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May The Invisible Hand Be With You - (Star Wars CK2-Style Quest)

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Only problem is that it would give Palpatine ammunition to use against us.

On it's own it would mean little but used right he could get a lot out of it.
 
Eh. Biggest issue is that we don't want uniforms that look like the Republics (particularly stormtrooper armor). But I'm down for bullshitting our way into getting Thrawn his proper rank and uniform when the time comes.
 
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(Omake) Trapped In A Freezer (Canon)
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    • Trapped in a Freezer​

    Why the kark am I doing this? I asked myself. I blew out a breath and watched it fog up the air. I looked around the room. Throughout the room were shelves covered with dead bodies. "Help! Someone let me out of here!" I screamed. Nothing.

    Okay, let me back up for a minute.

    I'd asked a restaurant owner to let me into his walk-in freezer between closing time and opening the next day. Okay, I'd asked with a hundred credit chit and promised him I wouldn't break or eat anything and told him he could lock me in, and that I wasn't trying to commit some elaborate form of suicide. Also that I wasn't hiding from the law or a murderer. Which wasn't technically a lie. The Republic Judiciary hadn't found out about the thing I'd done working for Spymaster Terrek, after all. Granted, my Kaleesh had plans to drag me out on a polar-quadruped hunt, but I wasn't hiding from them. For that matter, Grievous once told me if he ever killed me I would be awake, facing him, and armed, and I'm not sure anybody could call that murder.

    I'm still not sure that working as the medic for Grievous' personal guard isn't just a supremely elaborate form of suicide. That might be part of why I'm in here, actually.

    I pulled the datapad with the recording Master Veskasa had given me and pressed Play.

    "A trained Matukai can maintain their body temperature in hot or cold environments, and some can even make their skin hot enough to burn things. I suspect you may have channeled some of that last element into your strike, the one that led me to make theses recordings for you. I've traveled across Corellia's ice caps in a swimsuit and made a visit to the volcano world of Mustafar in heavy robes, so I know a thing or two about being able to maintain my equilibrium." I caught myself daydreaming a bit about the idea of Master Veskasa in a swimsuit, and then remembered the recording was still running. "...it's an expansion of the skill that eliminates poisons," Master Veskasa had continued. "You recognize the external influence which is affecting your equilibrium and you purge it." I hit Pause then.

    I sat down in the freezer, crossed my legs, rested my elbows on my knees, and rested my hands on my forward shin. I closed my eyes, took a few deep breaths, and reached for that fire in my chest. It took a minute, but then I found it and fanned the flames before standing up and walking over to one frozen icicle in the back of the freezer, planting a hand on it.

    COLD COLD COLD was the only thought my mind could get before I pulled my hand back. "Fine," I responded, though whether I was answering my hand, the environment, or the abstract concepts of physics I wasn't sure. I put my hand on my chest, fed the flame in a circle. It went from my chest into my shoulder, down my arm, through my hand, and back into my chest.

    I then stepped forward and insisted my hand was hot. Scorching hot. Burning hot.

    The icicle liquified almost immediately. Crisp like an autumn day. "Huh. Time to win a round of squad bets going from the sauna to the water up by Corellia's poles. Oh, wait, they're Kaleesh they probably already do something like that."

    I walked out of the freezer the next morning with a smile on my face. Sure, I still had to go hunt the mumuu, but really, how hard could it be?
     
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    • Stealthy said:
    Eh. Biggest issue is that we don't want uniforms that look like the Republics (particularly stormtrooper armor). But I'm down for bullshitting our way into getting Thrawn his proper rank and uniform when the time comes.
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    Eh, the only uniforms that would be akin to the Republic's uniforms would be the Stormtrooper and Deathtrooper armors, however, that can be excused due to the fact that clonetrooper armor is based upon the design of Mandalorian armor. The dress uniforms and ranking insignias are different enough from both separatist and Republican uniforms that it is unlikely to be mistaken for either side.
     
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    Thrawn can have his fancy white uniform sure. But I want all of them. The Empire is the best canon faction in Star Wars.
     
    I'm sure "best" is subjective, but in what way do you consider the Empire as best canon faction?
     
    UbeOne said:
    I'm sure "best" is subjective, but in what way do you consider the Empire as best canon faction?
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    The human supremacist faction appeals to the human supremacist in me.

    The Imperial Star Destroyer is the one ship that all ships are compared to. It being the second spaceship I saw. And that Alderaanian scrap only serves to emphasize its majesty.

    I have a thing for military dictatorships.

    Excessive plot armour for the rebels makes me root for the underdogs.

    Darth Vader is a very iconic villain, if dehumanized one. The emperor is a very human monster, the best kind of villain.
     
    Stroth said:
    Say what you will about evil empires, but they really go all in on snappy uniforms.
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    Well Dictators want to see their men looking their best. I mean the Nazis got Hugo Boss to design their uniforms.

    Though I would have the Death Trooper uniform as the standard one as the Stormtrooper helmet is terrible for perception. Not to mention we don't want the CNS to look like the Clones.

     
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    zup said:
    The human supremacist faction appeals to the human supremacist in me.

    I have a thing for military dictatorships.
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    Really man? Really? Leaving aside how the first is blatantly wrong in SW except that Humans seem to be the most numerous...

    From an unethical, immoral perspective, the Empire is still a bad government. It has the largest and most powerful military since the Rakatans...at the cost of being completely unsustainable. The only reason they were lasting is because they were conquering, and then plundering the shit out of new territories. And eventually advancing into the outer-rim would have lead to contact with Mynngal-mynngal, and the Vong if they exist. There's also the whole issue where the Empire enriched some of it planets mostly by taxing the shit out of others, and the widespread corruption in it's ranks. If what you like is efficient, effective autocracy? The Empire is not a good example of such.

    Stroth said:
    Say what you will about evil empires, but they really go all in on snappy uniforms.
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    The Empire is pretty snappy for an impression of Space Nazis, but they kind of drained everything else. That's one of the points old George was trying to make in the prequels that actually made sense. Before the empire their was vibrant colors, and life. After, it sterilized everything it could, and repressed creativity.
     
    Nalanaya said:
    Really man? Really? Leaving aside how the first is blatantly wrong in SW except that Humans seem to be the most numerous...

    From an unethical, immoral perspective, the Empire is still a bad government. It has the largest and most powerful military since the Rakatans...at the cost of being completely unsustainable. The only reason they were lasting is because they were conquering, and then plundering the shit out of new territories. And eventually advancing into the outer-rim would have lead to contact with Mynngal-mynngal, and the Vong if they exist. There's also the whole issue where the Empire enriched some of it planets mostly by taxing the shit out of others, and the widespread corruption in it's ranks. If what you like is efficient, effective autocracy? The Empire is not a good example of such.


    The Empire is pretty snappy for an impression of Space Nazis, but they kind of drained everything else. That's one of the points old George was trying to make in the prequels that actually made sense. Before the empire their was vibrant colors, and life. After, it sterilized everything it could, and repressed creativity.
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    I never claimed the Empire was without its problems, or even sustainable. I only listed things I like about it.
     
    zup said:
    I never claimed the Empire was without its problems, or even sustainable. I only listed things I like about it.
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    You said it was the best. I personally disagree for the above reasons, and if I had to pick a favorite it would probably be the Old Republic. The really old one. Stupidity with the Mandolorians aside, it lasted for 25,000 years for a reason and only came down because the Sith were eroding it's foundations for centuries in hiding. The Galactic Empire barely made it 3 decades.
     
    Of course there are still more omakes. Just like old times, except now @Panory isn't literally writing all of them :V

    SlyOverlord said:
    New Dress Code
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    Look, let's be real here: "Grand Admiral" may as well be a part of Thrawn's name at this point. Anyway...let's call this currently non-canon, have the +10.

    Barondoctor said:
    Trapped in a Freezer
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    It's kind of hilarious how rapidly Ripath is falling into the Abyss as the saying goes. Canon, +10 as usual.

    And might as well pretend this is part of the (still ongoing) Q&A session:

    Bass11 said:
    I wonder if people have nightmares about Ciaran, if they what do you think they would look like?
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    Yes. You know that nightmare where you end up doing something embarrassing and everyone points and laughs at you in perfect unison? Imagine that, except you realize that Ciaran had set you up for it, and she's clearly leading the mocking laughter.
     
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