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taska-rokanh · 3 months

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SHATTERED STARS CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTIONS

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War! The Separatist Alliance has begun attacking the Galactic Republic, sparking a galaxy-wide conflict. In an attempt to keep the peace and protect the Republic, the Jedi Council has begun deploying their Knights and Masters to fight the droid army. Young Knight Taska Rokanh is waiting anxiously to receive her assignment. Unbeknownst to her, her new attaché of clone troopers is doing the same.

Breathe.

Breathe in. Breathe out. When you breathe out, you are entrusting your worries to the Force. And when you breathe in, you are accepting the strength It offers you.

Taska hoped that the Force was generous with strength today.

The extremely temporary quarters the Kaminoans had offered her for the few days she would be on the planet really weren’t that different from her quarters at home—in the Jedi Temple, that is. The floor was made of durasteel, and so colder than the polished terracotta floor there. She hadn’t had the time to bring her mat. Instead, she spread her robe out on the floor and sat cross-legged there for her morning meditations.

This would be her last on Kamino for a while. This morning, she would be assigned troops and sent to whatever corner of the galaxy the Chancellor and the Council deemed necessary.

Her master had told her to stay planetside as she left to assist during the Battle of Geonosis, and despite her anxiety to help, she was grateful. She took the time to meditate, and, when she was ready, used the days before the Council would contact her to study the art of war. It was tedious, exhausting, nauseating, and wholly unpleasant. She was glad that her enemies would be battle droids—inanimate objects with no presence in the Force—but she was all too aware that the ones she would be directing were not. She didn’t know how she would react to the death of one of her own clones. She had been able to dimly feel the flickering-out of some of their presences during Geonosis, lightyears away, how it took away from the brightness of the massive combined glow of all the clones.

She could only imagine how painful it was up close.

She continued her deep breaths and reflexive smoothing of her tunic under her new armor all the way to the hangar, where she was to meet her troops and then board her new ship. It didn’t feel right, to be put in charge of a war vessel as an agent of peace. She tried to push the thoughts out of her mind. A Jedi had no doubts, and if the Council knew what they were doing—of course they did—she should trust them.

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“Yes, Master, thank you,” she nodded and bowed. Master Mundi flickered out of view, and Taska sucked in another breath. He had just confirmed their plans for the morning. Taska did the math in her head—they would have three days in hyperspace to get to know each other and learn how to work together before arriving at their first planet, Zarrebar.

Taska had never provided reinforcement for a Republic military base, much less commanded troops for that purpose. She was just glad that there would be established military personnel already there at the strategic base. Hopefully they were willing to cooperate with “new blood,” as she had already been called.

She sensed the discord inside the hangar before the doors opened, and braced herself for overload. The hangar was bustling, with long lines of clones going to and from, but mostly to, ships, whether fighters or transports, to take them to the seven Star Destroyers or various light cruisers waiting in the upper atmosphere.

“Force,” she whispered to herself. She checked her holopad again, a nervous habit, to make sure she was headed in the right direction. Bay 37, Gunship 12. On the other side of the hangar. She expected to be making close calls as she wove through the dense melee, but the clones recognized her presence almost instinctively and halted to clear a path. She tried her best to thank all of them.

She got the sense that the clones thought the Jedi were quite far above them.

She didn’t like it.

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“Are we all here?” Ace asked, taking another breath through his nose. He wasn’t going to start shaking this time. He could take this. He could do this.

“Yes, sir,” Lark answered. Ace could practically hear the laughter in his voice. Even after the past few years, it never felt natural for him to call his brother ‘sir’. “I think two headcounts is enough to prove that. We just have to wait for our general.”

“Bay thirty-seven… good, alright.” Ace would barely have been able to hear the muttering with his own ears, but the enhanced helmet picked it up clearly. A good thing, too, because it gave him time to straighten to proper attention.

“General Rokanh, sir!” He heard a small kriff before Lark clicked his heels and followed suit, followed by all the men in the gunship. He sighed and tried to focus on the general instead. She wore cream robes and tall dark brown boots, characteristic of the Jedi. The plates of armor on her chest and arms creased the fabric awkwardly, and the end of her long, slick braid was too close to getting caught in one of the junctions. She would have to get better armor soon.

“Oh! Um, hello,” she said, moving her arm almost as if she wanted to salute before thinking better of it. She stuck her hand out instead. “Taska Rokanh. And you are?”

“CC-3135, Captain of Hail Company, sir,” he answered, hesitantly grasping her forearm in greeting.

Her brows furrowed over her deep, dark eyes. “What’s your name? You must have something other than an ID number.”

“Right, it’s, um, Ace, sir,” he dropped his hand quickly to his side. “Nice to meet you,” he added as an afterthought.

She smiled warmly. “It’s good to meet you as well. Hello, I’m Taska Rokanh.”

“Lieutenant Lark,” his brother answered easily. “Excited to be working with you. Do you prefer sir or ma’am?”

I should’ve asked.

“Either is fine, whichever you like better,” Taska reassured him.

She stepped onto the gunship, the men giving her more room than they could really afford, sandwiching themselves into the back of the ship. She carried on in the same friendly fashion, shaking hands and introducing herself to each clone, and by the end, the weight was so evenly distributed on Gunship 12 that they no longer had to worry about their landing capabilities.

The general smiled as they went through the energy field over the hangar, the blue light playing strangely on her slightly crowded teeth and bronzy skin.

Funny. In all of Ace’s imaginations of Jedi, none of them smiled, and she had just done it twice.

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The light cruiser Silverhawk was much smaller than the Star Destroyers, to be sure, but no less impressive. At least, that was what Taska thought, as it loomed closer and closer in view. “I’ve never been on a ship this big,” she said to no one in particular, and regretted it almost instantly. She didn’t want to put her men ill at ease, thinking she was incapable.

“This day is full of firsts, sir,” Lark added, and Taska smiled. At least he was being nice about her slip-up.

When they touched down in the hangar, Taska hopped out and stood to the side. It didn’t take long for the Captain to follow her lead. He looked at her as if he expected her to say something. “Give your orders, Captain, you know what you’re doing more than I do,” she lifted her hands. She had studied command, but she wanted an opportunity to check that her information was up-to-date.

“Right,” Ace said slowly. “Men, we have work to do. I want each ship that comes in after us arrayed, introduced to their superiors, and especially the general, before bunking up. We’ll have time to get bedding and kitchens set up after we leave atmosphere. Understood?”

“Yes, sir!” The call was ringingly loud, even from only nineteen clones.

“So I’ll stay here, then, get a chance to say hello to everyone,” Taska said, only half-questioning. It was a solid plan. Morale and unity depended on everyone knowing and trusting one another, and that meant introducing herself as soon as possible.

“Yes, sir, I’m sure the rest of us are… eager to meet you,” Ace said, clearly trying his best to be polite.

She wrung her hands. “Right,” she echoed. “It looks like the first transport is coming in,” she nodded up to the open hangar doors, where three transports were lowering in in quick succession.

“There’ll be four more in a minute,” the clone told her. “There are 165 men in Hail company, including command. There’s probably about half of that just running this ship.”

“That’s a lot of people,” she muttered.

“Not really,” Ace disagreed. “There are at least four times that aboard each of those Star Destroyers.”

Taska smoothed the front of her robe. “Right. I know. It’s… it’s just good that I’m starting small, I suppose.”

Ace hummed almost imperceptibly in agreement.

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The general and captain stood off to the side as the transports unloaded, all the men proceeding in mostly orderly lines to their sergeants and then the sergeants to their lieutenants. Hail Company was nothing if not efficient. “It looks like they’re about ready,” Ace said, though it was so quiet that Taska couldn’t be sure it was intended for her. She made her way in front of the crowd anyway.

“Attention!” Ace bellowed, voice ringing through the hangar. There was a loud crash as 164 feet stomped and 164 hands went to temples at once. “Our new general wants to speak!”

Taska thanked him and seemed to nearly float onto a nearby crate—one full of bedrolls, a glance at the label told—and went from being a foot shorter than the clones to a foot taller.

“Hello. My name is Taska Rokanh. I am a Jedi Knight. I am twenty-two years old, and I was knighted just about six standard months ago. I’ve lived most of my life on Coruscant, but I’ve studied cultures and environments from all over the galaxy, and been fortunate enough to visit several worlds. I’ve started to and will continue to intensely study the art of war so that I can be the best possible leader for you.” She tried her best to look at each individual clone. “I would like to get to know you all, so please don’t be… afraid to approach me. Don’t think that I will turn away your questions or dismiss your thoughts. Thank you. I will speak to you all again when we’re closer to Zarrebar.”

She hopped down on her own, and mentally, Ace scolded himself. He had seen shows and movies before. He should have thought to offer her his hand. It was the polite thing to do, something she would probably expect from a professional.

“Get to your assigned bunks and set up! There will be no trading, and there will be no pranks. I want us settled in before 0900 and ready to ship out!” He barked, and the hangar dissolved into a flurry of activity.

“I suppose I should do the same,” Taska said. “I think I saw my bags over there. Walk with me? I prefer not to be all alone.”

Ace almost forgot to speak. She was… seeking out his company? But they had only just met. And she was his superior. “Of course, General.”

“And… would you mind removing your helmet? I haven’t had a chance to speak to you face-to-face.”

He silently obeyed.

“Hi,” she said with a smile before sobering a bit. “I hope that’s not intrusive of me. With the way I was raised, I like to make connections.”

“I understand, sir.”

“Actually, I had a question for you.” Ace calmed himself silently. He hoped it wasn’t a strange, intelligent Jedi question that he wouldn’t be able to answer. “Have you studied a lot of strategy?”

“Extensively, sir,” Ace answered easily. That was a question he knew the answer to.

“Naval strategy as well?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Good,” she breathed. “I wasn’t… I had my studies growing up, but they were mostly of the engineering, investigative, diplomatic sort. Nothing about commanding armies,” she chuckled nervously. “And I probably shouldn’t tell you that, what with me being in command and all, but I think you have a right to know that I will need your help.”

“Our first assignment is a good one to learn on, especially if you’re unfamiliar with army structure and protocol, sir,” Ace tried to provide some form of relief. “And that’s what I’m here for. To help you.”

Yeah, that sounded good.

“Thank you, Captain.”

“General Rokanh, sir!” A clone painted in green ran up before planting his feet and saluting. “I’ve been sent with a crate for you, sir!” As he spoke, another clone pushed the levitating package toward the group.

“Oh?” Taska said inquisitively. “Well, thank you. Ah, what is your name?”

“CT-1516, Sergeant in charge of mechanics, sir!” The clone responded, not breaking attention.

“You can put your arm down, you know,” Taska said gently, and waited for him to do so. “What is your name, Sergeant?”

“Greaser, sir,” he responded, still looking unsure.

“Thank you, Greaser,” Taska smiled. “Now, do please open this crate, I wasn’t expecting a delivery.”

He did as he was asked, and pulled a stout cylindrical droid from its depths.

“Aree!” Taska said with a smile as the droid was booted up. The chromium-and-ice blue droid whirred and spun its head in greeting.

“Aree?” Ace asked timidly.

“Well, his full name is R2-E3, but I shortened it to R-E, or Aree, I just like the sound of it,” the Jedi explained with a shrug. “How are you, bud?”

The mech gave a couple of happy chirps, and Taska laughed. “Yeah, we’ll finally get to put all that training to good use,” she agreed. “If you haven’t guessed yet, Aree is my astromech,” she told Ace. “We’ve been flying together since my first sim when I was about fourteen. He’s very experienced with repairs, but neither of us has a lot of practice with weapons systems,” Taska’s face became more serious as she spoke. “That’s something we’ll have to brush up on, eh?”

Ace stood by silently, slowly realizing that this Jedi felt very similar to himself—entirely unprepared.

He supposed they’d learn together.

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Ace seemed worried. That was what kept Taska from sleeping as she lay in her new quarters. The floor was durasteel again, but this time, it vibrated. The light cruiser wasn’t as large as it seemed, and the dull thrum of the three powerful engines spread throughout the cruiser. Not that she minded. She could thrive in much more uncomfortable conditions. She had her meditation mat now, a few changes of clothes that she would put away in the morning, and a small folding table that she thought would probably fit best under the mirror someone had recently installed. That was all she needed. More than enough, really, so it wasn’t that that bothered her.

It was the ill feeling that rolled off of Captain Ace from the moment she met him. It wasn’t sinister by any means—he was clearly sincere and wanted to do a good job. But he was worried. For some reason, Taska wasn’t sure what. When she finally got a chance to look him in his honey-like eyes, they were just… uneasy. Wary. There was anxiety everywhere on the ship, but nothing like his. She didn’t think she was the cause. She hoped she wasn’t the cause. The clones were battle-ready, but Ace taught her something that day—they were also still very young.

#star wars #star wars fanfiction #the clone wars #tcw #clone trooper oc #clone oc #jedi #jedi oc #sw oc #shattered stars #ace ct 3135 #taska rokanh #long sw fic #star wars long fic

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valkblue · 1 year

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I posted 537 times in 2022

That's 8 more posts than 2021!

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gender-luster · 1 year

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a random list of star wars characters who i think should be allowed to say 'fuck':

every droid, but ESPECIALLY k-2so and l3-37 and the battle droids

chewie

grogu

jyn erso

leia organa

bo katan

general hux

obi-wan kenobi

every clone. all of them

padmé amidala

mace windu

rose tico

babu frik

reva sevander

whoever the fuck woody harrelson played

maz kanata

#star wars

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phoenixkaptain · 2 years

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In 2005, Lego Star Wars: The Video Game released. Based on the prequel trilogy of Star Wars movies, this game was in production before the third movie (Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith) was actually released, meaning that the levels created around Episode III have some elements that were unused in the final product of the film.

A key part of Lego games are their character rosters, as in, the characters you can play as in the game. In the Video Game, there are a grand total of 56 characters to play as. 25 of these are unlocked as you play the game, 31 are only available after you buy them. There are 37 unique characters, as many characters have multiple iterations, an example being Obi-Wan Kenobi (padawan) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Episode III). These, in the roster, are two separate characters, despite both being alternate forms of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

The different versions of characters are fun to unlock, despite mostly playing the same (Obi-Wan Padawan and Obi-Wan Episode III have the exact same abilities, the only difference is their little Lego appearances. The only exception to this rule is adult characters with a child version, such as Anakin, because Anakin Skywalker (Boy) has no weapons and can use crawl spaces, but the other Anakin Skywalkers have weapons and cannot use crawl spaces)

Despite being the main character of the films and, technically, the game, Anakin Skywalker only has 4 alternate versions, these being Boy, Padawan, Jedi, and Darth Vader. The character with the most iterations, perhaps unsurprisingly, is Padmé, with 5 versions (if one includes Queen Amidala, which this one does). Although, theoretically, a case could be made for Jango Fett having the most versions, since there are 9 unlockable clones and all of the clones are clones of Jango Fett. Or, you could make a case for there being 10 unlockable clones, if you include Jango Fett as a clone, since all a clone really is is a repeated DNA structure and therefore, as the original DNA structure, Jango Fett himself, in making clones, is a clone.

There are 13 unlockable droids. Battle Droid, Battle Droid (commander), Battle Droid (Geonosis), Battle Droid (Security), C-3PO, Droideka, Gonk Droid, Grievous’ Bodyguard (known commonly nowadays as Magna Guards and yes, I had to look up whether or not they were robots, it’s a bit hard to tell if they’re people or not when they are Legos, whoops), PK Droid, R2-D2, R4-P17, Super Battle Droid, and TC-14. My personal favourite is R4-P17. I feel really bad for R4-P17.

This first Lego game is unique in that it has a bunch of Jedi. There are 12 different Force-users (18, if you count alts). Many of the levels take advantage of this by having box-lifting puzzles (as in, you and a friend (the CPU counts as a friend) both stand on a box and levitate each other), because most of the games have at least two Jedi in each scene. Especially in Episode I, where Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are the duo we follow through the story, but also in Episode II, where Anakin and Obi-Wan are the duo we follow through the story. And, in Episode III, you play as a lot of the other Jedi, teaming up with Obi-Wan. You play a lot as Obi-Wan, if what I’m getting at, and it’s weird that he only has 3 versions. I understand that it’s because Obi-Wan only wears 3 different outfits in the films, I get it I do, but you have an Obi-Wan in nearly every level.

My favourite Jedi to play as was Qui-Gon :)

In 2006, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy was released. The movies, having been released 30ish years before, were completed, so this game relates the story pretty accurately. The only difference is in a few levels where characters would be where they weren’t supposed to be, such as Yoda being in the cave with Luke when he confronts imaginary Vader. Both games, of course, add things to the levels that weren’t in the movies, but they are more notable in this game, as this one was based on movies that had far fewer scenes with multiple characters on screen at a time.

(In the first game, they added R4 to the scene where Obi-Wan is on Kamino, despite Obi-Wan being alone in the movie. In the second game, they had this happen more often. Like Leia being with someone in the first level, or Obi-Wan being with Luke sooner on Tatooine, etc. There were a lot more scenes where Luke would do something alone, in comparison to the prequel trilogy, which almost always had at least two characters on screen at a time (they worked as pairs))

In The Original Trilogy, there is a grand total of 114 characters. However, 46 of these characters are gained via having played the first game on the system before. These 46 characters are prequel characters, in other words, with only doubles excluded (so we don’t have two C-3POs, for example).

Excluding backwards compatibility, there are a total of 68 characters. 29 of these characters are unlocked over the course of regular gameplay, the remaining 39 have to be purchased. There are 45 (ish) unique characters to play as, the rest being alternate versions of characters.

There’s a lot more difference between character iterations than in the first game. For example, the majority of Luke Skywalkers can’t use the Force, instead having a blaster. There’s also that Luke and Han, in their Stormtrooper alts, can unlock doors only openable by Stormtroopers. Leia, in her Boussh disguise, can open bounty hunter doors. There are three ghost characters, Ben, Anakin, and Yoda, and these characters are unique in that they are invisible to the enemy and also invulnerable.

One thing added in this game are, as vaguely mentioned before, doors that are only openable with specific character types, such as Stormtroopers and bounty hunters. My favourite part of this is that both Darth Vader and the Emperor can open Stormtrooper doors. Darth Vader does a little animation where he crosses his arms and taps his foot impatiently, it’s very cute (Palpatine does an animation too, but I forgot what it was, oops, I played as Vader a lot). There are also hat dispensers, so Chewbacca can have a Stormtrooper helmet (balanced precariously on his head) and get into Stormtrooper rooms.

This game is unique in that there are only really 5 droids (we aren’t counting backwards compatibility here). There are 7 bounty hunters. There are 6 characters who have “trooper” in their name. So, unlike the first game, there��s a character whose alts outnumber the droids, the bounty hunters, and every other character.

Luke Skywalker has 8 versions, which is more than any other singular character (unless you count Jango, in the first game, but even if you do count Jango, Luke is pretty close to his record). There’s Bespin, Dagobah, Endor, Jedi, Pilot, Stormtrooper, Tatooine, and Hoth. Leia is a close second, with 7 alts, but Luke is the undisputed champion of the alts.

In other words, Luke really is a lot like his mom :)

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fruity-fangirl · 1 year

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Here is my favourite Star Wars characters ranked: (it is grouped into kinda weird categories)

Prequel (movies):

1. Padme Amidala

2. R2-D2

3. Obi-Wan

4. C-3po

5. Bail Organa

6. Sabé

7. Anakin Skywalker

8. Mace Windu

9. Jango Fett

10. General Grievous

Prequel (series):

1. Ahsoka Tano

2. Bo-katan Kryze

3. Hunter

4. Crosshair

5. Hera

6. Omega

7. Sabine

8. Tech

9. Ezra

10. Wrecker

11. Zeb

12. Echo

13. Kanan

14. Gregor

15. Asajj Ventress

16. Darth Maul

17. Rex

18. Riyo Chuchi

19. Hondo Ohnaka

20. Cal Kestis

21. Satine Kryze

22. Breha Organa

23. Cody

24. Tala Durith

25. Reva

26. Barriss Offee

27. Seventh Sister

28. Alexsandr Kallus

29. Savage Opress

30. Yoda

Original:

1. Leia Organa

2. Chewbacca

3. Luke Skywalker

4. The Armorer

5. Din Djarin

6. Grogu

7. Han Solo

8. Fennec Shand

9. Koska Reeves

10. Cobb Vanth

11. Elia Kane

12. Captain Carson Teva

13. Lando Calrissian

14. Cara Dune

15. Boba Fett

Sequel:

1. Rey Skywalker

2. Finn

3. Poe Dameron

4. Rose Tico

5. Jannah

6. Zorii Bliss

7. Vice Admiral Holdo

8. Porgs

9. Captain Plasma

10. General Hux

Droids:

1. R2-D2

2. C-3po

3. L3-37

4. K-2S0

5. BB-8

6. AZI-3

7. Gonky

8. Wac-47

9. QT-KT

10. Battle Droids

And my last post for may the fourth is going to be extra things like my favourite lightsabers and duels.

#star wars #star wars characters #may the force be with you #may the fourth be with you

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rivercule · 1 year

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Star Wars is so weird about droids. Some droids are fully autonomous people like C-3PO and L3-37. Some droids seem pretty much like autonomous people but they clearly don’t want you to think of them that way (most of the clone wars battle droids). Some are like regarded as hyper-intelligent pets (BB-8, R2-D2). They CAN be mistreated (cone droid from tros, cage fighting droids from solo, tortured droids at Jabba’s palace) but most are happy to serve as essentially slave labor (those droids from Mando). There are notable exceptions, however, in L3 (literal droids’ rights activist), 3PO (who always objects to misadventure but seemingly goes along because he cares about his friends/masters), even the basic battle droids . The can die in very meaningful ways (K2-SO, L3 again, IG-11, 3PO almost) but no one seems to object to like, repurposing their bodies in morbid ways (L3’s memory-bank Falcon thing seemed less dark, kind of like organ donation, but IG’s body was used as a taxidermy statue then turned into an electric scooter). It’s like prominent droids are people but they want you to disregard that whenever they’re not buddies with the protagonists.

#Star Wars #droids

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damianwho · 1 year

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Episode Arc (and Clumping) Guide for Star Wars: Rebels + Dark Disciple Audiobook Chapter/Episode Correlation

Because I could never find an "arc" guide online for Rebels, and as my favorite Star Wars podcast is transitioning into their Rebels era, I decided to clean up and post this list I made that tries to sort/clump episodes together based on shared plotlines, characters, or as failsafe, movieish-sized chunks. The point is to make a sort of manageable, weekly checklist for rewatches.

I'm also including my personal assessment of which of the unmade episode titles for the Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos arcs correlate to which chapters of the Dark Disciple audiobook, so you can listen to them in "episode" chunks over the next couple weeks before it is covered on AMCA.

Star Wars: Rebels

Season 1

[101, 102] - Spark of Rebellion

103, 104, 105 - Droids in Distress, Fighter Fright, Rise of the Old Masters

106, 107 - Breaking Ranks and Out of Darkness

[108, 109] - Tseebo Arc

110, 111, 112 - Path of the Jedi, Idiot's Array, and Vision of Hope

[113, 114, 115] - Tarkin Arc(in)

Season 2

[201, 202] - Siege of Lothal

[203, 204], 205 - Clone Arc + Always Two There Are

[Garel Arc] [206, 207, 208] - Brothers of the Broken Horn, Wings of the Master, and Blood Sisters

215, 216, 217 - The Call, Homecoming, and The Honorable Ones

[Garel Arc] [209, 210, 211] - Stealth Strike, The Future of the Force, and Legacy

212, 213, 214 - A Princess on Lothal, Protector of the Concord Dawn, and Legends of the Lasat

218, [219, 220] - Shroud of Darkness + Chopper Arc

[221, 220] - Twilight of the Apprentice

Season 3

[301, 302] - Steps Into Shadow

303, 304 - The Holocrons of Fate, The Antilles Extraction

305, 306 - Hera's Heroes, The Last Battle

307, 308, 309 - Imperial Supercommandos, Iron Squadron, The Wynkahthu Job

310, 311 - An Inside Man, Visions and Voices

[312, 313] - Ghosts of Geonosis

314, [315, 316] - Warhead + [Darksaber Arc]

317, 318, 319 - Through Imperial Eyes, Secret Cargo, Double Agent Droid

320, [321, 322] - Twin Suns + Zero Hour

Season 4

[401, 402] - Heroes of Mandalore

[403, 404] - In the Name of the Rebellion

[405, 406, 407, 408] - Prototype Arc

[Lothal] [409, 410, 411] - Rebellion Arc

[Lothal] [412, 413, 414] - Loth-wolf Arc

[415, 416] - Family Reunion - and Farewell

Dark Disciple

Ch. 1-7 (Episode 1) - Lethal Alliance

Ch. 8-12 (Episode 2) - The Mission

Ch. 13-17 (Episode 3) - Dark Disciple

Ch. 18-21 (Episode 4) - Conspirators

Ch. 22-25 (Episode 5) - Saving Vos, Part 1

Ch. 26-30 (Episode 6) - Saving Vos Part 2

Ch. 31-36 (Episode 7) - Traitors

Ch. 37-42 (Episode 8) - The Path

The only place I could find online that has attempted to make a similar chapter-episode breakdown was the Clone Wars wikia, which has no source for the information, and in my opinion, cannot be correct to the actual produced chapters of the audiobook. At the very least, Dark Disciples and Conspirators were switched from their original script order just based on the actual content of the audiobook chapters.

#amca #a more civilized age #star wars #rebels #clone wars #dark disciple

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sw5w · 5 months

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Naboo Soldiers Ready to Strike

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:46:37

An interesting thing here is that the mustachioed security guard in the speeder is carrying a battle droid's E-5 blaster. Really shows that they were using everything they could find to fight back.

#Star Wars #Episode I #The Phantom Menace #Naboo #Theed #Battle of Theed #Battle of Naboo #unidentified Security Guard #E-5 blaster rifle #Gian speeder #laser generator/capacitor assembly #light repeating laser blaster #Obi-Wan Kenobi #heavy strike cannon #Theed Hangar #AAT #Armored Assault Tank Mk I #B1 infantry battle droid

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gamecrag · 10 months

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Among the characters of Star Wars Galaxy Heroes are the droids, who have become fan favorites over the years. From the loyal and brave R2-D2 to the ruthless assassin IG-88, there are plenty of great droids to choose from in the game. In this article, we'll be counting down the top 10 best droid characters in Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes. 10) HK-47 Considered one of the best droid characters in the Star Wars galaxy due to his unique personality and abilities. As an extremely efficient assassin droid, he was constructed by Revan to assist them in hunting Jedi, until both have their memories wiped and made to serve the Jedi themselves. HK-47 has the personality of a ruthless assassin and a murderous spree killer, always seeking opportunities. His personality and mannerisms make him one of the most memorable and unique droids in the Star Wars universe. Additionally, HK-47's advanced programming and skills as an assassin droid set him apart from other droids. As a HK-series assassin droid, he became the basis for a new model of HK-series assassin droids known as the HK-50s, which were manufactured at a secret facility on the planet Telos IV 9) BB-8 BB-8's abilities, his Secret Intel ability grants all allies foresight, which enables them to dodge incoming attacks. This ability can be particularly useful in challenging battles where the enemy team has high damage output. Additionally, BB-8's Self-Preservation Protocol ability allows him to recover health and protection whenever he's attacked, making him a tankier droid character in the game. BB's kit synergizes well with other Resistance characters in the game, such as Rey (Jedi Training), Resistance Pilot, and Resistance Trooper. In particular, BB-8's unique ability, I'm With The Resistance, provides him with a damage boost against enemies who are debuffed. Such an ability helps him deal significant damage in combination with other Resistance characters who can apply debuffs. 8) IG-11 IG-11 is a valuable addition to any team composition in Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes due to its unique abilities. IG-11's basic attack, Assassin Droid, can inflict critical damage on its target, which can be lethal in combination with other characters who can apply debuffs. Additionally, its unique ability, Droid Resilience, grants it protection up and tenacity up whenever it takes damage, making it a durable character in battle. This ability can also synergize well with other characters who can taunt or provide protection to their allies. 7) T3-M4 T3-M4's special ability, Repair Kit, can heal itself and other allies, making it a great support character in the game. This ability can be particularly useful in challenging battles where the enemy team has high damage output or where the player's team is struggling to stay alive. Additionally, T3-M4's Repair Kit ability can synergize well with other characters who can also heal or provide protection to their allies. It grants all droid allies critical hit immunity, which can be useful in battles where the enemy team has high critical damage output. This ability can also synergize well with other droid characters in the game, such as HK-47, who rely on critical hits to deal damage. 6) L3-37 L3-37's leadership ability, it grants all droid allies bonus defense and critical avoidance. This ability can be useful in battles where the enemy team has high critical damage output, or where the player's team is struggling to protect themselves from damage. As well as this, L3-37's leadership ability can synergize well with other droid characters in the game, such as R2-D2 or BB-8, who also rely on providing defense or critical avoidance to their allies. her appearance in the game also allows players to relive their favorite moments from the Star Wars franchise. L3-37 first appeared in the movie Solo: A Star Wars Story, where it played a crucial role as the companion droid to Lando Calrissian.

The character's personality and loyalty to Lando were endearing to many fans of the franchise, which likely also contributed to its appeal in Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes. 5) K-2SO K-2SO is considered a spectacular droid character in Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes due to its unique abilities and its role in the Star Wars franchise. K-2SO's basic attack, Skirmisher, can deal damage to its target and also has a chance to grant itself taunt. K-2SO's special ability, Incite, can taunt all enemies and dispel all debuffs on itself. This ability can be useful in battles where the enemy team has high debuff output, or where the player's team is struggling to protect a particular ally. K-2SO's Incite ability can synergize well with other characters who can provide protection up or tenacity up to their allies. 4) Chopper Chopper's Chop Shop ability can also grant it bonus offense and critical chance, making it a viable damage dealer in battles. This ability can be particularly useful in battles where the player's team is struggling to deal damage or where the enemy team has high defense. Their unique ability, Cantankerous Clunker, can also grant all Phoenix Squadron allies bonus speed. This ability can be useful in battles where the player's team is struggling to gain turn meter, or where the enemy team has high speed. Chopper's appearance in the game also allows players to form a full Phoenix Squadron team, which can be a fun and effective team composition in the game. Phoenix Squadron is a Rebel cell featured in the Star Wars Rebels TV series, and consists of Hera Syndulla, Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren, and Zeb Orrelios, in addition to Chopper. 3) R2-D2 One of the most iconic droids in the Star Wars franchise, is also a classic droid character in Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes. R2-D2's abilities in the game are reflective of its role in the Star Wars universe. R2-D2's basic attack, Arc Welder, can deal damage to its target and also has a chance to stun them. R2-D2's special ability, Smoke Screen, can grant all allies stealth and tenacity up. This ability can be useful in battles where the player's team is struggling to protect themselves from damage or debuffs. 2) IG-88 IG-88 is a terrifying droid character in Star Wars Galaxy Heroes. He's known for his mastery of the dark side, and he's also one of the deadliest bounty hunters in the galaxy. His health pool is higher than most other units'--this allows him to take more damage before dying or being defeated by an enemy player in battle mode. His attack speed is lower than average but still fast enough so that players don't need much time between attacks when using them. His range means that enemies must get close enough before they can hit back against this character; however, if they do manage it then there's no guarantee they'll win against someone like IG-88 because he does so much damage per second (DPS). 1) R2-Q5 R2-Q5 is a rare character in the game, with a low drop rate from certain events and packs. A unique droid character in Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes that serves as a support unit with a variety of abilities that can turn the tide of battle in favor of its allies. One of R2-Q5's most notable abilities is Duty Bound, which grants the droid bonus turn meter whenever an Empire ally takes damage. This means that as long as there are other Empire units on the battlefield, R2-Q5 will be able to act more frequently R2-Q5 has synergy with other Empire characters in the game, such as Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine. When used on a team with these characters, R2-Q5 can grant additional bonuses and synergies to its allies. Overall, a versatile support character that can be useful in Empire-focused teams, as well as in teams that need additional healing and support. Its unique abilities and rarity make it a valuable addition to any player

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zora-thesidecharacter · 1 year

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Well, since I can't seem to actually write anything about my OC's nor can I write the story I've made with them, (my brain fucking dies whenever I try to get my story out of it and onto paper/PC), I'm going to post the list I have made over years now of all my OC's. Feel free to give thoughts and/or ask about different characters Because for some reason the only way I can explain anything about this shit is when I'm telling someone who is genuinely interested in it lol.

Here we go, it has some explanation on the sorting if it first, also it might be a little hard to read... Almost 70 of them.

Letter sorting meaning:

(L) originally created when messing around with lego minifigures

(T) yet to be used In the story. (non of them have this at the moment, however a lot of them used to and I put it on oc's I make that I don't plan on putting in the story. Sadly I don't end up getting attached to any oc I make if it's not in the story... So Ive kinda stopped making new ones so that I don't overflow this thing with characters.)

(C) colors/stick figure tournament battles I did when I was little and then somehow kept track the personalitys of. (The alignment for these is for there own story, not the main one, even though they are in the main one.)

(U) used in Story

Alignment:

Good:●

Evil: ■

Neutral and/or switches sides at some point: ◇

The Characters in order that I made them, (each category is how old I was when I made them. A lot of the old ones have names I don't like anymore and/or have changed a ton in the story since then, but I hate scrapping characters and would much rather repurpose.):

7: Blue robot (LU)◇[1]{new name pending}, red robot (LU)◇[2]{new name pending},

8: Sol (LU)■[3], golden guardian (LU)●[4],

10: Jake (LU)●[5], helicopter bot (LU)●[6], Kai (LU)● [7], blue (CU)■[8], black (CU)●[9], red (CU)●[10], dark red (CU)■[11], purple (CU)●[12], orange (CU)●[13], cyan (CU)◇[14], yellow (CU)◇[15], brown (CU)●[16], green (CU)●[17], lime (CU)◇[18], White (CU)◇[19],

12: jay (LU)●[20], Icicle (LU)◇[21]{new name pending}, pebble (U)●[22], mist (U)●[23], gray (U)●[24], leaf (U)●[25], clay (U)●[26], Lucas (U)●[27], zora (shadow) (U)■[28], Jerry (LU)■[29], Dragon Mech "M1RA or Mira" (LU)◇[30], golden sage (LU)◇[31]{new name pending}, victor (LU)◇[32],

13: Nitro (U)◇[33], Aster (U)■[34], shard (U)◇[35], wither (LU)■[36], crow (LU)●[37], droid 27 (LT)●[38]{new name pending}, ray (LU)◇[39], shark (LU)◇[40], snark (LU)◇[41], spark (LU)■[42],

14: natura (LU)●[43], zack (U)◇[44], Ve (U)◇[45], wisp (LU)■[46], husk (LU)■[47], void (LU)■[48],

15: dragon moth {BB} (LU)◇[49], titan robot (LU)◇[50], Lithium (U)●[51], Silver (U)●[52], Copper (U)●[53], Sulfur (U)◇[54],

16: Cobalt (U)●[55], Ada (U) ●[56], chrome (U) ■[57], hazel (U)●[58], saitis (U)◇[59], jade (U)◇[60], Gill (U)●[61], tayla "bug" (U)◇[62], Venus (U)■[63], Zora (not shadow/My Sona/Self insert) (U)◇[64],

17: King (U)■[65],

Number of characters I have that I've been working on don't have a name for yet and havnt fully fleshed out because they are side characters that only show up a few times: 9

That is my list. It big. I love these little creations and even more so love "The Talez Of Solar" as I have named the story.

#oc #oc stuff #oc show and tell #help with writing #story #list #oc list #messy sorting #sorting #The Talez Of Solar

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tuberculosis-bot-9000 · 2 years

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Get to Know Me

Tagged by: @jedi-valjean

Rules: Tag 10 people who you want to get to know better (please make another post)

Relationship Status: Single and ready to mangle

Favorite Color: I really like the dark cool colors. Dark blue, dark green, and dark purple really speak to me. Black top of course.

Three Favorite Foods: Spaghetti, chicken teriyaki with lo mein, and goulash

Song Stuck In My Head: Caledonia by Celtic Woman

Last Song I Listened To: Wake Me Up by Avicii

Last Thing I Googled: Leshy (the Slavic folk deity)

Time: 10:16

Dream Trip: This is hard because I want to go everywhere and do everything BUT if I had to choose one place to go… Rome. I love the culture, I love the food, I love the climate, I love everything about it. Except for the fascism. But I digress.

Thing I Really Want Right Now: Honestly I could really go for some hot chocolate and wistfulness

@accursedkaleeshi @ghostfacedbat @37-battle-droids @koyato @gremlin-t33fs @d3epfriedangels @puirell @unknownspacememes @flateggss @fanshitby808

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Best of EV A4-D

The best of EV-A4-D (Grievous’ sassy doctor droid) from my RP with 37 where we have been putting Grievous & Kenobi in Situations™ since spring 2021. Standalone dialogue is A4-D unless otherwise specified. I put it all in one post so...long post. 5k

> “Another day, another chance to die by laser sword,”

> "I don't think I've seen you quite this useless in at least a couple weeks, master,"

> [A4’s initial exposition to the Jedi]:

"He is only insufferable because I am his only social influence. A curse unto myself," The general said, now testing the pressure sensors in the tips of all of his newly regained fingers.

"Big of you to admit your personal failings, master," The droid chirped.

"Unit, I will overhand throw you like a spear directly off of this mountain," Grievous rasped to his mechanic but jolted when the leg being installed reconnected to his synthetic nervous system.

> "Have fun with your new friends, master, very proud of you," AD-4 chimed as Grievous made to lead Kenobi out of the repair bay. Grievous threw a spanner at the droid.

> He opened the door to the control room & A4-D had sat himself in the master chair in the middle of a tedious console of monitors.

"Can you mind your own business for five minutes?" the general said as he picked the droid out of the chair & moved him out of the room. Grievous took a few moments to get what he needed from the terminal. A4-D looked the two Jedi up & down as if judgmentally.

> "Are you sure these are Jedi, master? This one looks homeless." A4-D asked as his master stepped back into the hall.

"Kenobi just looks like that," was the general's instant reply. "Do you think you are coming, unit? Give me one good reason not to wipe your memory & leave you where you belong," he said to the droid.

"...My jokes will repeat. Additionally, master, you don’t remember how to be organic but I am a medical droid by factory standards. What if your new homeless friend & his angry son need medical attention?" A4-D suggested […]

> "I will not be silenced." A4-D voiced right before he was silenced.

> "Oh I see, it is just anyone that can silence me. I operate in a society-"

> A4-D panicked in a lower volume, "Oh no right he has real nerve endings," before trying to place a bandage on it a gently as his medical grade claspers possibly could.

>"Master, these are the best pieces on you, you must be careful-," the droid fretted. [About the fin-like arrays that frame Grievous’ head]

>"I've never seen master get so mad that he didn't speak. And my job is to deal with him exclusively when he needs repair, so I like to think that the probability stats I ran suggesting we were all going to die just then were pretty credible."

>"You sprung a giant cyborg warlord out of jail, fixed him, assassinated the leader of the Separatists, arrested another war criminal, blew up several things, crash landed, & are now stranded on an arid planet with an unhappy native population without sustenance? Prognosis: Poor." A4-D helpfully recounted.

>[After Grievous came in & told Kenobi he looked like shit] "His prognosis is poor." The droid chimed. To which his master replied, without looking up from the console, "You're going to have to specify."

>"This is very exciting." A4-D said as he followed.[Being shot at by snipers]

>"Yes, Human Kenobi?" A4-D shuffled over to the console & peered over at the Jedi. Then, in what he thought was a hushed whisper, he said, "Are you giving me orders to me now, too? Are you ~M a s t e r~ Human Kenobi??"

>"I have never run out of power before," he added, suddenly aware of his own mortality.

>"Is your vision compromised?" The droid craned his head as if to see Kenobi's eyes. He turned his head lamp on in what could have been malicious as equally as it could've been oversight. "Looks functional." [A4-D flashbang count: 1]

>"Is that a bribe? How exciting." It was a win win for him, really.

>"I have my larger work lamp." A4 swung one of the large apparatus arms off of his back. At the end was indeed a large multifaceted lamp that he turned on directly in his master's face. There was a flash & a pop. One of the bulbs burned out. "Oh that's embarrassing." [A4-D flashbang count: 2]

>"Jedi Kenobi, you look acceptably pink," he said.

>"Oh yes, B1s may be getting dumber with every update but they are still very useful for many things," Grievous said. "Couldn't be me." A4-D added in a haughty tone.

>"I am the personal doctor of General Grievous, Supreme Commander of the Separatist Droid Army. That's you." A4 boasted with a little lift in his chassis.

"So you're just a repair droid," it said sardonically, tapping a finger on A4's head.

"I am THE repair droid, thank you very much," A4 said slapping away the other's arm with a clank. "You're just a B1!"

>"Droid business, master Kenobi," A4-D said like there was nothing to see here, "This B1 must have dust on one of his audio input contacts." Grievous had been willfully ignoring them, dying a little more inside for every stupid thing he had to put up with.

>"A4 how is your power cell," the general barked. "Horrendously depleted, master." A4-D chirped, earning him another deadpan stare.

> “…They used that time to /reacted/-" A4 suddenly stopped babbling & his ocular lenses blinked red. "Oh I've never tried to recall classified information, before. How exciting."

>"Hard to scout as a giant clanking murder machine with asthma." A4 chimed.

> Hearing A4 say something about helping, he pointed a finger at the droid saying, "Do not-" There was a pause where neither moved. A4 deployed his large overhead surgery lamp directly at his master's face. Grievous snatched one of the bulbs from the fixture & smashed it over the droid's head. "Clean that up," he barked offhand. [A4 flashbang count: 3]

>"I am sure you are an acceptable level of weird," A4-D said in a tone that he thought was reassuring but was decidedly not.

>"I could not fathom his attitude before the adjustments," A4-D said to Kenobi with just as much attitude. "It was better, I imagine, not being surrounded by idiots & mindless droids," Grievous rasped as he stalked around the table. A4 stood his ground even as his master wrenched his overhead lamp arm off & kept walking. "I'm taking this," he said while he put it somewhere the droid couldn't reach. "Oh," was all A4 had to say about it, if not a bit dejectedly. [RIP A4-D flashbangs]

>"Perhaps," A4-D said as he marched back in with an empty crate in his arms. Unfortunately, he had to walk behind his master to get to the shelf. Grievous just slapped the crate out of his hands as soon as he got close.

> "Master, you should have fast tracked my field upgrades," A4 said woefully. "No, I shouldn't have," Grievous replied. "I am going to rust." "No, you aren't." "You will miss me." "I will not." That exchange was very much reminiscent of a parent dealing with a dramatic child.

>"His head does not have range of motion enough for him to reliably spot weld that arm back on," Grievous followed, nodding back toward A4. There were several loud crashing sounds, followed by a pause, followed by A4-D dejectedly voicing, "My head does not have the range of motion enough for me to reliably spot weld this arm back on..."

>"Master says he's not wasting more power cells on me when I have a solar charging array & I am only mildly offended…”

>"It’s so dreadfully analog. But you are analog & seem sustained. Master is not. He might die here literally as opposed to the figurative deaths he complains about," the droid babbled very casually.

>"What are you idiots doing?" Grievous had passed the entryway after a while of suspicious silence & paused. "Charging," A4 replied.

>"I remember every rumor I have ever heard," A4 said with a sudden seriousness.

> A4 clasped his primary hands together with a clang. "Oh! He is going to be so very mad," he said excitedly. Sure, he will get in trouble, but Kenobi will be in trouble & something about that prospect was very appealing to him.

>"To be a slave to a sun like an organic so that I don’t run out of power. Like a common household droid." A4 lamented as his train of thought went from the rain to the sun.

> Grievous added another tool to the very high shelf of droid forbidden items.

>"There is no singular individual who represents the entire Order." Kenobi stated upon A4's addressing of him. "And why are you fixated on me being 'weird'? That's a subjective term anyways."

"Oh, apologies. Irregular," A4 corrected with what he thought was sensitivity. It was not.

>"Well, given that you are terminally depressed & master Kenobi is completely organic, prone to feelings, I feel like I am the most logical processor present," A4-D decreed after thinking for a moment.

>"Kenobi, I am granting you clearance to power A4-D down if you want him to shut up for five consecutive minutes," Grievous said to the Jedi. This garnered an offended tutting from the droid. "Master, you wouldn't." "The power switch is on the underside of his head just behind the neck ball joint," the general drawled without pausing. A4 gasped as if he had been betrayed.

>"Oh yes. So much intrigue. Where are we? Who did this? Does anyone know we're here?" A4 lit up about it. The only beings he had to gossip to on Vessek were the magnaguards & he didn't think they cared.

> Grievous turned his head to A4 & asked, "Were you going to help or were you just going to-" "Supervise." They both said at the same time.

>"My personality is not exactly-" Grievous waved a hand, searching for an accurate word. "Nice. Welcoming. Friendly," A4-D helpfully suggested several. "Palatable," Grievous rasped with finality.

>"General Grievous is not an actual general & my whole life is a lie?" A4 posited very matter-of-factly.

>"If you get it over with you can go back to not thinking about it," A4 chirped. He made a surprisingly convincing argument even as he pulled on his master's arm. He went absolutely nowhere, Grievous having not budged.

>"I have conflicting directives about placating comforts but maybe think...about...nicer times?" He really struggled with that line of thought, not really able to reconcile his master with positive emotions.

>"He has have never had anything nice to say about anyone," A4 chimed, patting the general's shoulder like one would the roof of a reliable vehicle.

>"Jedi master trapped out here to be bullied by Separatist droids, hm?" "Living the dream," A4 remarked. He was ignored.

>"I don't know your Republic motivations," A4 said in his defense…

> He looked down & scanned a wayward fish that strayed too close. Prognosis: fish.

> Kenobi was good to study as it had been clear himself & his master were exceptions to most things except maybe behavioral disorders.

>… A4 muttered, "I am so good at everything I do," regarding his foraging.

> The general's voice modulator crackled as if he had scoffed. "Look at his stupid smile," Grievous said disparaging but lightheartedly. "Stupid, sir," A4 confirmed, doing his task.

>"It is humorous in comparison to a few standard months ago. But I suppose literally sharing blood is as medically intimate as you can get," A4 said thoughtfully. Grievous made as much of a face as he could in response to 'medically intimate' as the worst phrase he may have ever heard. A bewildered "Unit-" was all he managed.

>"Really??" A4 asked as if being stripped for parts to fix Grievous was one of his life goals.

>"Correct, master Kenobi. But are you telling me your organic brains aren't ascribing meaning to it? The philosophical warlock of an ancient order & the war machine whose every other sentence is a poetic metaphor for his misery? Isn't that all organic beings do?" A4 questioned very pointedly.

>"Yes, my EV base model is laboratory assistant. With all of my modifications for my current position I have skills from a few different classes," A4 then said with casual certainty, "I'm sure I am the equivalent of a first-class droid." Grievous rolled his eyes. "That's not how that works, unit," the general said. "New planet, new rules," A4 replied.

>"Master, I can't believe you said I was copper. What if I called you off-white? When you are clearly a brilliant ivory. I couldn't!" "You insult me all the time," Grievous replied to A4 calmly but kept his listless gaze on Kenobi. "I critique your abilities not your first-rate design," the droid chimed like that was a compliment.

>"This planet sure takes a lot of water," he said suspiciously, wondering where it all went.

>"Can you feel empathy, A4?" Grievous drawled. "I can recognize the patterns when people are supposed to feel empathy & I think that's worth. Something," the droid said positively.

> “…but do you want any random plants for your laser fish?" A4 asked holding up a thin slice of the magenta root vegetable. [A4-D trying to make helpful cooking suggestions]

> A4-D loudly heralded the return of the rogue Separatists. As soon as Kenobi was in view he enthusiastically announced, "Master said if his wife knew you were fishing with a blaster, she would kill you."

>[After Grievous had crafted several things in a survival situation] "Make me a hat," A4-D heckled from his spot by the bulwark only to be ignored.

>"No one likes a snitch, A4," Grievous replied. … "I do. I like snitches," A4-D insisted from the doorway.

>"Will I ever get those upgrades now?" A4 said as forlornly as he had ever said anything.

>“Oh? You are worried about me & my superior engineering?” Grievous mused antagonistically. “That’s my job,” A4 shot back with as much of a little temper as he had displayed so far. “We aren’t Separatists anymore, are we?” he followed, tapping his claspers together. “We were never Separatists, A4. We were Separatist property. There is a difference.”

>"Best I can do is lobotomy," he said as if he were thrilled to have something to bring to the table. The stunted cackle Grievous tried to stop may have gone unnoticed if he didn't start coughing afterwards.

>"Organic juice does strange things," A4 said. "Don't call it that." "...Soup?" "Ugh. That's worse, stop," Grievous dismissively shoved A4, who clattered over then righted himself.

>"I wonder how long Kenobi can sit here being miserable before he crashes or has a mental breakdown," Grievous wondered aloud at length. "Ooh. Emotional breakdown?" A4 expressed in a very conspiratorial tone. He was very excited at the prospect of a grown man crying.

>"I must say you two & your affinity for the sun has really grown on me," A4-D was saying before the small hatch covering his solar charging interface popped out of its housing, springing away like a grasshopper that he'd failed to catch. "That's embarrassing..."

>"It would be easier for my self-maintenance if I had all of my boom arms," A4 had the gall to say while General Grievous had multiple hands on him. "Your surgical grade, one hundred thousand lux, seven thousand credit boom light was not going to help you, & in fact we probably would have gotten killed you by now," Grievous casually replied. "It was ten thousand credits. They don't make them anymore." "They don't make you anymore." "Oh, right." A4-D seemed unbothered by this & was just glad for the attention until Grievous declared him suitable for work.

>"Poor thing. Too bad A4 apparently never had anesthetic," Grievous said aloud. "You don't need anesthesia if you've got enough restraint measures," A4 chimed. "Horrific, thank you-…”

>"Master has specifically instructed me not to bother you," A4 said as he approached.

> “…She had a shelf I could not touch without her permission because I didn't "appreciate the weight of off-world spices"," Grievous idly chatted. This was met with a, "Nice" from A4-D. "Not that kind of spice," he replied but chuckled nonetheless.

>"Its fine, master, the force isn't even real," A4-D rationalized quite confidently.

>"Can you stop insulting either of our cultures long enough that we won't throw you in the deep water?" Grievous turned his head to the droid. "Probably," A4 replied very positively.

>"Any progress on the psychosis front?" A4-D asked. … "Boy, you're going to have to specify," Grievous pointedly replied. "Oh, I mean master Kenobi's headspace. You're far too gone to do anything about." After a brief pause Grievous just shrugged & accepted this.

>"I choose to be optimistic about this mostly because master is a black hole of positivity, but also because it would be at least 63% less entertaining here without master Kenobi," A4 reasoned to neither of them in particular.

>"-but where does it go?" A4-D was saying emphatically as Kenobi resurfaced. "The. Ground." Grievous replied in a manner indicating it was not the first time they had circled back to this conclusion. … "Explain evaporation to him," Kenobi suggested to Grievous as he sat down in his spot in the doorway … "Thank you, General Kenobi, it had not occurred to me to explain the water cycle. Repeatedly. For over an hour," Grievous said in the driest of sarcasm. "If this planet's rotation is eleven standard hours & that's minimum 4 hours of nonstop rain-" A4 rambled for a while about hours & volume & rates of atmosphere uv absorption before he abruptly stopped. He came back to sit at his master's back. "I don't know how to work the topography scanner," he said casually.

>"I don't need -babysitting-." A4 said indignantly. "I am a supervisor droid!"

>"Me?" A4-D paused in earnest. Nobody had ever asked him how he was operating. Many times that was because he told everyone how well he was doing at any perceived opportunity. But still!

>"Giving up galactic government secrets because a man is nice to you, A4?" the general asked as he had done so. "Aren't you?" A4 replied incredulously. The two exchanged a terse glance before Grievous shrugged his great shoulders.

>"Aw. Your needs," A4 had said as he retreated into the ship in an absentminded way, as if it was quaint that Obi-Wan had needs. They were met, even. It was just a reminder that A4 was not all onboard the Hippocratic Oath & his charges were usually more like pets to him than anything. Grievous kept his deadpan composure despite finding that hilarious.

> A4 stood just shy of the doorframe, just close enough to scan both of the generals, which he proceeded to do without permission. "You're both still alive. I'm such a good doctor," A4-D announced.

>"It is nice of you to help with your little arms, master Kenobi," A4 chimed to him with a nod, jostling his folded reed hat that he had not taken off since it was given to him.

> He was already in trouble so A4-D threw the saber as far in the opposite direction as his pistons could. "The force isn't real," he declared. Grievous was caught so off guard that, after a second of shocked silence, he started laughing.

The chaos of the moment was enough for Kenobi to miss as he attempted to grab his lightsaber back. Once he registered what A4 had done and then proclaimed, he shoved the droid with the Force, right into the base of the nearest tree and then looked out in the direction he'd thrown his weapon. In that moment, he could not possibly think of anyone worse to be stranded on a random little planet with.

Grievous took a minute to laugh next to hysterically until he had to stop to catch his breath. He picked A4 off the ground by his huge boxy head. "This is why no one fast tracked your field upgrades, you insufferable gremlin. Now, you will finish this by yourself. That is a direct order," the general rasped quite threateningly before dropping the droid. "Fine, master Kenobi wasn't helping much anyway- that's my hat. You gave it to me-" A4 dropped his attitude when he realized Grievous had taken his hat & put it on Kenobi. "The general giveth, the general taketh away," Grievous replied with a shrug of his great shoulders. He then swatted at Kenobi's shoulder with the back of his hand. "You drop that thing all the time, you shouldn't have trouble finding it, eh?"

>"At least he didn't maim anyone." He fell quiet for a moment & only jolted slightly when his internal comms crackled along the small speakers framing his faceplate. "Are you guys taking about me?" came A4's obnoxious voice.

> "Ugh. Fine." He stuffed the hat onto A4's big dumb head. "I can't treat you like a child." "Because I am mature." "Because children learn. You are programmed to be insufferable." "Satisfactory," A4 said as he sat himself in the pilot's seat beside them.

>"But Kenobi, really? He's just a human, looking like the most human human that was ever a human," A4 said, gesturing to the man sitting next to his master. Grievous had to shut his eyes for a second so that he did not laugh & encourage the droid's urges to be a little bastard. "EV A4-D, you should know the bar is very, very low. You're still functioning, aren't you? You think if I was any less desperate that you would be operational? No. Especially after," Grievous paused to cough & not laugh again, "you threw Kenobi's actual lightsaber off a cliff." It was still really funny to him. "Did it go off a cliff??" A4 asked excitedly, as if he were impressed with himself.

> "Master Kenobi wouldnt do that," A4 replied, trying & failing to sound assured. "I have rights." "You -literally- do not," Grievous shot back in a deadpan expression.

> "You don't have any friends, master. Master Kenobi is only being nice to you because you are feeding him & you're a giant murder cyborg," he said in the undue cold sassy way his voice modulator sounded.

> "Oh! That's going to bruise extensively! It will be colors, " he chirped rather excitedly.

> "Yes! IG-100-2.6 can rust a servo-" "IG-100-2.6 has literally never said a word in their life." "But they were thinking it," A4 insisted with suspicion...

> "You didn't have to. I would have just left him on the floor where he belongs." "That is because you have no sense of physical comfort, unit," Grievous rumbled disinterested. "No, I do, I just think it's funny to withhold it." "That is not better-"

> "I can't go into sleep mode when you guys keep saying things I want to know," A4 defended.

> "You're awfully expensive for a calculator, no?" "How dare-"

> "Very impressive that master has not stepped on or otherwise injured you sooner, master Kenobi," A4-D said. "What with him being 300 pounds of durasteel & you being a scant meatbag in comparison."

> "By all means get your environmental enrichment. It seems to be doing wonders for master's irritability," A4 said sounding only a little sassy about it. "Yes, Dooku never let me in the grass, therein stems all my behavioral problems," Grievous replied in absolute deadpan as he stood & offered Kenobi a hand.

> "Sheer numbers can only take you so far. Certainly no replacement for the adaptability of a warrior." "Wow, I am sitting right here," A4-D said, affronted.

> "Thank you for supporting my better vandalism through chemistry, gentlemen," A4 chimed.

> "I am still alive, am I not?" Grievous humored him. "You are! Even though you don't even want to be & even though the galaxy shares that sentiment. An excellent job," the droid said emphatically, very impressed with himself.

> "Is he going to keep talking the entire way back to Coruscant?" Anakin questioned as A4 got going about boring lairs and magnaguards.

> "Are the Jedi going to scrap us? All we've got vouching for us is master Kenobi & that might be out of trauma related psychosis," A4 said quite matter-of-factly, gesturing to Kenobi.

> "You have gossip, unit. While amusing, I don't think it's admissible in Republic high court," Grievous replied. A4 nodded as if he understood. "Such a shame. It's good stuff."

> "There you are A4, Coruscant: the center of the core worlds." Grievous rose from his seat, saying to the Jedi, "I will shut him off for the safety of your citizens & comms, no?" A4 objected but Grievous leaned down to power him off. He tapped the forehead of his faceplate against his with a small clink, muttering under his breath, "Good work, unit." They heard the power wind down then Grievous suddenly, in one swift motion, wrenched the droid's remaining boom arm off & speared it into the ship's console between the jedi. He briefly shrugged at them with a familiar look of desperation in his eyes, if not less furious.

"Go home, dovt'iin," he hissed. With one powerful kick he knocked the poor ship's side hatch into the air traffic & fully intended to follow. [Grievous escaped & left A4-D to his fate of being decommissioned by the Republic. RIP]

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