#talon squadron

[whirlybirbs]

me? updating the 111th roster in 2025? more likely than you’d think. here’s a look at the 111th’s commanding officers!

[craziest-in-the-guild]

I drew @whirlybirbs Clone OC Medic Grim. He’s so handsome ❤️ I hope you don’t mind that I took the liberty to give him nipple piercings.

[from-a-legends-pov]

Star Wars Legends: Poll of the Week — Favorite Droids (Who Are Not Artoo or Threepio)

We know that Artoo-Detoo (R2D2) and See-Threepio (C-3PO) are favorite droid friends and heroes in any canon. But which of these other droids from Legends is your favorite?

Squeaky, the cantankerous protocol droid who served as quartermaster to Wraith Squadron and had a previous career as an extremely rude waiter at the tapcafe near Folor Base (X-Wing: Wraith Squadron)

Tonin, the R2-series astromech droid and companion to Gara Petothel; dubbing himself “king of the droids,” Tonin wrangled an army of mouse droids to slice into the systems of Warlord Zsinj’s ship, the Iron Fist (X-Wing: Solo Command)

IG-88, an assassin droid created by the Intergalactic Banking Clan that was given sentience programming to improve its operation as an assassin, reasoned it was superior to its biological creator, and destroyed them; it later started a droid revolt and worked as a bounty hunter during the time of the Galactic civil war (Tales of the Bounty Hunters)

Shiner, Myn Donos’s beloved astromech droid, whom he considered the last remaining survivor of the ambush that killed Talon Squadron, causing Myn to nearly go catatonic when the droid was destroyed in a battle with the Blood Nest pirates (X-Wing: Wraith Squadron)

Whistler, also known as Xeno, Corran Horn’s astromech droid, who assisted him with detective work when he was a Corellian Security (CorSec) officer and later came with Corran when he joined the New Republic starfighter corps. Similarly to Artoo, Whistler escaped memory wipes and developed more of a distinct personality than other droids. He was painted the same green and gold as Corran’s X-wing (X-Wing: Rogue Squadron)

R5-D4, the astromech with the bad motivator originally chosen for purchase by Owen Lars. R5-D4’s original story was that he was extremely jealous of other droids and that Artoo deliberately sabotaged R5’s motivator to make sure Artoo was the one purchased; however, in the “Skippy the Jedi Droid” story, R5-D4 was a Force-sensitive droid who sabotaged his own motivator after seeing a Force vision of a grim future in which R2D2 never reached Luke or Obi-Wan and was never able to complete his mission (Star Wars Tales)

Gate (R5-G8), originally R5-D2, Wedge Antilles’ astromech droid with Rogue Squadron. R5-D2 was known as “Mynock” because of how noisy and shrill his whistle was. Wedge got so annoyed with Mynock’s noise that he had the droid’s memory wiped; during the wipe, the droid’s internal components were upgraded, resulting in its new designation and nickname (X-Wing: Rogue Squadron as Mynock; X-Wing: The Bacta War as Gate)

Vape, Garik “Face” Loran’s R2 unit astromech. When he had the droid repainted from red to the unit’s gray color, Face had Wraith Squadron mechanic Cubber Daine reprogram the droid to respond to the command, “Cold one” by dispensing a cold Elba beer (X-Wing: Wraith Squadron)

HK-47, a Hunter-Killer assassin droid and Jedi hunter constructed by Darth Revan in 3960 BBY. He despised organics (whom he referred to as “meatbags”), and multiple times over the centuries turned on organics who attempted to reactivate him or use his data or AI. These included Separatists who found him on Mustafar during the Clone Wars and a group of spacers in 1.5 ABY whom he convinced to help him regain his body and restart the Mustafar droid factory, after which HK-47 built a droid army to kill all organics, including the spacers (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)

Which of these Legends droids is your favorite?

Squeaky (rude protocol droid quartermaster for the Wraiths / rude former waiter)

Tonin (Gara’s astromech and king of the mouse droids)

IG-88 (assassin droid, bounty hunter, droid revolutionary)

Shiner (astromech survivor of Talon Squadron)

Whistler (Corran’s green-and-gold detective droid / astromech)

R5-D4 (Force-sensitive astromech????)

Gate (Wedge’s astromech formerly known as Mynock)

Vape (Face’s astromech who will serve you a cold one)

HK-47 (Revan’s Hunter-Killer assassin…do not recommend reactivating)

Voting ended onMay 8, 2024

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[spacehorrors]

it would be so funny though if shae got assigned to max's battalion because there were no other jedi.

so you've got a battalion who had been seconds from a mutiny and a commander who has now gotten away with killing the previous jedi general (quite rightly by the way) and the last thing they want is another jedi. then you have shae who is tearing themselves up inside and has been for the past years of the clone wars.

their padawan brother has died and sister is actually helping people and they're tired of being seen as a failure and a disappointing to the whole jedi order. plus it's clear that no one cares what they have to say about the war and even that there won't be a place for them after the war if they don't start fighting.

so shae goes off and meets max for the first time who is still reeling from the whole experience but his first reaction is great. a child.

anyway, time goes by and although they hate being a general they're good at tactics and their style of combat is well suited to mowing down droids. no one really trusts shae at first after dreode so she is once again very lonely but at least this time she's helping the jedi order right?

[zapphir]

Shade, oc clone trooper from @whirlybirbs fic Broken Orders (great fic from a really talented writer). Quiet, respectful, funny - I fell for him immediately. He deserves all the love in the world!

[bunnyart-blog]

I owe @whirlybirbs and a lovestruck Jockey my life. I love me a man who’s too busy falling in love to be bothered he’s being arrested.

Everyone pls read anything Talon Squadron that Hope has ever written.

[bluebellhairpin]

The General doesn't do too well with bar drinking. Good thing baby boy Nyx is there to pull her away from *too much* trouble.

And yeah, I know its not the best drawing, and yeah, I know I'm (almost) shamelessly drawing my oc’s in with others oc’s but I had to do it

Character’s belong to @whirlybirbs Talon Squadron I hope you don’t mind me making a lil contribution to your boys, but I think I love them too much not to. They’re the best.

[jkcorellia]

I'm listening to the Les Miserables soundtrack and I accidentally thought about Myn Donos singing Empty Chairs at Empty Tables and now I'm on the verge of tears at work.