#imperial officers

[ask-sad-ghost-piett]

General Veers is dubious of Admiral Piett’s speeder bike. He claims the absence of the left steering handle makes it unsafe. Piett disagrees. He’s been flying this speeder bike for 30 years and isn’t about to send his faithful vessel to the trash compactor.

[lazerswordweilder]

Star Wars prompt

Luke and Leia are being raised by Darth Vader and the galaxy knows about them. The specifics are writers choice because the important part of the story is that one day someone realises that to have a child- well, there’s a process for that.

There is now a heated debate across the entire galaxy -rebels and imperials, civilians and storm troopers, engineers and officers alike- about whether Darth Vader wanted to adopt children or had sex. Both options seem improbable.

[archeo-starwars]

Star Wars (1977) Issue #23

[cienie-isengardu]

[pianopadawan]

Lorth Needa Headcanons

So, I had some people ask about Captain Needa headcanons online so I decided to make a post. I have different headcanons for crack vs. serious verses, so I've divided them up here.

General Headcanons:

Given that he joined the navy under the Galactic Republic and served as a lieutenant in the Clone Wars, he's several years older than Piett. Nonetheless, the two are very close. Most of the time they don't notice the age difference but Piett will joke about Needa being old sometimes.

He was born and raised in Coruscant but likes to travel. He's not prejudiced but there's still a lot he doesn't know about the Outer Rim.

He is bisexual and dated both men and women prior to meeting his wife during the Galactic Republic era.

His wife is a biologist who continued her work into the Imperial era. Her research is highly classified and Lorth knows next to nothing about it.

He has three kids by the time of the original trilogy, two daughters and a son. His eldest daughter was born shortly before the start of the Clone Wars, resulting in Needa missing a large chunk of her early childhood. This is part of why he arranged to have his family live "on base" in one of the Star Destroyers after the Empire was formed. His younger daughter and son were born in the early years of the Empire. He's a good father to all of them but closest to the second daughter.

Very loyal to the Galactic Republic and then to the Galactic Empire. Needa views the Empire as a continuation of the Republic with some much-needed improvements. He's a nice guy, but definitely not about to defect to the Rebellion anytime soon. Similarly to Piett, he groups the Rebellion together with Separatists and criminal gangs and truly believes that the Empire is a peacekeeping organization.

Mild-mannered guy but loves thrill rides and high-intensity sports in his free time. This is shocking to all his fellow Imperials.

Crack-Verse Headcanons:

Needa founded the Imperial Adopt a Tauntaun Refuge Fund with the Emperor's blessing because tauntauns are Emperor Palpatine's favorite animal. Since its foundation, the charity has rescued thousands of tauntauns from unethical Rebel handlers. Needa has fostered many orphan taunlets whom he treats like his children. They have all imprinted on him Jurassic World-style and will flock to him if he visits the refuge.

He finds baking therapeutic and due to the large amount of stress he has to put up with, he's gotten very good at it.

He brings food to a lot of the meetings but doesn't take credit for it. So, everyone just assumed the food was catered by whatever COMPNOR initiative organized the meeting. After Needa's death, the food stops and everyone's grumpy about it.

He invites Jerjerrod and Piett over frequently for brunch/gossip, emphasis on the gossip.

Needa realized Piett was attracted to Veers very early on and has been shipping them for years. He's also been there for a lot of Piett's "he could never love me" episodes. He's given emotional support for his kids through their teens but this is far worse.

Mediocre with a blaster but extremely good at laser tag.

Needa keeps acting as the third wheel for couples but doesn't realize it. Veers and Piett are too nice to say anything and the hints keep going over Needa's head.

At one point, Needa was stuck in an elevator with Motti and Jerjerrod. He was deeply upset by the amount of PDA that happened in those five minutes and ranted to Piett about it afterwards. ("How could they let my taunlet see such things?!")

Has legitimately tried to befriend Lord Vader to no avail.

In an Empire Wins crackverse that I have, Needa finds the falcon after running an update to essentially get a better rearview camera on the ISD Avenger. He is subsequently promoted to Grand Admiral and forever alters galactic history. He is subsequently Piett's Best Man for Piett and Veers's wedding.

Needa can dance. Very well. Too well. This is very disturbing for Piett.

Needa is the long-suffering mom friend of the imp crew. One day, he is going to snap.

Serious Verse Headcanons:

His first daughter went into scientific research. The second has only ever wanted to join the navy like her dad. It's cute early on when she's going around on Empire Day wearing his old officer's cap, but as she gets older, Lorth doesn't know how to break it to her that the Imperial Navy is accepting fewer and fewer women with each cycle. Lorth isn't sexist himself, but he's realistic and doesn't really see the world changing for the better by the time his daughter comes of age. He's also worried about the rate of assault in coed ISDs.

Needa has been close friends with Piett since the first year of the Empire. He got to know Piett through the latter's husband and attended their wedding. This makes Needa's death especially difficult for Piett in ESB. Piett suspects that Vader was aware of this fact and purposely killed Needa in front of him, knowing it would be an especially potent warning to Piett.

Needa spoke briefly with Piett minutes before his death, during which Piett attempted to dissuade him from confronting Vader. Needa argued that if he did not report to Vader himself, the Sith Lord would seek to punish the entire crew of the ISD Avenger. Consequently, it was better to sacrifice one man. He asks Piett to watch out for his family after his death. Had he known that Vader would execute not only him but his family soon afterwards, Needa likely would have acted differently.

The only members of Needa's family who escape Vader's wrath are his cousin, Virar, and his second daughter, who was away at the academy at the time of her father's death. Lorth's wife, eldest daughter and son were on board the ISD Avenger during the pursuit of the Millennium Falcon and were all executed soon after Lorth's death.

[auditect]

I just found out that apparently, Admiral Screed from the Droids cartoon show and Captain Palleon from the Thrawn Trilogy were best friends.

I have to imagine Screed calling Pellaeon up at around 3AM to vent about the Great Heep, Governor Koong, Mungo Baobab or whoever else got him mad at the moment.

[imaginative-joy]

BD wonders why he wasn't allowed to get a cool Imperial disguise like Cal at Nova Garon.

[farsight-the-char]

The Emperor Loves Us by reddit user Superfeyn.

For the Greater Good.

[ask-sad-ghost-piett]

Imperial Superlative Polls, Posthumous Edition - Part 3

(Credit @klarionthewizard for the idea)

[purringysalamiri]

Some Piett for the soul

[archeo-starwars]

Ask the Master by Pablo Hidalgo (Star Wars Insider #80)

[cienie-isengardu]

[starhanie]

@swsource​ star wars week: day 1 – favourite character (han solo)

[pianopadawan]

Imperial Boys Group Shot

From left to right: Captain Needa (and a foster taunlet), Admiral Piett (and his beloved womp rat, Whiskers), General Veers, Moff Jerjerrod and Admiral Motti.

Based on my crack fanfic series, ISB-Certified Imperial Chaos in Life and in Death.

[ltwilliammowett]

Jacket of a firework chief petty officer, German Imperial Navy, 1910

Photo by me- IMM Hamburg

[chinesehanfu]

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Tang Dynasty(618-907A.D)Woman Officer Hanfu Refer to Tang Dynasty Stone Coffin Line Carving

【Historical Artifacts Reference 】:

China Tang Dynasty Tomb of Wei Shiqiniang's Stone Coffin Line Carving/韦十七娘石椁线刻

Showing Tang Dynasty Woman Officer In WuZetian (690–705)period

武周女官

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📸Recreation Work: @金角大魔王i

👗Hanfu: @山涧服饰 ​​​

🔗Weibo:https://weibo.com/1763668330/NDuAoFtZz

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