#sw galaxy of heroes

[deceased-madam]

我自己覺得遊戲：銀河戰將，還好；沒有什麼特別的，但是還是為了準星而玩

[thora-sniper]

Why this new Ezra model have so Fett shape in SWGOH?

[magicdashworkss]

oh…i love it …

Mark is perfect Luke Skywalker …

yes that why i love this film and him creation…

[yukipri]

The grind is FINALLY over!!!!

Ngl Empire is not my department in SW, and prior to playing SWGOH I would not have been able to name the Executor or Admiral Piett etc etc. However, my desire to remain sitting at No. 2 in my fleet shard won out, and made the Executor my priority farm😂

It does help that most of the farm were bounty hunters, including Boba and Bossk, who I wanted to level up anyway.

Anyway, I know it'll still take a few months of collecting shards to max it (I paid enough crystals to get it to 5* no more💀), but for now, Satisfaction!

My next big goal is going to be GAS, which I've about finished collecting shards of all requirements for. But it'll take me a while to get them up to relics, and before that, I want to prioritize beefing up my CLS team. They're all 7*s but I wasn't giving them much love.

(I also desperately want to relic up my clones, who are currently sitting at G12, but I feel like I should prioritize at least getting GAS, since I know he takes a while to collect shards afterwards...)

I feel like I should also go back and get the Revans, but I'm kinda wary bc I feel like they're prime targets for the next Lightspeed Bundles. Which. I've been getting them, and they're a great deal and useful, but. Makes putting the time and effort into some things feel stupid.

Anyway, roughly half a year? maybe? since starting SWGOH and here we are lmao

[thora-sniper]

My main account in Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes names "Phee Genoa" and Tech is the most high level character from my Bad Batch squad now. I need to make them all strong but it's a long way to rise units in this game.

I was using random name about six month before I decided change it to some more comfortable for my, more close. And Phee was one of main women characters wich was not so standard. And she is not playable as Merrin for example.

I'm going to jump in on the Phee positivity (or positiviPHEE) train after...certain opinions have been aired.

And since those certain opinions were from an autistic perspective, I thought I'd add my own autistic perspective.

I. Love. Phee.

My cat's name is Phee. Phee is one of my top Star Wars characters. I shoved her into one of my longfics as soon as I could.

And her relationship with Tech gave me a lot of hope for my own romantic prospects as an autistic person.

I love that Phee invites Tech to be present. I love the look on his face when he watches her leave to put the artifact away. I love that she was a trusted enough person for Tech to talk to about Crosshair at length with. I love that when it's clear that Tech isn't going to give her the goodbye she expects, she backs off. I love that her love for Tech expanded into loving and helping the Bad Batch.

And even by herself she's SO COOL. She goes and finds artifacts that were stolen from cultures on Pabu and brings them back??? She is a super cool pilot??? She is ride or die for the people she cares about??? She's confident and sassy??? She has a SWORD???

So yeah. Phee is great. She means a lot to me. I hope we see her more in the last 3 episodes.

[cruella1989]

Star Wars 30 Challenge

Day 5. Favorite Game

Another easy one. Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes.

It’s a fun strategy game, with a lot creative behind it, and good graphics. On a personal note, I’ve made a lot of friends playing it, and some of my best memories involve this games.

Day 1. Favorite Character

Day 2. Favorite Movie

Day 3. Favorite Show

Day 4. Favorite Trilogy

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Seeing that Luke post get thousands upon thousands notes is giving me hives. How does one become this fandom brained? I know the jokes are "don't mess with fans of X they don't even watch/read/listen to their own film/show/etc." and any fandom is going to cause some amount of ooc behaviour for the sake of jokes and memes and stuff, but surely at some point the character is so bent out of shape you stop to ponder what you're doing.

Who is this Luke Skywalker, collector of wayward orphans? Why would he want to be Reys dad? You get the feeling she might want it at the start of TLJ... And then the rest of the movie happens, going into great detail, at times in overly didactic ways, as to why that's a Bad Idea for her personal growth and the galaxy at large.

Even in older Legends material, where he ends up having actual kids, most of the lauded and beloved portrayals of his character are things like the original Thrawn trilogy, and in that he spends all three books struggling with if there's any place for him in the galaxy after the emperor died. The supposed definitive alternate sequel trilogy is, at least for Luke, largely about if he even should restart the jedi order, since his own training is incomplete and he has a deep fear any students he has are going to eventually succumb to the dark side, and how if they do it'll probably be a direct result of his incompetence. He does naturally, much like in TLJ, overcome these feelings of inadequacy and re-emerge as the definitive hero of the story, but spending a few years wallowing is just a very Luke way to deal with problems in life.

Like yeah I wonder why a bitter, self-isolating old man who views his life as a colossal failure wouldn't be jumping for joy when a younger, more naive version of himself shows up to his house uninvited.

For how desperate to venerate the Nostalgia the sequel trilogy project as a whole is, only TLJ really feels like it actually gives a shit about the story it's supposedly continuing. I didn't think you could look at Lukes death and not feel the overwhelming love and care for him specifically. I always shed a tear when binary sunset kicks in and I'm not even that into the originals. I was a prequel defender in 2010, Luke is the 20th character I think about when people mention SW.

Do people just not engage with the source material at all? Is this a product of the whole fandom tourism boom in the last 5-ish years? I genuinely don't want to be mean. After all, fandom is all of us playing with our toys, and you should always try to avoid a "old man yells at cloud" scenario, but like... It's a movie for 12 year olds that's very deliberately laying out all the cards. A slightly more nuanced and emotionally mature movie for 12 year olds than you might expect but... A child could get it, it's been focus grouped to hell and back so any given child on the planet should get it... How are you as an adult asking why the story had conflict?

I also broke out in hives a little bit when I found out that my addition (?) had made that thing go around. Or maybe it wasn't my addition, I'm actually not sure, but I worry that it was. The OP turned off reblogs, and I can only assume it was because people starting doing absurd bullshit discourse on the post which... hhhh I don't really like being part of inflicting that on anyone over something as unimportant as Star Wars opinions.

Also, the thing I was reacting against really wasn't the fact that people have headcanons about who and what kind of character Luke is - like, that's just normal and generally a good and fun part of fandom. I reacted against the idea of The Last Jedi being thoughtless about his character. It interprets Luke in a very specific way, but that interpretation is, I think objectively, deeply grounded in the history of his character and the thematic throughlines of the Skywalker-focused movies. So it annoyed me a bit to see people treat the depiction like it was some kind of failure to engage with the original material. I think that's not quite fair to what the movie was, and I think it leads to weak criticism of its flaws.

I think that the better angle for critique of the whole sequel trilogy and Rian Johnson's contribution is that obsesses far too much about the original trilogy, and is at its best in those few scant moments when it breaks away from it. If the sequel trilogy hadn't had the corporate mandate to be a kind of Frankenstein remake of the OT, perhaps a kindly old grandfatherly Luke could have been a fun and interesting interpretation of the character's future. Luke is what he is in TLJ because the trilogy absolutely fucking had to recreate the narrative beats of Dagobah, and therefore absolutely had to have Luke learn another lesson from Yoda about learning to let go of his attachments to and fears about the future and be present in the here-and-now.

Johnson is clearly a fucking nerd-ass Star Wars nerd, whose greatest mistake was assuming that other Star Wars nerds would engage with the material with good faith and an eye towards appreciation and discovery, rather than product-brained, screaming entitlement to their supremacy-affirming nostalgia security blanket.

To be clear, here I am talking about the culture war grifter assholes who poison the world, and not fandom people who have a cozy headcanon about Luke as a cheerful old community dad. I don't think it's fandom tourism to have a headcanon about a character, or a favored interpretation of them, even one which feels somewhat divorced from the original source-text. If I had to take a guess, the people on the original post developed that headcanon through fandom - by way of fanfics and fanposting and fanart, by way of fix-it fics and excited speculation. If I had to take a guess, they got their headcanon about Luke the same place everyone gets their headcanons about popular characters: from some combination of appreciation, projection, and a desire to see the thing you love tell a story that you need to hear. That's just human, and I don't think you can spend any significant amount of time in fandom without developing those attachments to certain stories or characters.

[galactic-rhea]

In an alternative universe instead of lightsaber duels, SW is all about dance battles ala Footloose and Dirty Dancing

Which also means that Windu lost a dance battle to Palpatine just because Anakin stopped the music or something like that

And also means that Anakin just danced against a bunch of kids. Agressively breakdanced against a bunch of kids.

And it also means that Obi-Wan and Anakin had an epic Dance of The Heros surrounded by lava. The most epic Tango of the Galaxy.

The empire was like what happened in Trolls 2, with the Punk/Rock trolls trying to force everyone else to only like Rock, which in SW i guess is called Rick.

[classicanalyzer]

Andor Arc 4 Thoughts

The final arc of Andor Season 2, consisting of "Make It Stop", "Who Else Knows", and "Jedha, Kyber, Erso", is a great conclusion to the show. As the ISB closes in on Luthen, he uncovers the smoking gun that marks the beginning of the end for the Empire's Death Star. As we move ever closer towards that one road towards Scarif and Yavin, we reevaluate the entire surviving cast of Andor. This arc highlights why Fascism and any authoritarian government are always destined to fall by the ideals of freedom and rebellion.

I really love how the final arc parallels a lot with the first arc of the show. It helps bring the show full circle as we move onto Rogue One and eventually A New Hope. Star Wars Explained also did an amazing job covering this season of Andor and Star Wars in general. We need more people like SWE to bring optimism and joy into Star Wars.

"Freedom scares you." Luthen Rael

"'Freedom'? You don't want freedom. You want chaos, chaos for everyone but you. Ruin the galaxy and then run back to your ridiculous wig and little workshop." Dedra Meero

"How confident you are." Luthen Rael

"We're done here." Dedra Meero

"Confident and terrified." Luthen Rael

"The building is surrounded. You're finished." Dedra Meero

"And you're too late. The rebellion isn't here anymore. It's flown away. It's everywhere now. There's a whole galaxy out there waiting to disgust you." Luthen Rael

The opening sequence also mixed in Luthen's theme, which I thought was a great touch.

Poor Lonni. He really did everything that was required, and he was tragically killed by Luthen to make sure no potential loose ends of what he told him could come to pass. I really love how much the show references Project Celestial Power as the Empire's cover up for the Death Star; it just feels rewarding for someone who read Catalyst and loves that novel a lot. I also like how Lonni brought back details and events throughout the two seasons and Rogue One, such as the PORD, the mining on Ghorman and Jedha, to really emphasize how everything ties back to the construction of the Empire's super weapon: the Death Star.

The return of the Imperial N-S9 Starpath unit is a great bookend to the show in its final arc. I really love Luthen and Dedra's conversation, with Luthen noting how Dedra still can't see that he doesn't matter anymore: the rebellion is finally ready and grown to the point where it doesn't even matter if he dies. Only Dedra can see the glory she presumes she'll get as she spits out the supposed "great" Imperial ideals that she'll discover will not protect her.

Luthen Rael really didn't see the sunrise of the New Republic. He gave his life to help form the Alliance from the shadows. It's so satisfying to see Dedra's smirk go away as she realizes she had gloated on too much and gave Luthen the time he needed to try to commit suicide. Luthen made the ultimate sacrifice by staying on Coruscant far longer than he should've. If he hadn't, he wouldn't be able to give the Alliance the first information about the Death Star's existence and the information they need to know to learn and stop the super weapon. Lonni, Luthen, Kleya, Galen Erso, Saw Gerrera, Rogue One, and the OT heroes all contributed to the destruction of the Death Star.

It'll be funny to imagine Palpatine's reaction to how many Jedi and Sith artifacts Luthen has, especially the Sith Stalker armor and the Mortis Gods relics.

It's fascinating to learn Luthen was once Imperial IAT Sergeant Lear. Given how the first IATs were veterans of the Clone Wars and the SW website confirmed Luthen and Kleya met in 18 BBY, I wonder if Luthen could've been one of the Clone Wars veterans or even an ex-CIS soldier conscripted into the Empire. If he were a Republic veteran, I really like this headcanon that non-Clone soldiers of the Republic do the morally grey stuff while Jedi and Clones do the more "honorable" and straightforward battles.

Kleya is an absolute badass. You know someone is that badass when the ISB assumed the attack came from a team of three.

It's really interesting to see how BTS states that Kleya has so many mixed feelings about Luthen, her father figure. She hates him for being involved in the death of her parents, and yet still loves him as the father figure she didn't have. It's this mix of emotions that leaves Kleya crying as she puts Luthen to rest for good. It's also fitting how Luthen and Kleya's first act of rebellion against the Empire was on Naboo, the Emperor's homeworld.

I'm very happy she gets to live to see the fruits of her contributions to the growth of the Rebel Alliance. I really need to see her and Leia interact in the New Republic Era. I also like how Vel comforted her and to help her feel at home among the Alliance.

Also, I really love how the hospital is named after Lina Soh, the Chancellor of the Republic during Phases 1 and 3 of the HR publishing initiative. I'm really happy Andor gave the HR Era a nod.

Dedra finally ends up in the same position as Syril Karn in Season 1. She disobeyed her superior and kept sensitive information to herself, then rushed in to claim the glory, only to find herself reprimanded. Krennic is actually a bit scary, and it really shows how he can be terrifying; he can be without higher-ranked Imperials throwing their weight around him. The fact that his finger on Dedra's head was imprisoned was just amazing acting. It is funny that this all happened because Krennic's staff emailed the files to the wrong person. Truly a representation of how bloated and complacent the Empire has become.

It's perfect karma that she ends up in the same type of Imperial prison since Partagaz once celebrated her for her high arrest records. There is no way out for her, unlike Cassian, Melshi, and the prisoners of Narkina V. After all the trauma, horrors, and genocide she committed on everyone throughout the show, this was a very cathartic punishment and end for her.

It just goes to show how Fascism isn't about climbing up to the top since that never existed. The only person of authoritarianism and Fascism at the top is the dictator, aka the Emperor; everyone else is expendable.

The amount of parallels to the first arc is great to see: flashbacks of a parent and child, the villains in police gear hunting down a target, the villains rushing without properly planning things, the villains getting absolutely destroyed, and Past/Present track playing at the end (or in this case, Past/Present/Future).

I like how Cassian is getting along with K2 and Melshi. It really makes you understand why Melshi is one of the rebels who will go with Cassian and the other rebels on the suicide mission to Scarif.

K2 is such a great sight after all the show's dark moments. It's nice to have a comedic presence. It feels absolutely cathartic to see the Imperials get a taste of their own medicine as K2 goes full Terminator on them. Heert getting killed by his own men was just perfection.

There's something incredibly hilarious about how much the Empire messed up in this arc. Partagaz's own search warrant (which was a call-back to how he described the ISB's mission), backfiring on the redeployment of ISB tactical forces, and those same ISB forces ignored the U-Wing. I also like how it connects to Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire (Highly recommend for anyone who is a fan of Andor and Star Wars history) with how the book mentions the ISB being punished for letting the Death Star be destroyed. Now we get to see the specifics of why they would be punished.

The sight of Yavin IV in full operational status and the main rebel base is extremely satisfying. After the entire season of build-up, we now see the Rebel Alliance operating at its true potential. I also love seeing Pao in this arc; we need to see more Pao in general. Wilmon having a limp leg means he’ll be far from the action and it’s nice to see him finally relax with the rebels and Dreena after all the trauma he went through.

I do like how the final conversation between Mothma and Saw feels like a sequel to their conversation in Rebels, except this time, Saw has fewer good points to bring up and is just straight up unhinged. It really showcases how stubborn and insane Saw has become, that all he does is complain about threats that simply don't exist from the Alliance.

The lore consistency side of me is annoyed about Draven's comment about the ISB Dauntless hovering over Jedha was over two days ago. As someone who read the Guardian of the Whills novel (a pretty noice novel about Chirrut and Baze before Rogue One), it was pretty clear the Dauntless was hovering over the city for quite a while. The hc I can try to image to reconcile this is either a silly image of the Dauntless temporarily leaving for some space tacos or Draven's intelligence being a bit faulty; either of which doesn't really help fix it. It's a rare continuity error.

As someone who read the Aftermath Trilogy, it's always funny yet also frustrating to see Newer Jebel in these scenes. Despite his asshole and head in the sand management style, he does stick around through the entire Galactic Civil War.

Cassian brings up a great point about no matter what Luthen is and how much of a hard person to work with, hell, even untrustworthy; if something bothers Luthen of all people, it shouldn't be lightly ignored.

I always love how Raddus immediately wants to know more about the report when he hears about an Imperial weapon. I am surprised to see Bail being a lot aggressive in this scenario. Though I can understand, given how he's risking a lot for the Alliance he and Mothma helped build since the fall of the Republic, and especially since he has to keep his world and daughter safe. His characterization also connects to the Mask of Fear novel, where he and Mothma didn't get along at first during the first few months of the Empire's reign.

Mon and Vel are at home with the Alliance and it’s great to see after they spent so much time trying to hide their rebel connection in plain sight of the Empire. It’s also great to see Vel and Cassian toast to all their fallen friends, family, and even ethnic groups who are all victims of the Empire. It’s also nice to see how Vel got the assurance of Cassian’s claims by simply asking rather than spy. Communication is key!

"Did you know him? Any of you? Does anyone in this room besides Senator Mothma have any idea how much you owe him? Cassian Andor

"Oh, please." Nower Jebel

When I say I know Luthen...I mean I know the good and the bad. I know what was wrong with him. I had a front-row seat on that, and I made my choice two years ago, to join here and be part of this. But none of that can take away what he did and how hard it was. I don't know if what he was told is true or not. But it's insulting to hear him run down by people who have given a fraction of his sacrifice to this Rebellion!" Cassian Andor

Another Rise and Fall connection is how Cassian gave Nemik's manifesto to the Alliance, and we can see the manifesto is spreading across the galaxy, even Partagaz listens to it.

Partagaz finally realizes that stopping the "disease of rebellion" is impossible. It all ties back to his very first scene, where he discusses the ISB's job was to "cure" the idea of freedom. With that realization, his upcoming arrest and most likely execution, and realizing he wasted his life in the pursuit of an impossible task, he took the easy and quick way out of that execution and committed suicide. I love how his final scenes before his suicide are a parallel to his first appearance, but now in an empty room, as he has no power and status left.

It's also fitting that Partagaz, one of the most competent ISB agents, is blamed and replaced by Lagret, one of the least competent ISB agents, who is also the last named ISB agent of the show.

Everything about this arc regarding how the Empire failed to contain the Death Star leak really is an analogy of why the Empire and its successor groups, the Imperial Remnants and the First Order, fell.

Cassian's slow walk to his U-Wing for his fateful mission to the Ring of Kafrene is so awesome. It's really great to see the Andor and R1 cast in a montage as Past/Present/Future plays. Hearing Andor's theme, the Andor Rebellion's theme, and Bix's Message (a variant of Andor’s theme) in one track is musically fitting.

Bix leaving the rebellion to also take care of her and Cassian's child is fitting. She made a choice not only for both of them, but also to protect their baby. I still have mixed feelings about the events leading up to her departure in the third arc, but I approve of the idea and what they did. They didn't fridge her character, which is important. It's also wholesome to see B2EMO be happy and playing with another droid.

Going directly to Rogue One and A New Hope makes a perfect finale to the story that started in Andor. The road to Scarif and Yavin IV is clear. All the sacrifices made gave one farm boy the chance to destroy the Empire's planet killer and ignite the spark of hope across the galaxy.

Catalyst, Rebel Rising, Andor, Guardians of the Whills, and Rebels Saw’s episodes (and the show as a whole regarding how the Alliance formed and why they didn't engage with the Empire until Scarif) really provide the great build-up and context to Rogue One.

To cement that fact, in the end credits, they played the Star Wars main theme and the classic closing music (The Throne Room and End Title) at the end of A New Hope. The music in this arc and the reuse of William's music perfectly cements the transition from the more electronic soundscape of S1 to the orchestral soundscape of Rogue One and the Star Wars movies. This is my favorite moment of the final arc.

I'm going to miss Andor. This season is really good, however, there were some writing choices I wish we could've expanded and added. I really wish we got proper closure to the story of Kenari and Cassian's sister Kerri. However, this season has a lot more high highs than Season 1, so I would say this season is my personal favorite of the two seasons of Andor. Star Wars Rebels is still my favorite Star Wars show, but Andor is definitely my second favorite Star Wars show. A friend has a great analogy to best describe the story of how the Rebel Alliance formed: if the Alliance is a house, Andor is the foundation, while the actual concrete is Star Wars Rebels. Star Wars Rebels tells the tale of the main foundations and stories of the Rebel Alliance, with how the rebellion grew and changed, and Andor covers the more gritty side of the foundation, particularly during the early years of the Rebel Alliance before Rebels.

Goodbye Andor, thank you for being the light in the darkness that is 2025's world politics. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

"If I die fighting the Empire...I want to go down swinging. You find that amusing?" Bail Organa

"No, but...You and Luthen would have gotten along much better than you think." Cassian Andor

"May the Force be with you, Captain." Bail Organa

[marvelstars]

Anakin´s humanity

I recently saw the first Robocop trilogy, after many years and it just got me thinking and impacted me and made me understood why Palpatine and especially Obi-Wan simply could not bring themselves to look at Vader the same way they did Anakin, just like Murphy just wasn´t the same for his wife and his friends even if they missed and loved him.

In Darth Vader´s case, he is Anakin after almost dying on Mustafar, a person who the Emperor had to keep alive long enough to get to Coruscant, acording to ROTS novel, using his own darkside energies and his sheer force of will. For Palpatine Anakin died on Mustafar and Vader is a newborn creature made by his technology and his darkside power.

Obi-Wan is disgusted by Anakin´s actions at the Jedi temple, actions that fundamentally killed Anakin´s spirit in his eyes even before Mustafar but seeing Vader for him was like seeing Palpatine´s creature(similar to Frankestein´s) a thing of the darkside brought to life by the will of it´s master who needs to be mercy killed as a favor for the person Anakin used to be.

On all this Anakin/Vader alone is left with the pieces of himself, trying to put himself back together, something I always loved in the first trilogy is the fact Vader never rejects the fact he is/was Anakin, Palpatine and Obi-Wan do it but Vader doesn´t, he always talk about Luke as HIS Son, not "Skywalker´s" and he recognized Obi-Wan as HIS old master, he didn´t even rejected the idea of him being part of the Jedi Order or refered as the last one of them by Tarkin and other high level imperials.

Vader just believes he is beyond saving, he has found counsel in his imperial duties and self appointed mission of "keep order in the galaxy" but when Luke comes into the picture his main strategy is to look towards a way of keeping Luke safe and alive from the Emperor, not abandon his imperial duties or even his place as the Emperor´s Second in command, even if he is quite aware he´s also his slave, the Emperor literally brought him back to life he "owns him" in a way no one has ever done.

Vader still loves Palpatine because Anakin loved Palpatine, Vader loves Luke because Anakin loved his children even before they were born and Vader remembers and respects Obi-Wan because he was Anakin´s master/father figure/brother. At no point does Vader disrespect Yoda even if he knows he is alive somewhere, Palpatine does in the novel version of ROTJ but Vader never does this, because he respects him as the Jedi Order´s grandmaster which Anakin belonged and hero worshipped when he was a kid.

But Vader is also aware no one will ever see him as human again, as just Anakin and even if they did he can´t let go of his past actions and deserves his suffering so when Luke recognizes his humanity and forces him to remember who he was and tries to get him somewhere safe away from the Empire and the Rebellion, just like Padme did in ROTS, Vader only answers:

"It´s too late for ME my SON"

Star Wars OT is Luke´s (and Leia) coming of age story but it´s also the story of how Vader/Anakin got his humanity back and how the love between father and Son saved a whole galaxy.

I wish current disney SW stories remembered those simple narrative parts of star wars because without them the story is just not the same.

"I like the idea that the person you thought was the villain is actually the victim, and that the story is really about the villain trying to regain his humanity".

- George Lucas

[skywalkr-nberrie]

Padmé having such unwavering faith and pride in Anakin’s abilities, who he is as a person, basically being a supportive wife, and the way she hypes her man up so much is ridiculously cute.

Anakin in his nature is a hero, he wants to save everyone, and fix everything. This doesn’t change, in fact it escalates, when the topic is ‘saving his wife.’ Anakin tells her he can’t just sit around and do “nothing” while he has visions of her dying in childbirth, and her fondly looking to him and admiringly saying that she knows he wouldn’t, that he’s a hero, and that’s what heroes do. (Revenge of the Sith excerpt.)

One of favourite moments in the SW novels (Secrets of the Jedi) Padmé going on a mission of her own choice alongside Anakin, knowing how dangerous it could be, but deciding to go anyway because she knew the “strongest Jedi” was going to be there to protect her 😏 (with added extra teasing to make Anakin jealous, because she’s just a girl and likes pushing her husbands buttons and seeing him become possessive 🤣) though we know she’s truly talking of Anakin when she responds to him saying “I won’t leave your side.” with her own “Don’t, I don’t want you to.” knowing full well that he’d do anything to protect her.

Then again in the Revenge of the Sith novel. She reassures him of how she believes he protect and save her from anything just as he was. She didn’t believe he needed more power, her confidence in his ability and power was firm, and unshakable.

And of course in the Brotherhood novel, on her date with Anakin (where they freak it in the back of a speeder 😏) they end up talking about politics and how to make the galaxy a better living place for all beings, Anakin sulking over not having a quick enough solution to help them, cue Padmé reassuring him that this was her arena and that he should remain her hot bodyguard husband whom she knows will keep her and everyone else safe.

✨ the pride oozing out of her entire heart. ✨

Bonus moment: in the Secrets of the Jedi novel where OW receives a distress signal from Padmé’s ship on the mission, and she calls for backup, but once the ships undergoes a huge attack, disconnecting her from the comlink, she only cries out for Anakin. Even when he’s not there or in sight, she seeks for his protection, and his arms to come save her ♥️

A pure love.

[maidenvault]

I don’t love the way Season 2 is laying it on so thick, but Rogue One was about a group of people who have the Force with them and a purpose whether they believe it or not, and Andor has always suggested that Cassian has a purpose and a destiny whether he likes it or not.

Rewatching the first season in preparation for this one really reinforced for me that this show embodies the Eastern philosophy that’s been part of the DNA of the franchise from the beginning literally as good as any other SW thing, and not in spite of it ostensibly having nothing to do with the Jedi or the Force, but because of it. Because Cassian is only one of so many victims of the Empire just like him and thinks at first that nothing he does matters. Because of the way he’s simultaneously an anonymous nobody and one of the most important people in the galaxy.

Cassian is part of the slave labor force that constructs the Death Star, and he’s also instrumental in destroying it. Because horrifyingly, under fascism those are basically the two kinds of choices you have. Everyone is interconnected and responsible for each other. Nobody has the choice to just survive on their own and totally stay out of a conflict because everyone depends on others.

Cassian tries to just take his money and go do that after the Aldhani heist, but what he did has consequences for the galaxy at large and it so quickly catches up to him. Just by being at the wrong place at the wrong time, he’s personally affected by the new legislation when he gets arrested. If the universe is actively trying to tell him something it couldn’t be much more direct about it.

And the narrative about what happened at Aldhani takes on a life of its own that's also beyond his control. The names of the people involved aren’t known and don’t matter. The fact that two of them were only there for the money and three didn’t survive, that the fragile trust between them all imploded right after, isn’t known and doesn’t matter. When Maarva hears about it, it gives her the courage to walk past the spot where the Empire hung her husband’s body for the first time in years, and to start fighting. Cassian loses her because of it. But because of her strength and her belief in him he’s also given something from her that lives on, that he’ll carry through his entire fight against oppression until he gives his own life to stop it. He has a role in all this, whether he intended to or not. But ultimately he chooses what that role is going to be.

In some Buddhist philosophy, the concept of Shunyata teaches that living for one’s self is meaningless because the self is empty; it essentially doesn’t exist without the support of everything surrounding it. What Cassian does can’t not affect people, just as no one can hope to fully escape the tyranny of the Empire by staying neutral.

But it also means he’s not alone. He’s not some special lone hero but one whose determination comes from his dead mother and his other loved ones who suffered and fought so hard, who is part of a chain passing on a message. The Death Star plans which get to him because of Galen’s sacrifice. The words of a dead man, “Rebellions are built on hope.” And he won’t die on Scarif as just a victim, but someone who chose a side and chose to be there, with someone he chose to stand by and help. He won’t die alone.

[thora-sniper]

Nobody expect, but... he is here

This awesome droid from "Skeleton Crew" accidentally announced in the game.

And they show next dark clone. I supposed it will be Scorch next but they see this another way.

[arcadianmoonshadowjedi]

Callum & Viren: Are they similar? Is Callum on the same path as Viren? - Star Wars Analogies

I know there have been posts made before in the Dragon Prince fandom comparing characters from tdp to Star Wars characters, esp Callum to Anakin/Vader as someone who will eventually get corrupted/turn to the dark side and become a potential apprentice to Aaravos, as well as Rayllum to Anidala in terms of Callum being seen as being bound to doom the world for Rayla.

I wanted to share a different perspective of mine as to which characters/relationship dynamics (outside of romantic ones included) from tdp I believe compare the most to which Star Wars characters as a massive fan of both sagas myself.

The number one character from Star Wars that I see Callum being most similar to is Luke Skywalker, whereas a character I think is the best comparison to Anakin/Vader, especially after watching Season 6 of the Dragon Prince, would be none other than Viren himself. While I do know for a fact that the tdp characters aren’t carbon copies of the SW characters I’m comparing them to, I still think that their overall arcs are quite matching.

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Starting with Callum and Luke, on the surface, both are the hero who prevails and saves everyone & the whole world/galaxy from doom, but on a deeper level, they both struggle with a dark side inside of them & temptations to give in to it. And before I continue, I wanted to emphasize that I DO NOT see Callum as someone who’s morally dubious, as there are several instances in canon which prove otherwise, specifically his immense guilt over using dark magic and his fear of becoming corrupted and consumed by darkness in S6 (his nightmare at the beginning of episode 3 perfectly illustrates this), the latter of which is a challenge we also see Luke dealing with in The Empire Strikes Back.

Throughout the Original trilogy, mainly in ESB & Return of the Jedi, we see so many “hints” and “indicators” that Luke might turn to the dark side, who unlike Callum, actually shares many personality traits with his father such as his impatience and recklessness. We see Yoda fear that he might follow in his father’s footsteps before reluctantly training him, we see Vader and eventually Palpatine try to lure Luke to the dark side, even pointing out that they could sense his anger which is a major precursor for that. But in the end, despite all of those temptations, despite all of his anger and eventual fear & rage for his sister’s safety, he ultimately resisted and refused to join the sith.

Along with seeing many protagonists who may be put in similar situations or even in some cases share some similarities with the main/major antagonist, such as Harry and Voldemort being another example of this, this is why I am a firm believer that Callum will be tested in Season 7, he may be faced with temptations to use dark magic again perhaps as a quick means to defeat Aaravos or potentially save Rayla if it gets to that, or even Aaravos trying to bribe him to join him, but in the end he will ultimately resist, since dark magic, as stated several times before, is merely a shortcut that leads to much bigger long term harm (which I don’t think there would be enough time to even flesh this out in the final season of the Mystery of Aaravos arc). As we’ve seen Callum reject succumbing to his dark side after he used dark magic for the first time, and seeing him willingly do the purification ritual to rid himself of his darkness/corruption in his soul, I do believe that Callum has the power to reject dark magic once and for all and do the right thing (this does not necessarily mean he would sacrifice Rayla if the plot does get to that, but I do think he would find a third option aside from dark magic to save her, like he did back in S3 when he cast the mage wing spell to save her). After all, a major theme in the Dragon Prince is breaking cycles and not repeating previous mistakes, so what would be the point in having those themes or specifically Harrow’s letter in the first place, or better yet have the whole “destiny’s a book you write yourself” line be brought up multiple times if Callum’s just fated keep repeating past mistakes over and over again?

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Now onto my next analogy: Viren & Anakin/Vader, the characters who I genuinely saw as those whose corruption & downfalls may have started out of desperation to save a loved one from dying, but ultimately grew into greed and hunger for power.

I could go on about the complexities of Anakin’s character, specifically the ones that got fleshed out even more in the Clone Wars and how there are multiple factors that led to his turn to the dark side, but that’s not the whole point of this post. I know that there are some differing factors between both Viren and Anakin in terms of their dark sides/stories, but ultimately the last straw that led to their corruption was the fact that they were both terrified of losing an important loved one and both were completely unwilling to let that happen, whatever the price they had to pay. We also see them seek some sort of counsel/beg for help, like when Anakin vaguely told Yoda about his visions and fears, and Viren telling Kpp’Ar about Soren’s condition and needing the staff, ultimately both Anakin and Viren were told that there wasn’t really anything that could be done and they both needed to learn to let go. However neither of them were having that, so we somewhat see them both resort to another counsel, both very different but leading to same outcome. Anakin starts to open up more to Palpatine, who in turn manipulates him and convinces him that he has his “solution.” While Viren on the other hand, may have offered advice to Harrow to “do what he must” over his own dilemma, he in turn used that same advice but in a more twisted, corrupted manner. So then, both Anakin and Viren resort to darker approaches to solve their own problems and completely give in to their own darknesses.

I won’t go into deep detail about what they each did, since you can just rewatch these scenes in Revenge of the Sith and Episode 6 of TDP for that, but now I wanted to talk about how despite having the desire to save their loved ones, they ultimately caused massive harm to them. Anakin desperately did whatever he could to save Padme, but in the end, when he thought she betrayed him, he force-choked her then afterwards, she was shattered and heartbroken over his downfall that it led to her death, the very thing that Anakin tried so hard to prevent. While Viren on the other hand may have succeeded in healing and saving Soren, he grew to treat him coldly and abusively to the point where he completely damaged & even destroyed his relationship with his very son that he corrupted himself completely to save in the first place.

Even though I primarily focused on the similarities between Viren saving Soren & Anakin trying to save Padme, I also wanted to point out how similar the impacts were on Lissa and Padme as well, namely how they were both horrified when they saw what became of their husbands.

Sadly both of them ended up getting assaulted by their corrupted husbands, which then led up to the destruction of their families. And ultimately both Viren and Anakin continued on their dark paths and grew more ruthless, evil, and corrupted until they finally reached their eventual redemptions (I know not everyone thinks that Viren got redeemed but I do believe that his redemption arc was him accepting that he’s done far too much and accepting the consequences for his actions).

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So far these are the thoughts that I have on which Dragon Prince characters/relationships I think compare best to which Star Wars ones. And I know that Claudia would also be a good comparison to Anakin since she too struggles a lot with loss and refuses to let go, but at the same time, I see her still being in Anakin’s early villain phase during Revenge of the Sith, not yet having reached the Vader levels that we see during the Original Trilogy era. The way I see Vader & Viren relationships with Luke and Callum’s characters, it’s that the former two represent what the latter two fear of becoming if they do not overcome their dark sides.

But to answer my questions in the header, I do not think that Callum is bound to be on the same path as Viren or that he will let himself be consumed by darkness. Season 6 dealt with his overall guilt over using dark magic, his fear of being consumed by it/being used as by Aaravos, and ultimately his choice to purify himself of his darkness and understanding the consequences of doing dark magic again beforehand. Just as many protagonists get put through the wringer in their final battles, but ultimately persevere and do the right thing, I do believe that Callum will win and not fall victim to his temptations once again.

That’s all I have folks! Thanks for reading this far if you have! And an important friendly reminder (as mentioned already in my bio) if you have differing opinions and would like to disagree and discuss, please be sure to do so respectfully. Otherwise scroll by or I’ll be more than glad to press that block button! 😊🙌🏽

(Screenshot+caption of Lissa scene by @stuck-in-jelly)

[setokaibapetty]

5 + 1 Fic Friday Roundup: Time Travel Via Outsider POV

Today's fic recs revolve around time travel fics (and a bonus time loop) that include POV from a non-time traveler. Though given the embarrassment of riches in the Star Wars fandom, this is going to be SW specific.

unlearn the constellations to see the stars (AO3) - "A decade after the end of the Clone Wars, Wolffe catches wind of an artefact that can manipulate the flow of time itself. He makes the obvious choice."

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Time-Travelers (AO3) - "Mace's morning starts with far too much paperwork. Being kidnapped at blaster-point is honestly an improvement."

doth suffer a sea-change (AO3) - "In the wake of the attack on Korda VII, in a last-ditch attempt to heal Jaster of his wounds, Myles calls in a favor and takes him to the doctors on the strange aquatic world of Sedri. They aren't the only ones there for healing, however. Myles befriends a strange, scarred man and his three wards, all of whom are recovering from something terrible, and the mystery of Jon and his children isn't one Jaster can resist, either."

I dreamed we met when day was done (AO3) - "There's a body on the ground, blood on Jaster's hands, and rising ice cutting through the aching fury of his righteous anger when the Jedi shivers into view."

No fathom between us (AO3) - "Fox has the galaxy’s greatest hero in his bed, he’s well-fed, he’s astonishingly well-rested, and he has a whole week of leave saved up that starts in about six hours, during which no one is allowed to bother him with anything work-related even if Coruscant gets invaded by brain-stealing worms. Again. He made sure Thorn and Thire both knew that. Which makes it ten times as unpleasant to wake up to someone bypassing the chime entirely and just pounding right on his door."

Bonus: cloudbusting (AO3) - "Fox knows he's made mistakes. All he does is make mistakes - over, and over, and over."

[empress-violetlight]

Worlds of the Empire of the Hand - Kalee

Another in my Worlds series, along with Nirauan and Lysatra.

I LOVE the Kaleesh -- they're my second-favourite SW race after the Chiss -- and after learning of their history with everyone's favourite Grand Admiral, I had to have them join the Hand. I also think it's cool that a lot of their culture was inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, since I see a lot in common between Thrawn's story and The Odyssey -- it's a very nice parallel.

Mostly canon to SW Legends, though I did tweak one character's backstory a little.

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Kalee – homeworld of the Kaleesh (and colonies Oben and Abbaji Minor)

Galactic Map location:  J4 – Wild Space, on the border with the Imperial Remnant

World type:  Terrestrial planet with varied ecosystems. 40 102 km equatorial circumference 1.05 standard gravity.  Standard oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere.  Rotation Peroid:  23 standard hours.  Orbital period:  378 standard days.     

Solar system:  Orbits Iminec, a G-yellow orange dwarf main sequence star, approx. 5.5 billion years old, 0.95 standard stellar masses, sole stellar body in the solar system. Fourth planet from its sun of six (in orbital order): Prelly, a superheated terrestrial in a semi-molten state, Norbon, an airless rock terrestrial, Abbaji Minor, terrestrial with a habitable, mostly forested surface, Kalee,  Remsh, a gas giant with 43 moons, and Elke, a frozen rock terrestrial, possibly a dwarf planet.  (Wookieepedia actually had all this info for once!)

Moons:  1 medium-sized, no atmosphere.   

Surface conditions:  varied ecosphere with a continent/ocean ratio in favour of landmasses, with arctic, desert, tropical and temperate zones in different areas, featuring rainforests, canyons and steppes.

Population:  approx. 4 billion, 99% Kaleesh (spread across Kalee and its colonies)

Capital City:  Kaleela

Other population centres:  Kuru, on the Eastern continent. Ifrit, on Oben.

The planet Kalee, and its proud, warrior/hunter people, the reptilian Kaleesh, were “discovered” sometime during the Old Republic era, but mostly ignored due to its people’s seemingly “primitive” tribal culture, except for a few individuals who wandered out to the wider Galaxy.  While individual Kaleesh served both sides of the ongoing conflict between the Old Republic and Sith Empire, Kalee itself remained mostly undisturbed, notwithstanding internal conflicts between clans.  This changed sometime in the century before the establishment of the Empire, when a neighbouring species, the expansionist, insectoid Yam’rii, or “Huks”, from the planet of the same name, invaded Kalee.  The Huks murdered, enslaved, sold and even ate the Kaleesh, with Kaleesh eggs being a particularly favourite delicacy of the “soulless bugs”.  After enduring generations of guerilla war against those who saw them as mere resources and livestock, two heroes said “enough!”

They were Qymaen jai Sheelal and Ronderu lij Kummar, seemingly invincible fighters who led their Kolpravis warriors in countless campaigns against the Huk and their allies.   It is unclear whether the two were lovers, relatives, or something more, but together, with Qymaen’s skill with his slugthrower and Ronderu with her lig swords, they seemed unstoppable.   Until Ronderu fell in battle.  A distraught Qymaen renamed himself “Greivous”, and massacred the Huk until the Kaleesh warriors finally drove them off their planet for good, and chased the murderous monsters out into the void from where they came.

Facing their own extinction, the Yam’rii cried out to their allies in the Trade Federation.  Through the manipulation of the corrupt Senate, the Huk convinced the Old Republic to send the Jedi to put down the Kaleesh uprising.  The Dogs of the Republic, fooled by the insectoids’ lies claiming they were the victims, put an embargo against Kalee that would lead to millions of Kaleesh dying of starvation. 

When the Intergalactic Banking Clan offered to alleviate Kalee’s suffering in return for Grevious’ services as mercenary and enforcer, he had little choice but to comply, until he learned of the Huk desecrating Kaleesh burial grounds on the colony worlds the Republic had forced them to abandon to the invaders.  The IGBC did not take well to their enforcer breaking his contract, and secretly planted a bomb on the Kaleesh warrior’s shuttle.  This lead to Grievous’ near-death, until the IBC rebuilt him as the cyborg warrior that the rest of the Galaxy would know him as best.  General Grievous became one of the most feared military leaders of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, becoming especially notorious for slaughtering hated, self-righteous Jedi, until one of them finally succeeded in killing him at the closing of the Clone Wars, right before the establishment of the Galactic Empire.

Out of Grievous’ eight elite Izvoshra warriors, only one outlived their leader.  A towering warrior, almost 3 metres tall, Bentilais san Sk’ar, had fought alongside Qymaen jai Sheelal and Rondeur lij Kummar during the Huk War and had been instrumental in many campaigns, starting with the liberation of his home city and capital of the planet, Kaleea.  He survived the shuttle bombing that disfigured his leader, seemingly without either knowing of the other’s survival.  He rallied the Kolkpravis under his leadership, slaughtered all the Yam’rii on the colony world of Oben, and many Kaleesh relocated to the more hospitable world, giving Kalee itself time to heal from the Huks’ decades of exploitation.  Following the rise of the Galactic Empire, Sk’ar violently resisted Imperial rule for over a decade, until in 14 AAE (6 BBY) the Empire sent in their specialist in the “Unknown Regions”, then-Captain Thrawn.  Famous for his talent of predicting his enemies’ tactics by studying their art, Thrawn unfortunately was unable to find any Kaleesh art in the Imperial Archives to study.  Pressured by Emperor Palpatine to “get it over with”, and with his own concerns in the Unknown Regions, Thrawn simply leveled Oben with his fleet.  Though the Battle of Oben was an overwhelming victory for the Empire, Thrawn himself considered it a failure.

Sk’ar, however, was impressed by the Empire’s sheer power, technological superiority, and noted how his adversary had mostly razed legitimate military targets, missing civilian areas.  When Thrawn himself came down to assess the damage, Sk’ar waited for him in the ruins of his command centre. 

As soon as Thrawn saw Sk'ar's battle mask and recognized the style - the same as that worn by the infamous Separatist General, he knew he had made the right decision in ending his bombardment prematurely. Sk'ar challenged Thrawn, wanting to end things like warriors, but the Chiss had another idea: if Sk'ar pledged his service to the Empire, then his warriors would be considered "Imperial personnel" by default, with Kalee and Oben being under "imperial occupation" without a single stormtrooper making planetfall. Impressed by his cunning, if unsure the ruse would work, Sk'ar agreed and "surrendered" to the Chiss captain.  Thrawn was equally impressed by the Kaleesh warrior’s ability to evade and fight back against the Empire for so long, and his willingness to put aside his personal pride for the Greater Good – something Thrawn was intimately familiar with.  With both knowing the xenophobic Empire would not accept a non-human recommending another “alien”, Thrawn had one of the other captains in his fleet take Sk’ar to introduce him to Emperor Palpatine.

Sk’ar quickly rose through the ranks of the Imperial Army, becoming the second-highest ranked alien in the Imperial forces after Thrawn, reaching the rank of Brigadier-General in only 5 short years by 19 AAE (1 BBY). At the same time, Sk'ar was offered a position directly by Thrawn himself -- commander of all of Thrawn's ground forces in his "shadow empire", the Empire of the Hand, like his commander, dividing his time between the Hand and the Empire proper.  Sometime after the Battle of Hoth, General Sk’ar was often sent to deal with particularly troublesome Rebel strongholds in the Outer Rim, until he seemingly killed in a mission (caused by a very annoying Rebel whom Sk’ar had not been allowed to outright kill, much to his displeasure) on the planet Shiva IV.  However, he was prevented from boarding a shuttle (destroyed by the rebels shortly afterwards) by Imperial forces loyal to Thrawn, who had been keeping a close eye on his “colleague’s” progress.  Considered dead by the Empire proper, Sk'ar was now free to completely dedicate his time to his duties in the Empire of the Hand.

As Army General of the Empire of the Hand, Bentilais san Sk’ar serves wherever the Empire of the Hand needs boots/claws on the ground with the ruthless efficiency, yet fair and intelligent decisions both he and his Grand Admiral have become known for.  The Empire of the Hand’s numerous special forces divisions – the Chiss Rogue Phalanx, the reborn 501st Stormtrooper Legion, the Paccosh Commandos, Draconian Aerial Infantry, the Lysatran Void Divers and, of course, the Kaleesh Kolkpravis, among others, all answer to him.  Sk’ar was also one of the most vocal supporters of Thrawn’s wife, Governor Xelarra of Nirauan’s, ascension to Empress of the Hand.   

Kalee, its habitable system-mate Abbaji Minor, and Oben were left to their own devices, to be ruled fully by the Kaleesh themselves for the first time in nearly a century.  Thrawn personally extended an invitation to the Kaleesh to join the Empire of the Hand in 26 AEE (7 ABY), 3 years after Emperor Palpatine’s death.  In Sk’ar’s absence, one of his clanmates, Ninsun san Ve'tani, rose up to lead the Kaleesh.  A talented hunter, Ve’tani is rumoured to be the reincarnation of Ronderu lij Kummar, and she does nothing to discourage the myth, even marrying 3 of Grievous’ children – two of his sons and a daughter.  Feeling it was her responsibility to maintain her people’s long-fought for independence, Ve’tani declined Thrawn’s offer, yet Kalee did become an ally of the Hand, and the two civilisations valued each other’s friendship.

Over the next five years, the Kaleesh became a common sight on Nirauan and other Hand worlds, whether following Sk’ar’s example and serving in the military, lending their survival skills to the Explorer corps, or just enjoying a peaceful civilian life, often being seen in the company of other reptilian races of the Hand – the Paccosh, Draconians, and the sizable community of Trandoshan immigrants, among others.  Inspired by Nirauan’s socialist policies and programs, which had a lot in common with their own tribal traditions, Kalee and its colonies implemented their own, taking the steps needed to make sure no Kaleesh child ever starved to death again.  The Empire of the Hand, in turn, quietly ensured that nobody, especially the Huk, violated their ally’s borders.

In 31 AAE (12 ABY), Ninsun san Ve'tani, now Khagan of the Kaleesh, would invite then-Govenor Xelarra for a diplomatic visit to her world.  The Chiss and the Kaleesh, both leaders of their people, and fiercely protective mothers to their children, got along quite well, and shortly after the visit, Kalee and all its colonies petitioned for membership to the Empire of the Hand.  A vote in Parliament on the issue was unanimous. 

Shortly after Kalee’s acceptance into the Hand, it became known that the Huk were plotting to cry to the New Republic (whom they were not even a member of), to try to launch another invasion of Kalee, to start the cycle all over again. By doing so, they declared war on the Empire of the Hand.  From his Nightstalker-class assault ship, Grievous, General Sk’ar, with support from Admiral Karyn Faro of Seeker Fleet, launched a pre-emptive strike on Huk.  As the fleet orbital bombarded all other Huk settlements – taking care to utterly destroy all spaceports and ways off-planet, Sk’ar commanded an invasion of the Huk capital, liberated all remaining Kaleesh slaves in the city and personally killed the Yam’rii Queen with his bare hands.  The Hand forces left the surviving Yam’rii in their capital, with no way off their planet and nobody coming to their rescue this time, to starve to death – just as their lies had condemned countless Kaleesh to starvation before the Clone Wars. Probe droids were left in orbit to ensure they don’t escape their well-earned fate.

As a gesture of friendship, then-Govenor Xelarra of Nirauan offered to return to the Kaleesh a sacred relic that Thrawn had managed to acquire for the Hand’s Imperial Museum before his death in 9 ABY – the Mask of General Grievous, which Thrawn had wanted as the ultimate artistic example of the Kaleesh’s unrelenting warrior spirit.  The Kaleesh declined.  Grievous has ascended to godhood to his people, and the Kaleesh prefer that his mask remain on Nirauan, so all Hand citizens could share in their culture, and pay homage to him.