#manollium

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Original Clone Trooper Character(s) & Original Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars), CT-1292 | Laughter (OC) & CT-7855 | Apple (OC), CT-04-1788 | Manollium (OC) & CT-7855 | Apple (OC) Characters: CT-7855 | Apple (OC), CT-1292 | Laughter (OC), CT-04-1788 | Manollium (OC) Additional Tags: Clone Trooper-centric (Star Wars), POV CT-7855 | Apple (OC), Medic CT-7855 | Apple, CMO CT-1292 | Laughter, 212th Attack Battalion - Freeform, Canon-Typical Violence, Shiny CT-7855 | Apple, Clone Troopers Speak Mando'a (Star Wars), Clone Troopers as Brothers (Star Wars), Blood and Injury, manollium gets patched up by the medics, they got into a crash, Trans Clone Troopers (Star Wars), Nonbinary Clone Troopers (Star Wars), Light Angst, mostly though:, Crack Treated Seriously, as always, Hurt/Comfort Summary:

CT-7855 has finally arrived at his assignment as a medic for the 212th attack battalion. He hadn't known that one of the jobs of a medic was to test every new food the GAR came across to check whether it was compatible with clone biology.

[irrfahrer]

Wookiepedia on the Bafforr Tree

Original Text can be found Here!

The Bafforr trees, or simply Bafforrs, were crystalline plants native to Ithor. They had blue, glassy bark (which quickly blackened upon death) and black leaves. Though unintelligent on their own, groups of Bafforrs could communicate via intertwined root systems, becoming more intelligent. Seven Bafforrs could achieve a fully sentient collective consciousness, with whole Bafforr forests being wiser than any other being known to the Ithorians. Bafforrs communicated through a form of telepathy. Imported reeks' primary diet consisted of the Bafforr tree's leaves.

Biology and appearance The bafforr trees had crystalline trunks, with bark smoother than glass. Bafforr branches formed a sharp, interlocking web. The bafforr trees were aquamarine in color, although paler than the surrounding forests on Ithor. At nighttime, bafforr trees glowed a pale blue color; this faded to black if a tree was killed.Some bafforr trees also had black leaves.Sapling bafforr trees looked like inverted cones, and were colored a lighter blue than more mature counterparts. Bafforr trees could not survive being uprooted. Some bafforr trees had shining black bark.

Behaviour and intelligence Bafforr trees presided over other living organisms on Ithor, such as the manollium bird. The bafforr trees had a form of collective sentience: individual trees possessed limited intelligence, but as the trees roots intertwined, the individual intelligences connected, forming a group mind. Consequently, the greater the number of trees forming part of the collective, the more intelligent the trees became. Bafforr forests therefore ranged from semi-sentient to fully sentient.That phenomenon was similar to the bivalvic Knowledge Bank of the water-planet Dac, the sum of numerous brains working in concert toward a common purpose.A total of seven bafforr trees were required for true sentience. Below that number, a grove became befuddled, losing its memories.

The bafforr forests promoted an ethic called the "Law of Life," according to which only non-sentient plants could be harvested, and even then only if two plants were planted for every one that was destroyed in the harvest. The bafforr forests ruled benevolently over all the rest of the forests' organisms, which included such flora as the indyup tree , donar flower and bull-fern, and such fauna as the manollium bird, shamarok flitter and the arrak snake.

Bafforr forests also communicated with the Ithorians; the Cathor Hills forest became a teacher and friend to High Priest Momaw Nadon. When he touched the trunk of a grove of bafforr trees, the smooth bark hummed under his touch. The mind-touch of the bafforr grove filled the Ithorian with a pure and holy feeling, conceptualized by Nadon as if light entered every pore of his body. It was a soothing presence, evocative of great beauty, although through that presence, the Ithorian could discern dissatisfaction and other emotions. When the bafforr trees communicated, their leaves trembled, hissing words.

[teagrl]

Outside the viewport a flock of triple-clawed manollium birds took off in a brilliant gush of color, to whirl and dive in a rainbow arc back down to another roost.

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“Relal Tawron was very good for me. He told me that while the Mother Jungle is a peaceful place, it is not without violence and hostility. He noted that predators and prey are all part of the natural cycle. A predator kills prey and eats it, then bugs and microbes devour what remains, nourishing plants that provide food and shelter for the prey.”

“And he likened you to a predator?”

Mara shrugged. “Actually he likened me more to a firestorm burning a huge swath through the jungle during the dry years.” 

Okay FINE give me another Mara fire metaphor. I’ll take it. That cliche aside, she and Luke are looking through the viewport to Ithor where the fight against the Vong will take place. Ithor has been one of my fave locations since Children of the Jedi Hambly made the floating cities of Ithor super memorable and romantic (it appears as a romantic getaway in JAT, but Hambly can actually write):

Leia looked up quickly at the man by her side. Here above the endless jungles of Bafforr trees the warm air was fresh, sweet with breezes and wondrous with the scents of greenness and flowers. Ithorian residences were open, like the airy skeletons of coral; she and Han stood surrounded by flowers and light.

So pretty.

And in the end Ithor and its Mother Jungle gets destroyed.

Fucking Vong.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, CC-2224 | Cody & Original Clone Trooper Character(s), Obi-Wan Kenobi & Original Clone Trooper Character(s) Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Original Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars), CT-1292 | Laughter (OC), CT-7855 | Apple (OC), CT-04-1788 | Manollium (OC), CT-8082 | Lima (OC), 212th Attack Battalion Members (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Clone Trooper Crys (Star Wars) Additional Tags: codywan week 2023, cww2023, codywanweek2023, Day 5, prompt: established relationship, Established Relationship, Established CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, 212th cmo Laughter, Trans Clone Troopers (Star Wars), Clone Troopers Speak Mando'a (Star Wars), 212th medic apple, medic apple is an agent of chaos, Paperwork, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Nonbinary Clone Troopers (Star Wars), Chaos, CC-2224 | Cody is a Little Shit, Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Little Shit Series: Part 4 of CodyWan Week 2023

Summary: General Kenobi and Commander Cody are missing. CMO Laughter takes offense and makes the calm and rational decision to track them down.

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@codywanweek