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Awkward Conversations (Canon)
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    • Awkward Conversations
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    Oracle. Engineering Bay
    Participants: Cheriss Sair, Spider Droid Hive

    "Unit 5 queries what the newly installed searchlights are for."

    "Unit 3 supports querry."
    "Unit 4 supports querry."
    "Unit 7 supports querry."

    "Its a surprise. You'll see later."

    "Unit 2 queries... what kind of surprise?"

    "Unit 1 supports querry."
    "Unit 3 supports querry."
    "Unit 6 supports querry."

    "I told you, you would see what they are for later."

    *Querry. Does likelyhood of acquiring an answer warrant further questioning?*
    *Unit 1 supports continuing*
    *Unit 2 supports continuing*
    *Unit 3 supports continuing*
    *Unit 4 supports continuing*
    *Unit 5 supports continuing*
    *Unit 6 supports continuing*
    *Unit 8 supports continuing*

    "Unit 7 queries... what will we see later?"

    "Grrrrrr...."

    "Query. What is a 'Grrrrr'?"

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    Mandalore - Oracle, Holo Communication
    Participants: Ciaran, Zam

    "So... Zam?"

    "Yes, boss?"

    "I did give you definite instructions on what you are allowed to do while borrowing my appearance, right?"

    "Yes?"

    "You still went far past that and got involved in Mandalorian politics. Politics that involve Mandalorian warriors. Without telling me."

    "Ahhh... I might have gotten a bit too ethusiastic, but Jango has had enough trouble allready as is and I.... errr... I guess I overdid it?"

    "Well, according to reports you got Bo-Katan KRYZE to join Jango and managed to get her and her sister to talk with each other. Peacefully. While also ruining the Deathwatchs reputation even further. Again, all that without telling me, asking for support or having anyone arranged backup plans in case something goes wrong. You do know what that means, right?"

    "Errr... I'm sorry?"

    "It means that I'm not paying you NEARLY enough. I'm transferring a large bonus to your account and ensuring you get a generous raise. Have a nice day~! See you sooooonnn~!"

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    Oracle - Recreation Room
    Paricipants: Two certain Wookiees, SPACE SHAKA ZU... errrr... Grievous

    "I've noticed that those belts and armor pieces you both wear are not made from cloth or normal leather one would normaly expect. What reptilian is that skin from?"

    "Not one native to Kashyyk. You see, with the Trandoshans losing their influence in the system any of them getting too close to Kashyyk are being hunted down. It is getting quite popular to turn them into rugs for a change."

    "Hmm, considering that they do the same to Wookiees that are not fit for slavery its quite appropiate and deserved. I believe I should also get myself some Trandoshan skins as I still lack those as a trophy. If you would excuse me, this a hunt I need to embark on immideately and I need my trusted hunting companion for one of this magnitude."
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    Naboo - Palace of Theed
    Participants: Jar Jar Binks, Padme, Sabe

    "Mesa have bad, bad feeling all offa sudden."

    "Don't let him notice, but slowly inch away from him. His luck has been worse than usuall recently."
    "I have noticed... lets just distract him and leave before he causes another disaster."

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    Oracle - Engineering Bay
    Participants: Take a guess

    "Unit 3 querries... What is a Wang Chun?"

    "Unit 1 supports querry."
    "Unit 2 supports querry."
    "Unit 4 supports querry."
    "Unit 8 supports querry."

    "How am I supposed to know? Ask someone else."

    "Unit 6 querries... Does this unit have a soul?"

    "Unit 1 supports querry."
    "Unit 2 supports querry."
    "Unit 3 supports querry."
    "Unit 4 supports querry."
    "Unit 5 supports querry."
    "Unit 7 supports querry."
    "Unit 8 supports querry."

    "Now that is an interesting question. Organics do have souls as is evidenced by the existence of Ghosts and Phantoms sustained by the Force and how all living beings are also connected to it to various degrees. Droids meanwhile have minuscle force signatures at best, besides you are made out of refined minerals and... wait... I'm a mineral as well... uhhhh... and you aren't... wait... droids are also intelligent and some cases fully sentient... but you don't feel the same way as... but I don't either... Oh no..."

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    Orace - Galvin Thorn's room
    Participants: One distressed Cheriss Sair, one very surprised Galvin

    "What are you doing here dear? I wasn't expecting you until..."

    "Shut up, give me a kiss and close the damn door."

    "Uhhh..."

    "NOW!"
     
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    • I love seeing Jar Jar suffer, Not because I hate him, but he is just very amusing to watch him be in mortal terror.

    Grievous is my favorite out of the whole cast.
     
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    Lava-Blaster - Experimental Report
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    From: Weapons Engineer M. St.
    CC: Chief Engineer Cheris Sair
    To: Lady Ciaran

    Subject: Lavacrystal Experiment

    I'll get right to the point. The experiments have been bloody annoying as attempting to replace the prismatic crystal of a blaster with the lava crystal has been a mess. Either we had the blaster itself spontaneously melt, explode or once we actually managed to get a shot or two fired the difference between a normal shot and what we managed was minimal as we could only spot a few lava droplets on the target. A lightsaber simply has the advantage of being a constant blade, giving the crystal longer time to even have an effect. All in all, it doesn't work.

    In theory. Fortunately for you I'm stubborn and love improvisation. There just so happens to exist a blaster rifle that is known for being able to charge its shots which also simply gets its barrel sawed off to use it as a pistol, namely the Bryar Rifle. I allready ran a few tests after replacing the blasters materials with more heat-resistant ones (good thing that we had the extensive tests made on anomalous materials a while ago) and with the charging of the shots I managed to fire bolts that contained a good ammount of lava that splashed in the target area upon contact with the target.

    The detailed report has been sent to Chief Engineer Cheriss Sair for further experimentation and to finish it as I have to get back to working on our more standard equipment. I allready have a experiment in the works that will enable our troops to electricaly charge their durasteel shield and a few other tricks. You are going to love it, I'm sure.
     
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    From the Supreme Chancellor's Office (Canon)
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    • (Doing Omakes for Sith Lords appears to be becoming a habit.)

    From the Supreme Chancellor's Office
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    "Are you sure Master? The Separatist Leadership has become...cautious as of late due to their most recent setbacks. Should this fail and the tide turn more obviously against them, they will be far more difficult to bend to our will."


    "My dear apprentice, are you so confident to your abilities that you might question my decisions?"


    "Not at all Master, i will see your will be done."


    "Good. Should any of the worms raise their heads to us, strike them down as a lesson to the others. Our plans have been set in motion for too long, only to be waylaid by last minute hesitancy."


    "Yes, my Master."


    The hologram of Darth Tyrannus flickered away, leaving the Supreme Chancellor in his office, the room darkened, its windows blackened giving the appearance of the most secure room in the galaxy having been sealed away from a Republic at war.


    Sidious recalled the slightest tremor in Dooku's voice, the flicker of fear in his eyes as they conversed, the barest trace of nervousness at the thought that perhaps this was when his plot had been discovered, that his treachery would be unmasked and the final confrontation between master and apprentice would occur, as the cycle had unfolded since the Rule of Two's conception.


    The Fool. It was no wonder he was the failure, a junior partner to delegate a role to as he awaited his true apprentice, Sidious mused to himself. Tarkin's fanatical hunt of Skywalker's apprentice, aided by the sheer inadequacy of the bloated husk that was the Jedi Order was preparing his apprentice's descent just fine without his input. Upon poor Padawan Tano's tragic end and the subsequent reveal of her framer just when she was no longer able to be saved, well, the kindly, understanding old friend, the wise Chancellor Palpatine will be there to act as a means of comforting the no doubt grieving Knight, his peers assumption that attachment was a flaw isolating those who were most at risk of a most unfortunate fall.


    Thin lips drew back over yellow fangs as the Sith smiled in the shadows, yellow eyes illuminating the dark. Oh yes, this experience would only be exceeded by his true plans regarding the failure. He could see glimpses of his enemies, rising against the New Order, his Empire. They would be crushed, eradicated and hunted down before they could gather in strength to remove him. The seeds of future rebellion would die with the past. It was all rather ironic, he thought with a slight upturn of the lips. Visions of his possible defeats were fading away, thanks in part to the efforts of an old annoyance to face his unrivalled mastery of the force.


    A white uniform on blue skin with red eyes. "I rule the Empire now. Not some long dead Emperor."

    The alien military genius, slain before he could gain access to a fleet that could threaten him. His toy ships and soldiers broken apart by the fist of a war machine decades in the making.


    A T-Visored warrior, standing upon the sandy, blaster burnt hill as an army chants his name, not his old one, but the one they chose for him. "Mand'alor, Mand'alor, Mand'alor!"

    A warrior people, betraying their past as servants to true power by debasing themselves to fighting for a false dream of freedom, their skies filled with vessels and war and burnt away by an example of their old master's ire.


    "We believe that the Galactic Empire has willfully and malignantly usurped the rights of the free beings of the Galaxy and therefore, it is our unalienable right to abolish it from the Galaxy."

    A gaggle of Senators, thinking that their opinions truly mattered, that the voices of the unwashed masses required anything but a strong hand to direct them or punish them should they stray. Their ignorance burnt out at the source before it can become something...more.


    "I am a Jedi, like my father before me." The foolish whelp begins to die, screaming in agony as lighting races through his body. Cold arms of the slave draws his master away from his spawn and hurls him to his demise.

    The true apprentice, a legacy possibly tainted beyond repair by the meddling of an annoyance spreading like a cancer across the only future worth allowing. He will learn to serve and if not, he will be destroyed.


    Truly, Sidious mused to himself, he should be thanking the self proclaimed Lady Ciaran. Without her efforts to gather the origins of all his future enemies into a single cause, wiping the board clean would take decades. Instead events will proceed as he had foreseen, that by the time her forces had marshalled themselves, his countermeasures will be quite operational, he cackled internally, mentally toying with the thought of leaving his failure of an apprentice till last, so that he could die knowing he was of use to to the only true lord of the Sith.


    The hologram chimed, indicating a call from outside. The blue visage of Mas Amedda appeared. "Chancellor, Admiral Tarkin is waiting to give his report on his meeting with the Jedi Council?"


    The pleasantly smiling, aged by responsibility and concern, face of Palpatine returned, a voice carefully measured for respect and manners responding. "Of course, you may send him in." The office lightened up once more, the throne as it were to the galactic democracy of the Republic. Obstacles, Palpatine reflected, were opportunities that hadn't been properly utilised.
     
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    • Dovahsith said:
    (Doing Omakes for Sith Lords appears to be becoming a habit.)

    From the Supreme Chancellor's Office
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    "Are you sure Master? The Separatist Leadership has become...cautious as of late due to their most recent setbacks. Should this fail and the tide turn more obviously against them, they will be far more difficult to bend to our will."


    "My dear apprentice, are you so confident to your abilities that you might question my decisions?"


    "Not at all Master, i will see your will be done."


    "Good. Should any of the worms raise their heads to us, strike them down as a lesson to the others. Our plans have been set in motion for too long, only to be waylaid by last minute hesitancy."


    "Yes, my Master."


    The hologram of Darth Tyrannus flickered away, leaving the Supreme Chancellor in his office, the room darkened, its windows blackened giving the appearance of the most secure room in the galaxy having been sealed away from a Republic at war.


    Sidious recalled the slightest tremor in Dooku's voice, the flicker of fear in his eyes as they conversed, the barest trace of nervousness at the thought that perhaps this was when his plot had been discovered, that his treachery would be unmasked and the final confrontation between master and apprentice would occur, as the cycle had unfolded since the Rule of Two's conception.


    The Fool. It was no wonder he was the failure, a junior partner to delegate a role to as he awaited his true apprentice, Sidious mused to himself. Tarkin's fanatical hunt of Skywalker's apprentice, aided by the sheer inadequacy of the bloated husk that was the Jedi Order was preparing his apprentice's descent just fine without his input. Upon poor Padawan Tano's tragic end and the subsequent reveal of her framer just when she was no longer able to be saved, well, the kindly, understanding old friend, the wise Chancellor Palpatine will be there to act as a means of comforting the no doubt grieving Knight, his peers assumption that attachment was a flaw isolating those who were most at risk.


    Thin lips drew back over yellow fangs as the Sith smiled in the shadows, yellow eyes illuminating the dark. Oh yes, this experience would only be exceeded by his true plans regarding the failure. He could see glimpses of his enemies, rising against the New Order, his Empire. They would be crushed, eradicated and hunted down before they could gather in strength to remove him. The seeds of future rebellion would die with the past.


    A white uniform on blue skin with red eyes. "I rule the Empire now. Not some long dead Emperor."

    The alien military genius, slain before he could gain access to a fleet that could threaten him. His toy ships and soldiers broken apart by the fist of a war machine decades in the making.


    A T-Visored warrior, standing upon the sandy, blaster burnt hill as an army chants his name, not his old one, but the one they chose for him. "Mand'alor, Mand'alor, Mand'alor!"

    A warrior people, betraying their past as servants to true power by debasing themselves to fighting for a false dream of freedom, their skies filled with vessels and war and burnt away by an example of their old master's ire.


    "We believe that the Galactic Empire has willfully and malignantly usurped the rights of the free beings of the Galaxy and therefore, it is our unalienable right to abolish it from the Galaxy."

    A gaggle of Senators, thinking that their opinions truly mattered, that the voices of the unwashed masses required anything but a strong hand to direct them or punish them should they stray. Their ignorance burnt out at the source before it can become something...more.


    "I am a Jedi, like my father before me." The foolish whelp begins to die, screaming in agony as lighting races through his body. Cold arms of the slave draws his master away from his spawn and hurls him to his demise.

    The true apprentice, a legacy possibly tainted beyond repair by the meddling of an annoyance spreading like a cancer across the only future worth allowing. He will learn to serve and if not, he will be destroyed.


    Truly, Sidious mused to himself, he should be thanking the self proclaimed Lady Ciaran. Without her efforts to gather the origins of all his future enemies into a single cause, wiping the board clean would take decades. Instead events will proceed as he had foreseen, that by the time her forces had marshalled themselves, his countermeasures will be quite operational, he cackled internally, mentally toying with the thought of leaving his failure of an apprentice till last, so that he could die knowing he was of use to to the only true lord of the Sith.


    The hologram chimed, indicating a call from outside. The blue visage of Mas Amedda appeared. "Chancellor, Admiral Tarkin is waiting to give his report on his meeting with the Jedi Council?"


    The pleasantly smiling, aged by responsibility and concern, face of Palpatine returned, a voice carefully measured for respect and manners responding. "Of course, you may send him in." The office lightened up once more, the throne as it were to the galactic democracy of the Republic. Obstacles, Palpatine reflected, were opportunities that hadn't been properly utilised.
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    i hope this won't be canon
     
    Dovahsith said:
    It just seems that everything is going too well for us. So i'm getting the Omake Bonuses while i can.
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    It might look that way but it's because of our good rolls (due to said omake bonuses). Flipping the board the other way just seems ... needlessly spiteful. We can have difficulty dealing with Palpatine without Palpatine being omniscient.
     
    Killerflood said:
    It might look that way but it's because of our good rolls (due to said omake bonuses). Flipping the board the other way just seems ... needlessly spiteful. We can have difficulty dealing with Palpatine without Palpatine being omniscient.
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    You seem to misunderstand me. This is what i think how Palpatine would react because he's Palpatine, not because i for some reason would think an omake of undetermined canonicity would somehow affect the quest. It's in his nature to lay traps and try to remain in control of everything by manipulating people. It's also like him to overlook the risks of such a move in his arrogance. It happened OTL at Endor and i can see it happening now with Ciaran the Wildcard.

    I just don't see one of the most powerful sith lords in galactic history idly standing by whilst we actively hinder his plans and prepare to kill him unless he had a reason to.
     
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    Dovahsith said:
    I just don't see one of the most powerful sith lords in galactic history idly standing by whilst we actively hinder his plans and prepare to kill him unless he had a reason to.
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    We explain it as Sith arrogance, similar to what cost him the Battle of Endor. For in the end his plans for Luke meant nothing for even if he won on the Death Star he would still die.

    Sidious doesn't believe that anyone can match his skill. To him the takeover of the Republic isn't a game, for there's nobody capable of playing against him. Instead this is a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle and all he needs to do is slot the right pieces in the proper place to build his victory.

    To Sidious only the Force matters, the only possible threat is the Jedi Order, and it is too blind to see the enemy standing before them.

    How Ironic.
     
    Dovahsith said:
    I just don't see one of the most powerful sith lords in galactic history idly standing by whilst we actively hinder his plans and prepare to kill him unless he had a reason to.
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    Oh definitely, it just seemed like to me the Palpatine in the omake felt like he had it in the bag and that just rubbed me the wrong way. But like Whumbly just stated, it's because of his own arrogance, so I guess you just had it down so well that it made me feel as if you were writing it as if Palpatine did have it down pat.
     
    Whumbly said:
    We explain it as Sith arrogance, similar to what cost him the Battle of Endor. For in the end his plans for Luke meant nothing for even if he won on the Death Star he would still die.

    Sidious doesn't believe that anyone can match his skill. To him the takeover of the Republic isn't a game, for there's nobody capable of playing against him. Instead this is a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle and all he needs to do is slot the right pieces in the proper place to build his victory.

    To Sidious only the Force matters, the only possible threat is the Jedi Order, and it is too blind to see the enemy standing before them.

    How Ironic.
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    Well yeah. Which is why i can completely see him letting Ciaran gather allies thinking he can deal with them all at once only to discover to his horror that he has just caused his own destruction by doing so.
     
    Killerflood said:
    Oh definitely, it just seemed like to me the Palpatine in the omake felt like he had it in the bag and that just rubbed me the wrong way. But like Whumbly just stated, it's because of his own arrogance, so I guess you just had it down so well that it made me feel as if you were writing it as if Palpatine did have it down pat.
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    Indeed. @Dovahsith should take a bow. That was an outstanding omake if just for getting into Sheev's head so thoroughly that the arrogance sounded like already accomplished facts instead of desired futures, while also sounding so believable a fair amount of the thread started freaking out.
     
    Barondoctor said:
    Indeed. @Dovahsith should take a bow. That was an outstanding omake if just for getting into Sheev's head so thoroughly that the arrogance sounded like already accomplished facts instead of desired futures, while also sounding so believable a fair amount of the thread started freaking out.
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    Thanks.:)

    I'm honestly surprised about the number of people who think this means he's suddenly going to win.

    Its a canon fact that his overconfidence is his weakness, straight from the mouth of Luke Skywalker.
     
    what an interesting omake..... though it shows an error that naturally comes from looking into the future, considering Thrawn never betrayed the Emperor, after his death Thrawn just decided to run things his way
     
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