Senpai
(Verified Progenitor)
- Location
- Somewhere in the Multiverse
He's done for the moment... Unbelievable, seven chapters in a single day...
Devastation Comes In Big Packages [Planetary Annihilation/Multicross SI]
Senpai
(Verified Progenitor)
- Location
- Somewhere in the Multiverse
Found these typos after looking the chapter over.
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Ah, thanks! Fixed now.
Baughn
Healing-type writer
- Location
- Dublin
Alas, poor Yoda. It would have been much better if he'd lived a little longer.
...
Say. Can't you fix that? I mean, you're not a CORE Commander, but uploading should still be a possibility. Maybe Yoda wouldn't want that, but... well, it'd be a nice scene.
One of these days he'll make a series of units, using half his unit limit on it. The one between #19 and #21 will obviously be named after you.Woo! I avoided a shout-out! My record still stands at 0!
20 – Muppet
AN: I couldn't help it. I can't stand leaving it on an odd number. Now I'm done for sure...for a while.
20 – Muppet
"Tell you of your father, Obi-Wan did not," Yoda murmured quietly.
He had been slowing down more and more on the journey to his little hut. Seriously though based on what the Rddington's sensors were showing his body was steadily dying but for some reason a force was keeping him from just outright collapsing. Maybe even the capital F force. He really must want to get this conversation out of the way before he does his fun little disappearing into the ether thing.
"He told me enough, he told me Vader killed him," is Luke's resolute response.
Haha, his face is all solemn and serious. Basically the opposite of his angry passionate wailing that would have taken place on Bespin. I guess a few extra months of Jedi training go a long way…when the super famous Yoda is being your personal teacher. The two of them are all crouched together and whispering as if the Reddington's audio sensors aren't powerful enough to hear the weird ass sounds of this swamp planet for at least three hundred yards out. There are things moving around in the dank waters of this place that shouldn't have been able to function.
Probably force related.
Too bad I can't learn the force…should I have been capitalizing it as the Force this whole time? Not sure on that. There was that droid in the books who it was suggested was capable of learning the force. Also those weird sentient crystals that were capable of using it – the Iron Knights. Now where was that…can't recall right now, not while my attention is split between paying attention to this conversation and spreading my economy over Hub in perpetuity.
I'm kidding.
I'm a Theta Commander.
Of course I can spin off thought threads and multitask enough to deal with everything I'm doing right now. Cubes ad infinitum, Executor is hunting for SSD's to eat up, and me? I'm scanning backwards to my memory of that time I looked up all of the various force organizations that were mentioned in a certain fic involving Kyle Katarn going back in time to the Clone Wars. I can see myself scrolling up and down the wiki pages even now. It's always weird examining my own memories as a Commander, it's all in weird crystal clear image even though a memory from an organic standpoint would have been somewhat fuzzy.
"No, no! That's impossible!"
And there goes the revelation.
Anyway, the Iron Knights.
Silicon based crystals on the planet Orax. Capable of using the force. Inhabited droid bodies to allow them mobility. The question of course is…could I replicate that? If I could create synthetic versions of those crystals would it be possible for me to use the Force? Furthermore should I ever gain access to it? I'm under no illusions to my nature. I cause death on a massive scale when I choose to make my moves in the galaxy. That sounds like something the Dark Side would revel in…and I don't think I want to see a Commander corrupted by the Dark Side of the force. I might be able to handle it, I might not. Yeah.
No, no Force for me. Ah well.
At least the Mega Yard is doing well. I think that – and Luke is running out of the hut all of a sudden.
"Be back, he will. Now, as for you."
I turn my head to look at the little green guy who has taken to laying on his bed and wheezing.
"Sup muppet."
"No droid, are you."
Man. Even at this stage of…whatever is killing him, I can almost feel the threat radiating off of him. With the Force he might even be able to do something to the Reddington but I see no reason to needlessly antagonize him.
"Sure I am, old man. I'm a droid. And a ship. And so much more. But I did come here to aid the Rebellion against the Empire, and for that…"
"A Jedi is needed, to face the Sith, mmm?" he bobbles his head so hard I'm afraid it'll fall off.
"Well," I wave one of my hands in the air, "I'm pretty sure I could take them. Not without undue casualties and collateral damage though. Better for young Skywalker to fulfill his destiny and all that, you know?"
"Hmph. Great and terrible things, you have done."
My mental smile just slipped a little there.
"Great and terrible things, you will do."
I really don't like how ominous and creepy his voice is getting there.
"You sound like Ollivander," I try to inject some levity in my voice but I don't know if it's worked.
Then all of a sudden the oppressive atmosphere in the hut disappears as he scoffs again.
"Hmph! Quiet yourself, shadowy thing. Conserve strength, I must. Last conversation with my student, mmm?"
Right.
He's still dying.
"You…want me to wait outside?"
He doesn't even use words this time, just sort of nods.
"Right-o."
It only takes a few more minutes for the Jedi to come trudging back, covered in sweat and swamp brush. He looks at me only for a moment before heading inside, which is fine I guess. No need to say hello or anything.
"Politeness costs nothing you know," I muttered.
Five minutes later…and I can feel the shift. Weather patterns all across Dagobah flicker and whirl, the light and shadow of the planet actually start moving around on the planet…and the sensor baffling that the Golden Boy was suffering disappears entirely. I knew that this place was dark side and that Yoda was using that as a shield but I didn't know it would be like that. He'd actually manipulated the Force to increase the dark side on this planet to better hide the light underneath.
Huh.
Luke exits the door and there is a look of serene determination on his face. Also a second lightsaber…which is new. Is that Yodas? Anyhow, he turns to me, and nods once.
"You wanted to meet the Rebellion?"
"Yep. As well as get you back into their ranks. I figure they could use a Jedi doing things rather than hanging out in a swamp."
A small smile passes his lips before his expression smooths over again. For a moment he closes his eyes and just sort of stands there before opening them again.
"I know where to go."
Does he? Does he really? I didn't detect any gravitational fluctuations or any of the other phenomena that I've slowly begun associating with the usage of the Force.
"You sure?"
"Just follow me, Theta. R2?"
A pile of garbage moves and almost startles me. As the little blue and grey astromech droid starts shaking off a rather significant amount of moss and algae I stare at it. Huh. Luke chuckles and begins helping clean the droid off but I'm rather sure he can make it to his X-wing without dying on the way.
"I'll meet you in orbit."
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Hey, at least this time he got to fully train Luke.
TikiTau
Commander Pangolinski
- Location
- Texas
*In the Background*
<Lando> Alright, C-3PO...Who won the pool this time?
<C-3PO> That would be...the 2-1B Surgery Droid from Hoth Base?
<Lando> Huh. Where the hell did a droid get credits anyways?
<C-3PO> Anonymous donation, sir.
No way he'd accept it.
Becoming one with the force is like, ultimate serene peace. Uploading...would probably mean he'd never get there.
Besides which...no uploading tech, not yet.
Baughn
Healing-type writer
- Location
- Dublin
You're probably right, but that just makes the potential scene more amusing.
I don't personally find "Ultimate serene peace" to be at all attractive. I want to do things, not just exist, and in the limit there's no difference between "inactivity" and "death". Someone who's been running on light-side propaganda for hundreds of years, though? Yeah, I can see it. It would still be amusing.
This is more of a problem. It's also up to you; it's perfectly plausible that progenitor-humanity had such technology.
Asmodemus
Subversive Element
So, he needs to control the fabricators directly to send energy and mass through, yeah? No making a fabricator control building that then sends the power and metal to the fabricators that work under a slave system and make designs and obey orders sent out by the command building?
Like a more improved version of The Kennel.
Or was this discussed and I missed it?
Like a more improved version of The Kennel.
Or was this discussed and I missed it?
21 – That Rebel Yell
21 – That Rebel Yell
All right, that was getting annoying.
I'd had the full sensor suit of the Golden Boy aka progenitor level sensors pointed directly at Skywalker's very…very badly maintained X-wing for some time now. He would send me coordinates and then jump, and I'd follow, and there'd be nothing there. Again and again. I had already figure that he was using the Force to help guide him or something – that's not what frustrated me. What was bothering me was that I couldn't tell how he was doing it. There wasn't some trickity trick energy flowing through him or around him, not bioelectricity or unseeable squiggles of energy eddies or anything.
Damn it, why can't I see the Force!
I may not be ever able to use it but I'll dipped in chocolate before I let asparagus – wait that's KND.
But seriously, is Starkiller a thing here? How much of canon is canon? Because if he could rip a Star Destroyer down then I'm betting mister Dark Lord of the Sith who has spent so much time focusing on the Force part that his body has become a tied together pile of sweaty molded rags can do it too. And I refuse to lose a single ship of mine to any kind of Force fuckery. I can accept honest mistakes, hell an ambush of some kind involving a lot of enemy ships…but I am not down with letting something I can't even detect be my downfall.
Oh, look, Skywalker's sent me some new coordinates. I wonder what blank part of the Outer Rim we're going to now. It's not that I don't like the sightseeing, it's interesting from an intellectual standpoint to see things from a corvettes point of view rather than the almost godlike vision of the universe when directly controlling a SSD or heaven forbid an USD.
Oh to heck with this, I'll keep following his directions but for now I'm going to focus back in Hub. Vengeance has completely cleared Tiki and is starting to finish up Drich – so kind of not exactly according to my schedule but whatever. I have a new idea entirely. Now that I've built the Mega Yard up…it's time…
For a second Mega Yard. This second one however would be built with the exact same specs as the original. Which means that it will be able to fit inside the original Mega Yard. Since I'm so focused on following Skywalker I won't be able to really enjoy the glorious explosion of nanites but it's still pretty good from a secondary viewpoint. The numerous Resource Cubes that I've got lined up along one another on Drich are providing what I need – not to mention the rest of the extractors and generators along the various worlds of Hub.
It's still going to take a bit.
Long enough to – hey, Rebel ships are in this system! They immediately hail us but I decide to let Luke do the talking while I surreptitiously examine this system. Arbra system, in the…ridiculously spelled name sector. I'm not even going to bother recording it. I have the coordinates, that's what is important. Anyway…this place. Data security hasn't improved too extensively since Echo Base on Hoth, so…yoink. It's not like I'm hurting the Rebels by taking all of their data. I just wanna know what they've been up to.
Which is…huh. A lot.
I'm seeing a lot of missions undertaken by the team of Han, Leia, and Lando that would otherwise be taking place with Luke. My memories of the books and comics and such are sort of protesting this but…well, I'm responsible for this. With Luke busy doing his Jedi training of course they would have to find another way to go about things. I'm honestly more surprised that they've made it through without dying or getting maimed or something but then again…maybe not.
The Force is a thing here after all. Destiny is a tangible and active force in this galaxy.
I'm not sure how to feel about that. Or how it might feel about me.
Oh, hey, Luke's convinced them that it is in fact him and that they should let me and the Golden Boy land. I'm reading that the 'crew' is already assembled at a secret landing pad big enough even for my corvette to land on and hide in. Nice of them, but my own energy production more than covers my ships personal cloaking fields. Ah but it would be rude to refuse their hospitality, especially when I'm about to dump more ships on them than they could ever have possibly expected.
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By the time the Reddington – I'm just going to refer to it as myself from here on to make things easier for myself – gets off of the Golden Boy the Skywalker twins have already reunited. There is much good natured ribbing going on, mostly involving showers, and joyous jubilations all around! Lando and Luke are feeling each other out but I get the feeling that they'll probably end up friends. Of course…the one thing that I couldn't account for with this body is the fact that making it out of beskar-progenitor alloys and adding all of the weapons and tech to it has made it pretty damn heavy.
So…clank clank clank comes the deadly looking black and grey HK droid down the ramp with its assortment of incredibly powerful weapons. I wonder if I should have gone for the Replica route after all. Or even just a droid with a more human or welcoming face. I know for a fact that red photoreceptors on black pain is just begging to have people go 'ahh, I am spooked! Spooking has occurred as a result of this phenomenon coming towards me!' Or as some say in shorthand 'AHHHHH!'. But I hope that doesn't happen here.
"So…Luke. You said this was your friend?" Leia Skywalker/Organa was raised primarily by the second, the premier diplomats of that now dead planet. It's remarkable how quickly she steels herself and puts on a welcoming smile.
I guess one might get used to doing that while running a Rebellion that takes in all kinds of folk.
Ah well. Might as well get this started. I give her a jaunty wave and bow at a perfect ninety degree angle before rising again.
"Greetings Miss Skywalker, my name is Theta. I'm pleased to have reunited you with your Jedi Knight brother after so long spent separated on different planets by folk who intended to keep you hidden by those who would target the descendants of the honorable Queen of Naboo also known as Padme Amidala slash Skywalker aka the wife of the heroic Jedi known as Anakin Skywalker."
Every face I can see pales considerably or colors very oddly.
"As to my reason to being here: I would like to contribute a recently found and refurbished legendary Katana Fleet," lots of other people on the landing pad outright freeze where they are walking past, "Well over two dozen Imperial vessels that I have acquired over the past few months including multiple Imperial-II Star Destroyers," just about everyone have given up all pretenses of not staring, "As well as a single payment donation of fifty billion credits."
There's a lot of hyperventilating going on around me. I've never seen a person's face coloring like that before.
"Are you all right, Miss Skywalker? You appear to-,"
Some technician faints off to the side.
"…huh."
TikiTau
Commander Pangolinski
- Location
- Texas
First: Even on a Meta Level Planet Reference, I ruin schedules! Mwhahahah! 'Alright, I'll just construct a thing he-STOP ROTATING OUT OF RANGE METAL SPOT! GAAAAH!'
Second: I see the Culture hacked your random name generator.
Third: I see your free trial of TactAndDiscretion1.0 has expired and you didn't bother reupping it when introducing yourself to the rebellion.
Second: I see the Culture hacked your random name generator.
Third: I see your free trial of TactAndDiscretion1.0 has expired and you didn't bother reupping it when introducing yourself to the rebellion.