#cold war in space

[jimothy-g-brooks]

It has been X00 years since the true and final death of Sheev Palpatine. The galaxy has long schismed into many rival factions, the most powerful of which are the United Galactic Republic and the Federation Of Free Worlds. All other polities are allied with one or the other or are consigned to neutrality, likely used as proxies for their cold war. 

In this divided age, the many Orders Of Jedi Knights strive to protect their people and maintain the peace. Finn's Order is the largest of these, followed by all those that had been taught by Rey Skywalker. Many more are those that rose independently and rediscovered the Jedi Arts on their own. They all watch each other for any signs of them turning to the Dark Side and skirmish over differences in dogma. 

While in the shadows, remnants of the Eternal cults seek to reincarnate the line of the Sith, raising up prospective masters and letting them loose upon the galaxy. Rather than painstakingly seeking one perfect candidate, they corrupt dozens of souls scattered across space. Worlds will burn as would-be Dark Lords duel their rivals across the stars until only two remain, a master and an apprentice. 

In the darkness between stars, the Order Of The Voidborn aim to bring about an end to planetary life by igniting the galactic cold war. They hope to goad the major powers to use their vast caches of Planet Destroying Weapons. They believe then that their Void Emperor will lead a superior people, bred to live aboard starships, to inherent what is left and rule empty space forevermore. ~ The loose plot I thought up of: Two pairs of Jedi from rival Orders, one allied with the Republic, the other with the Federation, discover a plot by the Voidborn to hijack a Death Star and blow up a planet under a false flag mission, triggering the planet busting war they desire. Both teams of Jedi, after some rather violent disagreements, have to engage in teeth-clenched team work in order to save the galaxy. (Actually, just the planet. As they come to figure out, the false flag part of their plot is doomed to fail and no one will fall for it- but they're still going to blow up a planet full of billions of innocent lives.)

One of the would-be Sith Lords has joined the Voidborn, working for them and has convinced the Void Emperor to target this planet, because surely that planet being destroyed will kick off the planet busting war they desire. The Sith's true goal is a rival that lives on this planet- wiping them out in the most assured way possible. The hopeful goal is to manipulate the Voidborn from within to continue doing the dirty work of wiping out all other rival Sith, one planet at a time. The Void Emperor is well aware of this and is playing his own game.

The Jedi quartet pick-up one or more tagalong characters with their own plots and viewpoints on the conflict in the galaxy. One of them is secretly a would-be Sith Lord, riding along to find that rival working with the Voidborn and eliminate them.

[pwlanier]

Children's jumper. 1970s.

Atomic age, space race themes.

Peterburg Auctions

[raphaerolo]

Eepy codywan sketches anyone?

[azatas]

"we need more complex female characters" you couldn't even handle her

[jackxcinema]

NICE SCIENCE FICTION SERIES WITH BIG WORM[S]- & LOOPHOLES

NICE SCIENCE FICTION SERIES WITH BIG WORM[S]- & LOOPHOLES

“THE EXPANSE” IS SIMULTANEOUSLY EXCELLENT & UNSATISFACTORY IN GENERAL, I TRY TO AVOID WATCHING SERIES THESE DAYS Since the fundamental problem of a series is: it always goes on. Whether it is released old school in a schedule “TV-style” or dumped all at once”Netflix-style”. Either you constantly wonder in the back of your mind, how the series will continue, or you simply click “next” after the…

[khloxxy]

🇷🇺🇺🇲 for Harumachi day

[nature-nerd-sarah]

Since people wanna celebrate the moon landing so bad, lemme remind you which country actually hit most milestones in the space race first (image source in alt)

[kraftykelpie]

Little sketch of a sleeping Dinluke :)

[humanoidhistory]

David A. Hardy illustration from Rockets and Astronauts, 1977.

[nocternalrandomness]

A B-36 Peacemaker Bomber on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona

[oldshowbiz]

The Spotnicks

[kobadit]

loneliness, sadness, and stress nest

[paradamaxima]

Aetherium, more like copium

[thatsrightice]

The story of these two men is my Roman Empire.

Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov were highly decorated Cosmonauts, both of which made firsts in the history of space flight.

Yuri Gagarin famously became the first man in space on April 12, 1961.

Vladimir Komarov piloted Voshkod 1 on October 12, 1964 on the first space mission to carry multiple crew members. He flew again aboard Soyuz 1 on April 23, 1967, becoming the first Russian man to make two spaceflights.

Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov were close.

The Soyuz 1 was described as being “a piece of shit” and a “devil ship” as issues plagued the spacecraft throughout development and failed testing. Yuri had done everything he could to get the launch postponed, including writing a ten-page memo detailing the 203 structural problems he had discovered during inspection of the Soyuz 1. Any person who had laid eyes on the memo would be fired or demoted.

Komarov knew of these issues, but refused to step down from the missions. In March of 1987 he met with Venyamin Russayev, a then-recently-demoted KGB agent who had been assigned to "mind" Yuri Gagarin.

He met with Russayev and said, "I'm not going to make it back from this flight." Russayev asked, “Why not refuse?” Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin. Komarov couldn't do that to his friend. "That's Yura. And he'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him." Komarov then burst into tears.

Yuri, nicknamed Yura by friends and family, showed up on the day of the launch “demanding to be put into a space suit,” "demanding this and this and this...", doing anything and everything he could to be the one on that spacecraft instead of Vladimir. Unfortunately, his attempts were be futile.

Soyuz 1 would launch on April 23, 1967 and faced serious issues throughout the flight. The parachutes failed to deploy during reentry and the spacecraft burned up while Vladimir screamed and cried and cursed out those responsible.

Yuri Gagarin was grounded from future space flights and denied permission to pilot military jets. This was devastating for the already deeply depressed man and everyone knew it. Even his favorite hairdresser said that “Yuri couldn't live without flying. It was his whole life. A man can't live without his trade. He can't survive.”

He eventually convinced them to let him fly, but on March 28, 1968, less than a year since Komarov’s accident, he was tragically killed during a routine-training flight aboard a MiG-15. The cause of the accident is unclear, though many speculate that the accident was an assassination on the cosmonaut as he had a falling out with several high-ranking officials following the death of his close friend.

Both Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov’s names are featured on the memorial for fallen US Astronauts and USSR Cosmonauts left on the moon by the Apollo 11 crew.

[firefly6591]

what if we built a space station and held hands idk

[khloxxy]

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