#takodana

[pedroam-bang]

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

[dougielombax]

Maz Kanata: It’s going to take years to rebuild my castle. Again!

Babu Frik: *emerges from the rubble head-first* WAHEEEEEEEEEY!!!!! HAHAHAHAAAA!!!! BABU FRIK MAEK FIXY OF DEVASTATIONIS!!!! HEHEHE!!!!! IKNIPOTORI PANDAMO LUTMAPAA BATWEKATETAFTEDOM!!!!! MAEK SWEEPY DIYAGA UND FIXY DOS RUBBELBUBBEL!!!!! HAHAAAA!!!!!!

Maz Kanata: Don’t you FUCKING start!

[burnwater13]

Grogus gathered around Din Djarin as a reminder that the Force is strange and mysterious. Grogus in background are watercolors by me.

Uncomfortable

Meditation was a wonderfully useful tool for many things. You could use it to calm your breathing and give your body a break from the stress of everyday living. You could use it as a way to clear your mind and allow your brain to have time to recover and orient itself. You could use it as a means of communing with the Force, allowing yourself to be one with the universe and feel the connections all through its many galaxies. But you couldn’t use it to forget that you needed to use a privy. Nope. Never worked that way. Grogu was miserable.

He knew that his dad had some means for sorting out those natural biological processes, but he wasn’t his dad. He usually retained everything until they reached their destination. His biology allowed for that and he was grateful for the way it worked. At least most of the time. Sitting in the N-1 was not ideal for sorting out alternates. It just wasn’t.

Now they were in hyperspace and he’d have to wait until they reached their destination before he could address such a simple, clear cut need. Uff. 

“Grogu. It’s time to work on the background for the planet we’ll be meeting Ahsoka on. I’ve only been here once before and I don’t really remember enough about it. Paz was there, along with a few other Mandalorians and I’m pretty sure that I met the person who runs the place, but honestly, after everything we’ve done, it’s gotten a bit hazy.”

Wow. His dad had a real way of saying absolutely nothing and making it sound like he’d said something. Grogu wondered sourly if all Mandalorian bounty hunters took lessons in misdirection through boredom. He knew he was being biased. He knew that was because of his current condition. He couldn’t help either one and had no intention of trying. 

“Now, Buddy, I can feel you frowning at me. We’ll be on Takodana before you know it and you’ll be able to relieve yourself in your preferred manner. In the mean time, you should take this datapad and start finding all the information we talked about earlier and use it to work up your report and an initial plan of contact. Ahsoka suggested that we travel to Andui first. She plans on meeting us there, but she didn’t specify a location. Based on your education as a Jedi, I want you to develop a list of suggested locations that would be good to examine.”

Takodana! Yippee! At least that was one thing in Grogu’s favor. He’d already looked up a lot of information about the planet when he was setting up his art installation. Or at least planning his art installation. He hadn’t actually gotten to the real work of setting it all up. But now that was fine. He was actually going there and that real experience would help him determine if the places and features that he’d included in his sketches and layouts for the mural were the right things to focus on. That made this whole trip worthwhile, at least for him. He supposed when they finally got there, met Ahsoka, helped her with whatever she needed help with, there or somewhere else, it would be worthwhile for her. That was good, right?

Well, whether it was good or not, at least her interests and his interests coincided for once and Grogu was happy about that much. It took the edge off of how things had been going for the last year and he’d needed that much more than he thought he had. Just bouncing from one place to another was all well and good and very exciting, but being able to do a deep dive in advance really seemed like a luxury that they hadn’t been able to afford, until this moment. Yippee!

Grogu opened up the program on the datapad and began to pull up all the information he’d collected on Takodana for the cabin enhancement project. He liked the basic information he’d collected about the planet. It wasn’t cover by deserts like Tatooine or specifically volcanically active like Nevarro. It had water, but wasn’t swampy like Degobah or under a lot of constraints, like Sorgan. 

The galactic encyclopedia described it as being ‘hot and humid’ but they provided no reference data. As far as Grogu could tell from another report on the planet, Takodana was cooler than Tatooine and far less humid than Trask. He supposed whoever had collected the information just didn’t like breaking a sweat and it had been his experience that if you were doing enough work you could break a sweat on Hoth as easily as you could on Tatooine. You’d just find that you felt twice as cold when that happened if you didn’t keep up that same level of work. The cold was absolutely no fun.

Takodana didn’t have a moon which Grogu found interesting. He’d learned to appreciate moons when he’d been on planets that had them. That had actually been the only thing he’d liked about Hoth. Three moons decorating the sky and sliding through their phases and disrupting things when they were close enough to each other and the planet that their gravity wells created little pockets of special gravity. He’d once seen an avalanche of snow get sucked up into such a gravity anomaly and it had really been kind of magical. He’d wished he could do something like that with the Force but he had no idea how to even attempt it. But that wouldn’t be an issue on Takodana, so he had to refocus and consider what issues were there. 

He supposed an old Jedi Temple was a pretty good issue. There was always a chance that something special had been left in it and you’d need a real or experienced or dedicated Jedi to find it. Or, given that almost every Jedi Temple ever constructed had been built on the foundations of an old Sith Temple (looking at you Coruscant, Dantooine, Moraband, etc.,) it was possible that the Sith had left stuff on Takodana as well. That would be a good thing to sort out early. Given what they’d just been through, relatively speaking, keeping stuff away from any other Sith or Sith adjacent people seemed like an excellent use of time. 

And, even without an old Jedi Temple, there was a castle, and not just any castle. It was the home of the pirate Queen Maz Kanata. Had Ahsoka gotten in trouble with a bunch of pirates, again? Grogu hoped not. Pirates followed strange rules that they were happy to follow very strictly until it occurred to them that they didn’t actually have to follow them at all. Then you were in trouble. Also, pirates kept strange company. They tolerated all sorts of people that were normally not welcomed in civil society. People like bounty hunters. Oops. Maybe that was a good thing then. If Maz was a pirate, maybe she’d like the Mandalorian. Or at least not care that he was a bounty hunter. Grogu couldn’t imagine a Pirate Queen getting all obnoxious about handing over weapons and detonators the way those people on Chandrila had been. Another point in Takodana’s favor from Grogu’s perspective. 

Hmmm. There was still a lot for him to learn and to collate into a report that his dad could understand. He’d have to start his outline now and then fill in the blanks and take on new research paths when they called to him. After all, the initial data he had on Takodana didn’t really mention much about critters and it had been Grogu’s experience that critters, wherever they went, were a key aspect of how the work they performed would go. Rancor weren’t native to Tatooine. Someone had brought them there ages ago. What if they also existed on Takodana? Or Krayt dragons? Or rathtars? What if they had Mythosaurs? Sure, Takodana wasn’t close to Mandalore, but what did ‘close’ even mean in a galaxy as large as the one they were in? 

Uff. That was a lot to learn and he really needed to get a good handle on it before they arrived at Andui, Takodana’s only real city (more like a largish village, but again did size really matter). He also needed the layout of the city, where the landing port was, markets, taverns, and importantly privies. Yes, he couldn’t forget that even though having a project to occupy his mind was helping. He just hoped it lasted through the long ride there or they would both be very uncomfortable when they arrived. 

[alphamecha-mkii]

The Millennium Falcon arrives on Takodana by Robert Watts

[short-wooloo]

First off, I dislike the constant talk of wanting X character(s) to appear in Skeleton Crew, let it be its own thing!

Second, as far as I'm concerned, there's only to cameos that could make sense

Boba Fett and Maz Kanata

What makes them work as opposed to anyone else is they are fixed to a location, Tatooine and Takodana respectively, any appearance by them is predicated by the Skeleton Crew going to those worlds, as opposed to randomly wandering into anyone else by happenstance

Plus, Takodana and Tatooine are places the Crew could conceivably go

Tatooine has numerous spaceports, and this is SW, all roads lead to Tatooine, it's a good place for the characters to stop on their journey (and for Jod to meet up with people he knows), and it's very easy to see how they'd run into Boba

Given that thus far every stop they've made has involved accidentally getting themselves into a mess and then running away from the people they ticked off, I could very easily see the kids tipping over a swoop gang's bikes which escalates somehow into a full scale brawn which brings Boba to the see to be all "What the fuck is going on here?" and try and get control of the situation

As for Takodana, well Maz I'd the reason to go there, she's old and knows lots of people, probably knows Jod, and given that she is also a Force sensitive Pirate that gives them a point of commonality, but also her age could mean she was alive for the time when At-Attin was not lost to the rest of the galaxy, and while she might not know where it is, her knowledge can help the crew head in the right direction

[moem3]

I have another 3 downloadable bookmarks for y'all today

We have Tatooine, Crait and Takodana

Link to download them (for free) and info on how you can decide the next bookmarks in

For a month I will be making bookmarks based on SW characters, stories... You can suggest characters, scenes you want to see You can also choose if you want a classic on or special shapes So the baseline is: suggest what you want to see and I might pick your idea 🙂

You can download my second set of bookmarks here

ko-fi.com/s/daba74652e

[kaneni09]

More rewrite Rey ~

Practicing with some new brushes today whilst conceptualising more feral femme fatale Rey. Showing some more costume variations, as well as how I plan for her to look on Takodana before being abducted by Kylo Ren.

I was trying to find some good references for anatomy and posing when I came across some amazing concepts of Jane Porter from Disney's Tarzan that looked very similar to Daisy Ridley, and they served as inspiration for all the above drawings.

Original Jane Porter concept art below

[virtie333]

The obscure Star Wars facts you have to dig up when writing 'between the scenes' of the movies. For example, did Poe have an astromech droid with him in Black One during the dogfight on Takodana? Or was he stupid enough to go into battle without one just because he didn't have BB-8? Watched those sexy scenes closely and got my basic answer. Wookieepeedia did the rest!

Hello R0-H2!