#sw aftermath

[absolxguardian]

"I know a droidsmith on Akiva"

I was expecting a side quest with Temmin at best, but he potentionally might be part of the main quest!

(if this is him, he probably never went "Mom, I went on a dangerous heist two years ago I can be a rebel soldier" because then Norra would know about the time he committed grand larceny.)

[queer-starwars-bracket]

Queer Star Wars Characters (Round 1): General Bracket Match 32

Ceret/Terec vs Rae Sloane

Ceret/Terec

Rae Sloane

Voting ended onAug 3, 2023

Ceret/Terec | Identity: non-binary | Media: The High Republic comic (2020)

Ceret and Terec were a pair of Kotabi bond-twins Jedi, meaning they shared a consciousness across two bodies. Promotional material has clarified that their use of “they/them” is about their gender not plurality. They’ve also been described as “trans non-binary”, a useful clarification here. Because they presumably were assigned a binary gender at birth, so despite their different neurology, I haven’t labeled them as alien non-binary. They’re very closed off, increasing the uncanniness of their nature.

They’ve unfortunately kind of been a punching bag in the comic series they appear in, with one or both of them suffering something terrible in basically every issue. However, this typically provides the protagonists important information about whatever they’re facing. They’re in most issues of the 2020 run of the main High Republic comic series, taking the same missions as the protagonist Keeve Trennis. When she went undercover with the Nihil, she was joined by Terec, so that they could give updates to the Jedi through their twin. However, in that mission they were nearly killed by the Leveler, forcing both twins into hibernation. Thankfully, they awakened from their hibernation during the destruction of Starlight Beacon, thanks to Avar Kriss’ battle meditation. After participating in the group Force feat to keep the top half of the station together just a little bit longer, they escaped in an escape pod with Keeve.

Rae Sloane | Identity: bisexual | Media: Aftermath Trilogy

Rae Sloane was created for the first New EU novel A New Dawn, where she is a sympathetic antagonist. Dutiful and loyal to the Empire, she serves it because when she was younger she was attacked by criminals and saved by stormtroopers. She opposed ruling through fear and enslavement, because such tactics were ultimately ineffective for maintaining order. As a cadet, she foiled an assassination attempt against Vader and the Emperor, making her a special favorite of Vader. She was assigned to leader the secret operation to complete the genocide of Alderaan by killing off planet survivors. Her internal thought process there remains unknown. She also got lost and missed the Battle of Hoth, but Vader didn’t kill her for it like everyone expected.

She appeared in a handful of short stories and the Kanan comic series, but her character really came into its own in the Aftermath trilogy. After the Battle of Endor, she formed one of the more powerful Imperial remnants. This attracted the attention of Gallius Rax, the man who Palpatine had groomed to arrange the establishment of the First Order. Under his guidance, her remnant grew in power and she assumed the rank of Grand Admiral. It was from her remnant that phase two of Operation Cinder was launched, the elimination of all imperial remnants that weren’t aligned with the Contingency plan. She attended the New Republic Liberation Day celebrated, signaling the beginning of a diplomatic end to the war. However, Rax had arranged the mass assassination of New Republic leadership using inhibitor chips implanted on former imperial prisoners. These tactics disgusted Sloane, turning her against Rax. Rax assumed control of her remnant and she was forced to team up with the rebel Norra Wexley to take him down.

Nora and Sloane tracked Rax to Jakku, where the cultish devotion of the Imperials Rax had deemed worthy and the brutality required for Imperials to survive after the war had turned disturbed her. The two women tracked Rax to the Observatory, a secret site where Rax was going to complete a Dark Side ritual which would cause Jakku to explode- killing most of the New Republic military and Imperials deemed unworthy. They stopped the ritual, and Sloane killed Rax. As Rax died, he told her that the rest of the Contingency plan was for her to take a replica of the Imperialis and lead the remains of the Imperial Remnant into the Unknown Regions. Sloane did so, hoping she could lead the Empire away from the crazy plans of people like Palpatine and eventually return to the galaxy to save it from itself. She did so, founding the First Order. Then ??????. It’s assumed Snoke killed her at some point, but honestly everything is up in the air. Her absence in the new Shadow Council in the Mandalorian, is conspicuous. She is possibly already dead by this point, or she has sent Brendol in her place as a deliberate snub, unaware he seems to be part of the coup that will eventually befall her.  She has been confirmed as being bisexual, and certainly had sexual tension with her aide Adea Rite. The only textual element of her orientation in the trilogy is that she specifically muses that she never had a chance to have a “wife or husband”. She’s also kind of a nerd. When trying to find out more about Rax or Kanan, she went to a massive imperial intelligence library. She was considered the only officer of her rank sufficiently knowledgeable enough about shuttle technology to conduct an inspection. She also successfully figured out that the Millenium Falcon survived fleeing through the asteroid field in Empire Strikes Back.

[juniperika]

I was marching to the wrong drum (with the wrong scum) (3858 words) by KindOfASorcerer Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Aftermath - Chuck Wendig Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Alexsandr Kallus/Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios, Conder Kyl/Sinjir Rath Velus Characters: Sinjir Rath Velus, Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios, Alexsandr Kallus, Conder Kyl (mentioned/in flashbacks) Additional Tags: Drinking, Implied/Referenced Torture, Briefly Implied/Referenced Homophobia (made up slurs), Established Relationship, Post-Star Wars: Rebels, Post-Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End, everyone is drinking except Kallus but he's stressed out of his mind, basically an elaborate bar joke, come to the dark side we have cookies, consider the ex-Imperials redeemed, this fic can fit so many almost canon mlm couples in it Summary: “I see you’ve got a thing for ex-Imps,” Sinjir says to Zeb with a thin, sly smile. Mainly to get a reaction out of the man who joined them, but to his disappointment, he doesn’t even see a flinch in response. Impressive. He doesn’t just admire the self-restraint, but quickly draws another conclusion. “Let me guess, ISB?” “ISB,” the man confirms, his face blank, his tone even. Or, a Lasat and two ex-Imperials walk into a bar. One of them is hiding something and the other is determined to get to the bottom of it.

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I thought this was worth sharing on Tumblr to reach the target audience (people who are interested in a minor Conder and a not-so-minor Sinjir appearance, or an outside perspective on Kallus and Zeb).

[toothcowboy-gonefishing]

tiny issa for my mental health 🫀

[the-hawks-rye]

Rae Sloane from Star Wars is Canonically Bisexual

[conderkyl]

I know i know im two days late but heres my contribution to star wars day the Aftermath crew!! 

Otherwise known as Nora Wexley and her lovable crew of idiots

[swnovels]

No matter how true or how false those stories were, one fact remained true, which was that Palpatine never let the Empire fall into instability. He ruled as more than a politician and more than some hooded theocrat. Imperial worlds never went hungry. They never fell to lawlessness.

Aftermath: Life Debt, by Chuck Wendig

[filmsoundtracks-moved]

self care is rereading sinjir scenes in the sw aftermath trilogy