#Rebel Alliance

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: Battlefront - GR-75 Transport on Tatooine by Jessica Helgesson

[wetsocksinbed]

Bail Organa, introducing Omega as one of the new rebellion pilots: this is Omega

Hera:

Hera: WAIT

[star-wars-forever]

Caroline Blakiston, the original Mon Mothma

[saphronethaleph]

"Pick up" some Power Converters

“...no, what you want to do is to have most of the shipment be something innocuous – on every run. That way, even a random inspection probably won’t find anything. If you absolutely need to break that rule, still have some innocuous crates, but what you also want to do is to build up a friendship with the inspectors. Find out their routines if you can, and test out if you can bribe them to not bother looking – then you can aim the vital runs to be specifically with the people who you can bribe.”

“You’re sure that works?” Dodonna asked.

“Well, yeah,” Luke replied, with a shrug.

“Luke?” Leia called. “Luke?”

She leaned around the door. “How long have you been in here? We’ve been looking for you for twenty minutes.”

Luke frowned, then glanced down at his comlink. “Why didn’t you call me?”

“We don’t know your com code, kid,” Han provided. “You didn’t get around to telling us.”

Luke’s expression cleared.

“I have been going through Threepio if I need a com discussion,” he admitted. “I guess that’s not going to work if we’re staying with the Rebellion long term, though, I really should give you my com code-”

“Not now,” Leia objected. “What were you talking about, anyway?”

“He was giving us lessons,” Dodonna provided, indicating every single intel operative on Yavin IV and about half of the other Rebel Alliance techs sitting around.

“It’s basic stuff, right?” Luke asked. “I’m surprised you don’t know it.”

Leia frowned. “Lessons in what?” she asked. “Farming?”

“Well, sort of?” Luke replied. “Not moisture farming, not that bit, but the other stuff. I guess it’s helpful, and I’m glad to help!”

“What other stuff, then?” Han asked, leaning on the door, then got out of the way as Chewbacca made a questioning noise. “Right, sorry Chewie…”

“You know,” Luke said. “The basic stuff. Hiding stashes, underground hyperlanes, gun running, how to deflect attention from an enforcer without their realizing you’re doing it. Burning out slave collars, dead drops.”

He shrugged. “Farming.”

Leia blinked.

“That’s… not farming,” she said. “That sounds like a hostile-environment intelligence agent tutorial… how would you pass off vital information?”

“Let’s see…” Luke frowned. “One option – disguise it as something innocuous, while anyone would assume you’d hidden it in a much more complex way. Option two – copy it, send both versions by different routes or hide it in two different places. If you’re willing, get tortured, then crack under torture and give up one of them – that means they’ll believe they’ve got everything. Then another choice is to make it completely public, that’s a bit of a last-chance thing but if you make it completely public then everyone gets to see it including your intended recipient.”

He glanced up at her. “I guess you did the first one, gave up one location but they decided to keep looking for the other, and that’s what led them to R2? Or did you use one of the other methods? I could keep going.”

Leia shook her head.

“Okay, I’m convinced you know what you’re doing,” she said. “But how do you know all this stuff?”

“Do you not?” Luke replied, sounding slightly baffled. “This is boring stuff. Kid’s stuff, you’ve got to do it right but it’s a yawn fest. How does nobody have any ideas about it?”

“I know,” Han declared.

He pointed at Luke. “Farmboy, yes. Tatooine farmboy. The only thing that planet exports is crime.”

Luke looked momentarily offended.

“...yeah, I guess,” he agreed, relenting.

[no7er]

Rebel Strike Digital artwork by me, 2022

[errantindy]

So....are all Rebel pilots

Issued a yellow jacket

as a signing bonus?

Edit: my boyfriend suggested the Rebellion might have “hi-jacketed” a freighter full of them. 😆

[soapsbadart]

You are with me, I am with you. Always one, but born as two. As above sits the stars, and below lies the sea. I give you you, and you give me me.

[basket-of-loquats]

family portrait

[Image description: a digital drawing of Hera Syndulla with her young son Jacen, visible from the shoulders up. She holds Jason up as they both smile at the audience. The background is yellow with lighter stripes. End ID.]

[pedroam-bang]

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

[luca-ercolani]

Origami X Wing

(Via: fresyre on Reddit)

[jadeorgana]

Omega: “The Rebellion needs pilots more than ever." Omega in an X-Wing flight suit. I loved the epilogue for The Bad Batch. I can only imagine Omega as a Rebel pilot after Tech taught her to fly. Tech: "Up, Up, Pull Up, Omega." Omega: "Copy that."

Artist: IG @libpaint

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: X-Wing - Core Set - Biggs Darklighter by Henning Ludvigsen

[wetsocksinbed]

[star-wars-forever]

[mrjinx87]

People underestimate the power of twinks.

[no7er]

Y-Wing Gold Squadron Digital artwork by me, 2024