#geonosis

[adragonsfriend]

What you've gotta understand about Obi-Wan is that his relationship to the giant crab-looking animal in the arena on Geonosis is pretty much identical to his relationship with Maul

[theknucklehead]

One of my favorite parts in Attack of the Clones was the arena battle on Geonosis. The fight against the monsters reminds me of something you would see in a Ray Harryhausen film.

Wouldn't be surprised that's how Lucas came up with the idea.

[alexversenaberrie]

Carnage at Kamino | Rise of Exegol | Death at Alderaan | Phantom of Naboo | Terror at Mustafar

[nothingf-i-s-h-yhere]

I’m telling you, my grandfather fought in the 501st and has told me stories of the battles on geonosis.

So I’ll be damned if my child brings home a goddamn clanker!

[thora-sniper]

It was a hard battle for seppy...

Battles for Geonosis from both sides killing me slowly every time. Yes my seppy became more strong but this isn't what I'm thinking of. I'm thinking about all that nameless clones who are standing opposite my dark side army and "dying" for only one goal - let us collect as more winning points as we can.

Yes there are a lot of Jedi there too, but they have names and they can be remembered by others. But clones are only named by ranks often.

Oh, and today I was using Wat Tambor in this pack and all the time I was waiting his disposal from the battlefield. And Skako Minor... 😠

[sadiecoocoo]

I’m rewatching the geonosis arc and I’m sorry but they did not need to put a clone saying “good things those bugs can’t aim” and then immediately his ship gets blown up not even seconds later

That is so brutal but hilarious I can’t

[iron-crakka]

day 328 of the emergency Jedi peacekeeping operation

Source: Clone Wars - Weapons Factory

[piedalchemist]

I love science fiction

[happytobus]

Ya’ll HEAR ME OUT

So I’ve been thinking a lot about what Hemlock said to the Emperor about other experiments he’s been doing, like larger assets and “exotic testing,” which got me thinking…

What if they’re cloning or trying to understand the Geonosian Brain Worms from Season 2 of the Clone Wars? Imagine using them to control these clone prisoners and create an army of mindless drones like Clone X. What if that’s how he’s controlling these guys?

Just let me cook I swear everyone, I am on to something.

[adragonsfriend]

Everyone clowning on Anakin giving Ahsoka “order 66 training” seems to forget Anakin was on Geonosis the first time. Surrounded by droids. Hundreds of Jedi dead around them. Like there are many questionable aspects of Anakin training Ahsoka, and maybe he arranges a fairly extreme training dril, but I am honestly pretty sure “deflecting overwhelming blaster fire” became a very common drill for padawans and masters alike during the war. The only silly thing going on is the assumption that Anakin is the only one to think of the idea.

[ID: Mace Windu in the arena on geonosis. He spins with his lightsaber, deflecting bolts from all sides. End ID]

[ID: The final group of Jedi in the arena on Geonosis, surrounded by droids firing on them. Several Jedi die while the rest retreat while deflecting bolts. End ID]

[ID: Ahsoka deflecting blaster bolts shot by clones surrounding her during order 66. End ID]

[dead-cowboy]

Cody turns, stepping out onto the open sands, walking until something in his gut tells him to stop.

My contribution to Team 31 for @clonebang: Cody from @elthadriel's wonderful fic The Scent of Embers Lingers in the Air 🔗 on AO3.

I cannot recommend it enough. This story has been devouring my mind for months! You'll also find wonderful art from both @olives-and-lilies and @cmarani in it!

ID + details under the cut

[ID 1: Cody in Purge Trooper armor, his back facing the viewer. He's in the arena on Geonosis, standing on top of an orange sandy hill, with sunlight beaming on him. /END ID]

[ID 2: a vignette of Cody from the same artwork. /END ID]

[enteroctopusdarkysilis]

✨Geonosis !✨

Ah, Geonosis. What a terrible place. But it’s aesthetically pleasing, so I did it anyway. And it was a good excuse to use the movie-accurate minfigs (a commander, a sergeant, and three shinies. I have a lot of other commanders, but I’ll figure what to do with them later).

Since I didn’t have much of these orange bricks, so most of them are sideways, with some modified bricks to keep the clones in place. Also, the bottom of the first spike is an old bionicle part I thought I’d never use, but it did a good job here.

[david-talks-sw]

"Bring in the flamethrowers!"

The above moment from The Clone Wars gets brought up a lot to illustrate Ki-Adi Mundi or the Jedi's moral decadence, a fall from grace caused by the war.

Figured I'd point out a couple of things in support of Ki-Adi!

1) Simple answer: the situation called for it.

The Geonosians attacking Ki-Adi were:

enemy fighters

with the element of surprise

who could fly and were thus harder to hit with the clones' blasters, hence why more wide-ranging weapons like flamethrowers were called for, as the clones were getting picked off one-by-one.

Time was of the essence, men were dying, Ki-Adi made a choice.

Wanna know what Jedi choose when a Geonosian isn't actively trying to kill them? They save its life (and get praised for it by their peers).

2) In-universe, the Geonosians are assholes.

From Attack of the Clones - The Illustrated Companion, 2002:

"Geonosians are a physically intimidating race conditioned to live and work in caste-segregated hives. The vast majority of Geonosians are subservient to the ruling caste, and throughout Geonosian society, there is evidence of a biologically engineered class system. Some Geonosians have wings, while drones do not. [...] The blind obedience of menial Geonosians makes them an easily exploitable workforce for the upper classes, who have built a highly profitable business manufacturing Battle Droids, Super Battle Droids, and Droideka Droids for the Trade Federation and its allies."

"For unusually intelligent Geonosians unlucky enough to be born into the lower castes, participating in the games provides the only chance they will ever get to escape the misery of their downtrodden lifestyles and the rigid social expectations of the upper classes. Triumph in the arena is often a hollow victory, however; while lower- and middle-class Geonosians may win the right to talk to their superiors, they can never earn their respect."

Okay, so the winged upper class are obviously elitist bastards, but how is that even remotely relevant--

-- oh. But hey, two of them don't have wings! Those are members of the drone caste, and they're all begotten underdogs, so--

"If there is one thing that unites Geonosians of all classes, it is their xenophobia. A traditionally isolationist species, they fear espionage attempts by rivals eager to learn the secrets behind their latest droids."

-- oh. Huh.

Bottom line: yes, they're sentient... but they're xenophobic, have an elitist caste system, and earn their living by forging weapons that melt your insides or blow up planets.

Now sure, this notion has been explored and deconstructed in Star Wars: Rebels...

... and I'm not entirely sure if the quoted info still holds true in current Disney canon (the lore is from 2002, after all), but if you ask me?

On a normal day, ol' Klik-Klak would be actively trying to murder the entirety of the Ghost crew for daring to even step their dirty non-Geonosian feet on his pure red planet.

3) Out-of-universe, the Geonosians are just "bug aliens". Nothing more.

The production team of Attack of the Clones referred to them as the "termite people". The script describes them as "winged creatures" who are heard "chuckling" once Anakin and Padmé are sentenced to a gruesome death. At some point, the storyboard artists considered introducing the Geonosian workers like you would a horror monster.

Hell, the whole Lucas decided to base them on termites is because his house was besieged by them.

They're not people, which is why they're not designed to look like people. They're purposefully dehumanized so that when one of them gets killed by our heroes, it's ethically "okay" and the audience doesn't need to stop and think "oh my God, that's murder!" or "hey! that's racist" whenever a clone calls one of them a "bug."

A similar logic is applied to the stormtroopers, who have face-covering helmets that dehumanizes them.

Functionally, a stormtrooper is a fascist goon, nothing more.

Same goes for the Geonosian. It's a bug alien, that's about it.

4) The flamethrowers were probably just added because they're cool.

Dave Filoni described how the decision to add flamethrowers came up, and it doesn't sound like George had deeper storytelling motives:

"You know, we're going through the tunnel with the Geonosians and George is like: “Yeah, well, here, we'll have the-- the tunnel and the flamethrowers. Yeah. How about that? ‘Bring in the flamethrowers!’ have Ki-Adi Mundi say ‘bring in the flame throwers!’” And it's like “flame—- What? Flamethrowers?!”" - Dave Filoni, “Return to Geonosis” Featurette, 2010

It sounds like he came up with it on the spot.

The flamethrowers aren't indicative of "the moral degradation of Ki-Adi and the Jedi Order." They're likely just in there 'cause they're cool (and if you've played Team Fortress 2, you know that's true)!

At the end of the day, when it comes to the Geonosians, I think that there's a certain irony to how their story ends.

They gleefully created the battle droids that tore the galaxy asunder and the Death Star, a weapon that enables the Empire to commit genocide... but fell victim to genocide themselves, at the hands of an even bigger monster.

They reaped what they sowed. They're not meant to be mourned.

And it's nice to see this aspect of the narrative doesn't get ignored as much as I would've expected.

I came across this video that basically rips into Ki-Adi for using flamethrowers, and I was ready to roll my eyes when I scrolled down to the comments section...

... but then, a happy surprise!

Most of the comments disagree with the video's stance! For once, logic prevails over anti-Jedi bias.

So yeah, that put a smile on my face.

[sadiecoocoo]

TCW Fanfiction: An Infectious Touch

Relationships - CT-7567 | Rex/Anakin Skywalker, CT-7567 | Rex & Anakin Skywalker

Characters - CT-7567 | Rex, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi

Tags/Warnings - Graphic Depictions of Violence, Whump, Angst, Horror, Psychological Horror, Zombies, Post-Second Battle of Geonosis in the Clone Wars (Star Wars), CT-7567 | Rex Whump, CT-7567 | Rex Needs a Hug, Hurt CT-7567 | Rex, CT-7567 | Rex is So Done, Anakin Skywalker Needs a Hug, Anakin Skywalker Whump, Protective Anakin Skywalker, Hurt Anakin Skywalker, Paranoia, Mind Control, Brainwashing, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Established Relationship, could be interpreted as character death if you don't read the epilogue, your choice, Sexual Tension, i guess, kinda a weird scene near the end but y'know it's brain worms so what did you expect?

Summary - After the Second Battle of Geonosis, Torrent Company and their General are on a Republic Frigate headed back to Coruscant. Unsurprisingly, trouble arises, and Anakin and Rex are the only ones not brainwashed by freaky brain worms. At least, they hope the other isn't infected.

Or, rewrite of that one episode with Barriss and Ahsoka having a rough time dealing with zombie clones but make it RexWalker

Chapters - 2/2

Word Count - 6,450

Link -

mentions @feddy-34 @clonecylinderjuice

[in-the-beginning-of-madness]

Suomitumppumateriaalia

[spell-cleaver]

Gravediggers

Chapter 1: We have been here forever.

Luke, reeling from a tragedy that redefined the course of his life, has thrown in his lot with Doctor Aphra, rogue archaeologist (and also the first person he saw in the spaceport with a ship large enough to stow away on). Everything goes fine until Aphra's boss sends them on a mission to Geonosis. Target? Unknown. But the weight of Luke's own history is immense. Dealing with the history of Geonosis might break him. And Aphra? She's doing what she always does: cause trouble.

Hot sand smelled the same no matter what planet you stood on. At least the light from a single sun was less intense than the light from two. The desert was just as dry, but Luke wasn't as dizzy. That was a start.

"Why did your boss want us to come here?" he asked, hoping his voice didn't betray the nausea twisting his gut.

"It's not as bad as it looks, kid," Aphra said, neatly dodging his question.

"This place is dead." He didn't know why he was so sure of that, but he could feel it in his bones. But perhaps that feeling was as real as the smoke he could smell—there was no fire anywhere near them, and Aphra didn't seem to have noticed anything. Perhaps he was just going crazy.

But he hadn't known that Geonosis would be a desert world.

He hadn't known that when they dropped out of hyperspace, he would think he'd come home.

"Dead is a strong word…"

Luke cast his arm around. The desert engulfed them on all sides. On the horizon, distant enough it could have been a mirage from the heat haze, loomed structures that didn't quite look like natural mesas, but he couldn't make out what they were from here.

"Do you see anything alive?"

He knew that there was plenty of life in the desert. Reptiles that scurried through the sands. Cacti and other plants that thrived in the aridity. Even mammals. But there was no life here.

Aphra shrugged. "Maybe that's why Boss wanted us to come here, then. I'm an archaeologist. I'm an expert on dead things."

"I'm not!"

Read the rest on AO3 or on FFN!