Where Thomas Jefferson sought the "peculiar Oestrum of the Poet," and sipping from the Mead of Wisdom, set Odin free to Walk Middle Earth once more. They thirst for Vision, their Goddess Liberte, the Muse of Revolution--Roisin Dubh...the little Scotch doctress.
My view of how the Keltoi (of the Keltiad novels—but merged as part of the Independent Systems of the Firefly ‘verse…), influence the Chiss when the cultures first encounter each other…
“Pompeius Trogus goes a step further and identifies key elements of Greek [Chiss] culture brought by the Massiolites [modern Marseilles]:
“”They [the Gauls] learned to prune the vine and plant the olive; and such a radiance was shed over both men and things, that it was not Greece [the Chiss] which seemed to have immigrated into Gaul [the Keltiad systems], but Gaul [the Keltiad culture] that seemed to have been transplanted into Greece [the Chiss—don’t really know how to interpret Space Kelts—and poor Thrawn—finds their art…enchanting as it is enigmatic and opaque—but their music/poetry, confounding for its absolute wildness and melancholy both…].”
—excerpt from ‘FarEdgesoftheKnownWorld’, by OwenRees…
but have you ever even heard of the fynbos biome ?!!?!?!?!
a biome so unique in south africa that it's earned an entirely new biome classification for itself. so many plants are endemic to this area, and ofc it's under threat of extinction.
KOTOR/SWTOR/KOTFE/KOTET-as basis for Great Galactic War-ColdWar-Galactic War—Outlander/Alliance—as basis ‘verse for SpaceRockOperaConcept with other historical/AU/TTRPG posts…
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Thrawn Speech based on CruxShadows/EyeoftheStorm...
The silence of the void between us hums with the pulse of a thousand engines, each one a funeral pyre waiting to be lit. You know what awaits. You’ve seen the projections. Victory? Unlikely. Survival? Unlikely. But meaning? That is ours to carve from the belly of the beast.
Look to your left. To your right. These are not allies. Not anymore. They are the sharpened edge of the blade we plunge into the dark. The Keltic bladesingers, the Fringe’s rust-bucket martyrs, the Rebellion’s last idealists, the Imperial Remnant’s cold pragmatists—all of you, forged in fires of mutual annihilation, now stand as one.
There is no calm in the storm ahead. Only the eye of your own resolve.
I have studied the art of war across ten thousand cultures. The Tzynn Imperium shattered entire galaxies with a whisper. The Rakata drowned stars in blood. And yet—here we are. Not because we are stronger. Not because we are wiser. But because we are unfinished.
Every scar you carry, every name you whisper in the dark, every betrayal that hollowed your chest. These are not weaknesses. They are the fractures through which the light will pour.
When the abyss answers your cannons with silence, when your screens bleed static, when your comrades become silhouettes against the fire—remember this: there is no courage without fear, no unity without discord, no victory without sacrifice.
And no sacrifice without meaning.
The architects of history will not remember our names. They will call us fools, fanatics, ghosts clinging to the edge of oblivion. Let them. We do not fight for their records. We fight for the one thing the darkness cannot consume—the choice to meet it standing.
Now--forward. Into the storm. Not because we will win.
Because we refuse to die kneeling.
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Format the following Thrawn speech transcript into a prose template, with the time stamps, and section-header divisions removed:
“Citizens of Coruscant, look at your sky. Once those towers reflected certainty. Once those lanes of traffic, those endless lights, those great halls of governance promised permanence. And yet the empire fell. Not because it lacked fleets, not because it lacked weapons, not because it lacked fear. It fell because it confused fear with control. Fear is a spark. It blinds. It burns quickly. Control is a system, a discipline that survives the night.
The old empire ruled by reflex, by ego, by the belief that power meant never needing to listen. It was loud. It was arrogant. And it was predictable. Predictability is not stability. It is weakness. They built monuments to themselves and called it order. They demanded loyalty and called it unity. They punished dissent and called it peace. You cannot threaten a galaxy into coherence. You can only threaten it into waiting. And waiting is what rebellion feeds on.
The empire did not collapse in a single moment. It collapsed through careless decisions made by leaders who believed they were too important to be wrong. They treated cultures like obstacles, citizens like numbers, war like theater, and strategy like an afterthought. That is not strength. That is panic wearing armor. Hear me clearly. I am not here to resurrect a corpse. I am here to rebuild a machine. A machine that does not rely on terror to function.
You were told that order requires cruelty. That obedience must be forced. That fear is the only language a galaxy understands. That lie has cost you everything. Order is not cruelty. Order is competence. Order is intelligence correctly interpreted, then acted upon with discipline. The Empire failed because it fought the galaxy it ruled. I will not fight what I can understand. I will understand what I intend to command.
Look around you. Different worlds, different histories, different scars. The old empire demanded complexity simplify itself. It punished difference, ignored culture, belief, and tradition—everything that tells you how people will act when threatened or inspired. I do not ignore these things. I study them.
I have seen desperation. I have seen corruption. And I have seen what happens when uncertainty is removed. You want safe streets, trade that flows, a future that does not collapse with every rumor or explosion. I am not offering you comfort. I am offering you certainty. I will not insult you with promises of paradise. Paradise is a story told when leaders cannot build reality.
Reality is built with structure, with competence, with consequences that are consistent regardless of title or proximity to power. There will be no untouchable men, no wars of pride, no private kingdoms disguised as governance. There will be standards. There will be accountability and there will be order. Not because you are frightened, but because it works.
Some of you fear that word empire. You remember the boot, the choke, the terror. I remember it too. That is why it will not return in the same form. The old empire was a hammer. I will not be. I will be a scalpel, precise, deliberate, unwavering. Chaos will not be fought. It will be denied oxygen, quietly, efficiently. Not with spectacle, with inevitability.
I am not asking you to love me. Love is volatile not because it is feared but because it is inevitable. I ask only that you understand this. History does not belong to the loudest voice. It belongs to the most prepared. The old empire was loud. I am prepared.
This city has been the heart of the galaxy for generations. A heart survives through rhythm, discipline, precision. Today, the rhythm returns. The empire will be rebuilt stronger, smarter, and unbreakable. Not because it is feared, but because it is inevitable. And inevitability is the only form of power that never collapses.”
Only bc we’re at Bloomin’Paris in th’ western ‘blurbs on Pi Day’26…and SatStPat’s celebration…
…SceneConcept/-the Chiss/Thrawn Household Phalanx/EmpireoftheHand marching into Coruscant RomanTriumphStyle—meets the Keltiad/TerranFederacy/RebrlAlliance (but in this scene—the Keltiad Ardrian’s Royal Uilean/Galician/Alban Bagpipers)—piping it out to the marching Phalanx Forces—all the length of the triumph route…and while the Imps/Chiss Phalanx hold Courscsbt/Alliance at their mercy (with intervention of FirefkySerenity Terran Feds intervention—Kelts are part of Independent Systems…)—the 10,000 Bagpipe Promenade has the Chiss suddenly drawing weapons every which way, or dropping to the ground in sudden *take cover mode* (along with StormTroopers)—as the Keltoi enjoy a moment of subversive revenge in a peacekeeping role…
Don’t worry—later in the negotiations week, the Keltoi envoy is forced to watch the equivalent of Chiss KabukiTheater…
I really love Star Wars: The Old Republic, and I’d like to draw all of my characters — both from the Empire and the Republic.
Here’s where it begins: the Imperial Agent, my favorite storyline, focused on intelligence, loyalty, and identity.
Character information:
Name: Dal'ter(fake name)
Gender: Male
Species: Chiss
Height: 6'1" (185cm)
Age: 25 at the beginning of the story (Prologue)
Thrawn meets…40KWH (this is the accent I always think of for Thrawn’s voice…sounds like Stephen Dillane’s, Thomas Jefferson…could listen to this all night…)
In this picture I wanted to depict my Agent as a young man who just got a job in Imperial Intelligence. He must be about 23-25 years old.
His original uniform from SWtOR is overloaded with details and I'm trying to make it more minimalistic, but I still don't like his shoulder pads, I think I'll remove them in the next artwork.
I also have doubts with his rank plate I found on one wiki information on ranks specifically in Imperial Intelligence, but I doubt its validity.
