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My precious Kiirem. I want so bad for him to shine.

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Cheat Sheets for Writing Body Language

We are always told to use body language in our writing. Sometimes, it’s easier said than written. I decided to create these cheat sheets to help you show a character’s state of mind. Obviously, a character may exhibit a number of these behaviours. For example, he may be shocked and angry, or shocked and happy. Use these combinations as needed.

by Amanda Patterson

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My Sith who wants nothing more than to be left alone on Ilum with his crystals

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Beautiful and deadly.

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Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by the Hunter.

Imperial Agent (via incorrectswtorquotes)

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(501): The kitchen also doubles as a screaming room after midnight as long as you have something to muffle the sound

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At the End of All Things

by Guillem H. Pongiluppi 

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Origin Story

Okay, over the next few days I’m going to be posting Tris’ origin story. Since it turns out it’s about 15 pages long. Parts will be different lengths, depending on what’s happening in the story.

I always imagine that there’s a super secret Academy of Intelligence for Chiss in the Ascendency. It’s in that environment that Tris grew up in and one of the main reasons the way he is, or more like, chose to be. 

Titles will be bland: Origin Story 1, 2, etc etc.

So, without further ado, under the cut is part one.

“What the hell happened out there?!” Sevens hissed. He yanked off his helmet and tossed it angrily at the interior of the dead star ship. Stios watched it bounce off the wall and roll across the floor. Silently, he picked it up as his comrade raged on. “Routine scouting? They knew something Good Doctor! How else could a squad of troopers surprise a stealthed scouting party?”

Tris’tio’scines gave his peer a stern look and tapped the side of his helmet. A warning was masked in his words.

“Do you think we should call for help?” He asked quietly. Sevens sobered, looking between Stios’ finger, still touching the temple of his helmet, to his face.

“No.” He said gruffly. “No, that won’t be necessary.”

Both cadets froze as they heard voices. Without another word, Stios tossed Sevens his newly cracked helmet. They activated their stealth generators and tip-toed deeper into the mighty skeleton.

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On the Millennium Falcon, and the issue of Parsecs...

I’ve heard the discussion about Han Solo’s famous “Kessel Run” time and time again - both inside the Star Wars community and outside it. Common consensus seems to be that Han Solo’s boast that the Falcon could do the run in 12 parsecs indicates that Solo has no idea what a parsec is, or else relies on the fact that his audience doesn’t know.

This discussion relies on two main facts:

A parsec is a unit of measurement equivalent to roughly 3.26 light-years. This means that a parsec is a unit of distance, not a unit of time.

The Kessel Run is a smuggling route in the Star Wars universe, running illicit spice from the spice mines of Kessel to its destination worlds. It is not a commonly-used trade route, partially because the route is fraught with danger - especially “The Maw” cluster of black holes.

The main mistake people seem to make when discussing this issue is believing that Han is boasting about the Falcon’s speed. This is understandable, because Han often boasts about the Falcon’s speed in other situations, and it is natural to assume that a vehicle owner boasts about the speed of their vehicle because that is what we Earthlings are used to when discussing cars and other machines. As such, they think that Han is purporting that “12 Parsecs” is a quantification of the Falcon’s immense velocity.

This is an incorrect assumption, however. What Han is actually boasting about is the Falcon’s ability to safely navigate the dangerous Kessel Run by the shortest possible route. Travelling at hyperspace is not a simple matter of moving the ship directly from A to B, since there are doubtless hundreds or thousands of intervening planets, stars, asteroids, and other dangers. A ship’s computer must be programmed with a route which avoids such obstacles - usually giving them a wide berth, just to be on the safe side. The computer can also adjust itself en route if an unforeseen hazard presents itself.

Han Solo programs the Falcon’s computer system to fly as close to these hazards - especially the forbidding Maw Cluster - as is possible without being destroyed. Most other pilots would see this behaviour as foolhardy, but Han apparently doesn’t care. Because the Falcon is programmed to fly closer to these obstacles than most other pilots would dare consider, it needs to “steer” far less, and so can traverse the route in a straighter line than any other starship. This means that the Falcon completes the Kessel Run in a shorter distance than other ships - a mere 12 parsecs.

This is backed up in The Force Awakens when Rey, impressed that the ‘hunk of junk’ she’s aboard is the Millennium Falcon, marvels that “This is the ship which ran the Kessel Run in 14 parsecs”. Han corrects her by saying “12″. This therefore implies that 12 parsecs is more impressive than 14 - something which is totally in keeping with the above.

Han isn’t talking out of his arse when he boasts about the Falcon’s record, nor is he demonstrating his lack of understanding of interstellar measurements. He’s just not talking about what many people think he’s talking about, which is their own lack of understanding, not Han’s.