was roughed up by one of the mercs. Your father has a number of bruised ribs, the obvious black eye and he might want to see a dentist about some teeth that were knocked loose.”
Dad ...
2023-06-10 13:07:44 +0000 UTC
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The following morning after an hour’s meditation and blissful sleep I was back in Padme’s quarters.
I couldn’t help but feel internally amused and somewhat marveled at the fact that I could feel that way, considering what would most likely happen. No need for gazing into the future for this. I was a sixteen year old togruta girl, who had admitted that I felt love for a human woman of twenty-five, who was secretly married to my own master. The best I could hope for is that Padme wo...
2023-06-03 14:19:46 +0000 UTC
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After much massaging of words to the Dreamshaper AI, experimentation, dozens of iterations and further manual editing by hand with my digital paint tools to fix things that it just didn't want to do properly, I've arrived at this image and now bring it to you.
I'm still not entirely happy with it, as the AI just doesn't seem to get the reflected lighting from the lightsaber onto Anakin's face right. The lightsaber handle is woefully incorrect and I know of no benefit of having the foref...
2023-05-31 17:36:54 +0000 UTC
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I woke up early the next morning, put the final finishing touches on my report and delivered it directly into the hands of a bemused Obi-Wan. He was less than enthused though when I told him that Padme had requested me to accompany her to Alderaan. I couldn’t tell him the full story, as the Jedi Temple was an open book to Palpatine at the moment. That any Force Vision was possible would be a big red flag to the Sith Lord.
“Oh very well, since we have your report and it’s a senator...
2023-05-27 18:13:30 +0000 UTC
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HK-47s hologram flickered into life.
“Perfunctory greetings: Hello Master.”
I regarded the droid with narrowed eyes, “HK, report.”
“Answer: The mission was an unqualified success, Master. You shall find that the director meatbags of Concordia Crescent Technologies will be most cooperative in any endeavor you put forward. They have also changed their minds about pushing for the capital weapons project. Derisive comment: It’s just as well, mistress. The proposed we...
2023-05-20 16:41:41 +0000 UTC
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The address we had been given was for a defunct car dealership called Bridge Auto.
It sat in the south-west of the city, what was known generally as Downtown South and a large portion of this was held as Coil’s territory of the Brockton underworld. It figured he would want to maximize every possible advantage and minimize the chances of any interference in this operation from his rivals.
My flight to the area took me a precious three minutes at top speed.
Then ano...
2023-05-13 16:25:55 +0000 UTC
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Most beings in the galaxy looked forward to returning home.
Riyo Chuchi did not share this feeling.
She paced uselessly back and forth in the cockpit area of her diplomatic ship, Bastion, and gave the various readouts and controls a glance to confirm everything was still functioning and nothing had changed.
Bastion was still powering through the Mon Gazza system in real space, streaking towards the onward Llanic hyperspace point and would do so for another ...
2023-05-06 21:18:43 +0000 UTC
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It was over within moments, yet it still took me a few seconds to recover from the shock of being within spitting distance of the explosion.
A brief frantic scan from my position lying on top of Ulvy told me that it had not been a thermal detonator. The building’s structure was too intact and the floor above us hadn’t collapsed. This grenade seemed like someone had combined the concepts of a shrapnel spitter and incendiary device. It was firmly an anti-personnel weapon and whoever h...
2023-04-28 20:12:38 +0000 UTC
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I sat at a table in a small kitchenette, watching Kina Ha bustling around the place, reaching into cabinets, gathering all manner of ingredients and speaking aloud to herself as she worked. It was a clear coping mechanism she had developed to deal with her solitude .
Her place was a small apartment just down the hall from the moon pool.
The abbreviated tour she took me on showed a well lived in, almost cozy place. Starkly at odds with the sterile atmosphere the majority of kaminoa...
2023-04-21 15:48:17 +0000 UTC
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The week began pretty much as any other. Worked, wrote the story, brainstormed, helped the family etc. Then wham - I get a minor case of small kidney stones. Those who've had this know the pain it inflicts - those who don't, imagine razor blades and needles through your bladder and further down, then you're pretty close. Turns out I wasn't watching my diet's acidity/alkaline balance well enough... oops.
I recovered, managing to write and meds kept the pain down and managed potential inf...
2023-04-20 17:36:09 +0000 UTC
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“All right Snips, I’m here, what’s this about?”
“Secure the door, Skyguy.” Anakin nodded and pressed the control pad for the door to my quarters. I made a final scan of my room with the Force and my bug sniffer. “We’re clean.”
Anakin frowned and switched to signing, “You’re not using the full kit?”
“I took the opportunity to destroy the bug,” I smirked. “All this battle damage the Resolute took, such a pity.”
“They’...
2023-04-11 10:37:16 +0000 UTC
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I swiped my thumb and dismissed the window showing PHO and returned to idly browsing a few other social media sites.
As much as I had exiled myself from there over the last few years, now I was forced to return simply to keep my head in the game on the public perception of my cape persona, events that occurred in the city and in the wider cape world on a national and even international level. The amount of time that could be spent just looking at each cape, scrutinizing their costumes, ...
2023-04-01 18:40:09 +0000 UTC
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He slammed his fist on the armrest and immediately regretted it.
The holo in front of him showed that they would win this battle and lose the war. The Providence dreadnought was trying to shed as much orbital velocity as quickly as it could. The projected line of its course cut through the holo like a vibroknife, before settling to a point where it would eventually crash into the ocean just four hundred kilometers southeast of Tipoca City.
Wullf threw up the projected intercepts o...
2023-03-25 13:32:30 +0000 UTC
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“Admiral, pull the fleet slowly into the mass shadow of the planet.”
Wullf Yularen sat back in the command chair of the Resolute as he contemplated the order that he had just been given. He effectively shut out the sounds of battle reverberating through the ship; the alarms, the shudders of the deck under his feet. The sight of orange turbolaser fire streaking towards the fleet. Even those that hit the Resolute, barely made him even blink these days.
2023-03-18 21:13:25 +0000 UTC
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What was this feeling? CT-5555 aka Fives wondered to himself.
He definitely felt happy to be back home. The familiar white corridors and beautifully expansive views that felt like it went on forever, especially in the central corridor where the massive carousels that housed thousands of his future brothers at various stages of development floated in the air. Everywhere other brothers moved back and forth in orderly and routine tasks related to everything that made a clone troop...
2023-03-11 10:59:17 +0000 UTC
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The cantina beyond was mostly darkened, with only a single booth lit up.
The place could easily fit about two hundred if no one cared about much personal space. This was a pirate bar though, so the place probably counted as ‘packed’ when eighty people were in here.
Hondo Ohnaka was many things; scoundrel, pirate, mayor, lecher, but he definitely knew what a good cantina was supposed to have. The selection behind the bar was not something far removed from what you’d see on a ...
2023-03-04 12:57:16 +0000 UTC
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As it says on the tin, I wanted to draw something more dynamic. This involves digital and hand drawn as medium.
This is Ahsoka before she got the Darksaber. It's going to be interesting to draw her with the three lightsabers in a duel setting at one point... oh boy.
2023-02-27 12:22:59 +0000 UTC
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If you told me a year ago, my first true ‘battle’ as a hero with other heroes would be with a bunch of mutated cats and dogs, I would’ve told my interlocutor that they should ease up on the drug use a little. If you told me after I triggered or became an SCP, I would’ve not changed my tune at all. Even if someone told me yesterday, I would’ve looked at them weirdly.
I misted immediately to avoid being practically buried by six dogs and three cats who were snarling and hissing ...
2023-02-24 16:09:13 +0000 UTC
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“Do you see it?”
I took a deep breath, even though I was pretty sure I wasn’t breathing air at the moment and nodded at my interlocutor.
“Yes, but actually doing it without relying on you as a crutch for the process is not going to be the work of a few hours of meditation,” I said to the image of Tarre Vizsla.
“Yes and no,” the kyber sentience of the Darksaber said sternly at me, his eyes narrowing between the vision slit of his ancient Mandalorian hel...
2023-02-17 18:11:36 +0000 UTC
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Ventress stood there looking rather more stately than the last time I saw her. She was wearing a full dress of pure black, with an integrated light brown patterning that flowed from around her neck, crossed under her bust and separated towards her feet. The whole number was completely sleeveless, but she also had arm gloves that left her shoulders bare. Her naturally severe look emphasized by her facial tattoos on her natural alabaster white skin was twisted into a smirk as she stared in our ...
2023-02-10 09:50:50 +0000 UTC
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Organizing the transport of a 99 meter long, 60k ton corpse across the galaxy was not your everyday logistical feat. Made especially more difficult when the brainiacs of Republic R&D decided that they wanted to be lazy and asked for the Zillo beast corpse to be brought to Coruscant.
Then because it was menial, busy work and not exciting at all, the job had to be foisted off onto the padawan.
“Come on, Snips, it’s not like I’m going on vacation,” Anakin explained, as we...
2023-02-03 09:28:55 +0000 UTC
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For someone who didn’t need to sleep, you’d think my ability to patiently wait for things would’ve gotten a nice boost, especially given recent events.
The problem was, it was one thing to wait when you were doing so on your own direction and initiative, it was a different ballgame when you were waiting on someone else.
Using ‘15 to lean on, I stood on the sidewalk of the department store, staring at the still merrily burning car in the distance. It was rather fascinating ...
2023-01-26 12:46:18 +0000 UTC
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There were times that this galaxy just loved to baffle me.
From Condordia’s gravity, Naboo’s plasma and dozens of other astrophysical phenomena that were either Celestial shenanigans or an unknown, high level Kardashev civilization playing around, the Corusca galaxy could throw them at you without warning every time you jumped out of hyper.
Then there were the anachronisms that I alone could perceive.
I was now standing on the observation platform perched on the highest ...
2023-01-18 18:10:41 +0000 UTC
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The following two weeks, the Resolute remained in an extremely high orbit around Dargulli, varying its course randomly every 15 minutes.
Our presence was dictated by political reality as we watched the fallout of the local government being thoroughly shook by the tremors of truth. The ship and its forces acted as a much needed reminder and bulwark against any remaining stupidity and knee-jerk reactions from all the various internal factions, including stopping any potential pub...
2023-01-10 16:20:46 +0000 UTC
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Greetings Patrons and welcome to 2023.
It's a new year and I wish you all good fortune and may all your endeavors succeed, as well as any resolutions you've committed to for yourselves.
I've already started working on the next chapter for The Force Wills and there's also a new artwork that I really want to finish up on.
For this year, I want to see about a refreshed graphical look for the Patreon, more artwork, working on my own original novel. Another idea I have is an audi...
2023-01-03 15:33:14 +0000 UTC
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Later in the evening, Anakin and I found ourselves squeezed into a rather small office with Bidi Typho sitting opposite us. It was on an upper floor of the cantina and had a one way transparisteel window that looked out over most of the place.
It had been a fun party and it had also given us a good reason for why Bidi had been so quickly elected to be mayor.
He had already been the de facto ‘leader’ of the town for nearly two years already, after the previous mayor had been mu...
2022-12-22 13:36:53 +0000 UTC
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I stared into the astrographic holo hovering above the small desk in my quarters on Resolute and just marveled at the results of nearly three dedicated weeks of sustained reconnaissance. I had to remind myself that the CIS had merely taken advantage of the pirates already present in the region, who had done all the hard work of setting themselves up, but considering the steadily developing picture, the Seppies had done an impressive amount of networking and distribution of weapons.
2022-12-13 15:48:52 +0000 UTC
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