Omake time!~ (beware Un-betaed as fuck)
Contemplation of a Competent and Admirably Amicable Admiral.
Admiral Wulff Yularen had a long experience of seeing the strange, the bizarre and the out right mind blowing insane things that the galaxy had to offer (most of which were under General Skywalker). But now as he stared out of the bridges windows at Esquimalt Naval Base he could definitely say that coming back to life as the psychometric imprint that he had left on his flag ship that used to be a
male human, that became a
female AI, that became his ship, that then became the spiritual manifestation of his ship that was also a girl at the same time was reaching a whole new level of bantha shit crazy that he tried not to think about. Not to mention the shear insanity that was now "resupplying". Getting supply from raw mass that was harvested or salvaged and then printed(built/fabbed or what have you) was, while strange, believable to an extent. Having Resolute consume normal food than somehow having it "magically" turning into usable supplies and fuel took some mind-bending logic that had the supply droids possessors exploding and quartermasters speaking in tongues. General consensus from the crew was to follow the locals example of declaring it Magical Sparkly (Space)Shipgirl Bullshit and try to ignore it. And those poor local supply officers. Honestly he'd never seen grow men break down into sobbing fits like that although to be fair he had never seen a single sentient consume enough food to keep the entire 501st fed for a month in one sitting ether.
That however paled in comparison to finding out you where nothing but characters in a series of local holo-films and that had left a more than a few in a bit of an existential dilemma. Which was made even worse when it was discovered that the Holo-series was of a universe of what would have happened if the late Palpatine's plan had actually succeeded. The worst hit where probably Kenobi and Skywalker, when the former found out about the latters marriage to (at the time) Senator Amidala which was apparently a violation of their code caused a rather "heated" argument between the two Jedi. It got so bad that Resolute had to step in to resolve the argument herself. Said resolution involved a game where the two Jedi being used as "sacks" in a game the locals called "Hacky-sack" while Resolute used her tails to bat them around. With a promise of more games if they continued. Things came to a head however when Skywalker had walked into a showing of The Revenge of the Sith during 3rd Company's movie night. Poor man had been so horrified he had locked himself in his quarters for the better part of a week. It had taken Kenobi, 2 commando squads, 3 ARC troopers, a breaching charge and Resolute coming inside herself (and there was a sentence he never thought he would be thinking) to drag the poor man out.
Still after chaos of the first few days things had settled into a bit of a routine. While he wished he has back in his own galaxy fighting the Separatist the fact that they were helping the locals fight something that sickened even a non force sensitive like him to his very core was rather mollifying. And since Resolute no longer needed hide her existence she gone on an upgrade spree the likes of which would have needed a year or two
minimum in a dry dock instead of the 2 and a half weeks they had taken.
Some of the upgrades were admittedly small and barely noticeable. Some reinforced cabling over there a few extra bulkheads over here, some streamline the self-repair systems. Others like the extra point defenses around the ventral hangar and the extra shield generator for the bridge where a bit more obvious. Others were downright strange, like the Chibi-Resolutes running around, or the socalled KKV silos and he couldn't understand for the life of him why they needed a drop-pod bay when they had perfectly serviceable drop-ships. Resolute's response as to why was simply to give one of her (increasingly frequent) smug smiles and start to play a
song over the coms. None the less the bay held a collection of both individual and four man pods that could deploy up to a full company's worth of troopers. However most line troopers where leery of using them since during reentry they had a tendency to heat up to anywhere between "high noon on Tatooine in full winter kit" to "standing next to a lava lake on Mustafar in the buff". Naturally the ARCs and Commandos loved the accursed things.
"Admiral, here are the latest reports on our supply status."
Coming out of his thoughts Admiral Yularen glanced at the tactical droid before taking the offered datapad and paging through it. Yet another change made Resolute, supplementing the crew with old Confederate droids. Needles to say it was rather difficult for some to work alongside the proxies of the enemy you have been fighting against for seven years, the clones in particular found it difficult but they had been making do. Thankfully the B1 droid while still as talkative as ever had at least been upgraded to a point where they could
shut up during combat. Minor miracle that.
Hmm, fully stocked and only a quarter of the report was written in mind aching scribble, looks like the quartermasters where making progress. Although who was this Nyarlathotep they kept mentioning?
"Also, you requested to be notified when the ship begins to upgrade equipment-"
Yularen cut off the droid with a cringe "O Gods, what is it this time and please,
please tell me she hasn't started cackling yet."
"She has not," the droid shuddered "yet. She is at last update in the primary vehicle bay upgrading our heavy armor compliment. Generals Kenobi and Skywalker are already present. I have also diverted Captain Rex to meet you
enroute to give his report."
Well at least the crew would be keeping their sanity for a bit longer with a quick thanks to the droid he quickly strode out of the bridge deftly dodging the mouse droids and Chibilutes running underfoot.
Halfway to the main vehicle bay he met Captain Rex in his new Phase III Clone armor, he stopped to return the Captains salute.
"Ah, Captain, good afternoon. How goes the integration of the recent upgrades."
"So far so good sir, here's my report" he replied handing over a datapad then taking a half step back to let the giggling Chibilute on a mouse droid to zip past.
Quickly glancing through the report he found it substantially larger then what he expected "If you could summarize it while we walk Captain?" the admiral replied sidestepping the B1 droid that barreled after the giggling Chibilute with a shout of "Get back here!"
"Yes Sir. All the fighters and dropships have been upgraded with progenitor tech with improvements across the board. Although the pilots are still getting used to working alongside vulture droids. Most of the troopers have finished switching over to the Phase III armor Resolute provided. Honestly it makes the previous versions look like crap. Better durability while being lighter, improved air filtration system, a whole suite of vision modes, cross communication with other armors from squad level up along with trooper status trackers, an octocamo system, and don't forget integrated bacta injectors like the Commandos Katarn Armor, honestly sir I think I'm in love."
"That's impressive. I'm surprised we didn't in the Republic that sooner."
The Captain shrugged "Most of the upgrades are based on the Progenitor tech and you know their tech is utter bantha shit Sir. If the Republic tried to build something similar they would have taken two decades minimum to design a prototype and they'd bankrupt themselves to supply a quarter of the Army. But for Resolute, it it's only a tiny dent in her supply, at least that's what the quartermasters say. When they aren't speaking in tongues."
"Right" the admiral replied holding back a grimace. He remembered Resolutes story about the Progenitor lab she was
born in for a lack of a better word.
"Other than that Resolute upgraded most of our miscellaneous kit the only major point was when she redesigned our blasters."
"Redesign?"
"Yes Sir, most was simply moving the charge packs from the sides to the front of the trigger wells for others it was simply adding stocks, there has been a 40% increase in general accuracy surprisingly, and adding rails for individual customization, the rest was simply aesthetics, she said she wouldn't have her crew using "converted WWII props for guns."
Yularen nodded "I see," he didn't really "how is the troops morale?" Yularen could practically see Rex's grimace through his helmet.
"That's a bit trickier Sir. Some are taking it rather well. Others are looking for something, anything to take their mind off the current situation and a few are a hairsbreadth from snapping. The local Holo net is both helping and hurting the situation."
Yularen didn't bother hidding his grimace. While the local Holo-net had provided sufficient entertainment to distract the crew it had also showed enough to terrify as well. The Star Wars movies being a prime example, oh why did there have to have so much porn, and the less said about the
ideas the that the crew got for that SB and SV website when they were board the better. And don't even think about bringing up QQ, oh the horror..he couldn't stop the shakes.
"Sir?" asked Rex in concern.
"QQ."
"Oh," Rex shuddered as he hugged himself before asking hopefully "you think the Jedi have a mind trick that would help me forget Sir?"
"No, I already asked"
"Blast."
Thankfully any further contemplation of that wretched cesspit the locals called the internet was set aside as they arrived at the main vehicle bay.
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And that's when my creative juices died.
I was originally going write a scene where Resolute was upgrading the AT-TEs by armoring the cockpit and replacing the original turret with one from an Ant tank but recent updates have made completely invalidatedand wanting to scrap it but that's what omakes are for and I already wrote all this so...
Oh one more proto scene:
Resolute: *upon seeing a pin-up image of herself being drawn on a LAAT by some clones* The Resolute feels conflicted on seeing her image on the nose art of her strike craft.
Anakin: *knows Resolute is parodying someone but doesn't know who* Right, well it's better then the original.
Resolute: Oh?
Anakin: The last one had you naked.
Resolute: .......*the lights start flickering on and off*
Anakin:*Realizing what he just did* Uh oh.
Resolute: The Resolute is over her conflicted feelings. *She turned her head slowly like a turbolaser battery tracking a target to the now terrified clones and
smiles as the lights turn red* And would very much like to have a
talk with these
intrepid artists~.
Anakin: Ah, kiff it.
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