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[cienie-isengardu]

Star Wars: Clone Troopers in Action (DK Readers, Level 2: Beginning to Read Alone)    

[purgetrooper77]

Predictions of how the rest of Season 2 of TBB is going to go

Hello everyone, I have seen the newest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch and I think I am seeing my Mark Omega Clone Project theory come true. If you haven’t seen that theory, I suggest you read that post before reading this one. 

According to Wookiepedia we have five episodes left of Season 2. Anything can happen in those episodes. Thankfully the website was kind enough to give me the names of those episodes so that I can make some predictions easily. Keep in mind, some of those predictions may or may not happen and if you like to make your own predictions of each episode, feel free to do so in the replies.

Without further ado, here are my predictions to the last five episodes of Season Two of the Bad Batch. The Outpost (Episode 12): This could mean a lot of things. It could be an underwater outpost, desert outpost, jungle outpost, Imperial Space Outpost, etc. Basically Clone Force 99 enters the outpost, discovers some hidden secrets, kills a bunch of bad guys, your average Bad Batch episode stuff.

Pabu (Episode 13): I have no idea what this could be. It’s either a planet, or some person named Pabu, or someone’s pet. I’m not going into much detail. If y’all might know what Pabu could be, please feel free to tell me in the replies.

Tipping Point (Episode 14): This episode is when I think will start showing my Mark Omega Clone Project theory. I believe that Lama Su will help an Imperial Squad find Omega, capture her, and send her to Mount Tantiss where they will make the Omega Clones. This episode might also show a scene of Cid telling the Bad Batch why she acts the way she does since they don’t trust her anymore. Or this episode could be about the experiments with the Zillo Beast becoming so successful that Clone Commandos and advanced TK Troopers will start to wear the armor from the Beast’s shell and use the armor for combat.

The Summit (Episode 15): Okay for context of what a summit is, allow me to explain. A summit is known to be the highest point of the mountain. Like DK Summit in the Mario Kart video game series. My prediction for this episode is that after Omega gets captured by the Empire, Clone Force 99 will get into Mount Tantiss to rescue Omega. But there is a problem, that mountain is filled with Clone Commandos, Imperial Scientists, and some Astromech droids. To my knowledge there are zero TK Troopers. Now it is likely that there could be Imperial Security droids, not like the ones on Corellia, like the ones on Scarif. If that prediction comes true, then the difficult of rescuing Omega won’t be as hard as it seems. Unless the security droids are as powerful as the Clone Commandos, then they are screwed. Which leads me to the S2 finale of this amazing TV series.

Plan 99 (Episode 16): I have a prediction that Crosshair will find Clone Force 99, makes amends to his brothers by saving Omega, and kill Lama Su, Dr. Hemlock, that scientist woman, and a few other members of the cloning project. This could be one of the scariest episodes created ever in TV show history. Imagine all the fight scenes with all of Clone Force 99 together. Crosshair, Omega, Hunter, Wrecker, and Tech against everyone on Mount Tantiss. This could show the best ending of The Bad Batch or the worst. In my opinion I have high hopes for this season and I think they better make a Season 3 of the Bad Batch. If they don’t then I’ll get upset. Plz Dave Filoni, make Season 3 of Bad Batch possible. 

Anyways, I hope you enjoy this post. Let me know of your own predictions in the replies and I hope I get to hear from y’all very soon. 

[fedoraqueen]

Robin

Robin couldn't stop glaring as he watched a group of civilian men spit on his captain and commander as they hauled new wood. He would kill to be able to punch those smug looks off their faces, but for now glaring would be fine.

He sifted through the cargo trying to find specific nails at a 3.6 inch size, used for a nearly completed house. He dug around for a moment longer, procrastinating going back to the demanding woman. He finally mustered the will power to go back and finish the roof.

" well it is about time! You clones are so slow, taking months to free us from those separatists-"

He sets the nails in his nail gun, the two other clones, DK and Buzz, shot him irritated looks. The woman loudly prattling on and on about how she would do things, as she has been doing for the past 6 hours.

" She hasn't shut up." DK whispers near tears.

" we've asked her to leave twice sense you left." Buzz adds.

Robin makes a gesture with his nail gun, " no one has to know," he says softly.

They grin back at him, Buzz nodding excitedly.

" -are you even listening to me?!"

They all look back down at her, " yes ma'am."

" what was the last thing I said?"

" are you even listening to me?!" Robin imitates her voice and tone and begins setting the boards in place.

" well I never have seen such disrespectful behavior from you... You... meat droids!"

The trio stops looking and stares at her, DK in shock, Buzz in disbelief, and Robin in fury. He clenched his jaw and starts to pack up their tools.

" where do you think you're going?"

Buzz hops down and helps pack muttering to himself in mandoa, DK follows face becoming calm. The woman raises her hand to grab one of them, robin swats her away. Turning on her, angry.

" listen up you pathetic excuse of a-" he starts.

He's grabbed by two pairs of arms, one covering his mouth and clutching his torso, the other toppling him over and lifting his legs. Buzz patted his mouth, " sorry ma'am he's a little angry. We will need to report this incident to our general however-"

" no. That won't be necessary just finish up my roof."

Robin squirms, and muffles out a retort. Buzz shakes his head, " we have direct orders to report any insult towards us."

On that final statement the duo carried robin back to recovery.

Robin fumes as he's lifted up, squirming around angrily. He starts to feel his chest clench.

" calm down robin"

" I'm calm! I'm perfectly calm." His breathing becomes heavy and labored, heart rate starting to escalate

Dk drops his feet as Buzz swings him into a bridal carry, starting to sprint full speed to the ship.

"try not to have another heart attack. Please." Buzz pants.

Robin wheezes, clutching his chest, struggling to time his breathing, " s' not that" he manages to get out.

Buzz skids into the med bay, whiskers taking robin and setting him on one of the beds, pushing an inhaler into his mouth. Robin sucks in, starting to get his breath back, he starts to relax as he gains the ability to breathe.

" hey birdy how are we doing." Whiskers says softly, rubbing his back.

He elbows him in response, " shut up loth cat."

Whiskers smiles, grabbing his data pad, " so this was either an asthma attack or anxiety attack. Were you mad."

Robin looks down, " only a little"

" were you yelled at?"

He seems to shrink, " She called us meat droids."

Whiskers hums and takes robins pulse, " this is the fourth time this week birdy."

" please I'm begging you call me robin"

" no. I'm reporting this to tha'hali. You're out of recovery missions for now"

" but-"

Whiskers flicks his nose, " no buts you're stuck right here."

Robin turns to fuming, whiskers pats his shoulder, "you and I both know that you can't handle stress like this, it's not good for your heart."

Robin groans, his reason for being in recovery. His heart was weak, he couldn't run for long due to breathing issues, and he had a trick knee, needles to say he was not good for battle. In fact he had died twice already sense entering recovery, whiskers reviving him both times. He shifted on the bed, feeling the exaustion set in.

" I'm going to hook you up to the oxygen."

He grimaces, " can I not?"

" not a choice."

He hands him the tubes connected to a small cart, robin begrudgingly sets them in his nose as whiskers turns it on.

" stay put birdy."

He grumbled in response as whiskers stepped out. Whiskers stormed over to the jedi, " we need to talk about Robin."

" what's wrong?"

" he's having breathing issues. Triggered by-"

" by what buzz was telling me. Don't worry, we're handling it."

Tha'hali gestures to the now empty cargo bay, " we've finished one house, that's our minimum. We have no obligation to stay, and I'd rather leave soon." Her ear twitches irritably, " we'll be leaving in 5 minutes."

Whiskers raises his brow, " did they-"

" I was refered to as a glow stick wielding war monger."

Whiskers snorts and turns back to the ship, " I'll start securing the med bay."

[eggdrawsthings]

smol Cal and his favorite people (the clone here is that clone who stood outside of his room in the cut scene. As much as i love the "high five" clone, this clone is my fave cos he knows Cal's training schedule and talked about a rematch w him later on, which makes it feel like he's very close to Cal compare to other clones or the clone commander)

[clonehub]

my buddy @cyareclones has mad an artbook of their beautiful OCs that's releasing at 3PM EST--TODAY! There's a digital and physical option with perks available for each, as well as stretch goals that I'd looooove for them to be able to hit.

[cc-1010fox]

STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS Character Encyclopedia (DK) (2010)

Sources: @gffa

Please take a look at their tumblr and give them a follow! They have references out the wazoo. A clone wars artists and fanfic writers dream. The links below have all of clone troopers from season 1 and 2. For the purpose of this blog I just picked out CG members.

(Also @gffa if you would like me to take this down let me know! I’ll be more than happy too!)

https://gffa.tumblr.com/

https://gffa.tumblr.com/post/183895722885/star-wars-the-clone-wars-character-encyclopedia

https://gffa.tumblr.com/post/178893097964/star-wars-the-clone-wars-character-encyclopedia

https://gffa.tumblr.com/post/178793476309/star-wars-the-clone-wars-character-encyclopedia

[gffa]

STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS Character Encyclopedia (DK) (2010): CLONES!!!! + Stats and Fun Facts (PART 2/2): FEATURING:  Jet, O’niner, Punch, Ponds, Razor, Kickback, Wolffe, Stone, Sketch, Swoop, Thire, Rys, Rex, Waxer, Tucker, Fil, Tucker, Slick, Stak (Note:  This book falls under Legends, so it is not canon, but it’s still a ton of fun!  It’s also only based on the first two seasons at the time of publication!)

Punch’s soul patch is “kept immaculate”.

"Ponds serves under Mace Windu, often on Coruscant overseeing the course of the war.  This has left Ponds far from the front.  He wears his frustration on the back of his helmt, where he's scrawled, 'Some Guys Have All The Luck.'" 

"No one is happier than Ponds when Mace Windu is sent to Ryloth for the Republic's invasion of the Separatist-held planet.  Ponds finally sees action at Nabat and Lessu, leading the troopers of Lightning Squadron against Wat Tambor's forces."

"Razor and his squadronmate Stak were trained on Kamino before their first battle, but they ahve learnt much more by fighting alongside Mace Windu.  Where their Jedi general leads, Razor and Stak will follow."

"Rys has spent a good chunk of the war on Coruscant, escorting Senators and monitoring fleet movements in the Outer Rim."

"The other pilots in Blue Squadron think Tucker is a bit crazy for saying so, but he has always found space combat beautiful.  Starfighters spin and whilr as they jockey for position, lit by colorful flashes of explosions and laser fire."

Members of Blue Squadron (under Ahsoka Tano’s command) are:  Swoop, Kickback, Slammer, and Tucker

Members of Lightning Squadron (under Mace Windu’s command) are: Ponds, Razor, and Stak

Members of Gold Squadron (under Anakin Skywalker’s command) aren’t listed

Members of Green Squadron (under Saesee Tiin) aren’t listed

Members of Gold Squadron (under Anakin Skywalker’s command) aren’t listed here, but include:  Matchstick, Broadside, Tag, and Contrail

Members of Torrent Company (under Anakin Skywalker as General, Ahsoka Tano as Commander), which was a sub-unit of the 501st, aren’t listed here but include:  Rex, 

Members of the 501st were grouped into several sub-units, including Rex’s Squad:  Rex, Fives, Tup, Jesse, Kix, and Hardcase

Members of the 7th Sky Corps (under Obi-Wan Kenobi) aren’t listed here but include: Cody, Boil, Waxer, Wooley, Trapper, Longshot, Gearshift, Crys

The 212th was a division of the 7th Sky Corps, which included the above, as well as the sub-unit Foxtrot with Gregor and Ghost Company with Cody, Boil, Waxer, and Wooley.

[jasonfry]

Author’s Notes: The Secret Academy, Pt. 1

WARNING: These notes will completely spoil Servants of the Empire: The Secret Academy. Haven’t read it? Stop and go here.

(Go here for notes for Edge of the Galaxy, here for Rebel in the Ranks and here for Imperial Justice. )

Part 1: Zare

Imperial Justice was torture to write, but The Secret Academy was actually fun! Final chapters are like that ... if you’ve put in the work. I’d spent three books establishing the characters and their motivations, laid the groundwork for the themes I wanted to explore, and then layered in complications and reversals. The fourth book was the chance to make all that pay off, and I enjoyed doing it.

Rather than alternate chapters as I had in Imperial Justice, I split Zare Leonis’s and Merei Spanjaf’s stories and followed them one at a time, without intercuts. I’d considered doing that in Imperial Justice, rejected the idea, but now thought it made sense.

I had a dopey reason for doing that, and a smart one.

The dopey reason: I was still annoyed at not being able to end Imperial Justice with Zare running into Beck Ollet inside the tower – a cliffhanger that had made me cackle happily. Splitting Zare and Merei’s stories would give me a second chance at that moment.

The smart reason: Imperial Justice had separated Zare and Merei and concluded with Merei’s discovery that Zare’s transfer to Arkanis wasn’t a reward but part of the Inquisitor’s plan. Taking away the intercuts was a way for the reader to feel a little bit of that separation and anxiety.

One challenge in The Secret Academy was unexpected. Story Group sent back my outline for Books 3 and 4 with a note that by the time Zare got to Arkanis, the Inquisitor would be dead, killed off in Rebels’ Season 1 finale. That would certainly change my story! I scrunched the books’ timeline a bit and was able to get the Inquisitor and Zare to briefly overlap on Arkanis, but that was the most I could compress things.

So I leaned into it. I reasoned that the Inquisitor’s offstage demise fit with an idea I’d been playing with – that Zare, for all his bravery and determination, also gets a bit lucky. In Imperial Justice, Zare decides he won’t follow another immoral order even it means he’ll never find Dhara, and is saved from dismissal when Oleg’s warehouse raid goes awry. The Inquisitor’s death would be another bit of luck, as his plan is to return to Arkanis and break Zare. I don’t think that undercuts Zare or his quest – one thing I like about Zare is he isn’t a Jedi, a veteran commando or some kind of superhero. He needs a little luck; most heroes do.

One idea I continued from Imperial Justice was Zare’s “shadow story” – a not too different tale in which Dhara was never kidnapped and Zare remained the loyal young Imperial officer he’d assumed he’d become. Arkanis essentially resets Zare’s cadet career and the shadow story culminates with the training exercise on Sirpar. Those scenes are some of my favorite in the book – they show Zare as a young officer who improvises intelligently, drives himself and his troops to accomplish unlikely goals, and earns those troops’ loyalty and affection. He’s come a long way from the kid impatiently killing time at AppSci.

But as in Imperial Justice, Zare eventually has to ask himself what he isn’t willing to do to find Dhara. In the previous book, being ordered to take children into protective custody is his breaking point; in this one it’s being ordered to murder a fellow cadet.

No aspect of The Secret Academy attracted more interest than the revelation that Brendol Hux’s Commandant’s Cadets are forerunners of the First Order stormtroopers overseen by Brendol’s son Armitage. The funny thing, to me, was that the connection with The Force Awakens came late and was a lucky break.

I’d known since Edge of the Galaxy that Dhara was being held in a mysterious tower on Arkanis, that Zare would try to get inside, and that Beck’s unexpected reappearance would ruin everything. From a storytelling point of view, the Commandant’s Cadets were merely the mechanism that would get Zare into that tower at the right time for the hammer to come down. 

But why did they exist? I was up against a problem that’s common in richly detailed fictional universes. I wanted the Cadets to have a purpose and be more than a generic bunch of Imperial “mean kids,” but if that purpose never affected any other Star Wars story, readers would know from the beginning that the Cadets had failed to achieve their goals.

In November 2014 I visited Lucasfilm for meetings about DK’s The Force Awakens – Incredible Cross-Sections and got a synopsis of the upcoming movie, accompanied by on-set photos. Finn’s origins reminded me of both clone troopers and the Jedi; a few minutes later, it struck me that General Hux was awfully young.  

Somewhere between those two thoughts I saw an opportunity: what if the plan to raise children as stormtroopers dated back to the Rebels era, and came from Hux’s father?

Story Group’s Pablo Hidalgo liked the idea and ran it up the chain. I braced myself for a reason the answer had to be “no.” When I got a “yes” instead, I wrote as fast as I could and then crossed my fingers.

The connection made sense within the Star Wars galaxy: the elder Hux had served alongside clones and Jedi during the Clone Wars, seen the deficiencies of the stormtroopers, and imagined a better way that drew on his wartime experience. That program began in secret and was taken up by his son to create the First Order’s soldiers.

It also solved my plot problem admirably and turned a weakness in The Secret Academy into a strength. Before the release of The Force Awakens the Hux connection would spur interest in the book; afterwards, new readers would see the Commandant’s Cadets as a real threat, because they’d know that Hux’s program had succeeded beyond his fondest dreams. 

Notes on Part 1:

The first scene was the original ending of Imperial Justice, but I decided I didn’t want to introduce a new planet that late, and preferred ending with Merei and Tepha wondering if they’d ever see Zare again. Moving it was an easy change, at least. 

I wanted Arkanis to be something new for Star Wars – a waterlogged world that I likened to what you’d find if you turned over a log. I also wanted the Academy and its surroundings to feel plucked out of a gloomy Gothic tale. A lot of things in The Secret Academy are pretty shameless goofs on a well-known Gothic novel and movie, in fact. 

it was a pain ensuring Zare’s cadet service fit the chronology of the first two Rebels seasons. The initial idea was that Rebel in the Ranks and Imperial Justice would cover a full academic year, with the top cadet earning a transfer to Arkanis for the next year. Chiron would back Zare, while Roddance supported Oleg. But I couldn’t figure out what to do with Zare and Merei over that second summer, and feared readers would get impatient that Zare wasn’t trying harder to rescue Dhara. Fortunately, Rebel in the Ranks had introduced the possibility of a midyear transfer – an offhand line that became critical once the Inquisitor’s death forced me to speed things up. But how to get Zare to Arkanis? The obvious answer was for Merei to slice a transfer into the system, but that struck me as a lazy, unconvincing solution. I got so lost in blind alleys that I missed the solution Story Group found: the transfer wasn’t a reward but an unexpected order from some Imperial. I realized that Imperial should be the Inquisitor: it was plausible, solved my chronology problem, let me have a confrontation with Zare on Arkanis and added to the story’s tension. Whew! 

Contrary to what’s stated here, the journey between Lothal and Arkanis isn’t a short one. That was my fault: I was working off the idea that Lothal was near Kessel, a bit of head-canon I’d gotten used to and so failed to vet. There was no reason to define that here; doing so led to an unforced error.

Note that Colonel Julyan challenges Zare with a question about grav-ball and leadership, as Sergeant Currahee did in Rebel in the Ranks. In the earlier book Zare ducked the question; now he gives Julyan a thoughtful answer that reflects his experiences.

Julyan’s lessons reference Legends material: Admiral Screed, General Romodi (before his appearance in Rogue One), the Order of the Terrible Glare and the Empire’s campaigns in the Western Reaches. Much of this was taken from The Essential Guide to Warfare and additional material written for it. It seemed ready-made for Julyan’s teaching and unlikely to confine future storytelling, so why not use it?

I invented the diplopod as a mount for Sarco Plank in The Weapon of a Jedi, only to see my beastie get subbed out in favor of the happabore, appearing as an Easter egg for The Force Awakens. I liked the critters, so I put them aside for some future project. The Secret Academy gave me an opportunity not just to use the diplopod but also to kill one in a gross way.  

I liked the bit where the Inquisitor invites Zare to come out of the weather and into the shelter of a stasis projector. In that context politeness seems decidedly menacing. 

Scaparus Port was fun to write – equal parts Treasure Island and some gloomy town out of Cthulhu, what with its salt-encrusted gloom and fisherfolk missing limbs and scarred by sucker marks. Arkanis is just a nasty place.

Scaparus was the right place to bring back the jogan fruit, or more specifically its scent, which makes Zare remember Beck Ollet’s orchards on Lothal. Scent unlocking memory is a theme throughout Servants of the Empire, working up to its critical role in the climax. Here, it’s a heartening renewal of the connection between Zare and Merei that suggests their break might not be final after all.

I never explicitly stated it, so I’ll leave it to Wookieepedia to work out the canonicity, but Gesaral Beta is supposed to be the planet where it rains razors of glass on Ania Solo in Dark Horse’s Legacy series.

I enjoyed writing the demented beach scene with Hux and the cadets debating how to raise nerfs. The sea monster is an homage to the great Jack Vance, who imagined a similar predator in Ports of Call. (If you’ve never read Vance, fix that posthaste!) Note that Zare’s reaction to the nerf’s death is quite different than the casual cruelty shown by the other cadets.

Sirpar was another attempt at a new setting. Its heavier-than-standard gravity is noted in Legends depictions of the planet; I added making the light so intense that the cadets had to take precautions against it. Light would vary dramatically from planet to planet, another Jack Vance idea I didn’t recall seeing in Star Wars. I decided to try it and liked the results. 

Note that the accident set to befall Penn Zarang will be dismissed as a “slight weapons malfunction.” I’m all for little nods like that as long as they don’t interrupt the story or distract a casual reader. 

Perhaps emboldened by my success tying the Commandant’s Cadets to The Force Awakens, I looked for an even stronger connection. Might Anya Razar and Captain Phasma be one and the same? I decided that was a dumb idea and never proposed it, but did suggest a scene with DDM-38 pushing a red-haired baby in some kind of space pram. Lucasfilm shot that down, and rightly so – less was more. There’s awesome fan art out there of a baby Hux in the arms of his creepy nanny droid, though. 

My original treatment had Zare, Chiron and Roddance all transferred to Arkanis as part of the “valedictorian” storyline. When that idea got abandoned I decided we’d explored that triangle sufficiently on Lothal, but did need to bring Chiron back for the finale. I liked dropping him into the middle of Zare’s dilemma about the Commandant’s Cadets as a tempting but dangerous lifeline. That was also a bit of misdirection: since Chiron can get into Area Null, he’s a potential route to Dhara that would let Zare escape having to kill Penn.

We’ll see Cass again in A New Hope, as an aide aboard the Death Star.

Next time: Speaking Bocce and the Case of the Missing Bounty Hunter. Right here!

[eggdrawsthings]

some expression sketches from the same file was gonna let it rot in my drive but i feel like might as well just color it and dump it here lol