#huk wars

[inonibird]

Watching the Tales of the Empire trailer with no prior knowledge: “Meh.”

Spotting battle droids defoliating Dathomir: “…Wait. Could it be?”

Finally seeing the blue and green lightsabers: “HELLO THERE!!!”

[nerdpickle]

Hey, remember that time the Jedi sided with the colonizers and slavers against the indigenous population who fought back? 

Here’s the wookepedia link: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Kaleesh-Yam%27rii_war

[cjvarte]

Kaleesh Kolkpravis (Legends)

Source: "Galaxy at War" is a supplement to the Legends sourcebook Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition Core Rulebook, written by Rodney Thompson, Gary Astleford, Eric Cagle, and Daniel Wallace, and published by Wizards of the Coast on September 15, 2009.

[siritasprite]

Kaleesh Week - Day 3: Oben

I'm just jumping around with these whoops.. also this is just a thumbnail, who knows if I will do a proper version of this. Also, the designs are not final by any means - the front kaleesh is one of the mothers of my storys main characters (Quireel). She still needs a name... her mask is kinda supposed to be some sort of sabertooth cat with horns and the fur thing is supposed to resemble a lions mane. But as said, I'll work on these designs still. The other kaleesh is her brother and Quireels uncle.

And the background spooky fellow... that's Skarakkis The Red, a yam'rii general who was in charge a lot in that side of the war. He also is quite major character in the main story and whoo boy, there's a lot about that bug too.

Anyway, more Star Wars stuff!

[koyato]

New redraws yep

[alenchikova]

Irrijar san Kirrani — the slaver hunter Izvoshra

So.

He was a Khan and Izvoshra in the past. Missing in action shortly after Kalee lost the war. He's a nasty character. He's cunning, cruel, insidious, vindictive and very vindictive. Married three times, no children. Became Khan through sheer cunning and cunningness. Sniper. Prefers long and ultra-long ranges, and does not engage in close combat without serious necessity. Despite his temperament, is cautious and prudent. Very tightly bound to spouses, trusts them and can not be afraid of a blow in the back. Because of his character and intransigence, he quickly became a bone across the throat of many khans. But he led his clan to prosperity.

During the Huk War, he was engaged in the following: he caught and sold to the slavers Kaleesh. He was able to defend his right to do so to Grievous in battle. That's when he injured his right arm. This resulted in a serious infection of mixed etiology, and amputation later. Irrijar almost died. Became Izvoshra for being smart, cocky, and arguing with Grievous every huck time. The only Izvoshra to survive the Empire. After getting to the hacks, it was bought out to the spice mines with a few other Kaleesh as expendable (Rrijar is a one-armed cripple and not particularly strong physically, they couldn't sell it anywhere else), but thanks to the same Iridjar, the ship came out of hyperspace and crashed at the huck's antennae, with no possibility of repair. Thus, a habitable planet became the new home for Irrijar and his companions.

@tuberculosis-bot-9000

[tuberculosis-bot-9000]

Loving the idea that the Kaleesh-Yam’rii War was known as the Huk Conflict by historians. It wasn’t a war. It was a conflict. A dispute. A disagreement over territories. A little clashing. Some saber-rattling. A scuffle. A kerfuffle. A tiny little bicker. Something small and out of the way and inconsequential. A Huk Conflict.

[dapurinthos]

aw fuck i'm sending rael to tovarskl. i move him to give self-defence lessons to the younglings as a way of dealing with his nim-trauma, let him simmer there nicely for half a decade, and now he's there, on the senate trip with them, when the yam'rii go 'hey. these guys are killing us because we invaded and enslaved them' and the spirit of the scene is just

rael: 눈_눈 rael: ... EXCUSE YOU i know those lizards. ari: yeah EXCUSE YOU he KNOWS those lizards. ari: w(°ｏ°)w wait i know THAT lizard. i CAN name that face. mask. rael: i FOUGHT side-by-side with those lizards. you ASSIGNED me to fight side-by-side with those lizards and now you want to fight AGAINST those lizards? ari: you really shouldn't fight against those lizards. c'baoth: *bitchy remark about the jedi obeying the senate* ╮( ˘ ､ ˘ )╭ rael: i'll fight you later. i'm fighting them first. ari: go on i'll hold your cloak.

rael, no. come back. someone needs to drag c'baoth out of the archives in a headlock for yelling at interfering child(ren) and jocasta nu is too busy deciding which recently refurbished ancient lightsaber should have the indignity of being tested on him. her interns have scattered behind the balcony on the second floor because no one yells in jocasta's archives and gets away with it.

[smytherines]

There's, y'know, the atrocities, but I do love that some of the shit the CIA was up to during the Cold War was so fucking silly that I can't even include it in my fanfiction because it will break immersion. Like imagine a scene where Curt is running away from Soviet agents and he tosses out a little box and distracts them with a life-sized blowup doll of himself. That's a real thing. The CIA did that.

Or Operation Acoustic Kitty, where the CIA implanted microphones into the ear canals of cats to make them into covert listening devices, except it didn't work because it turns out cats do not give a shit about orders

OR the time they faked an aswang (like a vampire, as far as I can tell?) attack in the Phillipines to try to crush the Huk rebellion

Okay honestly cloaking underwear does kind of make sense now

[shaakti1138]

Star Wars RTS game (maybe "Starcraft" style), but with Qymaen and Ronderu as protagonists.

Imagine telling Grievous' story in such a medium... defending Kalee, leading a Kaleesh army to Huk worlds and then working as an IGBC's agent.

Just... imagine.

[zellkernchen]

@unadultary Kaleesh beliefs and holymen/women it is

(This is me right now if you even care)

(Under the cut for length!)

To the Kaleesh belief:

Soooo as it says in wookieepedia: “The Kaleesh were a spiritual people, believing that those who performed great deeds in life became gods in death.” And this is still true in my “canon” but I have decided to expand more on it and not just simply leave it at that because why not I love worldbuilding ❤️🙏

When it comes to their religion there isn’t really an exact name for it. The Kaleesh simply referred to it as “their religion” (aka “Kaleelishaal prediveeni”) and outsiders referred to it as “the Kaleesh religion”.

Pretty much summarised: There’s different categories of gods/ ancestors in their religion. To showcase this I have done a little pyramid scheme.

Pyramid scheme:

What are “pure gods”?

Pure gods are basically the OG gods kinda. Their names may change depending on their regions’ most dominant spoken language before the big language merge took place. But since most regions used to speak old Kaleesh there wasn’t much of a major difference. The pure gods of the Kaleesh people are: Diety of the sun, diety of the moon, diety of water, diety of fire, diety of earth, diety of air, diety of honour and pride, diety of war.

Those are pretty much it. These are what many “versions” of the Kaleelishaal prediveeni would consider their pure gods to be.

What are gods?

Gods are seen as Kaleesh who have impacted all of Kalee at least once. A canon example of this is General Grievous. He united all of Kalee and created one big military out of it basically and almost managed to free Kalee from the Huk. But it doesn’t always have to be good things that someone does which grants them the title of god. In my “canon” there exists a god known as Huza, Goddess of greed. She was a woman with a very simple goal: to posses as many jewellery as possible. She did anything to fulfill that goal: stealing, killing, ect… All for the purpose of adding new jewellery to her already big collection of it.

With demigods things begin to grow tricky. A demigod is someone whose actions did affect Kalee, but not to the same extent a god’s would. The Kaleesh don’t really have a proper criteria for what is and isn’t considered a demigod. It’s just something they subconsciously agree in. In my “canon”, Ronderu is seen as a demigod by her people. The reasons for that are: She was a very skilled in lig sword combat, apparently was an item with the great Khagan (Grievous) but some doubt her existence. After all she disappeared without a trace. Only her swords were found yet they were hidden from the public. They’re hidden somewhere in her tomb. A place unknown to many, sometimes even a myth.

Ancestors who were directly “blessed” by either pure gods, gods or demigods are automatically considered spirits of the holy. But how does this “blessing” work? There’s many ways; being an alleged partial or full reincarnation of a god or demigod, an alleged “Kaleesh disguise” of a god or claiming you had an alleged vision by a demigod, god or pure god and being somehow able to prove it. Because of this, many different regions might have their own spirits of the holy no one has ever heard of. Sometimes even fights occur over it.

“Normal/other” ancestor spirits are pretty much self explanatory imo?? If you weren’t considered a god, demigod or spirit of the holy then you’re a “normal/other” ancestor. They are usually only celebrated and worshipped within their own clan or small community.

Afterlife concept of the Kaleesh:

When it comes to their afterlife, the Kaleesh view it as an eternal spiritual life. They’re brought to the dieties’ version of Kalee where all spirits live out their lives. If you did however commit bad deeds during your life, those who suffered because of it and are dead will definitely punish you for a while.

Differences:

There are some differences from the main Kaleesh beliefs depending on region, family and even oneself.

For one, as mentioned earlier, a spirit or diety’s name might chance depending on the region.

Second: many tales of different ancestors can be remembered and written down differently depending on who’s telling the story if it makes sense.

Also, there are different movements going on of trying to “reform” Kaleesh religion every once in a while.

Now onto the holymen/women:

Basics:

In Kaleesh culture holymen/women are called “Ku’lu” and are their own separate gender, the spiritual gender.

After a Ku’lu has reached a certain age of their choice (usually around their 40s) they must begin to find themselves a successor. There are many different ways in which one can do that and there are no set rules for it either. Except that their successor mustn’t come from their own clan or be their own kin.

For a while the Ku’lu’s apprentice, called Ku’lu- Tur, will spend some years learning their Ku’lu’s wisdom and teachings. After they’ve reached the age of adulthood, they must go learn from their own observations, occasionally either personally reporting or sending documentations to their Ku’lu. Once the Ku’lu deems their apprentice to be knowledgeable, mature and wise enough from their studies/observations, they will be promoted to Ku’lu while the previous Ku’lu gains themselves the rank of elder, Ku’lu- Abma. To symbolise this, the now Ku’lu- Abma will pass on an item dear to them to their former apprentice.

A Ku’lu has lots of roles, which is why big villages and cities are always happy to have more than one Ku’lu available. They console the troubled, pray to the gods and ancestors, take care of the sick, write books about their teachings and discoveries. You probably already get my point. Being a Ku’lu is by no means easy, but it makes one highly educated, something everybody on Kalee wants to be in their own ways.

Depending on where one lives, joining a Ku’lu council is very much to be expected. These councils were created with the premise of helping other Ku’lu’s out if in need to in return get help too.

Some other stuff to the Ku’lu:

- Their plural form is Ku’lih

- And yes, they can get married and have children

That’s it for now :3 Hope you enjoyed!

[flagwars]

People’s Flag Wars 2: Round 1

Welcome to the first round of the second People’s Flag Wars! This competition includes flags designed by the people who submitted them. I received way more submissions than last People’s Flag Wars, so it will be a much larger tournament. Last time there were only 16 submissions, but this time there are 49! Due to this large number, there will be three flags per poll in the first round, except for the one poll with four flags. Thank you to everyone who submitted a flag, and may the best flag win!

Round 1:

1. Florida Vexillological Society by Lima305 vs. Chuhuiv redesign by Горіхус vs. Lumpen’s personal flag by Lumpen

2. Artemisapphia by @mogai-sunflowers vs. UKA redesign by Flaggmannen vs. Kolombarov by adamolis69

3. San Francisco Horizon Flag by Brian Stokle vs. Independent Symbol of Catania by Catania Project vs. Taipei redesign by Dúghorm

4. Golden Wattle Flag by Flags for Australia vs. Fuhqueue by Quelsborough vs. Green Party of the United States by @thetarastark

5. Szola by Baphon vs. Terrakey by @tropinui vs. Amnesia flag by @butterwort-birdie

6. Civil flag of the Republic of Khraelyia by Aika vs. Foquismo by @toastiemcstrudel vs. Texan Czechs by Kryštof Huk

7. Haiti redesign by MatthewTNT79 vs. Calvert by Anonymous vs. Boston redesign by evanb

8. Flag of Warlar by Tavern vs. Flag by Ryan vs. West Virginia redesign by Tomorand

9. Pancrustacea by @crustaceanlord vs. Carmel, Indiana by scottishdoge vs. Brechreiz Empire by @trans-fem-lesbian-crab

10. Ventrexia by marshyswtr vs. Portland, Maine redesign by Flag For Portland vs. Republic of New England by Indy

11. Coptic Egypt by @arthurdrakoni vs. Forest City Flag by @forestcityflag vs. New Jersey Autonomous Zone by @lil-tachyon

12. Socialist Party of the United States by @that0ne81 vs. Tuvalu by kindness093 vs. Persodivergent by @epikulupu

13. Orca Face flag by Bradley Lockhart vs. Flag by eth317 vs. Pirate flag by Curtis Tarver

14. City flag of Syracuse, New York titled The First Light flag by Eric Hart vs. Family flag by Anonymous vs. Vădastra, Romania by Turcu Mihai

15. Old Sanwonic Confederation by dodot65 vs. Nerja, Spain by Gortius-VIII vs. Kairouan, Tunisia by Gargari

16. Flag of Oyazan by sketch vs. Aromantic flag redesign by @jellyfishjampie vs. Ghost World (The Ghost and Molly McGee) by @loversunitedstates-blog vs. Fully Automated Gay Space Anarchism by NaeAyy

[depomera]

In the year 34 BBY, Grievous and Jango Fett, two of the galaxy’s most formidable yet financially encumbered warriors, found themselves in a peculiar alliance. Tasked with missions ranging from the mundane to the perilous, they often found themselves dealing with not just external threats, but *internal conflicts* as well…

More fill in the grey on what happened during the years leading up into the Clone War and episodes 1-3.

• At this point, Jango (33?) is bounty huntin’/mercenary-ing to pay off his clan’s debt due to the Mandalorian Civil War (42-39bby) thus is doing missions for them. Duchess Satine Kryze spared his life but banished him.

• Grievous is paying back reoccurring and continuous debt. His planet Kalee is wartorn and the Galactic Republic are aiding the enemy Huk. Grievous is also searching for answers/clues on his Ronderu’s disappearance.

***

[accursedkaleeshi]

Depressing General Grievous Headcanon:

Grievous was 40 standard years old when he was so rudely obliterated &, not that he'd brag or anything, but he was in pretty good shape for all he had been through.

Kaleesh have a similar natural lifespan to humans but it isn't quite the norm for them to reach it. Warrior cultures glorified burning hot & fast, so to speak. If you were a warrior, each year you made it after you started in the field was impressive. Grievous spending most of his life single-handedly rallying his people against much more superior enemy forces made kaleesh feel like he was utterly unstoppable.

Indeed, he himself found it impressive that he had all of his limbs & digits intact. This was not for lack of trying on the Huk's part or even by his own part reverse engineering advanced technology. Still, as any good kaleesh is, he was covered in scars. Some more extreme injuries hounded his overworked joints. The Techno Union graciously replaced his left shoulder joint with a newly developed cybernetic replacement a few years before they graciously rebuilt his entire body. Although what was left of him was in a constant state of pain, it was not the same. It didn't hinder his functioning. Now he really was unstoppable.

General Grievous took every advantage over his mechanical frame & regularly threw himself into battle with complete abandon. Wat Tambor & Poggle would find themselves redesigning bits & pieces that proved incapable of keeping up with the general, especially his "neck" apparatus. This tapered off after the first 6 months of the Clone Wars, as Dooku would begin to chastise Grievous about wasting time & money.

[alenchikova]

А мне тут 20 лет исполнилось💖💖💖

Аж 17 числа, ну да ладно) лучше поздно, чем никогда))

В честь круглой даты покажу свои любимые работы

Некоторые я показываю впервые

☆☆☆

I turned 20💖💖💖💖💖

It's on the 17th, but okay) better late than never))))

In honour of the anniversary, I'm going to show my favourite pieces of work

Some of them I'm showing for the first time.

[southeastasianists]

It was warm, as usual, as Commander Liwayway reapplied her lipstick and loaded her gun. The dense greenery of the jungle unfurled before her as a rooster yelled and gunshots blared. She looked around at the 100 or so men hidden in the underbrush: her men, her unit, Squadron 3-V. In the distance, she heard her lead commander, Eusebio Aquino, ordering the retreat. Some of the men looked to her, seeing if she would follow Aquino’s order and issue her own. She and her men were easily outnumbered. But, as if to answer her men’s questioning looks, she raised her gun, aimed, and fired again and again at the approaching Japanese soldiers.

“My men and I stayed. We did not retreat. By the time the reinforcements came, we were very near to overcoming the Japanese and their allies from the Philippine Constabulary. In the end, the enemy retreated and I was commended for fighting even though the other commanders already gave up,” Liwayway told historian Vina Lanzona of the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa (UHM) more than half a century later. Commander (sometimes spelled Kumander) Liwayway wasn’t the only woman to take up arms against the Japanese during the Huk Rebellion, a guerilla campaign that began shortly before World War II and lasted into the 1950s. In her book, Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines, Lanzona uncovers the stories of female Huk leaders, commanders, soldiers, spies, and other women involved in the movement.

As Lanzona wrote in her book, the Huks were “the first major political and military organization in the country to include and actively recruit women.” Globally, they were far from the only women who joined the war effort during World War II (see the female spies of England’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), the U.S.A.’s all-Black, all-female 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, or the Soviet Union’s night witches). But the “Huk Amazons,” as women in the rebellion were known, made up a significant portion of the movement. Atlas Obscura spoke with Lanzona about Liwayway’s love of lipstick, why so many women joined the rebellion, and why their stories matter.

What was the Huk Rebellion?

The Philippines had been under Spanish rule for more than 300 years, 1521 to 1898. And after that, the Americans took over and occupied the Philippines from 1898 until the 1940s. But during the ’30s, there was already the promise of impending independence. There were already a lot of organizations mobilizing peasants and working-class citizens for different political reasons. Then when the war started in 1941, this movement decided that they will form an anti-Japanese guerrilla army, which then became the Huk Movement or the Hukbalahap or Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon, which means the anti-Japanese liberation army. So basically, they used the networks of the Communist and the Socialist movements, the labor movements, and peasant movements, et cetera, to form this guerrilla resistance army. So that's the first phase of the Huk Rebellion.

And then after the war, when the Philippines gained independence, there was a chance for the Huks to give up their arms and join the government and to exist legally in the political arena. But World War II then became the Cold War. So anything affiliated with communism or the Communist Party or the Socialist Party was deemed illegal by the government and basically, most of these movements, including their members, were then persecuted. There were some leaders who were even assassinated or jailed. So because of this persecution, they decided not to give up arms, but to actually continue their rebellion. So the second phase of the movement was still called the Huk movement, but this time they were called the Hukbong Magpapalaya ng Bayan (HMB), which means People's Liberation Army. So it's no longer against the Japanese, but this time it's against the Philippine government.

How did women get involved in the movement?

During the 30s, women were already involved, in the peasant movements especially. So they already have this tradition of resistance and radicalism. So a lot of women who were already part of this organization decided to join the Huk movement.

What kind of roles did these women fill within the Huk rebellion?

Women were very crucial in terms of the support network. During the Japanese occupation, women were able to get intelligence about Japanese movements, so they acted as spies, spying on the Japanese and then telling the guerrillas about their movements. The women were also very crucial in terms of organizing and recruiting more people to join the guerrilla movement. Because women are always seen as less threatening, they could freely move around the areas which were even heavily controlled by the Japanese. So they became intelligence agents, spies, organizers. A lot of women also became part of the education department, [which] was meant to educate the so-called masses about what the movement was all about and what they were fighting for.

Eventually, a very limited number of women actually became part of the military department where they were trained in the use of weapons and guns. They were right there fighting with the men. I was even able to track three women who became commanders of their platoons, who were trained as soldiers and then commanded a group of male soldiers in operations against the Japanese. There is one woman, Celia Mariano-Pomeroy, who became a member of the politburo, which is the highest-ranking body in the movement.

Can you tell me about Commander Liwayway?

Her real name is Remedios Gomez-Paraiso, but her soldier's name is Commander Liwayway, meaning “Dawn” in Filipino. She did not finish high school because she had to help out the family. But her father was a very prominent peasant leader who eventually became the mayor of their town in Pampanga during the Japanese occupation. Growing up, she was already involved in the movement in different ways. She was a beauty pageant winner, so she was involved in different kinds of festivities relating to the peasant organization. She wasn't very involved politically. But then her father became one of the first casualties of the Japanese because he refused to cooperate with the Japanese when they entered the town. He refused to surrender. So the Japanese punished him and tortured him and killed him. His body was displayed in the town for everyone to see. So at that point, she did not have any choice but to leave their town and join the rebellion and move into the mountain camps where the guerrillas were hiding. In fact, the Japanese didn't even give the family his body. There was so much anger and feelings of vengeance. And I think that those feelings really catapulted Liwayway to train herself to be a good soldier—not just in terms of the organization, but really in terms of combat. And then when they wanted a commander leading a group of men, she volunteered and, in fact, had already earned the respect of the men around her. She became kind of legendary.

How is Commander Liwayway, who died in 2014, remembered today?

People, especially from Pampanga, still remember Commander Liwayway. She has this kind of legendary image of being in men's uniforms, carrying weapons, riding this white horse, and then leading this group of men to military battles and victories. [But she almost] always wore dresses. And in fact, she was legendary not just for her military exploits, but for being so glamorous and wearing lipstick every time she went into a battle.

What have you learned from these women, from talking to them and writing about them?

I think what I've learned is that it's really essential to uncover these hidden histories and the stories of women because they were right there at the center of everything, even though they were marginalized. Even though their voices and their side of the story are not reflected in history, they're very central. There's no such thing as women being peripheral figures. In fact, they're very central because they both shape and make these histories.

I think I also learned that we should always try to look for these stories and not be discouraged from their seeming invisibility. Because once you have this idea that they're central to the story uncovering their stories is always such a rewarding experience—both for them to share their stories but also for me as a researcher and historian to make their stories part of history.