The Xanadu dropped out of hyperspace at a decidedly unconventional spot, over three hundred thousand kilometers z-negative of Nal Hutta itself.
Its form shimmered briefly briefly in the void before vanishing.
I checked the cloaking system briefly, getting only green status li...
2023-07-01 17:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostFlying on the Xanadu was infinitely more comfortable now.
Now that its interior had been properly designed by Temple engineers to support Jedi having to travel long distances in secrecy with its cloaking device. It had enough onboard consumables to support four people for a month. ...
2023-06-24 14:35:23 +0000 UTC View PostI had hoped to never wake up in one of these.
It was a foolish hope, given that I was fighting in a war.
My eyes lazily opened and all I saw was bubbly water? No, wrong viscosity and the feel of it against my eyes was also wrong. It was actually comfortable and didn’t have the sligh...
2023-06-17 12:02:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Dad!”
“Ooof, easy there, little owl,” he winced visibly in pain.
I backed off from the hug like I’d been scalded with hot water. “Are you hurt? Of course, you are. What a stupid question.”
Pitter closed the door to Coil’s office and had an amused smile on his fa...
2023-06-10 13:07:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe following morning after an hour’s meditation and blissful sleep I was back in Padme’s quarters.
I couldn’t help but feel internally amused and somewhat marveled at the fact that I could feel that way, considering what would most likely happen. No need for gazing into the future fo...
2023-06-03 14:19:46 +0000 UTC View Post
After much massaging of words to the Dreamshaper AI, experimentation, dozens of iterations and further manual editing by hand with my digital paint tools to fix things that it just didn't want to do properly, I've arrived at this image and now bring it to you.
I'm still not entirely happy w...
2023-05-31 17:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up early the next morning, put the final finishing touches on my report and delivered it directly into the hands of a bemused Obi-Wan. He was less than enthused though when I told him that Padme had requested me to accompany her to Alderaan. I couldn’t tell him the full story, as the Jed...
2023-05-27 18:13:30 +0000 UTC View PostHK-47s hologram flickered into life.
“Perfunctory greetings: Hello Master.”
I regarded the droid with narrowed eyes, “HK, report.”
“Answer: The mission was an unqualified success, Master. You shall find that the director meatbags of Concordia Crescent Technologies will...
2023-05-20 16:41:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe address we had been given was for a defunct car dealership called Bridge Auto.
It sat in the south-west of the city, what was known generally as Downtown South and a large portion of this was held as Coil’s territory of the Brockton underworld. It figured he would want to max...
2023-05-13 16:25:55 +0000 UTC View PostMost beings in the galaxy looked forward to returning home.
Riyo Chuchi did not share this feeling.
She paced uselessly back and forth in the cockpit area of her diplomatic ship, Bastion, and gave the various readouts and controls a glance to confirm everything was still func...
2023-05-06 21:18:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt was over within moments, yet it still took me a few seconds to recover from the shock of being within spitting distance of the explosion.
A brief frantic scan from my position lying on top of Ulvy told me that it had not been a thermal detonator. The building’s structure was too intact...
2023-04-28 20:12:38 +0000 UTC View PostI sat at a table in a small kitchenette, watching Kina Ha bustling around the place, reaching into cabinets, gathering all manner of ingredients and speaking aloud to herself as she worked. It was a clear coping mechanism she had developed to deal with her solitude .
Her place was a small a...
2023-04-21 15:48:17 +0000 UTC View Post
The week began pretty much as any other. Worked, wrote the story, brainstormed, helped the family etc. Then wham - I get a minor case of small kidney stones. Those who've had this know the pain it inflicts - those who don't, imagine razor blades and needles through your bladder and further down, ...
2023-04-20 17:36:09 +0000 UTC View Post“All right Snips, I’m here, what’s this about?”
“Secure the door, Skyguy.” Anakin nodded and pressed the control pad for the door to my quarters. I made a final scan of my room with the Force and my bug sniffer. “We’re clean.”
Anakin frowned and switched to signing, ...
2023-04-11 10:37:16 +0000 UTC View PostI swiped my thumb and dismissed the window showing PHO and returned to idly browsing a few other social media sites.
As much as I had exiled myself from there over the last few years, now I was forced to return simply to keep my head in the game on the public perception of my cape persona, ...
2023-04-01 18:40:09 +0000 UTC View PostHe slammed his fist on the armrest and immediately regretted it.
The holo in front of him showed that they would win this battle and lose the war. The Providence dreadnought was trying to shed as much orbital velocity as quickly as it could. The projected line of its course cut through the ...
2023-03-25 13:32:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Admiral, pull the fleet slowly into the mass shadow of the planet.”
Wullf Yularen sat back in the command chair of the Resolute as he contemplated the order that he had just been given. He effectively shut out the sounds of battle reverberating through the ship; the a...
2023-03-18 21:13:25 +0000 UTC View PostWhat was this feeling? CT-5555 aka Fives wondered to himself.
He definitely felt happy to be back home. The familiar white corridors and beautifully expansive views that felt like it went on forever, especially in the central corridor where the massive carousels that housed thousan...
2023-03-11 10:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe cantina beyond was mostly darkened, with only a single booth lit up.
The place could easily fit about two hundred if no one cared about much personal space. This was a pirate bar though, so the place probably counted as ‘packed’ when eighty people were in here.
Hondo Ohnaka wa...
2023-03-04 12:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post
As it says on the tin, I wanted to draw something more dynamic. This involves digital and hand drawn as medium.
This is Ahsoka before she got the Darksaber. It's going to be interesting to draw her with the three lightsabers in a duel setting at one point... oh boy.
2023-02-27 12:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostIf you told me a year ago, my first true ‘battle’ as a hero with other heroes would be with a bunch of mutated cats and dogs, I would’ve told my interlocutor that they should ease up on the drug use a little. If you told me after I triggered or became an SCP, I would’ve not changed my tun...
2023-02-24 16:09:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you see it?”
I took a deep breath, even though I was pretty sure I wasn’t breathing air at the moment and nodded at my interlocutor.
“Yes, but actually doing it without relying on you as a crutch for the process is not going to be the work of a few hours of meditation,” ...
2023-02-17 18:11:36 +0000 UTC View PostVentress stood there looking rather more stately than the last time I saw her. She was wearing a full dress of pure black, with an integrated light brown patterning that flowed from around her neck, crossed under her bust and separated towards her feet. The whole number was completely sleeveless,...
2023-02-10 09:50:50 +0000 UTC View PostOrganizing the transport of a 99 meter long, 60k ton corpse across the galaxy was not your everyday logistical feat. Made especially more difficult when the brainiacs of Republic R&D decided that they wanted to be lazy and asked for the Zillo beast corpse to be brought to Coruscant.
The...
2023-02-03 09:28:55 +0000 UTC View PostFor someone who didn’t need to sleep, you’d think my ability to patiently wait for things would’ve gotten a nice boost, especially given recent events.
The problem was, it was one thing to wait when you were doing so on your own direction and initiative, it was a different ballgame wh...
2023-01-26 12:46:18 +0000 UTC View PostThere were times that this galaxy just loved to baffle me.
From Condordia’s gravity, Naboo’s plasma and dozens of other astrophysical phenomena that were either Celestial shenanigans or an unknown, high level Kardashev civilization playing around, the Corusca galaxy could throw them at ...
2023-01-18 18:10:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe following two weeks, the Resolute remained in an extremely high orbit around Dargulli, varying its course randomly every 15 minutes.
Our presence was dictated by political reality as we watched the fallout of the local government being thoroughly shook by the tremors of truth. ...
2023-01-10 16:20:46 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings Patrons and welcome to 2023.
It's a new year and I wish you all good fortune and may all your endeavors succeed, as well as any resolutions you've committed to for yourselves.
I've already started working on the next chapter for The Force Wills and there's also a new artwork...
2023-01-03 15:33:14 +0000 UTC View PostLater in the evening, Anakin and I found ourselves squeezed into a rather small office with Bidi Typho sitting opposite us. It was on an upper floor of the cantina and had a one way transparisteel window that looked out over most of the place.
It had been a fun party and it had also given u...
2022-12-22 13:36:53 +0000 UTC View PostI stared into the astrographic holo hovering above the small desk in my quarters on Resolute and just marveled at the results of nearly three dedicated weeks of sustained reconnaissance. I had to remind myself that the CIS had merely taken advantage of the pirates already present in the ...
2022-12-13 15:48:52 +0000 UTC View Post