#star wars medstar

[sapphicsparkles]

The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

A piece of Barriss I did awhile back for the @forgottenchapterszine based off of the Legends MedStar duology!

[amarcia]

ive been reading through legends but ive found myself a little dissapointed with the last few books ive read are there any legends books or sieres you recomend for good jedi moments and characters?

[jewishcissiekj]

Currently thinking about Ahsoka only knowing war and fighting in her life mirroring Barriss being a healer and using the Force for life's sake because we could've had it all if they kept at least some elements of Barriss's Legends character but noooooo they had to go ahead and make her a stereotype and a villain with 'the right intentions but the wrong methods' to further Ahsoka's story in the worst way

[magnetarbeam]

How shocked everyone is when the MedStar frigate gets bombed is also kind of weird from a, like, modern fandom frame of reference where Grievous has been blowing up medical frigates left, right, and fucking center for the whole war.

[unabashedllamamusic]

TOTE SPOILERS

Why am I crying at five am. Barriss becoming the Jedi Luminara would’ve made her?? I’m too emotional for this rn. She talks like a Jedi Master. She fights like one. She acts like one. She was always an idealist, and that idealism drove her to terrorism and anger, and then brought her back to the light when she was faced with reality.

There’s so much irony in Barriss being the one to inspire the Grand Inquisitor’s fall in the first place during her speech at her trial, but then inspiring her old friend to renounce the Inquisitorious. I wish they’d states the first bit directly in the show but I can’t be too picky when they gave us Barriss with the world’s most lesbian haircut who IS STILL IN TOUCH WITH AHSOKA

We all know the rule of no body = no death, so obviously we’ll be seeing Barriss (and her gf) in future installments. Hopefully that includes Ahsoka S2.

[polgarawolf1]

Barriss Day fanart collages

As I can no longer access/post on my original Tumblr account (under Polgarawolf), due to a dead computer during home rennovations and issues with the internet that resulted in losing the email attached to the account (and the apparent inability of Tumblr to do anything to help me), I have made a new account, Polgarawolf1. I'm the same person, though, and I'm still a big SW fan, though I generally lean more towards the old EU than the new DISNEY!SW version of SW canon. I tend to have elaborate headcanons for the things that I write or otherwise create in fandoms like this but I'm also an AU girl at heart, so I can and sometimes do entertain multiple possible headcanons for certain characters. I'm hoping to get something written for BarrissDay before the deadline, but that might or might not happen, due to real life issues. I'm not a techy person, so I hope that the person (or people) who has (or have) organized BarrissDay and the Barriss Offee Appreciation blog will know how to find this, based on the BarrissDay tag!

Please be aware that my version of Barriss Offee is based largely on the original version of the character, as she appears in cut scenes, etc., from AotC and RotS (and therefore has very little to do with Filoni's Star Wars: The Clone Wars nonsense, except for what I've modified to fit with my headcanon version of Barriss. Apologies, though, for the one image of Barriss with her hair loose/uncovered - it's how they drew her for the cover art of one of the MedStar books, during an unexpected attack, and unfortunately I'm just not artistically talented enough to believably alter it to try to cover her head/hair!), and as she was originally written in EU books such as The Approaching Storm and the MedStar duology. My Barriss is closer in age to Anakin Skywalker than Ahsoka Tano and is most emphatically not a terrorist who willingly helped bomb one of the hangars in the Coruscanti Jedi Temple, just in case anyone is wondering!

In any case, the collages are behind the cut! There are some just for Barriss, some for Barriss and Luminara as Padawan and Master, and a few based specifically on the MedStar books, with Barriss and Kornell "Uli" Divini (I have filled in for him as best I can, since there aren't any good images of him online. For those who are unfamiliar with the character, Uli is from Tatooine, attended Coruscant Medical, did his internship at "Big Zoo" or Galactic Polysapient Medical Center on Alderaan, and is something of a wonderkid, as he's already a fully qualified surgeon when either still eighteen or just nineteen, during the events of MedStar II: Jedi Healer, and is maybe barely 20 when the Clone Wars ends. Uli has something of a baby face but is extremely good at sabacc, which the various Healers - Jedi and otherwise - and surgeons and nurses of Republic Mobile Surgical Unit 7 often play with their friends during downtime. Uli's mother, renowned mudopterist Elana  Divini, is known for collecting "Alderaanian flare-wings" and one of his first meetings with Barriss happens when she's out doing a lightsaber kata and accidentally injures herself while he's in the swamps of Drongar looking at the local insects, sees her, and helps deal with her injury), who were at the very least written as good friends with the potential for more (if not for Order 66, etc.).

Apologies in advance for repetitiveness - I figured more would be better, even if it meant that I basically had to keep using the same scant handful of official images for Barriss from the films over and over, plus a few from the various animated shows. I'm aware that hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, but I've had it in my head for years (since long before Star Wars: The Clone Wars was made) that Mirialan art and particularly their folk art involve very similar motifs and also often the use of colorful stained glass and tiles, which is why I've used several of them here along with images meant to evoke stained glass artwork. No disrespect is meant to anyone and if anything bothers anyone, please let me know about it and why, so I can try to fix it or offer an alternative!

[theladyfromplanetx]

Michael Reaves 1950-2023

[mythgradeconstellation]

to celebrate barriss in 2024 i ordered both medstar books. I look forward to seeing u again i5yq

[legends-expo]

Happy 19th release anniversary to MedStar I: Battle Surgeons by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry! Often referred to as M.A.S.H in Star Wars, this novel features padawan Barriss Offee as a Jedi healer working with a small medical unit to help injured clone troopers.

[cienie-isengardu]

"The Hutt is dead? How?" "Hard to say for sure. Apparently it was very sudden. I had a word with one of the techs, who sometimes sits in on our card game, and the indication from him was poison." A tech emerged from the large cubicle with an anti-grav gurney, upon which was a large body sack, sealed shut and obviously filled to capacity. The lifter's gyros and condenser whined under the load as the tech guided it outside. "That would be the late, and fairly heavy, Filba, unless I miss my guess. I wonder who's on medical examiner duty today? Whoever it is has got quite a job ahead of him." Jos Vondar arrived just then, and the three of them watched the gurney head for the OT. "Bad luck," Jos said. He didn't look happy. "Filba was a friend of yours?" Barriss asked. He looked at her, obviously surprised at the question. "Filba was an obnoxious, officious, tightfisted fatherless squat who would make his own pouch mother sign a requisition for water if she was dying of thirst." "You've got to learn to be more open with your feelings," Zan said. "Why the grief, then?" Barriss asked. "Because I'm on ME duty," Jos said dolefully. "Lucky me, I get to do the autopsy. This war'll be over by the time I've cut him up. I'll dull just about all the vibroscalpels we have in stock. I'm saving the last one for my throat," he said to Zan in a mock-aside whisper. "Word is, he was poisoned," Zan said. "Won't help, and you know it. I still have to dice him and weigh each organ, even if he just had a simple cardiac arrest. I'll need a wrecker droid to help." "Oh, well, look on the bright side," Zan said. "Maybe we can recycle him into lube-it'd be enough to keep all our surgical droids working smoothly for, oh, the next couple hundred years." "It's good to see you two can maintain a sense of humor at the death of a fellow being," Barriss said, sounding slightly stiffer than she had intended. After all these weeks at Rimsoo Seven she was certainly not unfamiliar with the black humor; even so, it occasionally took her somewhat by surprise. Jos looked at her and shrugged. "Laugh, cry, get tanked, or go mad-those are the options around here. I'll leave you to your own choice-me, I have a mountain to carve." He headed toward the OT, following the gurney. After he was gone, Zan said, "It gets to you, after a while. You have to develop defenses. I have my music - Jos uses sarcasm. Whatever gets you through the hot nights." Barriss didn't say anything. She knew he was right, but still...

Medstar: Battle Surgeons by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry

[archeo-starwars]

Jos glanced around and saw Klo Merit. The Equani was easy to spot; he towered nearly a head taller than any other biped in the crowd. The pale gray fur and whiskers helped, too. Jos was glad to see the Rimsoo's minder there. The Equani-what few were left, after a solar flare had scorched their homeworld-were intensely empathetic beings, capable of understanding and psychoanalyzing nearly every other known intelli-gent species. Jos knew that Merit, in many ways, carried the emotional weight of the entire camp on his sleek, broad shoulders. Now, however, he seemed caught up in the spell Zan was weaving, just like everyone else. Good, Jos thought. He remembered a quote from Bahm Gilyad, who had formalized the rules and responsibilities of his profession five thousand years before, during the Stark Hyperspace Conflict: "The sick and the injured will always have a healer to salve their wounds, but to whom does the healer go?" As Zan played on, Jos found it easier not to think about the war, or how tired he was, or how many shards of metal he had removed or perforated organs he had replaced in the last few hours. The music carried him to its depths, raised him to its heights, and refreshed him like a week's worth of rest. He realized that, in a great many ways, his friend was doing for the doctors and nurses of Rimsoo Seven what the Jedi had done for the wounded clone troops-he was healing them.

Medstar: Battle Surgeons by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry

[rainintheevening]

Top 5 non-Jedi, non-clone Star Wars characters

1. Padmé Amidala

2. Shmi Skywalker

3. Kitster Banai

4. Nick Rostu (from Shatterpoint)

5. R2-D2

[amarcia]

Big kudos to the Medstar novels for making Barriss' journey to Knighthood not about how many people she fought but about how many lives she saved, not about saving people with flashy displays of power but by staring at the possibility of obtaining that power and refusing it, not about jumping into battle to end all battles but knowing where one's limitations lay and accepting it, not about taking grand action but taking a step back and thinking twice. Love you Barriss. Love you Medstar novels.

[jewishcissiekj]

And the best Barriss Offee content award goes to🔥🔥🔥

[magnetarbeam]

To summarize it as "natborn officer Jos Vondar learned to see past the common prejudices and think of the clones as sentient individuals worthy of respect" is admittedly missing the point, but I still think that bit in MedStar I was ahead of its time in terms of showing that the clones do feel emotions and get traumatized just like everyone else.

None of the clones are really main characters, but Barriss recognizing them by individual Force signatures really surprised me to see in a book that came out before even RotS.

[the-stars-are-warring]

Notes from Med-star Battle surgeons re-read:

Captain Jos Vandar Has heard that Jedi can dodge blaster rays, turn invisible, and shoot lasers from their eyes - Hell yeah

As a more general note why are Star Wars books* so Horny about female Jedi. I know Im Ace but like. *smacking the authors over the head* stop being weird about Bariss Offee.

*my experience is limited but like. Im still salty about it.

“If my Quetarra gets damaged Im going to personally hunt Dooku down, excise his reproductive organs, and feed them to the swamp snails.” Zan Yant I love you So Much :(

Also: lmao theres an ad for the Rep Com game and Hard Contact in the back of this book.

Main take away though is that Every fucking day I am haunted by “Were I a civilian delivered naturally and not Vat-born, I could tell you it’s none of your business - sir.“

and also “…I miss him. I expect I’ll miss him until the day I die.” CT 914 you live in my mind rent free forever goddamn.