#Grand Moff Tarkin

[sanflawoah]

Normal day in the empire.

[shapelytimber]

Ok hear me out.......... wlw Wilhuff Tarkin and Orson Krennic-

the dynamic very much is unhinged creative vs rigid control freak in a context of evil bureaucracy- and personally the context is why I love to read stories with imperials jdjdkd nothing is more crack cocaine literature for me than to make drama in a space office filled with awful people

More flavor text and me trying to sell you on why this ship of two truly terrible people is great below vvv

For Krennic, lean more into the evil genius artist. She's been up for 46 hours straight drawing schematics, she's rambling about incomprehensible shit, her only meals have been cigarettes and energy drinks, she's so full of herself she might one day think she's god, she's gonna die by 60. She doesn't care much about the politics of the empire, but they don't bother her either. She works for the imperials because they have a lot funds to give to engineers willing to build them a battle station the size of a moon capable of blowing up planets. Before that she worked on a lot a architectures on imperial center/Coruscant.

The imperial uniforms are a bit boring- so I'm taking full advantage of the fact Krennic is more of an engineer/architect to tweak her uniform a bit (and the cape was already not respecting regulations sooooo) For Tarkin I'm keeping it tho, this woman won't be caught dead without it.

For Tarkin, lean less into the whole buff survivalist aspect- she very much was in her youth, but she *is* a 65 year old woman based on *Peter Cushing*, and has been in a very high and prestigious position within the empire for the past 20 years. She still as an extensive knowledge on how to survive in nature, and fight with her bare hands or a knife, but that doesn't come up very often in her line of work anymore. She still killed a space bear unharmed when she was like 17 tho. She hates chaos and developed the main philosophy that drove the empire to this day : to govern with fear and impose order. She is a bloodthirsty woman in her sixties, with a never ending hunger for power, currently cheating on her wife with a coworker she hates.

They both love the death star more than they tolerate each other, but they did end up bonding over plotting the demise of one coworker they couldn't stand and digging out rebel spies. Make no mistake tho, this is very much a love triangle/trouple between two women and a giant battle station.

In the end, Tarkin killed Krennic by shooting her from orbit with the death star, the project was finally finished, she didn't need her anymore and she might have gotten in the way of her control of the station.

Tarkin dies a few days later during the battle of Yavin, along the death star, not willing to back down in her moments of glory.

PS : a lot of this is inspired by the fic "Propagating structure" by oneinspats ! it's what made me like and understand this pairing, and is truly a great work of fiction. I really think this fic is a masterful work when it comes to expending the character of Krennic, and extrapolating on existing things. Exploring his more creative side, his passion for his work, his truly abysmal lifestyle, giving him a hatred of nature and a background as an architect on Coruscant. While also keeping his horrific aspects, like reading his internal (or external) monologues sometimes makes my skin crawl with how disgusting his ideas are and how deep they run, but making him an interesting and compelling protag for the story. While all of it is surrounded by this delicious dramatic irony, because we know that no matter how hard they try to scheme (or fuck), the death star will blow up and it's incredible.

[chiliger]

What was that all about?

[shoppingbaag]

Six fan art imperial version

[star-wars-forever]

[hegodamask]

"If saying it would only make it so."

ROGUE ONE: A Star Wars Story (2016)

[eraser1984]

The Imperial High Command:

[thrawns-backrest]

in honor of the fact that Christopher Lee has choked Peter Cushing a grand total of three times on screen (that I know of lol)

[nkp1981]

[pianopadawan]

[peeps-brainrot]

I just found out that apparently Tarkin had an affair with a stormtrooper????

[sanflawoah]

Warm up sketches, but I got carried away.

[facts-i-just-made-up]

"Grand Moth Tarkin" was a death's-head hawkmoth spotted in south Italy in 1978.

Death's-head hawkmoths are known for their skull-like markings, which have appeared in art by Salvador Dalí and films like Silence of the Lambs. In 1978, a year after the release of Star Wars, this moth was seen by a fan and noted to have markings reminiscent of Peter Cushing, who appeared in the film as Grand Moff Tarkin.

Much like its namesake on the doomed Death Star, the moth refused to leave the tree while it was being chopped down and is presumed to have died during the construction on Via Nazionale SS92.

[chiliger]

You know he’s gonna get away with it.

[jewishcissiekj]

Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker in Star Wars (2020) #48 - written by Charles Soule with art by Jethro Morales