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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Tarre Vizsla, Original Jedi Character(s) (Star Wars), Original Vizsla Character(s) (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Planet Ilum (Star Wars), Lightsabers (Star Wars), Kyber Crystals (Star Wars), Not Beta Read Summary:

A Mandalorian, for what is likely the first and last time, steps foot on the planet Ilum arm in arm with Jedi and changes history.

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An angle of writing Pong Krell I didn't expect was that we barely ever see him talking to someone who isn't a clone, so we don't really know his behavior around beings he respects. Guess it's up to me to slander him further!

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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Pong Krell, Saesee Tiin, Original Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars), Edmon Rampart Additional Tags: Physical Abuse, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Verbal Abuse, Injury, Hand injury, Burning Injury, Severe Burns, Not Canon Compliant, Vomiting, Execution, Mouth/Throat Injury, War, Death, And Lots of It, Crying, Chemical warfare, Galactic Republic (Star Wars), Separatists | Confederacy of Independent Systems (Star Wars), Pong Krell Being an Asshole, Amputation, Whump, now that I understand better what that is this is definitely that, Amusement Parks Series: Part 1 of Pong Krell's 83rd Regiment Summary:

Aurora has been with the 83rd Regiment, and under Krell's thumb, since the first battle of Geonosis. He's spent all that time learning and adapting to Krell to survive, but only now is he responsible for the entire regiment's well being.

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Alternatively, send in just a “🖊“ and I will talk about any one of my OCs at random!

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Republic Commando (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Delta Squad (Star Wars), CC-01/425 | Advisor, Graekus Shubelle Additional Tags: Hologram Fun World, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon Compliant, Amusement Parks Summary:

While on vacation, a senator discovered that Hologram Fun World was showing Separatist propaganda in their attractions. This drew the Republic's eye to HFW and their ability to spread propaganda and store both sensitive Separatist and Republic data. Delta Squad and the 83rd Regiment have been dispatched to HFW to cease operations at the park, arrest their leadership, and analyze their collected data. Delta Squad is to arrest HFW leadership and secure and isolate the target's data stream via their administrative building, the Adminidome.

I had a blast working with on this as part of the Prequels Big Bang @swprequels-big-bang! This was my first time participating in something like this and I don’t think it could have gone better! The wonderful art piece in the fic is by @dragon-subway, an artist I can’t recommend enough!

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It's a one time thing, as far as they know. I presented it as such, like you give me permission to control you so you can ask someone out or whatever and once I do that, I have no more power over you.

That isn't the case, not by a long shot.

I haven't done anything bad, don't get me wrong. I haven't done anything at all in most cases, except make them wink every now and again just to check if there is a cutoff. There hasn't been a cutoff yet. It's been 19 years.

I have control over thousands of people because they think I don't anymore.

And now it's time to exercise my power.

When your power had finally manifested, they were quick to dismiss it as some cruel joke, laugh it off, forget you ever existed… and then to never bother keeping tabs on you. After all, if you can’t “mind control” anyone without their explicit consent, you might as well be powerless.

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It's surprising how often people forget they are filled with corpses.

I'm not just talking about the burger you ate for lunch either. Yes, the cow and the wheat and the lettuce are all dead now, but that's not the half of it.

The excretory system is a work of art, don't get me wrong, and every now and again I'm ecstatic that it works, but it isn't an instant affair.

At any moment, your body harbors the corpses of thousands of bacteria and other cells, cells from your own body!

If those are healed, they do what they were born to do: multiply.

All I have to do is stave off the digestive juices long enough for the overabundance of blood in the intestine to take effect.

Or a single streptococcus bacterium suddenly finding itself at the raging center of an infection.

And that's not even getting me started on tumors.

So yes, healing can kill.

“You’re a healer. Actually, you’re the best healer in the world… so how do you have more kills than everyone else in your party combined?” “Simple. I heal.”

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Pong Krell, Saesee Tiin, Original Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Physical Abuse, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Verbal Abuse, Injury, Hand injury, Burning Injury, Severe Burns, Not Canon Compliant, Vomiting, Execution, Mouth/Throat Injury, War, Death, And Lots of It, Crying, Chemical Warfare, Galactic Republic (Star Wars), Separatists | Confederacy of Independent Systems (Star Wars), Defoliator Series: Part 1 of Pong Krell's 83rd Regiment Summary:

Pong Krell's Clone Trooper unit, the 83rd Regiment, is tasked with investigating a Separatist presence on a backwater planet, where they discover a brutal Confederate project in the works. A new recruit to the unit learns what it means to be a soldier.

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The wind changed on the airfield, blowing past the soldier towards the impressed sergeant.

"Say soldier, what's that I smell on you?"

"Can't say, sir, I don't smell anything different. Though I haven't had much chance to shower since the mission."

"Well, soldier, I suggest you fix that before the award ceremony."

"Yessir!" The soldier departed, pulling that odd, almost sweet smell with him.

Over the next 36 hours, every piece of gear taken on that mission was cleaned or disposed of, including the personnel and the captives.

Almost as quickly as the captives were washed, they began to stink as fiercely as before. This new, savory scent the culinary inclined associated with rosemary was accompanied by a change in attitude, transforming the previously docile, timid numbers into a pack of bloodthirsty, incredibly intelligent monsters.

The lax security holding the captives in place was evident when they took their first opportunity to disassemble the hinges of their cages and dismember the solitary guard within a single minute.

The population of the military fort was around 8,000, an even fight if both sides knew what was coming.

The sergeant's pride in the soldier was short lived. In fact, it lasted about as long as he did.

“Soldier, how the hell did you manage to take 9,999 captives?” “No idea, sir. They all just surrendered after I killed the first guy.”

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In a moment, the United States Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chinese Head of Government, and the President of the French Senate rose far above their station.

In a second, billions of dollars of investment vaporized.

In a breath, the President of the United States of America, Vice President of the United States of America, the President of the People's Republic of China, the President of France, and 5 astronauts died.

In an hour, the last of the debris fell to earth.

In a day the launch site was determined to be an international crime scene by Interpol.

In two days, so was every lab involved in the design and construction of the rocket.

In 5 days the last of the staff involved in the design and construction of the rocket were arrested for suspicion in the assassination of multiple world leaders.

In 7 days all of the new national leaders, borne out of tragedy, were blaming each other for the explosion.

In 10 days Interpol began an investigation into the explosion.

In 2 weeks previously uninvolved nations were taking sides and altering trade patterns.

In 20 days Interpol began to investigate digital records.

In a month the United States of America declared war on China.

In 33 days France declared war on the United States of America and China.

In 2 months alliances were made.

In 65 days the first shot rang out.

In 1 year 40,000 people had died.

In 1 and a half years 4/5 of the people originally accused by Interpol had been declared innocent.

In 2 years the decision was made to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile from the United States towards CFB Suffield in Alberta.

In 2 years the missiles were detected by Britain and were countered, launching missiles at Washington, DC.

In 2 years 173 warheads were being sent to 10 different countries, almost simultaneously.

In 2 years Interpol determined the disaster a consequence of a localized difference in atmospheric pressure.

In 2 years and 1 day the war was over.

In 5 years the abandoned International Space Station fell through a nuclear winter onto Earth, delivering home the corpses of a forgotten crew.

A murder mystery, without a murderer. The victim just choked on a drink, but nobody believes it was an accident because of the victim’s importance.

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You work in a factory that builds intelligent war machines, built and forced to fight in a constant war. Out of either sympathy or habit, you head-pat every machine after every inspection. A seemingly harmless gesture… until men in suits pulled you from work and interrogated you about it.

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The relativistic effects of traveling at significant percentages of the speed of light are not to be sneezed at either, many astronauts on leave are surprised by how fast planets move.

We all know how travel at these speeds ages a passenger more slowly, in fact there are galactic laws about maximum speeds and voyage durations, but after only a couple of trips, the effects start to add up. Preferably, any given astronaut would retire from the industry after 10 trips at 10% the speed of light, 5 trips at 20% the speed of light, etc, but many astronauts in poverty need to keep their jobs, often supporting up to 5 generations directly. The economy is built upon these beings, though, so nothing is done besides moderate mental health support.

Onto more fun stuff: the taste of food, as any good stand-up comedian is aware, is affected by air pressure and air composition. When astronauts return to native atmospheres, they often find that meals they had enjoyed on board are far different for no reason they can immediately identify. In fact, there's a subsection of the culinary industry devoted to providing astronauts of all species meals that taste the same in pressurized and natural environments.

something that i wished was focused on more in scifi is the side-effects of living and travelling in space so frequently

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Your daughter has lice so you shave her gross head, & on the back of her head you find a QR code, clearly not tattooed on (She was born with a full head of hair and never got it cut more than a trim until now, no opportunity for anyone to sneak a tattoo in) but clear as day, with crisp lines, no redness so clearly its been there for a while. So you take a photo of it and post it to facebook asking what that is what's going on why is it there and all your friends from church start messaging you directly, saying some pretty awful, out of character stuff. Warning you not to scan the fucking code. Dont scan the fucking code you god damned bastard. Do not. So you don't, cause you're scared. And you put her to sleep without telling her anything, with a head covered in mayo youre gonna wash out the next morning I know its thursday night but you know what, let's, lets get you a three day weekend. Okay? Okay daddy. Love you. Goodnight. Woken up at like 12 am by the sound of your door being smashed in, you see men in riot gear breaking your shit down, breaking all your shit, and you can't fucking stop them. Two of them are grabbing you. Grabbing you hard, holding you down but you can see more of them coming into your house. You see them go upstairs to your daughters bedroom, and drag her out as she screams but they cover her mouth and shes hitting and kicking them and biting their hands but theyre so armored and strong it doesnt even matter. It doesnt matter. And as you see this going down you try to scream but the men restraining you put a dirty cloth in your mouth and you start gagging, choking. And your eyes are bloodshot. Youre crying hot tears. And once you see them drag your daughter out the doors and load your her into a van the two men holding you nod at eachother, before one turns towards you and starts strangling you until you pass out while the other holds a finger to his ear and starts talking, but you can't hear, you cant read his lips...

& you wake up the next morning with your heart pounding, and a gross feeling in your mouth. And you immediately run up the stairs to see your daughter sleeping peacefully in her bed, still bald. Mayo on her head. Mayo smeared on her pillowcase from rolling over. So you rustle her awake. Hey sweetpea. Are you, are you feeling alright? How are you feeling. And she groans and asks if you were serious about not taking her to school today. All sleepy still... Yeah. I meant it.. Lets wash that mayo off.. Come on.. You lead her to the shower and start rinsing.. But there's no QR code. No QR code anywhere. You log onto facebook and check what you posted... Back-of-head pic of your bald daughter, no QR code. Check the comments, its your church friends. Ha! Did someone get lice? oh, that sounds terrible. praying for smooth recovery. Why is she bald? Why did you do this? Is this some kind of joke? Oh, lice. Tell her I send good luck.... All the people who messaged you yesterday. You check your messages. Wiped. Nothing.

Your front door is intact. The shit the men smashed is still there. There's no blood anywhere. You're not bruised. Did you just fucking imagine all that? You pace around but something close to the cieling catches your eye,

a smear of mayo

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Dooku | Darth Tyranus, CT-7567 | Rex, Pong Krell, CT-6922 | Dogma, CC-1119 | Appo, CT-6116 | Kix, CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives Additional Tags: Not Canon Compliant, Canon Divergence - Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), Umbara Arc (Star Wars: Clone Wars)

Summary:

Pong Krell survives the events of Umbara and decides it's time to make new friends. Picks up from s4e10, when Krell has been captured by the 501st

My first fanfic! I hope you all enjoy! I’m new to this, so please tell me if I messed up any etiquette or anything like that.

Thanks to @herbalina-of-yesteryear or Herbalinz on ao3 for beta reading!

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Give it 20 years and this will result in hundreds of Jedi denominations, none of which call themselves Jedi to avoid the government, all of which hide their Force as much as possible, being able to reclaim political power.

And so a rescue party disguised as a galactic banquet is organized on Coruscant, leaders and ambassadors of many planets in attendance. Most of them reformed Jedi, having regained the government's trust.

The biggest names of the Jedi rot in prison for their crimes, having not seen the outside of their cells for decades. Those once divided now all but family, all but political scapegoats, kept alive just to be paraded around to rally the people.

As usual, a tour of the Coruscant prison is held for visiting politicians, the last Jedi named so barely lift their heads.

Until they hear combat, the sounds of a guard falling to the ground unconscious and the horrible, wonderful, disgusting, hopeful sound of a Force choke

Thinking about the jedi order being forcibly disbanded instead of all killed is- well, it’s better than them all being killed, but it’s still very oof. I’m thinking either I suppose that they succeeded in killing palpatine but the subsequent government, still very anti-jedi, accused the council of treason for it and broke them up- or even it could be an alternate strategy of palpatine’s-

There are multiple possibilities but I can’t help but think of the younglings in this scenario, especially Reva. Presumably most of them would be sent back to their birth parents, but not all of them would even have those, in which case they would end up in the system? And idk I’m imagining Reva having a really hard time adjusting and maybe running away to try and find one of her friends who she knows ended up in the foster system, or trying to track down her creche master in exile who will be in so much trouble for being in contact with her, or, or,

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free