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[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

WAIST-DEEP IN THE BIG MUDDY -- IMPERIAL ARMORED DIVISION EDITION.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on concept art (and end result) of a Mimban Imperial Stormtrooper, a.k.a., "Mud Trooper," of the 224th Imperial Armored Division, from "SOLO: A Star Wars Story" (2018).

Resolution at 1741x2872 & 1366x2048.

Source: https://dapsmagic.com/2018/09 & www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/solo-a-star-wars-supervisor-rob-bredow.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Star Wars: Solo - A Star Wars Story - Battle of Mimban Concept Art

[klcthebookworm]

How is the BMFM/Trigun story coming along? How about the updates to Wars Are Won and Evil Jack? <3

Oh boy, my current events.

I got the edits finished on Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban and started posting it on Ao3 starting on Oct. 18. I finished up rereading Shadows of the Empire for Star Wars WIPs in the rest of October.

When November started, I started on taking my beta's edits to make the third draft of Trigun: Three of a Kind, which is the crossover with Biker Mice From Mars. And then on Nov. 6th, my father ended up in the ER with a brain bleed and seizures from that.

He's doing incredible well and is going back to short-term rehab hospital tonight. But I have only edited 15 out of 21 days so far this month. I was hoping to start posting Trigun: Three of a Kind after Mission on Mimban but it's kind of out of my complete control.

I have gotten Evil Jack: Till Death Do We Part back from my beta, so next up is making the third draft and then publishing. Wars Are Won: Sacrifice of Happiness, the first draft wasn't working so I had to start over giving it some conflict. And then I ran out of August.

When do I pick BMFM WIPs up again? Some months in 2025 that I haven't decided on yet. December 2024 was set for me to work on BookWorm's Library updates, which should be limited to cleaning up dead links and adding new stories. I don't think that will take all of December, so I should have free time to keep plugging at edits. But it all depends on real life not destroying my free time.

[faceofpoe]

Me: is excited to post a new fic soon

Also me: remembers that tagging Andor fic is the literal worst.

[keefscafe]

cassian andor thoughts in the tags if you even care

[nessrealta]

This is the best kind of fanfiction: it takes the source material and and while staying true to it plays with it and offers your own interpretation; it weaves the fanfic into the overall story arc and by that in turn enriches canon.

[klcthebookworm]

After after having to make new words to have a whole conversation in Honoghran, don't get me started.

[lonewolflupe]

Age of Republic - 501st Plus One

Read the short comic 501st Plus One online here (pages 23 - 32).

Writer: Marc Guggenheim | Penciller: Caspar Wijngaard | Letterer: Travis Lanham | Colorist: Cris Peter | Editors: Mark Paniccia & Tom Groneman | Publisher: Marvel Comics (January 16, 2019)

[notasapleasure]

Working on saga au part 2!!!!

I love to torture Brasso :))

[colleybri]

Cassian Andor taking on an Imperial garrison…

The subtle use of echoing lines in Andor (frequently right through to Rogue One) is so well done, and one example shows Cassian’s character development very clearly…

When Cassian is first being briefed by Vel about the heist on Aldhani, he reacts with horror at the news about there being an Imperial garrison nearby. Luthen didn’t mention it, and you get the sense that he might not have agreed to take on the job had he known about this extra danger . But of course, he commits and the heist is a success – of a kind.

But afterwards… he doesn’t want to do anything like that again. He wants to “win and walk away” to “somewhere warm and easy” . The irony is – his actions have helped to inspire Maarva, who refuses to leave Ferrix - while praising the actions of the “brave” “heroes” of Aldhani. She’s just indirectly praised him, and you can see that he’s delighted by a split second little spontaneous smile of pleasure that he quickly suppresses. Ouch. He’s finally done something she could be proud of, but he doesn’t want to give her a reason to stay so he has to stay quiet.

^ Awww 😞

But what’s really interesting is the editing in this masterful and moving scene. On Maarva’s words ‘If there are heroes brave enough to take on a whole Imperial garrison I’m brave enough to stick it out here” we see the flashback of 13 year old Cassian approaching the Troopers with a cudgel, revealing at long last the details of the assault that landed him in youth prison for three years and Mimban after that. The horrifying execution of Clem combined with the injustice and pain of his own punishment has not just traumatised the adult Cassian, it’s also made him somebody who will now avoid a conflict – and therefore the Rebellion– wherever possible. 

‘It’s all useless… it’s better to live!’ is what he told Luthen before Aldhani, but the precise placing of the shot here is very telling.

Cassian is starting to subconsciously associate that act with bravery rather than recklessness. He hates the Empire for what they did to Clem but it has so far translated to trying to ‘live’ and ignore them as much as possible; but his teenage self wanted to fight, to get revenge. Nonetheless it was an emotional response, an impulsive act that was not thought through. This is in total contrast to the calm methodical shots of Wilmon Paak preparing the bomb at the start of Episode 12. Wilmon is balancing emotion with rationality in planning his own revenge, in an arc which otherwise is like a replay of Cassian’s own.

Later in Episode 12 Cassian hears from Brasso his mother’s last words for him - all proof not just of how much she loved him but of how much she knew him too. He does indeed now ‘know everything he needs to know and feel everything he needs to feel’. His reasoning and his emotions are now able to work together to be that ‘unstoppable force for good’. He won’t be making emotional but futile attacks like rushing armed Troopers with a stick anymore. He will think, plan, observe and react. But he will act. He is not going to walk away any more. And he’s not going to leave loved ones behind if he can help it…

…Because in a final bit of lines-linking brilliance - immediately after hearing these words of his mother, Cassian prepares to go into the hotel, via the tunnels she checked were open, to rescue Bix.

Incredulous, Brasso says: “Are you going to take on a whole garrison?”

And Cassian doesn’t verbally reply. The look says it all. ‘I’ve done it before, twice, l’ll do it again, and I’m doing it now.’

It sums up Cassian’s arc so well. From oppression, to fighting back, to running from the fight, to taking up the fight again (now an even more exact mirror of Jyn Erso’s arc too). But this time… having learnt from experience. One lesson being: teamwork matters…

…Because thanks to Brasso and the riot the Troopers are ordered out of the Rix hotel, which is the Empire’s base. Making it possible for Cassian to extract Bix, with the “Imperial garrison” deployed elsewhere. A technique so effective, it will also be used on Scarif to give Jyn, K2SO and himself a chance to reach the data files.

“Light it up …

..Make ten men feel like a hundred “

And that’s how you make a realistic hero. Cassian is somebody who learns and grows despite some bitter experiences.

Better deploy that garrison, because Cassian Andor is taking it on.

[fallenrocket]

Feeling feelings about Cassian choosing Clem as his pseudonym in "Aldhani." In "Reckoning," Luthen talked about his dad being hanged in the town square, so he presumably knows Clem's name. And earlier in this same episode, Luthen displayed his knowledge of Cassian's experience on Mimban by contradicting Cassian's incomplete story about it, further emphasizing whatever file of intel he has on Cassian. But even knowing that Luthen will recognize it, Cassian still decides to go into this possible suicide mission using his dad's name.

[klcthebookworm]

WIP Wednesday: Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban

I have finished the first draft of Mission on Mimban, the next novel in the Rescue the Farmboy series. I still have editing to do so crossing fingers I get to post it this year.

Luke Skywalker pushed the hyperdrive lever of his X-wing, returning the snub-fighter to subspace. A murky green-white sphere sat ahead with its star, Circarpous Major, angled behind him so they approached the planet’s dayside.

He frowned at the transponder in his cockpit. Mara’s presence in his mind approached. The transponder pinged as her X-wing rippled into existence on his port side.

“Rogue Three reporting in,” Mara Jade said crisply over the comms.

“Rogue Leader acknowledges,” Luke answered. “Ready to explore?”

The Force bond between them reverberated with her unease. “Is enthusiasm required for this mission?”

“Not required, but you can have fun. I don’t want to order you to have fun, so don’t make me.” He had gotten used to broadcasting his goodwill along with those teases, so he did. In the two months since the Battle of Yavin, Mara had decided it was more dignified to not answer in kind. While it was better than deciding the teasing was a verbal attack and responding brutally, he wasn’t sure how the stoicism was going to hold up against other members of the Rogue Squadron.

Mara opted to ignore his teasing. “All readings are coming up terrestrial within the parameters as optimal for the Alliance’s needs.”

“That’s good.” No sense setting up a base on a planet where the oxygen-breathers couldn’t breathe. “You don’t have a datapad out while you’re flying, do you?”

“Of course not,” Mara retorted with a tinge of smugness. “The astromech is flying.”

Luke shook his head and led the way into Circarpous 5’s gravity well. They would have the report filled out in no time with Mara’s focus. Maybe he would have to order her to have fun; if he could ever get out of her what she found enjoyable.

Her smugness descended into a different unease from her earlier fear of blundering. “Rogue Leader, didn’t the mission purview say this planet was undeveloped?”

“Not even a repair station. Why?”

“Shift your comm monitor to frequency oh-four-six-one.”

He did, and a steady whine filled his cockpit. “That’s a directional landing beacon. Maybe smugglers or pirates have set up a base here. We have to know for sure before rejecting the planet for our needs.”

“Copy that,” Mara said.

They descended into the atmosphere. The Force tingled against the back of Luke’s neck. Was that his danger sense? General Willard had stressed they actually had to explore the planet and not avoid it because “the Force said so.”

They had to continue down, but they should take Force observations into account too. He hit the comm. “Rogue Three, how do you feel?”

“Landing here is the worst idea, Rogue Leader.” It sounded like she was speaking through clenched teeth. “Mission parameters don’t allow for the Force to abort.”

“I’m aware,” Luke answered. “We should put it in the report that we both feel it. Continue descent.”

“Aye, Boss.”

He smiled despite how he felt. That was the first time she had used the Alliance slang.

[faceofpoe]

Part 4 is up (i.e. Mimban has entered the chat)!

(also posted a shorter transition chapter on Wednesday night, it’s very depressing)

Fic is done aside from minor proofread-y edits. [please clap] Parts 5&6 shall make their appearances next week. The last two parts are kind of monsters, the whole thing came up to 42-43k words. End of part 6 might split off into a separate conclusion piece but either way the rest will be up next week.

[therainjumper]

Clonetober Day 6: 224th Mimban Trooper

A dash of Halo 3 ODST against a very Star Wars background, how it could do?