#star fortress

[dingoat]

When your rampage partner falls off a ledge and winds up in Agent Jail and you have to bust his ass out of there and he doesn't even help because something something shock collar

(alternate title: "Ahuska no..!")

[swtorpadawan]

For NPC Asks how about Rylee Dray and the Lady of Pain?

Ask Me About SWTOR NPCs Thank you, @jjjwhovian !

And… hoo, boy! Did you just hit the jackpot! LOTS of notes on these two!

So first for Rylee Dray - You may already be familiar with some headcanons I have for her in my Halcyon Legacy: The Slice Girls Its possible that not long after Zu'fanda Pampya (my Sith Inquisitor) was killed, the Cult of the Screaming Blade collapsed. Destris Veran, Rylee's partner, was killed during the fallout, and Rylee was soon left on her own, without protection. Its possible that SOMEONE snapped her up, effectively enslaving her for her slicer skills. Maybe its also possible that someone else (like Kira, Mako, and company) will hopefully come rescue her someday. (We can hope.)

The Lady of Pain - the leader of the Exchange of Tatooine - does not take the Eternal Empire's subjugation of Tatooine well. She conducts a vicious guerilla-style resistance campaign against the Zakuulans. But after about a year, it goes south, and she's captured by Tarso Gren, the Exarch of Tatooine. Imprisoned aboard the Star Fortress, she's subjected to…. well. It's bad. I'm not getting into it. A few years later, Tarso is visiting a colleague: Forta Gair, the Exarch of Belsavis. On a lark - visiting a prison-world with a dreaded criminal of his own - he brought the Lady of Pain with him. The two Exarchs were both a bit sadistic by this point, and it eventually occurred to them to have an impromptu gladiator fight between the Lady sand someone Forta was keeping prisoner. (You'll recall Zakuulans have a history of being into gladiator fighting, including with enslaved fighters.) The fight was vicious. It started unarmed, but both were allowed to use random objects as makeshift weapons. Both women were just fighting for survival, knowing what would happen to them if they didn't fight. Ultimately, the Lady of Pain lost. She died because two Exarchs had a bet going, and were looking for cheap entertainment. Oh - and her opponent? Who was forced to kill her? That was an imprisoned twi'lek smuggler named Bas'riish.

Thank you!

Tagging @voidendron - Because.

[spitzobsessed]

Staring at that achievement to defeat Exarch one on one with no power boosts or group: how hard could it possibly be?

[illustratus]

[scrumpyfan43]

If you want to learn more about star forts, Bret Devereaux has a good post about 'em in his series about the evolution of fortifications.

Check out these star forts from across Europe. This kind of structure, first seen in Italy in the mid-15th century, was designed so that an attack on any individual wall could be defended from the two adjacent star points by shooting at the enemy from behind. Some enclose entire towns, while others protect a key building like a castle, fortress, or barracks.

Overviews seen here include:

Nossa Senhora da Graça in Alcáçova, Portugal

Palmanova, Italy

Bourtange in Groningen, The Netherlands

Naarden, The Netherlands

Kastellet in Copenhagen, Denmark

Source imagery: Maxar

[alina-is-hollowing]

I love games that, upon completion, shatters my sense of reality, leaves me full of emotions for days or weeks at end, and changes me as a person, for better or worse

[baldswagsummit2023]

BALD SWAG SUMMIT 2 FINALS WE MADE IT!!!!!

[wormizette]

snprs

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 167

Honestly, Danny is having such a good time right now. He gets to travel with Ellie, explore space, just have fun. Plus his secondary protector-instincts are having soothed despite him not technically doing any hero-ing anymore. Really his sister had the right idea when she decided she wanted to become a doctor, this is honestly a blast.

And if someone does end up passing away, well, Ellie is always happy to help soothe their spirit and guide them to the Realms where they can reach their respective afterlife. Or become a ghost. 

They are completely oblivious to the fact that there are now legends and entire temples dedicated to them now. Apparently accidental ascension is in fact a thing, as Dan later laughs at them about. 

[dragonroilz]

meet the female engineer! she's part of the conagher family, though not as involved in the kind of engineering that her uncle and great uncle were in. despite being a very gifted mechanic, she preferred more domestic endeavours like tuning cars and air conditioning units. however, the promise of wads of cash and possibly seeing her cousin Dell made her conagher DNA jump into high gear upon seeing the blueprints for the sentries for the first time.

the first question people often ask her is, "why the turtleneck?". the response from a less-than-human sounding voice often answers the question. thanks to an unfortunate "accident" she had her head lobbed from her shoulders and reattached. of course, such endeavors would be less than ideal for the normal person, but the engineer is known for her amazing inventions and with help from the medic she surgically reattached it. allegedly, not to her original body. at the very least, her back pain inexplicably went away after this incident. nervous system failure perhaps?

[l-kawi]

this place is evil

[dingoat]

Theron please.

[automatonknight]

id: a fullbody digital drawing of a blue scout from team fortress 2. he's shown standing up, facing the viewer. his arms are raised and bent and he's pointing both thumbs at himself with a happy expression. he's wearing his headset and hat, a blue crop top, a blue and white hoodie around his waist, black pants, long, white socks and blue sneakers. the background is yellow and has a pattern of stars. end id

[baldguy-fight]

BALD GUY FIGHT ROUND 1

[inquisitor-apologist]

Legitimately Nur should be so much more fucked up in JFO. Like, Cal was sent into a full-on psychometry seizure and flashback just from touching Trilla’s lightsaber, which she didn’t even have during the torture he saw. Being on the planet, inside the Fortress, in the exact room where not only Trilla but almost a dozen others went through that shit? It should’ve been awful.

There should’ve been way too many Force Echoes everywhere, we should’ve heard screaming in the soundtrack, when Cal went to meditate he should’ve been plagued by visions of Trilla, Inquisitor Cal, maybe even Masana, like come on.

[krasman]

The Persean League wasn't lying, that ass battlestation can fart neutralize invading fleets.

Been playing Starsector more lately, and Holy Fuck trying to crack Kazeron is a pain. Sure, it's a midline station. But unless you're running a cruiser wall that broadside module just picks apart the fleet. And I run the game at 600 battle size. So I'm able to throw more shit at the problems than most people.

Then again, I guess that's just how star fortresses are in this game. There's a reason they're almost 2m Credits to get.