#commander pyre

[l-bubee-l]

So the brainworms have been moving...

I haven't been able to get the thought of a Jedi-led battalion that takes in clones about to be reconditioned/decommissioned out of my head. Therefore, I'd like to introduce the 488th, aka the Phoenix Battalion, and one of its key commanding officers, Commander Pyre.

More info below the cut!

The Phoenix Battalion is led by Jedi General Ehres Dien (design pending...) and CT-8108 who, upon making a full recovery from his injuries, gave himself the name 'Pyre'.

Given its special circumstances, the 488th does not often get sent out to the forefront of battle and instead specializes in clean-up operations such as driving out remaining enemy forces, and small scale operations like securing checkpoints, sabotage and on occasion, infiltration.

Commander Pyre was among the first to be 'reborn', after having been rescued from a bomb site on the Capital Planet. The incident led to the loss of his left eye and multiple limbs; his right forearm and the entirety of both his left arm and leg having to be replaced with prosthetics. Given his condition, the fact that he'd been given the chance to keep serving despite it is something he feels quite strongly about.

But in what sense?

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[purplemoonfox]

On the sequels trilogy and the need for…more of it

Look I don’t hate the sequels. In fact I quite like them for various reasons, and if nothing else they nailed how fascism comes back dumber with bigger toys

And the reality is, it probably won’t be the fandom pariah forever. Much like the prequels, many kids who saw them young do like them and will want to see more of it in the future. The real difference is that George Lucas owned Lucasfilm when the prequels were made and he made sure to tell the story he wanted to tell. I grew up with the OT. I genuinely liked TPM when it came out could not say that out loud without catching hell because I thought the whole point was that the Galaxy hadn’t yet become like it was in the OT. I had a harder time engaging with the latter two

I damn well remember when the PT came out. TCW is such a necessary addition to engaging with them. I cannot overstate this as someone who graduated high school around the time ROTS was released and who really didn’t get the fascination with the PT until watching TCW. It really makes Anakin’s descent from where he is in AOTC to ROTS make much more sense and his serial killer energy in Ahsoka is mwah chefs kiss. TCW makes Anakin an engaging character: you can understand why he was so admired by the people around him. He’s flawed. He’s charismatic and capable and negs his wife and has an alarming proclivity towards violence with a smile on his face. You want him to do better and not make the choices that he does and he consistently fails at making good choices that little fucker

Anyway I was having stupidly good sausage crustless quiche breakfast over at my partner’s place and he plays Galaxy of Heroes, and I asked him if he was playing First Order characters on it because I didn’t recognize the red stormtrooper armor, except that I recognize the helmet and I’ve seen SW: Resistance so I know they have full-bodied color jobs for some of the named characters that wear armor, like Phasma, Pyre, and Vonreg, besides the black color scheme the Empire prefers

Which led down a whole rabbit hole because apparently that is not a named character but a generic Sith Trooper, which since I’ve seen TROS once I vaguely recognized as a concept—but the damn article went into respectable depth about where they come from and what’s going on with them and none of that is shown. Do not tell me to go read a damn book, I should not need to. There’s only like two or three SW authors I can stand to read anyway. The guy who wrote Tarkin and I have beef he doesn’t know about lmao

What the sequels need is something like a failed Rogue One/Andor to contextualize literally anything about the First Order or anything about Palpatine’s bullshit on Exegol. Hell, have Leia sent an operative out that finds out a lot but never makes it home. Make it a damn tragedy if you need to bring in Kix maybe I know he’s there, he’s apparently at the battle of Exegol anyway. But give us some context that’s not squirreled away in a book or a guide or a comic. Hell, what happened to everyone on The Path? If you need Force sensitive dealing with Palpatine’s shit why can’t they be involved somehow?

I enjoyed Resistance after those first few episodes. But Resistance, for all it feints at a wider story, is basically a small, narrow tale instead of a wider story about The Resistance at large, so imho it’s poorly named, and it doesn’t really engage quite as readily with the wider worldbuilding elements that really needed to take place because the story is so focused on a single frame of reference you absolutely can sell political nuance to kids, TCW did it… “Corruption is…”

Teal deer; a show that engages with the sequel era in a meaningful way that does good leg work towards painting a better picture of a post-Rebellion world would go a long way towards rehabilitating these movies for the fandom. I would prefer it in animation since that’s often where good depth is and I’m not sure they’ll ever let Tony Gilroy make another SW project since on my life I don’t think Disney corporate ever really meant for Andor to be that deep

Also Rose is overhated. Fight with yourself not with me. Honestly I love the sequels’ characters, I think they were crippled by things beyond the actors’ control. And I will die mad about no stormtrooper to Jedi Finn arc

Tealer deer; the sequel trilogy is something I am oddly fond of but don’t really engage with and just want more meat to chew on so I can enjoy it better. This is my Roman Empire

[belledalle]

you better not let them catch u slippin (X)

[deafblindshorty]

Pyre: It's not possible. You're an idiot. An IDIOT! Kaz: Maybe so, but I'm the idiot that beat you.

[fulltimecatwitch]

i think it's very funny how everytime Kaz sees commander Pyre he instantly goes into k*ll mode 💀

[owlzshitshow]

i saw the photo on the right and i IMMEDIATELY thought of pyre and tierny LMFAO

[vividsunset]

There's a more minute aspect of Pyre and Tierny's relationship on tumblr much since I overlooked it during my watch of swres while the series was airing. I wouldn't consider either of them "the dumb one", but Tierny tends to rely on her brains more than her brawn due to her FOSB duties, while Pyre, being in the role of a military commander, is more associated with combat as a rule.

This sort of dynamic usually tends toward the more strategic of the pair being the cynic or realist of the duo, but that role actually goes to Pyre during season 2, with Tierny more frequently playing the optimist against him.

It makes sense when you look into it canonically—Tierny's confident in Tam and her plan to use her to draw out the Colossus, and as season 2 unfolds, it's implied that Pyre is either shielding Tierny from how much Kylo and Hux are pushing them to destroy the Colossus, or else; or he doesn't have the clearance to tell her.

[itssteffnow]

I was commissioned by @rebelkallus to draw this scene from his Commander Pyre/Agent Tierny fic Inevitable ✨

Thank you so much for commissioning me! I had a lot of fun with these two!

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