Grievous would get one as a pet, I mean he had Gor during The Clone Wars. Oh, speaking of Grievous we should get him in adventures with a new friend, General Kenobi.
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Grievous would get one as a pet, I mean he had Gor during The Clone Wars. Oh, speaking of Grievous we should get him in adventures with a new friend, General Kenobi.
Obi-wan: "There's always a bigger fish."
Grievous: "And we're here to find it!"
Jar-Jar: "Ohhh, mesa have a baaaad feeling about this."
I know how you feel - I was really hoping for the Coruscant Moon reroll vote to get some headway. We need more effective actions against Palpatine and his supporters and assets, but sadly the vote didn't get the level of support it needed.
One of the good things about this vote is that we can change our vote when our preferred option is trailing to the extent that it's just not going to win, at which point we can support the least bad of the leading contenders.
Honestly? Other than the Honoghr winning option, most of my preferred options are trailing at one or three voters at the moment.
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HymnOfRagnarok
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On one hand, I get exactly where you're coming from. On the other, a big part of Thrawn's shtick was assimilating everything in order to further his understanding of war. That he's able to be so amazing without the Force is very impressive.
At the same time, it leaves me wondering, "How much more would he understand, what insights would he gain, if he actually could tap into the Force?"
Really, I'd just like to read some interludes of Thrawn reexamining everything from his new perspective, and adjusting his worldview accordingly.
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I probably should switch to one of the two leaders since my other votes are lagging behind but I am having a hard time seeing which one will inch us closer to catching up with Palpatine and his factions strength. And yes I believe that despite all we have done that right now Palpatine still wins, against us, the Jedi and the Galaxy. We have subverted 2 units of the military but there are at least hundreds of clone units so that is not much at this point. Not to mention all the allies he has in place, the various dark acolytes and the other minor factions he can use to gum things up.
HymnOfRagnarok
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Well, as far as short-term concerns go, a Force Sensitive Thrawn with visions may help mitigate any damage from his less-than-stellar roll, since we've been warned about some fallout from that.
If not, well it'll be a learning experience for him, and I will look forward to his Round Two.
Grievous: I do not understand why you must complicate matters with your love life.
Obi-Wan: Marriage is forbidden by the code. Besides even if I could, I could not please one without upsetting the other.
Grievous: Do you love them both equally?
Obi-Wan: In the hypothetical scenario where I was allowed? Yes.
Grievous: Then you do what I did. Marry both of them.
Obi-Wan: I don't think they'd get along. They're both strong, independent women-
Grievous: Yes and so were my ten wives.
Obi-Wan: *spit take*
Grievous: But we found a way to work it out, and now I have thirty happy children.
Obi-Wan: *nicks Grevious' drink. Spit take *
For those interested, yes General Grievous does have that many wives and kids. Though his love belongs to his warrior soulmate, he has a duty to the Kaleesh species and being Warlord and ruler of a planet comes with certain privileges.
HymnOfRagnarok
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Some speculation, since I'm really looking forward to Ciaran and Asajj vs the world:
I wonder if their Force Bond is going to evolve into a heretical Rule of Two. The point of the original one, was for one to have power and the other to seek it. Except both of them have power, they both striving for more, and now they can just pass skills between each other.
And as we saw during their last grudge match, they can do all of these while seriously and sincerely fighting all-out, and not want to actually kill each other. They've pretty much taken the driving motivation of the Sith, and turned it into something where it strengthens them without the endgame of one killing the other.
Plus, now they both have access to the Nightsisters powers. Which adds its own interesting connotations.
Sister. By definition it implies that you have kin, a brother or a sister. You can't be either when you're an only child. So the entire sect is built around the identity of being part of a close-knit group.
Asajj hasn't had such a connection in a long time, and Ciaran's now just learning it. The two are bound by the force, and by blood (yay for Asajj's genemod).
I wonder if they're going to discover an aspect of the philosophy that even Asajj may not have been aware of, or mastered. In theory, all the components are in position. Ciaran is about to just know Nightsister abilities via Asajj and will probably act on instinct, Force guidance, or maybe even by viewing shatterpoints (but not using a reroll, alas).
It's entirely possible that Ciaran, by blind luck and not knowing the limits of the Nightsisters or Asajj, is going to figure out something important or central to the philosophy. And I'd lay my bets on it resulting in the two of them becoming greater than the sum of their parts.
Hmm. Greater Than The Sum Of Their Parts. A little wordy, but possible a trait name for both.
I am still so hyped for that action.
I wonder if their Force Bond is going to evolve into a heretical Rule of Two. The point of the original one, was for one to have power and the other to seek it. Except both of them have power, they both striving for more, and now they can just pass skills between each other.
And as we saw during their last grudge match, they can do all of these while seriously and sincerely fighting all-out, and not want to actually kill each other. They've pretty much taken the driving motivation of the Sith, and turned it into something where it strengthens them without the endgame of one killing the other.
Plus, now they both have access to the Nightsisters powers. Which adds its own interesting connotations.
Sister. By definition it implies that you have kin, a brother or a sister. You can't be either when you're an only child. So the entire sect is built around the identity of being part of a close-knit group.
Asajj hasn't had such a connection in a long time, and Ciaran's now just learning it. The two are bound by the force, and by blood (yay for Asajj's genemod).
I wonder if they're going to discover an aspect of the philosophy that even Asajj may not have been aware of, or mastered. In theory, all the components are in position. Ciaran is about to just know Nightsister abilities via Asajj and will probably act on instinct, Force guidance, or maybe even by viewing shatterpoints (but not using a reroll, alas).
It's entirely possible that Ciaran, by blind luck and not knowing the limits of the Nightsisters or Asajj, is going to figure out something important or central to the philosophy. And I'd lay my bets on it resulting in the two of them becoming greater than the sum of their parts.
Hmm. Greater Than The Sum Of Their Parts. A little wordy, but possible a trait name for both.
I am still so hyped for that action.
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On the other hand to get ASAP a hero unit like Vos, will help us immensely both in the Short and long Term since it will give us another Lore/Intrigue hero to apply bonus for.
Aside from that, given the characteristics of this particular hero it opens a lot of potential opportunities, like it is his knowledge in espionage, his experience as a Jedi Shadow, and being the apprentice THE ONE AND ONLY JEDI SHADOW Tholme (who was taught by the best Anzati assassin of the planet) It will also multiply our chances of defeating Palps in direct combat by a wide margin (he defeated Sora Bulq alone without help), and I cannot think of any other Jedi of such leve that would be recruited by us.
And if you are a romantic like me, you may prefer not to give Thrawn force powers, since one of the things that made him so special was how he did not need the Force to bring the New Republic to his knees.
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the heretical rule of two would piss off palpatine so much wouldnt it.
i like it.
Although being able to see the future might have given him enough forewarning about his impending assassination to save his life and finish the job.
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Or not, I remind you that he had an Yslamari basically nesting in his back during the whole Trilogy.Although being able to see the future might have given him enough forewarning about his impending assassination to save his life and finish the job.
Plus I have always thought that having Rukh killing him was an as pull of the same caliber as Izanami in Naruto. And it was done because it was a Star Wars novel, and they needed the good guys to win.
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"There must be two: one to have an edge, and the other to sharpen it. "
If you say so. I haven't actually read the Thrawn Trilogy, so I'm just going by what I've heard online.
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"There must be two: one to make sure that the other is not acting as a daft cunt "
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"And the other to act like a daft cunt."
I'm waiting on my dice statistics + reactions post until Dr. Snark updates with the second reroll, but I got bored, so I started brainstorming for more base upgrades for next turn. (I don't have a problem).
Just out of curiosity @Dr. Snark, now that the Corellia base is able to cover upgrades in the Five Brothers system, will the same be true for our other bases? For instance, Taris is an ecumenopolis, which makes it dependent on four major 'resource worlds' in its immediate vicinity. Can we propose write-in upgrades for some of those? Kashyyyk has Alaris Prime and Trandosha in its system; Bespin has Gentes (homeworld of the industrious Ugnaughts) and Hoth in spitting distance; and both the Yavin and Cularin systems are stuffed with goodies.
Just out of curiosity @Dr. Snark, now that the Corellia base is able to cover upgrades in the Five Brothers system, will the same be true for our other bases? For instance, Taris is an ecumenopolis, which makes it dependent on four major 'resource worlds' in its immediate vicinity. Can we propose write-in upgrades for some of those? Kashyyyk has Alaris Prime and Trandosha in its system; Bespin has Gentes (homeworld of the industrious Ugnaughts) and Hoth in spitting distance; and both the Yavin and Cularin systems are stuffed with goodies.
Dr. Snark
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Right, given the closeness of the reroll vote but with the need of getting things moving along I'm declaring a 12-hour deadline for the vote, after which it will be called.
IIRC Alaris Prime is already accounted for, Yavin is officially getting that station in deep space, and there's no way in hell I could limit the Cularin base to one planet.
Aside from that I'll have to think about things (because honestly Hoth right now is an unimportant snowball that no sentient being would really want to go to, for one).
IIRC Alaris Prime is already accounted for, Yavin is officially getting that station in deep space, and there's no way in hell I could limit the Cularin base to one planet.
Aside from that I'll have to think about things (because honestly Hoth right now is an unimportant snowball that no sentient being would really want to go to, for one).
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[x] Reroll Genemod
There's an exogorth-infested asteroid field nearby that Grievous would enjoy. I'm pretty sure you could put a hunting lodge there for fun and profit.
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yeah he is basically a war personified god and that comes with getting to have a harem
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
Ciaran was vexed. She had taken the day off to de-stress, blow off steam, and otherwise enjoy herself. The first order of business was of course to break into Senator Amidala's office while the Senator in question was attending some committee meeting or other and sit in Padme's chair, turned around to both look out the window and swivel around for maximum dramatic reveal. The problem arose when, after hours of watching airspeeders zip by over the city planet, Padme never returned to her office.
It wasn't worrisome, there was nothing requiring Padme to swing by her office after the meeting except her sense of duty, and Ciaran would have been informed immediately if her teams had noticed anything amiss. But it still threw off her entire day's schedule, leaving her to slink back to the Abyss Watcher's headquarters, Padme still unannoyed. No one stopped Ciaran as she stalked through the halls back to her own office, sensing her foul mood.
Priam raised a hand as she walked past into her office, as if to stop her, but Ciaran could tell from his demeanor that it wasn't vital. And if it wasn't vital it could wait until tomorrow. Today was her day off dammit, even if she had been denied her quality Padme annoying time.
As Ciaran entered her office, her tall backed chair slowly swiveled around, revealing one Senator Padme Amidala, hands steepled with a confident grin plastered on her face.
"What are-" began Ciaran before she was cut off by Padme breaking her stoic façade with a peal of laughter.
"Oh, the look on your face! Is that what I look like?" Padme paused to take a deep breath and wipe a tear from the corner of her eye. "No wonder you like to do this sort of stuff to me."
"What is this?" asked Ciaran, still trying to process the new feeling of having the tables turned on her.
"You accidently sent me a file titled 'Masterplans to Annoy Padme'. After I got over the terror of realizing that 'Masterplan' was plural, I decided to give you a taste of your own medicine." Ciaran didn't think it should be possible for Padme to look this smug, but there she was, looking smug. "Now then, since I am certainly not trapping you on a twilight boat ride with Anakin, my time in the spotlight comes to a close. You're lucky all these masterplans are so personalized though, or I'd put you through all of them."
"Of course, I'm not going to annoy you by just dumping a bucket of water on your head or something. My personal touch is just that. Personal." said Ciaran, trying to reclaim some semblance of control through indignation.
Padme laughed. "Of course, I never meant to imply otherwise. I did however reserve a perfectly normal dinner so we can both just relax."
Ciaran wept internally as she resigned herself to defeat. "Very well then…"
As the two friends walked out the door, Padme paused. "Oh, I feel like I should also warn you…" Before Padme could finish her warning, Ciaran found herself doused by a bucket of ice cold water. "…My personal touch isn't nearly as personal as yours."
Now thoroughly drenched and understanding of how Padme felt all this time, Ciaran resolved to never annoy her again. Or maybe she'd double down next time and make her regret this little reversal…
AN: A horrible, hypothetical bad end where we crit-fail an Annoy Padme option. Luckily, our QM is too kind to allow this nightmare to become canon.
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[X] Never annoy Padme again.
We can't risk the nat 1.