#all the empires?

[xystonantzintla]

star destroyer shipgirl

ok i need to rename her from the silly name i came up with in middle school (execuclipse lol... executor + eclipse) so for now she's just abbreviated to "SDrN" -> lore down below

SDrN is a heavily-armed, ship-to-ship focused dreadnought meant to flexibly respond to large-scale engagements. Like the Eclipse- and Sovereign-classes, SDrN is equipped with gravity well generators and a battering ram, all plated with layers upon layers of heavy armor. Much of the ship's internal systems are automated, leaving her with a small crew to work with. Only the best Imperial pilots are assigned to her, as she also boasts an experimental targeting system jammer that disables all starfighter targeting systems in range, leaving those pesky rebels with just their own senses… which, most of the time, cannot compare with the Empire's rigorous training. However, this also means that the Imperial pilots must fly by training alone - no assistance from an onboard computer or the such. When used strategically, this can help protect SDrN from bombers while her point-defense laser cannons pick them off, but having incompetent Imperial pilots will doom them as well.

Even though SDrN is equipped with a variety of anti-starfighter countermeasures, it's still recommended to bring a supporting fleet for extra coverage. In addition to thousands of turbolasers, SDrN has an axial superlaser - again, taking notes from the designs of the Eclipse and Sovereign - and parts of her trench turbolaser batteries have been replaced with arrays of missile launchers. These missiles fly as two-stage rockets. The first stage is intended to cross the distance between the fleets and is active for most of the flight, while the second stage detaches the first and releases many smaller warheads to increase the amount of targets anti-missile systems have to deal with. These MIRV warheads can be equipped with proton, ion, armor-piercing, or armor-piercing high-explosive charges.

With the abundance of other systems present, the axial superlaser cannot fire while other energy-heavy systems are at work; in order to fire safely, all turbolasers must be shut down for the brief charging period, and engines work at a maximum of 50% power. The riskier alternative to keep weapons and engines powered requires diverting energy from shields, which can prove dangerous if the supporting fleet is breached.

There is, also, the cloaking device. Almost nothing else can work while it's active: no shields, no gravity well generators, and minimal weapons. Certainly no superlasers. The uses of cloaking such a large ship are few at best, such as tactical repositions and the such, but the primary use falls to enforcing the principles of the Tarkin Doctrine: silence dissent by fear. The presence of a fleet-killer warship alone is daunting, but too often, dissenters might simply assume that it isn't close enough to respond. Should SDrN's location be unknown, it stands as a reminder to uncooperative worlds: step out of line, and the galaxy won't even know what happened. Step out of line, and you won't even have time for goodbyes. Step out of line, and your death will be not a martyrdom but the quiet snuffing out of an unnoticed flame.

oh also!! hello, you made it this far??? congrats 🎉

[problemnyatic]

"I think this Category of human being is disposable" okay that not only sucks and is fascist but also makes getting you to deem someone to be disposable a simple matter of convincing you they're in The Category regardless of the truth. Also The Category is often misapplied to a vulnerable minority because it makes people like you agree they're disposable.

"Anyone who disagrees with me about The Category of people being disposable is a Category apologist or probably also in The Category themselves" Oh so you're just totally unconcerned with truth or justice or ethics or human rights and just are feeding your bloodlust for the sake of revenge fantasies. got it 👍

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[applestruda]

[alternativeulster]

can anyone hear me

[ruubesz-draws]

Showing off the babies

(I watched Ultraman Rising! It was good!)

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[holyblanchett]

This entire scene leading up to the kiss. Agatha reaching for Rio's face, the vulnerability Rio shows in that moment as she stares into her eyes. Rio's gaurd is down in this moment because the woman that she loves is finally returning to her arms after centuries of being apart. THIS version of them, falling back into the muscle memory of their love will forever be my roman empire.

[1mm4d13]

And he’s real for it

[causalityparadoxes]

Live Sutekh Reaction: Bad Wolf Bay edition

[lucyllawless]

[shepscapades]

Your highness… I don’t feel so good

[doesephs]

aftg fans may disagree on this one but kevin day and his most beautiful daughter ever

[flintsdragon]

Paul Mescal having the time of his life getting yelled at by Andrew Scott…. He's so me

[inadvisablebutinevitable]

Every day. Every damn day I wake up and wonder how Wymack must have felt hearing Jean say, “Kevin never once doubted you’d take him in … I laughed at him. I’d never taken him for a dreamer.”

I wonder how he let that sink in, thought over and over again of his first interactions with the kid and rewriting his perceptions with the context that not only did Kevin know that was his dad, but that Kevin trusted him. Unquestionably, before Wymack even did anything, Kevin ran to him because he believed that Wymack was someone safe he could run to. I wonder if Wymack thought about “my father comes to all my games, that is enough” knowing that Kevin truly meant it, maybe always has.

I wonder how Wymack felt then, when later, much much later, that broken boy who laughed at his son for believing in a father he never met calls him out of the blue. When, before Wymack could even get a single word in, begs him, voice wet and desperate why did you take him in?

I wonder how Wymack felt after the phone call ends. Hearing Josten, arguably his most distrustful kid, telling him “I’ve got him coach” and then hanging up the phone, and wondering if Rhemmen has enough strength to watch Jean eventually get to a place similar to where Neil’s at now. To finally learn, slowly but surely, how to trust. I wonder if that made him appreciate Kevin’s trust all the more.

just… I wonder

[gffa]

It's hard not to recognize that overreliance on cameos is weakening current day Star Wars shows. Of course it's a nuanced discussion about how the franchise has long been self-referential and leaning into the motif if, "it's like poetry, it rhymes" but modern Star Wars doesn't understand how to make it part of the theme instead of just there for nostalgia bait and it's leading to weaker sto--HOLY SHIT IS THAT A DARTH VADER GUEST APPEARANCE!? MY TRASH MAN IS BACK!!!! UNFOLLOW ME NOW THIS IS ALL I'M GOING TO TWEET ABOUT FOR THE NEXT WEEK!!!!

[ruubesz-draws]

Godzillas need trimming too, I believe. Too bad Minus One hates it...

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