Clone Wars and Prequel era

Clones and Jedi content. 18+ please. Follow and interact via my main shabre-legacy.

[lawyerupassholes-deactivated201]

Come on. You want me to stay because of the way you feel about me.

[roseaesynstylae]

Clone exploring the Jedi Temple, clones and Jedi younglings bonding, clones relaxing in the Room of a Thousand Fountains, clones taking lessons at the Temple, clones and kyber crystals, clones and Jedi clones and Jedi clones and Jedi clones and Jedi CLONES AND JEDI CLONES AND JEDI CLONES AND JEDI

[tatooineknights]

STAR WARS (1977) Dir. George Lucas

[bisexualvader]

"you say that that's your brother you'll always come around you'll always have each other" Brotherly Hate - Hayley ​Williams

[retroanimechris]

Rare and hardly documented Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones fanart and concepts by Australian artist Craig Burt, which were once up on the now Jango-Fett.net website. First uploaded in December of 2002.

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[autistic-mandalorian]

Ways of Describing Corsucant:

If wealth inequality was a place

Cyberpunk: The Planet

Jeff Bezos' Wet Dream

Sci-fi franchise employees' cry for help

Planet Gentrification

If smog was sentient and designed its dream home

Hostile Architecture: The Planet

Ball of factories and despair

What happens when billionaires get tired of skyscrapers

Capitalism's hairball

[hastalavistabyebye]

Every so often I'm thinking about what Coruscant culture (and art) would look like.

Because it's one hell of a melting pot, that's for sure. But it has also been the Capital of the republic for a very long time. People have been there for generations after generations, living on top of each other's. So there would be a Coruscanti culture. But it's also very divided between the elite in the hight levels -very wealthy, very powerful- and the lower levels -very poor, very numerous and diverse. And it's a giganormous metropol which means that it's always changing, always evolving. And since it's the litteral Capital at the center of the Republic, it also most likely has access to the newest inventions and highest tech...

So what would its culture look like ? Would it be defined by contradictions too, like the rest of the planet ?

Maybe the music would be the form of art that unify it the most easily, with its easy way of propagation. Of course there would be lots and lots of different scenes (with various cultural influences, genres...) but it could have something that sounds distinctly "Coruscanti" just like it's easy to know when our music is from the US because this mainstream music sounds "American". Because of course coruscanti music would be wild spread through the republic too.

Fashion and clothes would have the same tendencies too. Very different clothes depending on how hight you are of course. And Coruscant wouldn't be as famous for its fashion trends as Naboo, obviously. But it could still have quite the influence (especially if we think some people copied the Jedi clothes to be trendy or what not, who says it would be the only style copied like that ?)

But what about the other art forms ? There would be an Elite art and a lower levels art ?

The elite art would be like every elite art around the world, very luxurious, good and bad tastes alike (just like I've already thought about with space Palissy and Cellini). I tend to think from what we saw in canon (especially with Thrawn's art collection in Rebels and Luthen's gallery in Andor) that the elite favor sculptures and other tridimensional arts more than pictural art. The only time where we saw pictural art having a major cultural importance was for the Mandalorians and their armor paint really, anyway.

And the Lower levels are completely submerged in urban life. I don't think sculptures would be the favorite medium here, especially with the restrictive spaces they live in, all piled up like that. So maybe graffiti and murals would be commonplace. It would definitely be a more "people art" if I can say it like that, something with a soul and value for the people making it, but without the intellectual, artistical research and such of the elite. Something not simpler necessarily but more organic, living with the people. Made of everything at hand, knick-knacks and such. Maybe holographic? But I don't know how that could be done. Yeah, graffiti for sure (there would be so much surfaces for that too). But I'm sure there would be other mediums too.

Coruscant really is something complex and a bit monstrous. And it's so so hard to gauge its depth, including when thinking about how it even works. So here's some of my thoughts on its culture and art. Do tell me what you think.

[rooksunday]

aaah this is great to think about! thrawn’s approach to examining a culture to prepare for war was super interesting to me, as a character note but also to show the societal differences— in ‘treason’ he analyses that officer through composing and performing music, and it’s implied that the form of music—space classical, i guess?—was a higher class thing (bc all the imperial officers were at least pretending to enjoy it). so i think that would be lifted from coruscanti ~high brow culture for sure.

this is a great thing to think about for the city planet. gonna chew on ittttt.

[junkdrawertales]

coruscant fascinates me…a city spread across an entire planet, skyscrapers so tall that they become the new surface. what used to be streets are chasms. the entire crust of the planet has been raised. a termite tower that expands and expands until is crumbles under its own weight, importing pieces from other planets until its original form is a tiny speck of grit beneath a nacre of engineering hubris

[tarisilmarwen]

While I'm at it:

The Star Wars universe, fundamentally, intrinsically, does not act like anyone can use the Force given enough effort/willingness to be open it.

If that was all it took, just a determination to have the right mindset and learn, Palpatine would not have needed to target Force Sensitive children, in particular, and mark them out as threats against his reign. The Jedi would be taking in anyone who was willing to live the Jedi Path, not just individuals with a particular affinity for connecting to the energies of the universe that needed to be taught to manage that in a safe environment. There would be soooooo much, for lack of a better term, "cultural appropriation" with regards to Force practices, akin to casual yoga moms dabbling in its "spirituality" or Force lifting things for the health benefits.

You think the criminal underworld of the Star Wars universe would not be aaaaaaall over giving their every mook and low level grunt the ability to choke people out? You think there would not be so many more Dark Siders running around in the galaxy if the only barrier between a selfish greedy bastard and the ability to use the Force was a willingness and discipline to practice at it?

You could maybe, maybe, make an argument that the lack of widespread knowledge about the Force is the reason less people are able/willing to use it but that only works during the Dark Days when Palpatine has suppressed and genocided away almost all knowledge of the Force and its practioners. (Still doesn't completely work because common asshats like Motti still know enough to know that belief in the Force existed and was a thing in the past.) But the Republic has at least a thousand and in the EU several thousand years of history behind it, in which the Jedi have always been a constant presence that people have at least heard about, even if very few have actually met one. In ALL that time, you're telling me NO ONE figured out the Force Feats = Effort + Work + Willingness to do it (and sometimes natural talent) hack?!

Like. Even before George officially put it into canon that Force affinity has a physical, biological component, the entire expanded universe has acted, and continues to act, like the ability to connect to the Force is something you either have or you don't have. There is no going from Not Sensitive to Sensitive, no going from Can't Use The Force to Can Use The Force, unless you meet a minimum, measurable, tangible threshold.

And sorry, if Sabine had at all met that minimum threshold, someone would have known about it before the events of the Ahsoka show. It would not have taken 25 years and Ahsoka's super special magic discernment to figure it out. Conversely if she was so low level that she evaded detection all those years, then she was too low level to ever be able to touch the Force.

Thanks for coming to my frigging TED Talk oy.

[starwarsfangirl]

[ayeaye00]

Iain McCaig / Queen Padmé Amidala

[carbonitechaz]

hey don't think about Kanan and Hera's shared glances of pride the first time Ezra takes food from the kitchen without asking or "stealing". Or when he starts gaining weight. Or stops clutching his backpack to his chest every time someone walks by and scowling like he's ready to fight.

Don't think about when his general chatty mouthiness turns into sitting in the cockpit while Hera works under the dash, swiveling in Kanan's chair and talking about everything that crosses his mind. His hopes, Lothal, all the places in the galaxy he wants to go, his favorite food.

Don't think about Hera trying to pretend she's only half listening as if the panel wasn't rewired an hour ago. Don't think about her disassembling and reassembling and banging and cutting random pieces off the underside of the dash so that he won't be brought out of the trance by the stop of the noise and showers of sparks.

Don't think about the rush of memory and emotion in Kanan when Ezra draws his lightsaber high over his shoulder and sets his stance without being asked, much less taught to do so. He looks so much like Depa had been teaching him that Kanan briefly wonders if there was more to lineage than just succession.

Don't think about Kanan realizing that for the first time his apprentice feels open in the Force. He feels at peace, he feels lighter, he feels focused, and he looks like he got one of Caleb's afternoon lessons beamed into his brain by the Force itself. Don't think about the pride in Kanan's heart he's still not quite sure if he's supposed to show.

Don't think about the nights Kanan and Hera stayed up calling everyone they could think of, poring over imperial prison reports, holonews, and death announcements looking for Mira and Ephraim. Don't think about the conflicted emotions neither of them were willing to think, let alone say.

Don't ever, for your health, think about the empty cups of caf between them and the unspoken feeling that, for better or worse, he was already theirs.

[theorganasolo]

Carrie Fisher in a suit

[nolwamahtars]

“Jyn, I think, never knew the effect she had on others – never realised the intensity of her own humanity…”

[theangelofangst]

Kanan and Ezra Headcanons:

The first time Ezra called the Ghost “home,” Kanan nearly lost his composure.

When Ezra first reached out to Kanan through the Force during a mission gone wrong, Kanan felt a flicker of pure panic, not because of danger, but because he realized how much he couldn’t bear to lose him.

Kanan often catches himself using the same tone of voice his own master used, and it always makes him stop for a second, wondering if Depa would be proud of the way he’s raising Ezra.

Ezra, for all his mischief, always sits a little closer to Kanan after a hard mission, like being near him steadies the galaxy again.

After Malachor, Ezra started sleeping near Kanan’s door more often. He didn’t say why, and Kanan never asked. He just left the door open a little wider.

Kanan doesn’t remember when “my Padawan” quietly turned into “my kid,” but it did.

[gffa]

IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN BAIL ORGANA AND HIS UNWILLINGNESS TO FORGET ABOUT A HORRIFIC INJUSTICE [Star Wars: The Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear | Alexander Freed]

[fellthemarvelous]

I think something a lot of people miss in The Wrong Jedi arc is that the Jedi Council doesn't have the information the audience has.

We know Ahsoka isn't guilty. Everything we see in this arc is happening from Ahsoka's perspective. We know what she knows because we are following her every step of the way.

And contrary to popular belief, the Jedi are not omniscient. The Force doesn't show them everything. We know that Force visions provide little to no context. They don't tell the full story. Remember Anakin's vision about Padme in Revenge of the Sith? All he saw was Padme suffering and crying out for him, but he isn't privvy to the chain of events that leads to her death.

The Jedi didn't see the bombing of the Jedi temple coming at all. Their ability to use the Force was diminished, and Mace Windu addressed this in Attack of the Clones. They didn't want to be part of the war. They were pulled into it. They had to adapt to a war in which they were vastly outnumbered. War went against everything they stood for, but sometimes the only choices we have are bad choices. The only other option was surrendering to Count Dooku, and Mace Windu shut that down quickly. "We will not be hostages to be bartered, Dooku." He wasn't about to let a fallen Jedi sell the rest of them into a life of slavery.

They became an army fighting for the dark side, but it doesn't mean they were evil. It means they were lost. They were traumatized. And no, this isn't proof that the Jedi don't teach emotional regulation. War does not discriminate. It affects everyone. They had no idea Palpatine was a Sith Lord. He was a damn politician and politicians are already notorious for being extremely fucking shady and damn good liars. Politicians are good at hiding in plain sight.

It's important to remember that the Jedi are still flawed, imperfect individuals, just like everyone else in existence, and they were in the middle of a war, watching their fellow Jedi die with increasing frequency, watching their clone troopers die in battle everyday, surrounded by pain and suffering, and rapidly losing hope.

Ahsoka, like it or not, was headed down a dark path just like Anakin. And it was a future version of herself that appeared to her in a vision on Mortis who told her she would not live if she remained Anakin's student. It was Force vision Ahsoka who told Ahsoka that seeds of the dark side existed within her.

Just before she was framed for bombing the Jedi temple, Anakin had to remind Ahsoka that revenge was not the Jedi way. The war was pushing everyone to their limits.

The Jedi were not in the room with Ahsoka when Letta was being Force choked. The audio was disabled, and all the video showed was Ahsoka with her arms outstretched in a way that made it look like she was attacking Letta. They don't know how she managed to escape her prison cell or who was really responsible for attacking the Coruscant guard. They can't explain why she was working with Ventress (she was their enemy for most of the war), or why Ahsoka was captured in the warehouse where the nano-droids used in the temple bombing were located.

The Jedi Council wanted to have a trial of their own to determine if Ahsoka was truly guilty or not, but the Republic was rushing to take Ahsoka to trial and already prepared to impose the death penalty on her. They weren't giving the Jedi time to investigate the matter. They refused to give the Jedi the opportunity to speak with Ahsoka. The Jedi Council had to make a choice and were stuck between a rock and a hard place. They already suspected it was one of their own who was responsible for the bombing, and all the evidence pointed to Ahsoka. They were still uneasy about expelling her, and they were divided on the matter. Obi-Wan and Yoda both objected to expelling Ahsoka, but they were outvoted.

The Jedi Council never once painted Ahsoka as evil. The were in a really difficult situation, and they got it wrong, but this takes us right back to Ahsoka's vision on Mortis. It's part of what gave her the strength to walk away from the order. Not because the Jedi were evil, but because they had lost their way in a war that destroyed their morale. A war they never wanted to be part of. A war that ended with Order 66 and their demise.

The Jedi Council messed up and they know it. Obi-Wan doesn't shy away from that truth. He brings up the fact that the council got it wrong three different times afterwards, the final time being during the final conversation he has with Ahsoka before Order 66.

Ahsoka doesn't think the Jedi were evil either. She still believes in the principles of the Jedi, but her trial revealed how lost the Jedi Order was. It revealed to her how lost she was as well, and she knew the only way she would be able to grow would be by walking away.

The Jedi were not gods. They were normal people with extraordinary abilities, and they used those abilities to do good rather than evil. They are not perfect and so many people are hung up on the mistakes of the Jedi that it blinds them to the truth of what the Jedi experienced during the war.

Perspective matters though.