Max Uristwell
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She absolutely would, but someone beat her to it.
May The Invisible Hand Be With You - (Star Wars CK2-Style Quest)
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Who said it's just a statue? It might be something else?
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The saber styles are mainly AU and certainly aren't reflected in movie or cartoon fighting. Keep in mind that Dokuu is supposed to basically a fencer. Which to put it mildly is not exactly reflected in his fight scenes.
I still maintain that if Ciaran had been powerful enough as a child to be picked up by the Jedi she would have ended up as Mace Windu's padawan, and he would have been ecstatic about it. When he wasn't lamenting the fact that he didn't have any hair left to pull out anyway.
I don't like the implication that such a commision could possibly be traced back to her.
The Responsible Parties (Canon)
Panory
The Omake Dragon
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"Attention people trying to sneak through the air ducts. First off I'd like to point out that those aren't the actual air ducts. Ever since I was nearly assassinated by poison gas, I've made sure to make them too small to put a gas grenade in, let alone an actual person. Second, I hope you enjoy barbecue because you're about to be roasted by the plasma vapour rapidly spreading through the enclosed space. On the bright side, if you survive this, we'd like to offer you a job. I don't turn down that sort of talent."
"Bantha dung." swore Oki as she frantically retreated back the way she came. On second thought, the ducts had been suspiciously large. Perhaps this wasn't the best way to sneak into the kitchens for a late night snack.
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"ZK-711 would like to make it known that he mixed laxatives in Professor Zheen's personal coffee supply to identify the people who keep stealing from it. Will the culprits please report to the Research Labs for volunteering to be the latest test subject in whatever experiments are going on and a fresh pair of pants."
Chora looked slowly down at the mug of pitch black liquid she had made to start her day, slowly putting it back down on the counter. She'd be grumpy for hours, but it was apparently better than the alternative.
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"It has come to my attention that some of you are using ray shields for doors. While certainly 'high tech' and admittedly impressive that you managed to rig them up, we're getting complaints from OOM-9 because they're sucking up all the power. They also provide less security than you think because all it takes is for some genius to play with the fuse box and turn them off. A door made out of paper provides more security. Anyway we're going back to metal doors. Maybe make the code for it, not the same you use for your luggage."
"None of those doors are between her quarters and the entrance." muttered Larana. "How'd she even find out I had them installed?" At least Ciaran wasn't able to make her foot the bill.
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"To all pranksters, hooligans and bored employees. You are no longer allowed to pin magnets to Doctor Sair. While funny the first time, she is now crying in her lab. Considering her boyfriend is a bounty hunter and the Galactic History's Most Dangerous Droid owes her a lot of favours, it may be wise to find a way to cheer her up before someone does something more idiotic.... any ideas?"
"Ruin all my fun, why don't you?" grumbled Galvin, dropping his armful of refrigerator magnets on the floor. "And HK gets top billing while I'm just 'a bounty hunter'? The hell, Ciaran?!"
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"To anyone who thinks PR-1 is a pushover when compared to the rest of the High Council. He has drained your credit account, had all your clothes shoved hazardously in the dryer to shrink, put your name on the child sex offenders register and has alerted local law enforcement that you are in the midst of violating your parole. Go apologize to him.... NOW!"
"I never said he was a pushover! I said he had a crappy sense of balance!" exclaimed an exasperated Silas as the message started playing. "And that was after he self-installed drunken carousing routines!" He paled as the announcement concluded. "The Diathim just look youthful, I swear!"
AN: What can they say? Being a troublemaker runs in the blood.
Three problems
A: Air Ducts are huge because of the sheer volume of air they have to get through them.
B: You couldn't fit enough gas into a grenade to properly attack through the vents. Any gas attack done using vents first has to deal with the filtration systems built into vent systems and again, the sheer volume.
C: Air vents are often big enough for a fully grown man for maintenance purposes.
A) Not necessarily if you had them made numerous and in parallel.
B) Whole complex maybe not, but you could put enough liquid payload in to aerosolize sufficiently to get a couple of rooms.
C) Sufficiently Advanced Roombas
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ConfusedPotato
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All of these need full omakes but the ones with Cheriss and PR-1 especially. Preferably about the poor sod who is now the focus of a lot of wrath.
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Okay, so, Maul fears Palpatine too much to go after him. But if he thought he had a shot at pulling it off, maybe he'd be willing to go for it?
And, so on that note... I wonder if he'd be willing to work with even Jedi if it meant being able to kill Sidious?
I am confident her PR efforts mean more people dream about how wonderful she is.
That's not the point I'm trying to make here but okay.
To my knowledge Maul tries to work around Palpatine. His last appearance in the Clone Wars (Son of Dathomir) had him gather the best of his Maldalorians, try and turn Dooku against his Master, hijack the Devastation (the sister-ship of Malevolence, with the exception of swapping out the fleet crippling superweapon with planet crippling, force crystal powered super ion canon) to attack Coruscant and resurrected Talzin to aid him. My point is Maul won't attack Palpatine direct except as a last resort and when he does he considers blowing up the Republic Capital as the safe option, because he knows he can't beat Palpatine in person.
As for the Jedi, Maul is more likely to kill them than go against Palpatine. After all he is still a Sith and as long as Obi-Wan lives he'll focus on the Jedi to draw them out.
That said Maul can work with our plans as bait. After all his Shadow Syndicate's takeover of Mandalore forced Palpatine to deal with the problem personally. It's a lot easier to draw the Sith Lord into a trap if he's away from all his support. So all we need to do is make Maul seem like a wildcard.
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Seriously? Another one? That's three planet killing superweapons made under the same Sith Lord if you count the two Death Stars. Do they not ever get tired of it?
Actually this one was developed by the CIS under Dooku and he underestimated how powerful it was until it was test fired.
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I don't know whether it being an accidental planet killer is a good thing or a bad thing.
Dr. Snark
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Right, sorry for having been out for a bit, circumstances have kept me away. So first, omake commenting:
I wonder if anyone will ever get tired of these. Mostly canon (and probably will be fully canon soon-ish), +10.
Guess not. Canon, +10.
I didn't know Silas was one of those people who bought into that "she's totally 20, what are you talking about" kind of thing...then again I shouldn't be that surprised. Canon, +10.
Also a fun question since we are still doing those:
To get into more details, IH Grievous is far more optimistic, content, and when you really get down to it he's simply much happier than his canon counterpart. He's got it made: his planet is safe, he's gotten plenty of chances to gain glory or go on badass hunts, he's probably the single most beloved Kaleesh ever to live, and so on. More specifically though as Teron pointed out he's far more reserved; sure he's still a bloodthirsty glory-hound warrior but he knows when to rein himself in a bit. Though probably the biggest difference is that IH Grievous has a much stronger sense of empathy that's been developing recently now that he's coming around to being a warrior in a society that is no longer at constant war.
One thing is for sure: Canon Grievous and IH Grievous would despise each other. Canon Grievous would be insanely bitter that IH Grievous won out, not to mention that he's a walking reminder of everything his canon self lost or threw away. IH Grievous would be sickened by canon Grievous' loss of 'humanity' (Kaleeshness?) and that he's no longer a warrior but a monster.
In a straight-up fight, canon Grievous kinda has the edge due to being a killer quad-lightsaber-wielding cyborg, but in a large-scale battle IH Grievous would likely come out on top. Canon Grievous would fight with a droid army he sees as little more than canon fodder, IH Grievous would be fighting with his trusted Kaleesh warriors by his side. Do the math.
I wonder if anyone will ever get tired of these. Mostly canon (and probably will be fully canon soon-ish), +10.
Guess not. Canon, +10.
I didn't know Silas was one of those people who bought into that "she's totally 20, what are you talking about" kind of thing...then again I shouldn't be that surprised. Canon, +10.
Also a fun question since we are still doing those:
To get into more details, IH Grievous is far more optimistic, content, and when you really get down to it he's simply much happier than his canon counterpart. He's got it made: his planet is safe, he's gotten plenty of chances to gain glory or go on badass hunts, he's probably the single most beloved Kaleesh ever to live, and so on. More specifically though as Teron pointed out he's far more reserved; sure he's still a bloodthirsty glory-hound warrior but he knows when to rein himself in a bit. Though probably the biggest difference is that IH Grievous has a much stronger sense of empathy that's been developing recently now that he's coming around to being a warrior in a society that is no longer at constant war.
One thing is for sure: Canon Grievous and IH Grievous would despise each other. Canon Grievous would be insanely bitter that IH Grievous won out, not to mention that he's a walking reminder of everything his canon self lost or threw away. IH Grievous would be sickened by canon Grievous' loss of 'humanity' (Kaleeshness?) and that he's no longer a warrior but a monster.
In a straight-up fight, canon Grievous kinda has the edge due to being a killer quad-lightsaber-wielding cyborg, but in a large-scale battle IH Grievous would likely come out on top. Canon Grievous would fight with a droid army he sees as little more than canon fodder, IH Grievous would be fighting with his trusted Kaleesh warriors by his side. Do the math.
Hey, there are plenty of accidental planet killers. Most of them are some escaped Sith plague, or self-replicating bio-weapon, but that just means it's that much cheaper than expensive super-structures! Good thing there are a ton of planets in a galaxy!
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I mean its really not that hard to kill 90% of life on a habitable planet. We can do it now with a couple of nukes. Presumable their nukes of equivalents are more powerful. Orbital bombardment from specialized weaponry should be pretty easy to develop. Destroying the entire planet is a lot harder, but just all life isn't much.
Skywalker_T-65
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Sidelong glance at the Suncrusher, Galaxy Gun, Tarkin (superweapon not Peter Cushing), Eclipse (I and II) and the Sovereign-class
It's a lot more than just three
Darrenb209
"Who are you, who do not know your history?"
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Interplanetary warfare makes it extremely easy even without specialized weaponry to kill all life on a planet.
Precision orbital bombardment to set off a supervolcano, flat out orbital bombardment, asteroid drop or even just setting a ship's engine to max and having it ram the planet.
Consider how much damage a single asteroid made up of materials we know of impacting at a relatively low velocity can do to the Earth.
Now consider a multi-kilometer impact of a metal harder than any we currently know of at significantly higher speeds than most asteroids impact at.
When it comes to that type of warfare, it's actually harder to come up with low casualty ways of taking a planet without wiping out all life than it is to come up with ways to kill all life.
Even too many missed shots hitting an ocean or a heavily forested area could have severe long term effects.
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New Dress Code (Currently Non-canon)
New Dress Code
"Lady Ciaran, I would like to speak to you about a growing problem in the CNS regarding our communication and logistics difficulties given our lack of uniforms." Said PR-1 seriously.
Lady Ciaran looked at her personal droid in confusion. Clearly wondering where this topic came about while she was fine-tuning the next day's activities for her organization.
"Where did this come from?" She questioned. "And what is so bad about the uniforms? They are professional ware from several homeworlds."
"That is exactly the problem Lady Ciaran," the droid answered. "We have so many new races joining us one a quarterly basis that it has been leading to several problems with our logistics and it has been only growing worse. There have been several problems where different races have clashed with each other or nearly created diplomatic incidences."
"I do not believe I follow," Lady Ciaran said puzzled. "What does a choice of clothing have to do with this?"
"The first notable incident was when two new members races who were originally a part of the Republic and Separatist factions were bitter rivals before you brokered peace. One night in a bar, the two races saw each other wearing a Republic and Separatist uniform respectively and began firing blasters at each other. Thankfully, both sides were heavily intoxicated and they couldn't shoot a Bantha standing still in their condition. So only some property damage and disciplinary measure were required."
"Well at least no one died, that saved me some paperwork." Ciaran said relieved. "But that only seems to be a one-off problem."
"I would agree with you, but that is not the only incident. " PR-1 replied. "There was another incident where a captain was annoying a Wookie that ended up with his shoulder nearly severed from his body."
"I fail to see why that is a problem. Other than pissing off a Wookie has got to be one of the top five stupidest things to do in the galaxy."
"The problem is that the Wookie in question was an admiral of his species military hierarchy. It was a complete disrespect of the Chain of Command and could have been a serious diplomatic incident for our Wookie allies." PR-1 explained. "The offending captain was given disciplinary measures and medical treatment."
Ciaran just sighed. Given how much investments were needed for the Wookie populous, she really didn't want to lose them over something so stupid.
"There have also been a number of transportation difficulties, but the worse by far was an accidental delivery of weapons to one of the more hostile Hutt factions." PR-1 continued with the next example. "A minor Hutt got lucky when one of our suppliers delivered a few cargo boxes of blaster parts to one of his agents by complete accident. He was planning on using the opportunity to quickly sell the parts on the Black Market, but a squad of agents who were in the area thwarted his attempt and personally delivered the cargo to the intended client."
"They couldn't even tell who was working with us!?" Ciaran exclaimed loudly. "Why didn't the client's agents find mine first?"
"The agents couldn't tell who was working for you since they were dressed up like a group of independent smugglers rather than your company." PR-1 clarified. "There was also the time that..."
"Okay! That is enough." Ciaran cut PR-1 off from further explanation. "If the problem is so bad, how do you intend to fix it?"
"I am glad you asked Lady Ciaran." PR-1 said joyfully. "Some of our hacks in Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's computer system have uncovered so low-classified files on future uniforms that he wants to use when he takes over the Galaxy. As a way to phase out any elements of the Republic."
"Wait," Ciaran temporarily cut him off. "You want to steal one of his designs? Wouldn't that be problematic if he found out?"
"A few modifications can be made to avoid suspicion," the droid answered. "Some of these designs are loosely based on the Sith Empire in the days of the Old Republic. It would not be hard to make some modifications if necessary. Now let me show you a few interesting designs for a new dress code and a proper Chain of Command."
The holoprojector in Lady Ciaran's office turned on.
"These outfits are for general divisions within the Sith Lord's empirical project. When the foundations of our future military are developed, it would be much easier if anyone can tell at a glance who belongs to where. This is still a prototype model so it doesn't include logistical outfits, but they can be easily arranged. At the very least, it would be easy to tell that these people are not part of either the Republic or the Confederation. That is probably the most important factor."
The holoprojector changed to its next image.
"This is a very basic ranking system that will need to be expanded upon, but the badge system that indicates rank will be especially valuable. Most species have their own ranking systems that often contradict what is known for the Republic and CIS. Some still use the hierarchy from the Old Republic era, while others use personalized systems that the majority of the Galaxy does not follow. Having this serve as the official Ranking system of the CNS would simplify our Chain of Command. I would exclude the Moff system however, many of its powers would violate several laws and be viewed as a military takeover."
The next image of the holoprojector was revealed.
"The official enforcers are called Stormtroopers. It is more of a redesign of the Clone Trooper armor if anything else. The Supreme Chancellor was likely planning on a aesthetic remake of the armor to indicate they are loyal to him, rather then the Republic. Like the Clone Troopers, the soldiers are intended to be the best combatants in the military. Taking on the most dangerous missions where combat was likely to occur. Similar to the Clone's current responsibilities against the Separatist Droids."
PR-1 clicked to reveal the next image.
"What is truly interesting is that the Sith Lord wants to create a special force that is among the best of the best of the Stormtrooper Corps. They would deal with the most dangerous of missions and serve as bodyguards for the highest rank authorities. Oddly enough, there seems to be a few notes regarding some experimentation for these troops, but the data is too vague to describe how this would work. Likely something very dangerous given his personality."
The image changed once more.
"Unusually, the Chancellor has created a special uniform and ranking. This uniform of white is supposed to indicate those who are the most trusting of the future 'Emperor' and be part of his inner circle. However, unlike many positions of admiralty which would only require connects, the Sith Lord wants to create a special ranking deserving of merit and loyalty. Intriguingly, Thrawn has expressed an unusual interesting in keeping this ranking instead of removing it like the Moff system."
"Thrawn wants to keep that?" Said Lady Ciaran amused. "Why would that be the case?"
"Thrawn stated that rank of Admiralty is not the best way to indicate competence. Because of the many years of peace, in a certain point of view, the position has degraded. Many Admiral prior to the Clone Wars almost never had any war experience and were given their positions for political reasons, Palpatine manipulation, or maybe even both. The Chiss has studied many tactics and techniques used by both sides of the conflict and once quoted "How many would survive a year in the Ascendancy?". He has spoken of having a special ranking for Admirals who actually proved their merit and wants to use the uniform as a symbol of true Admirals. He also talked about creating a special Admiral Board for individuals who could truly lead our Navy forces since other than himself, we do not have a serious Chain of Command for fleets. You can ask him for further details if you wish."
Ciaran made a mental note to ask him the next time they would see each other. As talented as the Chiss was, he was only one man in a big galaxy. More admirals would be necessary to maintain a big fleet. Especially with the constant signs of some big conflict was around the corner for the CNS. Something to consider later on.
"I will need to rework a few things before heading the bed PR-1." Said Ciaran. "Prepare my glass of wine at my bedside."
"Right away Lady Ciaran," said the droid politely. "Have a good night."
The protocol droid turned off the holoprojector and would do his last duties for the night. There was only one thought on Ciaran's mind before heading to bed.
"Grand Admiral Thrawn. Has an interesting ring to it."
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