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Just realised I should probably have a pinned post with links to my accounts. If you wanna read my shit, best place to go is Archive of Our Own, where I operate under the name Advena_van_Boekel.
I write, sometimes, and this is honestly the best place to read my work. There's not much there, but I am working on things in the background, and occasionally I post sneak peaks.
they should've had sam making more jokes about his and dean's negligible age gap "are your knees okay" after digging up a grave. "ask if they give out senior citizen discounts" at random motels/diners. "the first vic died in 1843. any chance you knew her?" during research. come on man younger sibling 101
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i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping
this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top' is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top' is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back
additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you
useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)
here are more terms! these are all from enérie. it is a really good blog that has lots of fashion terminology and it's a good mix of menswear and womenswear! they also have a book as well compiling all their diagrams. you could also look into getting a visual fashion dictionary for terms as well!
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Okay, so. Star Wars has all these concepts that weirdo New Left boomer George Lucas tosses in there but because of storyteller limitations it would kill the plot to fully explain them all, so later writers have to come in for the spin-off materials and bat clean-up to fully explain all this crazy crap. And I would like to talk about something that made me actively angry at first, but which I now adore. And that is the Naboo.
So much about Naboo culture is infuriating from a logical standpoint. They have a queen, okay. A constitutionally elected queen? Weird, okay. Don't know why they'd do that but... She's FOURTEEN? Excuse me? Is it a ceremonial thing or, oh no it's not? Legit head of state? Why does she dress like that? Why does she talk like that? I'm so tired.
Here's the explainer. Let me go cook.
There's this joke in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where the last living human goes back in time and finds out humans aren't actually from Earth, but an alien culture that tricked all the middle managers, pedantic weirdos, and other infuriating folk into getting in a space arc which they gave the wrong evacuation coordinates to simply get rid of them. The Naboo are like this but they're all artists and poets and hippies, but like classy ones. They fled their home planet during a war and crash landed on Naboo, then did a colonism to the Gungans because, hey, they were fleeing a war and it was do or die. This spiritual rot in their creation story is later rectified by Padmé. But it's super important to their cultural psychology. They're hippies, but will subjugate if needed. They are "peaceful" but I guarantee you every single one of them has a tiny extremely shiny pistol up their sleeve and they will draw down on you if backed against a wall.
The scene that I think says it all is at the end of Phantom Menace when Padmé is surrounded by Nute Gunray and his droids, they've got her dead to rights, but Sabé her double creates a distraction so the queen can make it to her throne. This one piece of furniture is the Naboo in a nutshell. It's richly carved with artistic details, it has two seats to the side so the queen's handmaidens can read the lips of people in the back of the room and use hand signals to communicate with the queen while she can remain focused mostly on who is speaking to her. It is hundreds of years old. And it has a secret compartment in the armrest that is FULL OF GUNS. Layers of artistic opulence hiding their true intentions.
The Naboo were created to be backwards compatible with Princess Leia. They're compassionate pacifists, but they will shot you if needed.
Why do they elect teenage royalty? It's a little creepy. It's giving "age of consent is emotional maturity". It makes no sense.
The explanation they give outsiders is they want youthful idealism untainted by cynicism. What they don't tell you is that they take kids with stated interest in politics and put them in an advanced highly competitive Leadership Academy which is like Model UN mixed with Battle Royale. Well, they don't kill each other but it's intense. It's like what the clones went though just all diplomacy training and tea ceremonies all the time. Which is crazy but so Naboo.
Oh, and all the delegates for the royalty election run using pseudonyms for security. Imagine voting for the head of state but you can't run a background check. It's so crazy.
Why does Padmé dress like that? Well, fashion is one of Naboo's major industries so it's like she's wearing the entire Fall line catalog at once. To advertise not only the talent of her people, but to show how much they favor her. BUT that dress has multiple layers of padding and resin armor. And aforementioned spots for those little silver blasters. And it breaks up her silhouette making her harder to shoot. And it's so elaborate you pay more attention to the crazy dress and not if the person wearing it is really the queen or a decoy. Everything about Naboo is like this.
Queen Amidala has that weird accent while Padmé does not. Because all her handmaidens helped create the accent together so they all can imitate it. It's like if you gave girls at a rowdy sleepover the job of federal counterintelligence. That's what they came up with.
The handmaidens wear colorful identical clothes so you can't tell them apart, hoods to partially conceal their identity, and they don't wear the queen's fancy makeup. So one of them can be the queen and spy on people in the audience. Because the Naboo don't trust shit for shit.
Their public face is so silly to hide all the truly weird shit they do behind the scenes.
They use their reputation as artist hippies to conceal multiple layers of subterfuge and disguise their methods of self defense and assuage their paranoia due to wartime trauma and their disturbing colonial past. All of them are completely off their rocker even by Star Wars standards. And I love them so much. They put on a show so everyone thinks they have them figured out but what they have going on is far more weirder and more sinister than meets the eye. You know how catty, neurotic, and competitive art school students stereotypically are? Yeah, planet art student. Love them!
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One problem with the worldbuilding I've got for my version of the Sith academies is just... logistics. So, it's got the population of a city, education lasts three years, and trials come every half-year. That means, every half year, there's a sudden influx of a city's worth of people all doing *something* major as part of their education all around the same time, possibly in the same place.
Now, I can make it easier on myself if intake is on a quarterly basis. That splits the numbers in half, thereabouts. Those who start their training at the start of the 1Q and 3Q will have their trials at the end of the 2Q and the 4Q. Those who start their trials at the start of the 2Q and 4Q will have their trials at the end of the 1Q and the 3Q. That doesn't do much, though, because half a city's worth of people is still half a city's worth.
Now, I'm also playing with the idea that the academies have a sort of elimination round set up, based on the fact that every trial has at least *one* of your fellow acolytes die in game. This is part of a broader idea that, at least for acolytes from Imperial families, the academy is far less lethal. They're still at risk, of course they're at risk, but most acolytes from Imperial families are merely removed from their coterie should they fail a trial, to be shifted into a new coterie at a later date. Those from vassal states and those who were once slaves have far less protections and the latter are often killed for their failures — a sort of rebellion against the Emperor's decree. Those who survive... it depends. Lord Spindrall collects some of them, but the rest may go elsewhere.
It will also help that not every trial is so... messy as the ones requiring an acolyte to delve into some lost forgotten tomb. Imagine even a fraction of a city's worth of people all occupying Ajunta Pall's tomb, all searching for *something*. I can't imagine the IRS would be too happy about that. No. I think most trials are somewhat artificial, for lack of a better word.
The first and second trials for both classes would be examples. For the Inquisitor, the death battle between you and the failed acolytes is artificial. You can repeat that for as long as you have failed acolytes looking to earn their way back into the academy (former slaves denied re-enrollment like the rest of the acolytes until they prove themselves). For the second T&I trial... so long as there's prisoners who have information the Sith want, there'll trials about getting that information. The same applies to the Warrior's second trial, too.
For the Warrior's first trial, my guess is that the Sith warblades are, like... just put there by Sith who want their acolytes to find a Sith warblade within a tomb. It's not some ancient blade that's somehow remain untouched for thousands of years. It was put where it was put so an acolyte can fight their way through flesh eating slugs and other beasties to fish it off a rack. Kind of ruins the mystique, but that's the only way I could rationalise that trial.
Another way I could go about ensuring that the academies aren't so much a mess is probably just have the trials all taking place over a period of a few weeks. Instead of everyone flooding in at once, they're staggered over a period of two weeks (however long a week is for your Sith calendar). Mmm. Thoughts.
Yay logistics!! Stoked to see someone else post about this, as it's actually something I've put way too much thought into. Imo, it only makes sense for the Empire to have a very organized and efficient system going back hundreds of years, and I honestly see the Korriban academy as an outlier in its chaos - k'lor'slugs georg, if you will.
(disclaimer that the following worldbuilding is all pulled out of my ass - idk what the devs' intentions were, but i've connected the dots they put down and drawn a few of my own, and this is the picture that makes sense to me. feel free to take bits for your own headcanons or leave it, as you will :)
I've gone with the idea that the chance of notable Force-sensitivity is roughly one in a million across the Imperial population (much higher in Sith lineages, but lower in the vast majority of families). In a planet with a population of 10 billion, that would be roughly 10,000 Sith + acolytes (in peacetime, when they aren't all dying - functionally it's less, even during SWTOR's cold war era. infighting go brrrr.) To deal with those thousands of acolytes, there are several government-run Sith Academies on each Imperial planet, one per major city, each capable of handling at least several hundred magical angry children. (This is most likely the Sith Inquisitors' biggest job, imo - enforcing Academy rules, weeding out dissenters and making sure the youngest acolytes are effectively indoctrinated to prevent things from boiling over once they hit puberty. Picture your worst teacher but with Force lightning and an interrogation chamber. Yeah.)
That said, some acolytes will be privately educated, especially at younger ages. Of course, some of those acolytes end up becoming militant cultists or fanatics of the houses or individual Sith who took them in - but it's still permitted by the Dark Council, as it eases strain on the public Academy system. Not to mention the Councilors certainly benefit from having their own private cohorts... and trying to put a stop to the practice would just cause a civil war even faster.
Canonically, Scourge and Malgus were said to have trained at a Sith Academy on Dromund Kaas, and the Sith had to study somewhere before Korriban was reclaimed. So I've expanded that to a more reasonable size: in my headcanon, there are dozens of Academies across Ziost, Dromund Kaas, Dromund Fels, Ashas Ree, Begeren, etc., each having a few hundred to a couple thousand students at most. And then there's Korriban, both the oldest and the most recently (re)established of them all.
At the time SWTOR begins, the Sith Academy on Korriban is far from the only one, but it's the most dangerous and the most prestigious; anyone who survives its trials is almost guaranteed an apprenticeship, as the Dark Council and other high-ranking lords hang around to pick off the most promising candidates for themselves. I figured it would actually have fewer acolytes than most Academies - usually a few hundred at a time, more of a village than a city - but who are constantly coming and going, rarely studying there for longer than they must to complete the trials (which are themselves definitely at least a few weeks/months, longer than the game would imply). Korriban has a very small long-term population, due to the risk of madness and hostile terrain which forces its inhabitants to rely on supplies from other worlds, so its overseers would have to take applications or travel offworld to scout acolytes from the wider Academy system.
As a result, the acolytes who end up on Korriban fall into two categories - the nepo baby/tryhard Imperials (SW, Eskella, Vemrin, Ffon, etc.) and the slaves and aliens (SI, Kory, Xalek, etc.) who were either born on the planet or sent there to die, as the overseers' unsubtle backlash to the changed admittance rules and fodder for their preferred acolytes. The majority of acolytes in the other Academies are more middle-of-the road, and don't have to deal with quite as much competition; their trials are less deadly, and no acolyte-on-acolyte killing is sanctioned, but they're also less likely to get apprenticeships and someday become lords or Darths.
To illustrate a couple examples of how this all works practically:
my SW was a freeborn zabrak whose Force-sensitivity was discovered early on; he was educated by the Sith lords his parents served until he was old enough to be sent to a public academy, where he survived the usual anti-alien hazing and was successfully indoctrinated; he would have graduated as a middle-of-the-road Sith and gone on to work as an assassin for his lords, if Tremel hadn't scouted him as a potential candidate for Baras' apprenticeship.
my Cathar SI was born and raised as an Imperial slave, but her Force-sensitivity being discovered as a violently rebellious teenager meant that she was sent straight to Korriban in hopes that the system (via Harkun) would get rid of her, or at least spit her out as somewhat controllable cannon fodder.
Thus, the game's origin stories end up as obvious endpoints of the dichotomy this system creates. (I was very amused when I realized this. Ah, serendipity.)
I love your take on the trials' different stages, and the quarters - the calendar system and timing is a part of this that has always escaped me. So far, I've figured that there's an eight-year "lower" program meant for kids 6-14 and a six-year "upper" program for 14-20; final trials for the 20-year-olds last several weeks and happen year-round on Korriban, with acolytes steadily coming in from offworld to compete for the lords' attention and hopefully graduate with all their limbs intact...
...but that's as far as my brain managed to get. Korriban apparently has a 28-hour day and a 780-day year (more than two galactic standard years), for whatever that's worth. (on the subject of numbers, it also has a gravity of 1.4, which exhausts me just thinking about 💀)
Also, the idea that some overseers or their flunkeys are sneaking into the tombs to reset traps and plant warblades is perfect - it's the kind of worldbuilding/lampshading that's both very funny and fitting, imo. 💖
For the worldbuilding I use, I'm mostly standing atop the shoulders of giants: fluffynexu and inquisitorhotpants. The latter has an entire post about populations of the Sith Empire (here), with the conclusion being that there's about eight-hundred billion Force sensitives within the Empire, those who have been trained and those who will be.
According to Dee's worldbuilding, about a hundred billion of preparatory school age (5-15), two-hundred billion attending an academy (15-23/25), and five-hundred billion serving the galaxy.
There are, canonically, many academies across the Empire. One of which was written about is the Odacer-Faustin Sith academy, which was destroyed eight years after the Treaty Of Coruscant, two years prior to the start of the game (source: Star Wars: Red Harvest).
I'm inclined to agree with Dee's assessment on academies in the Empire. One academy per system capital, with massive elite academies that service millions of acolytes at any one time. Most academies have upwards of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of students, with the elite having a potential for millions.
As for calendars... the answer is rather simple, actually. Though I have no doubt that there's local calendars for every planet, the Sith Empire itself would run off a single universal calendar across every planet. Local time verses Standard time. There is an argument for Korriban to serve as a basis for Standard time: it's the Sith homeworld. However, I feel like the Empire would use either Dromund Kaas or Ziost for the basis of their Standard calendar.
Dromund Kaas is their capital, and has been for over a thousand years. Compared to the Korriban calendar, it's much more reasonable with a 24-hour day and a 312 day year. Dee created a calendar based off Dromund Kaas (here).
I went with Ziost (here). It's the other Sith homeworld, served as a major hub for the Sith people for over twenty-two thousand years. It was the capital of the Old Sith Empire, and the Reconstituted Sith Empire is a direct continuation of that Empire. Not only would it be a source of consistency for the recently exiled Sith, but it'd be a sort of promise that they would return, eventually, and reclaim their home.
So, for my worldbuilding, it doesn't matter where you are in the Empire, you're going to use the Ziost calendar as the Standard. This goes for the academies, too.
The actual mechanics of the academies are tricky, though. Both the Inquisitor and the Warrior begin their story with a set coterie of six acolytes, slave-caste, with an additional acolyte from an older Sith family; they both begin with a Sith Lord who has already claimed said coterie; they both have six trials to complete over the course of their training; and acolytes are picked off one by one with each trial.
It's very different from how we're introduced to Sith academies elsewhere. In both KotOR and the Bane Trilogy, we're given academies that are more a free for all with all acolytes vying for the attention of a Sith master, not a trial to be seen, and with students actively cheating or otherwise sabotaging each other.
Ultimately, it depends on how you interpret the game, how much you want to keep, how much you want to change. I like some of the ideas presented in SWtOR, like the overseer-coterie system. A Sith educator has a small group of six or so acolytes who they dedicate their time to teaching. I like the idea of trials defining education.
It sucks that we're given no real time-scale to look at. Like, at all. We very rarely get any idea of what an "average Sith's education" looks like in any source material. Bane's the closest, not even a SWtOR Sith, but his education isn't "average," and only lasts for about a year or two. After that, he somehow becomes powerful enough to challenge his teachers for one reason or another.
I went with three years for a variety of reasons. The first is that I don't think Zash would be willing to wait too long for an apprentice, even if she is following her visions. That means that the Inquisitor, at the very least, has a rather short education cycle.
The second is that I feel like the Sith academy isn't about creating fully fledged Sith. The education is well rounded, but it's more foundational than anything. Their proper education begins under their Sith master, or it's supposed to at the very least.
I also like the idea of the trials defining an acolyte's experience at the academy, and two trials a year seems reasonable, all things considered. Three years is the lowest I could go while keeping Trials at a regular, mathematically pleasing interval.
I could do six years, too, but six years is a lot of time and, as someone writing about an acolyte's journey from start to end, I feel like it'd be a lot harder to write. A lot of skipped time, all of which wasted unless I get really creative.
I'm open to being convinced otherwise, but that's how I envision it.
Acolytes begin their education at 16 (though, former slaves can and do pop into the academy at any age over that), and a little detail I like is that acolytes who haven't passed their first trial go by "neophyte."
As it stands, I think most of one's time at the academy is spent, well... learning. There's physical conditioning, martial training, military training. Students will be expected to get their pilots license, and have an understanding of philosophy, history, and the laws of the Empire.
Specific "scenes" I can imagine are acolytes doing wilderness survival, thrown into the wild and expected to return to the academy / civilization on foot. There'd be mock-battles and war games with acolytes expected to take on the roles of grunts and commanders. I also think that any trial an acolyte is set to partake influences their education. When Harkun hands you off to Zyn, your Inquisitor ends up studying torture and interrogation for months prior to actually doing your trial and interrogating Alif.
All things considered, I feel like there's four endings to an acolyte's time at the academy.
They pass their trials and are taken on as an apprentice.
They pass their trials but aren't taken on as an apprentice, instead being drafted into the military spheres to earn their eventual lordship in service to the Empire instead of service to a Sith Lord.
They fail their trials yet live, being allowed to re-enrol at a later date, or else be shunted off elsewhere to serve the Empire, but not as Sith.
They die.
Most acolytes don't actually die. It's entirely possible, but the academies aren't meat grinders... for most. The ones who have to watch out are those who were slaves, who face discrimination by their overseers, who aren't given the privilege of prior education at a preparatory school, and who are legally owned by the Korriban academy until they graduate.
In Which Dee Talks Population
All I wanted was an idea of how many academies I needed. *cries*
Disclaimer: I’m shit at math. I think this is all correct, but I might have messed something up somewhere.
So per official sources, the peak population of the entire galaxy was 100 quadrillion. 100,000,000,000,000,000. Okay.
Now, looking at my map of Imperial territory circa 1342 Imperial:
And looking at the population density map (which is for 26 ABY and thus not accurate for the Dromund Kaas/Ziost/Korriban sector), with the general area of Imperial territory outlined:
I concluded that the Empire circa 1342 Imperial constitutes about 20% of the galactic population.
I also decided that being that it was after a war, the galaxy is not at standing room only, so I settled on 80% of the population, so:
80,000,000,000,000,000 is the total galactic population.
(Just to reiterate before we continue, these numbers are all approximations.)
This gives us 16,000,000,000,000,000 for the total Imperial population, from newborn babies to the oldest Sith still skulking around her estate.
Now, per this article, I used the high estimation for Force users, because of Purebloods and because most Sith are … encouraged to marry other Sith, thus encouraging Force-sensitive offspring. (He has a lot of information in there. I’m trying to stick with simple, just to have a general idea.) The high estimation for the population percentage for Force users of any strength at all is 0.00007 of the population, which gives us a total of:
1,120,000,000,000 Force sensitives, any measure of Force sensitivity.
Now, of course, not every Force sensitive will be trained. Some are too weak to be noticed. Some are in far flung outlying worlds; they might have been noticed if they lived somewhere like Dromund Kaas, but circumstances dictated that they were not. Some are/were slaves (prior to the edict, which is obviously particular to my headcanon). Assuming 30% aren’t ever trained, for whatever reason, that leaves us:
784,000,000,000 Force sensitives that either have been trained or will be trained.
Now from here on, I’m sort of working on rough assumptions, so we’re very much in headcanon territory.. Preparatory school age is 5-15, and accounts for 14% of the Force sensitive population. Academy age is 15 to approximately 23-25, and accounts for approximately 25% of the Force sensitive population. The remaining 61% of Sith are serving in a post within the Empire. These percentages give us these numbers:
Preparatory school age: 109,760,000,000 Academy age: 196,000,000,000 Serving in the Empire: 478,240,000,000
Now, this sounds like an insane number of people, until you compare it to the non-Force sensitives:
478,240,000,000 Force sensitives 15,999,216,000,000,000 non-Force sensitives
(I tell you what, I don’t want to work in administration for the Imperial military.)
The elite academies of the Empire - Korriban, Dromund Kaas, Ziost before it was destroyed, Odacer-Faustin before its ruin in 1336, Toprawa, Sernpidal, Horuz, and Brath Qella - are metropolitan areas in their own rights, serving anywhere from 4.6 million to 5.4 million students each.
The majority of Force sensitives in the Empire, however, are trained at satellite academies installed in the capital of each system. Each planetary installment of Imperial personnel includes a cadre of instructors from the Sphere of Sith Philosophy, and Force sensitives in each system will attend that preparatory school and academy, receiving their combat training in person and their academic knowledge via holoclasses conducted by the main academies. Any of these Sith selected to attend advanced courses will be enrolled in said classes at the closest main academy to them.
Mostly unrelated: The Empire absolutely steamrolled the Republic during the Great Galactic War, even with this much of a personnel deficiency, so 1, the Republic is super shit at tactics, and 2, I find it very hard to believe that in 12 years the Empire became so tactically stupid that they lost literally every planet you’re on in SWTOR except for Taris.
As usual, these are just my headcanons and what works for me. If it works for you, that’s awesome! If it helps, that’s always fantastic! But by all means, use what works for you and ignore what doesn’t.
But hot damn the scale of Star Wars is mind-boggling.
One problem with the worldbuilding I've got for my version of the Sith academies is just... logistics. So, it's got the population of a city, education lasts three years, and trials come every half-year. That means, every half year, there's a sudden influx of a city's worth of people all doing *something* major as part of their education all around the same time, possibly in the same place.
Now, I can make it easier on myself if intake is on a quarterly basis. That splits the numbers in half, thereabouts. Those who start their training at the start of the 1Q and 3Q will have their trials at the end of the 2Q and the 4Q. Those who start their trials at the start of the 2Q and 4Q will have their trials at the end of the 1Q and the 3Q. That doesn't do much, though, because half a city's worth of people is still half a city's worth.
Now, I'm also playing with the idea that the academies have a sort of elimination round set up, based on the fact that every trial has at least *one* of your fellow acolytes die in game. This is part of a broader idea that, at least for acolytes from Imperial families, the academy is far less lethal. They're still at risk, of course they're at risk, but most acolytes from Imperial families are merely removed from their coterie should they fail a trial, to be shifted into a new coterie at a later date. Those from vassal states and those who were once slaves have far less protections and the latter are often killed for their failures — a sort of rebellion against the Emperor's decree. Those who survive... it depends. Lord Spindrall collects some of them, but the rest may go elsewhere.
It will also help that not every trial is so... messy as the ones requiring an acolyte to delve into some lost forgotten tomb. Imagine even a fraction of a city's worth of people all occupying Ajunta Pall's tomb, all searching for *something*. I can't imagine the IRS would be too happy about that. No. I think most trials are somewhat artificial, for lack of a better word.
The first and second trials for both classes would be examples. For the Inquisitor, the death battle between you and the failed acolytes is artificial. You can repeat that for as long as you have failed acolytes looking to earn their way back into the academy (former slaves denied re-enrollment like the rest of the acolytes until they prove themselves). For the second T&I trial... so long as there's prisoners who have information the Sith want, there'll trials about getting that information. The same applies to the Warrior's second trial, too.
For the Warrior's first trial, my guess is that the Sith warblades are, like... just put there by Sith who want their acolytes to find a Sith warblade within a tomb. It's not some ancient blade that's somehow remain untouched for thousands of years. It was put where it was put so an acolyte can fight their way through flesh eating slugs and other beasties to fish it off a rack. Kind of ruins the mystique, but that's the only way I could rationalise that trial.
Another way I could go about ensuring that the academies aren't so much a mess is probably just have the trials all taking place over a period of a few weeks. Instead of everyone flooding in at once, they're staggered over a period of two weeks (however long a week is for your Sith calendar). Mmm. Thoughts.
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playing republic on swtor is like ohhh the insidious empire with its dark, dark plans. we have to be careful. we have to consider all angles. everything's on the line. playing imp is your boss telling you darth clownus and the girls are doing some fucked up shit in public again and somebody has to copyright strike them because darth rudolphtherednosedreindus has claim on said fucked up shit and wants to do it first
the swtor sith order is hilarious bc its way more grounded than the Jedi Order. Darth ResumeCheckerous, Dark Counciler over the Sphere of Unemployment, is beefing with Lord ChatGPTous because he know the mf tryna make his job disappear. There's like zero mystical whimsy to the Reconstituted Sith Order, this shit their 9-5 w2 job.
That why they be force choking mfs who fail. Imagine you at your fuckass goverment job (during a war that threatens to make yall all extinct) and your Imperial Intern accidentally deletes the oneDrive, organization-wide cloud Excel Sheet? yeah, im losing my shit and force electrocuting them too.
like Emperor Vitiate/Tenebrae like 3000+, his ass dont know how to use the HoloNet, so now you gotta go through bullshit setting shit up on his holoComputer again. I'd hate to be over the Sphere of Technology bc you got all these centuries old Sith Purebloods who don't know shit. And you the Dark Lord of IT Support.
this why mfs needed 15 apprentices at once tbh
it easy for the Jedi to be peaceful monks bc they not involved with rayroll or HR.
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