#smugglers alliance

[purringysalamiri]

what does he do to his hair

[from-a-legends-pov]

Star Wars Legends: Poll of the Week — The Many Lives of Mara

One of the most popular characters to be developed for Star Wars Legends is Mara Jade, who first appeared in Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy. The character went through a number of journeys, both in her relationship with Luke Skywalker and in her own right, and over that time she had a number of professions. Which one of these Mara Jade professions is your favorite?

The Emperor’s Hand, a Dark-Side-wielding spy and assassin for the Empire, trained by Darth Vader and the Emperor

Hyperdrive mechanic, on the run from Isard and others after the fall of the Empire

Smuggler with Talon Karrde’s crew and later leading the Smugglers’ Alliance

Dancer in Jabba’s Palace (undercover as Arica, as part of her mission to kill Luke Skywalker)

Jedi Knight, and later, Jedi Master who took on Jaina Solo and Anakin Solo as her apprentices

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[celinamarniss]

A Smuggler's Guide to Joining the Rebel Alliance

by celinamarniss Teen and Up, Original Trilogy Remix, Han Solo & Mara Jade, Mara Jade & Chewbacca, Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker Han knew they were desperate for the credits, but he hadn't expected Chewie to rustle up an old man, a wet-behind-the-ears kid, and a pair of droids.

[i-dont-know-anything-anymore]

[illumsky]

I NEED a sitcom about the daily shenanigans in The Eternal Alliance

[cryo-lily]

Theron [Looks up from a datapad toward RE-M1]: Hey Rem, Have you seen Issie? I have a report she needs to see.

RE-M1 [Happy beeps]: I think so! Last I saw this way.

[Theron gets led down a mostly abandoned hallway, RE-M1 stops near a specific door]

Theron [Pauses briefly and squints suspiciously at the muffled un-identifiable sounds beyond the door before knocking]: Uh... Is?

[Loud crashing & scrambling noises followed by a loud thud before the door slides open as Isadola steps out from a dark room]

Isadola [Out of breath, clearly disheveled. Hair down, mask loosely put on & crooked, no gloves or bracers, jacket with only one sleeve on, tube top pulled dangerously low, missing belt & only one boot on, lipstick markings trailing down her neck & beyond]: THERON! uh... Hi... What’s up? [Pauses to catch breath] Did something happen? Wait... Did Taskar piss off Hylo again or something?

Theron [Grimaces as he takes a step back]: Something like that... Listen it can probably wait...

Isadola: No, what is it? I can-

[Isadola gets pulled back in to the room by an unseen force swiftly before the door slams shuts and locks]

Theron [Turns back toward the small scout droid now emitting laughter like beeps as he begins to walk away]: You knew they were in there didn’t you?

RE-M1 [Indignant beeps]: I did not, how dare you even assume such?

Theron [Looking at the small droid now riding on his shoulder]: You’re a terrible liar for a supposedly sentient droid.

 RE-M1 [More indignant beeps]: Don’t be such a sourpuss... Well If you’re feeling lonely I can holo your partn-

Theron [Pinches the bridge of his nose]: Please don’t... They are- You’re the worst you know that?

RE-M1: [More beep like laughter]

[ophexis]

Y'know I thought I had uploaded some of these before but I can't see them on my blog so huh here sdfsg

I only ever fill these with my swtor OCs bc it's the one thing where I happen to have 8 very different characters available for so it's very convenient. Thought some of them aren't entirely accurate (I wouldn't call my jedi knight a dumbass but she didn't fit anywhere else, and she does have the attitude of a shonen protagonist sometimes)

Arguably this would have been better to post after I've done my lineup of characters but they still all don't have their perfect outfits so I haven't done that yet

[sullustangin]

Forged Alliances, Part 4: On the Run

I started this over the spring/summer when Forged Alliances itself started (and the 8th anniversary of Theron Shan and Lana Beniko being in game). Forged Alliances ended in early September 2014 with Lana, Theron, and Jakarro and D4 leaving the player.  Early in December, Shadow of Revan launched, with Rishi and Yavin.  So we’ll just consider this finishing up with a few questions.

To start, upon departing Rakata Prime, the player character is with Jakarro and D4. Everyone has been put to flight due to the arrival of Revan’s fleet, so Lana and Theron are flying on Jakarro’s seemingly unnamed ship. 

Upon arriving back at Vaiken/Carrick, the player goes to the ops room to find it’s been either rifled through or partially blown up (the latter is more obvious on the Pub side).  There is the implication that Revanites have infiltrated the respective space docks and want to wipe out the work that Lana and Theron have done.  This is backed up by A7′s statement that he is ‘terrified!’ 

In contrast T3′s statement is business as usual -- no signs of terror here.  In part, that’s partially why I spun this in my fic as Theron blowing up the op center to protect the data and the op (and the playable character) from the Revanites.  That said, the Revanites infiltrating the docks remains the most likely intended explanation by devs.

Either way, the droids convey to the player to get to Manaan -- a neutral planet where Pub/Imperial jurisdiction is a sticky matter.  Conveniently, we’ve just been there as part of Forged Alliances... but this does work as neutral ground, not unlike Nar Shaddaa way later in Onslaught when there’s talk of being a loyalist/saboteur.

Lana and Theron are profoundly relieved to see the player after Revan’s aerial assault on the Rakata Prime temple.  The player arrives with Jakarro, who’s been part of your crew since, well, Lana and Theron ran off with his ship. 

Now, if you’re an Imp romancing Theron, you can flirt with him right off the jump and get him all bashful here. One of the key differences between the Pub and the Imperial romance is that Theron is on much surer footing with the Republic operative; he comes off as the consummate spy who isn’t rattled easily.  With the Imperial, here on Manaan, he protests, a LOT when it’s teasingly suggested that SIS is keeping an eye on the Imperial player.  For the Imp player, romancing Theron is like trying to pet a scalded cat; he escapes quickly, and that’s the last the Imperial player sees of him.  He never does respond positive in a romantic way to the Imperial in Forged Alliances. 

Meanwhile, Pub side or Imperial side, Lana is very affectionate; Imps get a hug from her and promises of pining, while Pubs also get yearning, though no hug.  Overall, Lana is a very agreeable Sith who isn’t opposed to a workplace romance.

Theron might get a little frazzled with the Imperial, but he’s been cool and professional with the Republic player to this point...And then there’s this one moment:

“No contact?  No even a little bit?”

“If we had more time.  (SIGNIFICANT PAUSE) But we don’t.” 

Theron takes the time to think about “contact” with the Republic operative before he declines and leaves  -- and that is the first big sign that he’s interested in the player, the first lapse of professionalism, with hand gestures and everything.  The Imperial player gets the steady relationship development with Lana all throughout....and the Pub player gets “...there’s a desk over there, now that I think about it.” 

As noted elsewhere everywhere in fandom, Theron’s got issues.  But that’s why we love him.   

So that’s my Forged Alliances series, all done (finally). 

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

[bran-ridire]

Been playing Star Wars Galaxies: Legends the last couple of nights. Man I forgot just how great the space combat was in SWG.

[kybercrystals]

shae viszla does nothing but piss me off and i don’t give a hoot about mandalorian in-fighting but god she’s such a babe idrc all that much i’d follow her into a blood bath time and time again

[selfpossesedghost]

The sky over Oddessen is blue and red to show the Republic and the Empire uniting to defeat the Eternal Throne.

[purringysalamiri]

waiter waiter please more pathetic characters that are genuinely so insufferable to just look at to the point where your feelings of hatred become so intense you start feeling something else

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"BENEATH THE FEARSOME AND SAVAGE COUNTENANCE IS A GENTLE AND LOVING BEING…"

PIC INFO: Spotlight on comic book advertisement ("STAR WARS" Tales Vol. 1 #19) for the 9 inch premium action figure/statue of Chewbacca, part of the "STAR WARS Unleashed" toyline released by Hasbro in 2004.

OVERVIEW: "An immense, fur-covered warrior of great strength and loyalty, Chewbacca approaches everything with the intense ferocity so characteristic of Wookiee temperament, demonstrating a total commitment to defending those he has sworn to protect, and fighting those who challenge him as his enemy. He has seen and experienced much in his long years -- the crushing subjugation when he was enslaved by the Empire, the reckless days of smuggling with his friend Han Solo, and his dramatic adventures as a Rebel Alliance fighter.

PART II: Beneath the fearsome and savage countenance is a gentle and loving being, but, like all Wookiees, Chewbacca has a notoriously short temper and explodes into a berserker rage that cannot be halted until the object of his fury is sufficiently destroyed. Even though he is armed only with a bowcaster, he is a terrifying sight when he raises his huge, furred arm and points his weapon in a wordless gesture of fierce courage and searing defiance against all who threaten him or anyone under his mantle of protection."

-- "STAR WARS" UNLEASHED, Hasbro, c. 2004

Source: https://collectibleentertainment.com/product/star-wars-tales-19-comic.

[celinamarniss]

In the original cut of the cantina scene, Han is in the middle of hooking up with a bar girl while Obi-Wan is slicing and dicing up at the bar. In A Smuggler's Guide to Joining the Rebel Alliance, things go a little differently for him:

Irritation crossed her face. "You don’t remember my name, do you?” 

“Uh—” His brain went blank as he scrambled to pin a name on the face he wasn’t sure he’d seen before.

”It’s Jenny. I’d think you’d remember, Kyle, with the number of times you screamed it—”

“Kyle? I’m not Kyle.” 

“What? But you—you’re not Kyle?” 

“I’m not Kyle.” 

There was some sort of fight breaking out over at the bar. Han glanced up long enough to ascertain that neither Mara or Chewie was involved. 

[kissingwookiees]

ready to revamp my imperial agent and actually playthrough the class story in its entirely but i cant just yet... because i need to unlock the whole armor set i want to give her that she wont be able to wear until shes level 10 anyways

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Hi, I had a random thought about Wylan Van Eck and it accidentally turned into a world building rant so enjoy… I guess?

Every so often I randomly remember that Wylan has canonically been to the races at Caryeva in Ravka and I just can’t help but wonder what the hell this situation was like. I don’t recall a lot of specific descriptions about Caryeva so correct me if I’m wrong but I believe it’s an environment quite similar to that of the Barrel and that boy was not thriving in the Barrel okay the stress of imagining young Wylan stuck with his father at the Caryeva races is so real. Like I’m not saying the entire place must be a hellhole but the key information we know about it (at least to my recollection and what I gathered about two minutes ago from the Grishaverse wiki) is that its main points of interest are gambling in horse races and producing alcohol, and we know that Vasily gathered a less than pleasant reputation whilst spending most of his time there gambling away what little fortune he had left. And also what the hell was Van Eck doing there in the first place? The version of Jan Van Eck we see him present to the other characters and therefore to us as the reader (since we don’t ever get his POV) would simply cease to exist at the impropriety of it all, he can’t get through a conversation about the Barrel without cringing and you’re telling me he went on a trip to Caryeva and took his presumably very young son with him? (I’m assuming this bc Wylan says he *used* to take him everywhere with him and Van Eck found out he couldn’t read when he was about eight). What was this situation???? Why was he there???? I wonder if this is another subtle hint towards the potential extent of less than savoury business Van Eck is involved in beyond Wylan’s knowledge, like when he suggests meeting on Vellgeluk (an island used mostly by smugglers and traffickers) and Inej is surprised he knows about it and Kaz responds something along the lines of “perhaps he’s not so much the upstanding merch he claims to be”.

The reference to Caryeva just always sticks out to me as slightly random in comparison to the other places Wylan lists his father as having taken him to - the Shu oil fields? Absolutely, this is a world (at least as I’ve understood it) currently moving towards its Industrial Revolution at top speed of course Van Eck of all people is looking to invest in oil futures he may be the worst but he is clever; the Ice Court? It’s a diplomatic event between the leaders of two countries, one desperately trying to maintain its neutrality to hold tightly to its place in the world economy as it very quickly develops (Kerch) and one desperately trying to impose itself as a greater world power than its being given credit for via violence and focusing its development on military-based progress like the tanks (Fjerda) (btw I think I’ve talked about this before in my worldbuilding posts but I have thoughts about the tanks and the general global development of the grishaverse so if anyone wants more theories/analyses on that let me know), so yes it absolutely makes sense especially since we’re starting to see (or at least I think we are but I’m not a historian I’m basing this on my understanding about how these things happened in our world and how they would develop in their world based on the distinctions between the two) the globalisation of the Grishaverse beginning; the Jurda farms in near Shriftport? We all know Van Eck has a vested interest in jurda and we also know it was a big part of his business long before parem came to the scene because it is a massively used stimulant throughout Kerch; Weddle? Absolutely, I don’t know if it’s been confirmed as the capital but if it isn’t it’s still a major city in Novyi Zem there are a thousand reasons Van Eck could’ve been there; Elling? Once again it’s entirely reasonable to imagine Fjerda having a vested interest in an alliance with Kerch to secure their place in the global economy and to manipulate what is almost definitely and imminent and unavoidable collapse of the country’s questionable neutrality; Elling makes sense because Van Eck probably visited Fjerda a lot and even if there wasn’t anything about alliances and military tactics and etc going on Elling is a port settlement and it makes plenty of sense to assume large amounts of trade take place here. (My theory about the military stuff if below, sorry the paragraph was too long to get it all in together)

(Ravka is in severe debt to the Kerch government and we know Fjerdan intelligence is well aware of this, especially since Matthias knew when he hadn’t been in the government for over a year and never worked anywhere near espionage, and Kerch is also a massive global power. Support for Fjerda from Kerch would mean support from the Southern Colonies and possibly even division in Novyi Zem, and whilst it would probably prevent the Fjerdans from any kind of alliance with the Shu due to the tension between Kerch and Shu Han being so high it would also probably not be necessary for them to make a deal with the Shu if the had the support of the Kerch. Ultimately, Fjerda and Shu Han are fighting for control of the same land, they just haven’t reached each other yet because they’re still stuck on opposite sides of Ravka. If either country gained control of the majority of Ravka’s land then it would lead to a fight with the other; Fjerda need global support if they have a chance of winning two wars immediately after each other and if Kerch are in fact going to have to lose their neutrality, as it seems they are being forced to do and definitely would have been forced to do if parem became a global resource (Van Eck even says himself on the matter that Kerch has enjoyed neutrality for too long), and already have high tensions with Shu Han and rising tensions with Novyi Zem (due to the assassination of the Zemeni ambassador, which I do believe was an attempt to start a war btw, that they blame the Kerch for and the Kerch suspect the Shu for) then they are the perfect target for Fjerda to form an alliance with. Kerch also has a very strong navy which Fjerda presumably lacks since their efforts have all been focused on Ravka, where they share a land border, so to enter a larger scale/global war they would need a navy on their side. Again, I want to emphasise I know very little about military tactics and history I am approaching this by imagining that it’s a logic puzzle, so you might be reading this and this and thinking that it makes no sense in realistic scenarios but this is just my theory)

But Caryeva???? Even if there weren’t standing for Van Eck and the Merchant Council to be plotting against Ravka, which I personally believe there is, it STILL WOULDN’T MAKE DIPLOMATIC OR BUSINESS SENSE TO GO TO CARYEVA. So in summary I think Van Eck was doing lots of messed up things that young Wylan didn’t understand because he was a small child so why would he, plus this was a time in his life when probably trusted his father, and I think that this is yet another of the very subtle ways Leigh Bardugo shows us that there is a lot more going on beneath the surface than we notice or that the characters have comprehended because it does!’t fit into the focus of the story. Whether or not Van Eck was planning on building his diplomacy towards Fjerda into an alliance or not (but I do want to add that the only other language he hired someone to teach his son was Fjerdan, so that may also be a hint), I definitely think that he was involved in something illegal to specifically be at the races in Caryeva. Like to vineyards or something for a trade deal, sure. But why, after going on and on about the questionable version of Ghezen he believes in and how the Barrel is a “den of filth” and calling gambling a “vice” and arguing with Kaz because he was offended when he said that speculating on the markets was a form of gambling, would Jan Van Eck be at Caryeva horse races?

Anyway I’ve been going on about this for way longer than I intended, hope this made some semblance of sense and thanks for reading