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Reg and Error’s shenanigans part 13 !

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Communication Errors

Bo Katan wasn't sure where the ringing in her ears was coming from, if it was feedback from one of the other mandalorian's assisting her operation, or the ringing bouncing around her skull from a delayed charge set deep inside the imperial base Axe had dropped the light cruiser into. The lowest levels of the facility remained, with the scouting party running into small holdouts of imperial troops and staff. The mistake had been not expecting the holdouts to lay traps. When the detonator went off close to Koska, Bo-Katan had yanked her back and forced herself between the niteowl and the explosion. Her beskar had protected her from the brunt of the damage, though her head smacking into a support beam from the propulsion was enough to make her skull vibrate. When the rumbling stopped and the catwalks, bucketed heads turned to her for further instruction, as the other teams checked in over comms. 

Beneath her helmet, The woman gave herself a second to recompose, eyes squeezing shut before refocusing back on the situation. "keep going." Her voice was clipped and short, the rumbling of her own vocal chords seemed to reverberate through her skull. Several confirmations of her orders rang through comms between the teams, and soon they were on the move once more. The goal was to clear what was left of the west wing and set up their own surveillance points along whatever exit points remained. Bo Katan lead point through the rest of their sections, and the silence from the comms confirmed both no more explosives, and that the ringing in her ears was still from the first blast. In the last corridor, two imperial commando troops remained, their armor covered in soot and dirt, it was clear they were running without orders, since Gideon's fiery demise. Bo-Katan let Axe and Koska, who had been diligently trailing behind her as she led, brush past on either side. The blasters felt like nails being pounded into her skull, as her left hand finally reached for her own blaster, her right still wrapped securely in bandages to heal the many fractures. By the time she was able to clear her vision enough to line up a shot between the white beskar alloy of the troopers, Koska's vibroblade was already burying itself a home into the thin opening, while Axe's own blade disappeared through the underside of the second'd helmet, coming back slick with blood as the imperial slumped to a heap on the ground. "we're all clear." Axe declared, visor leveling on Bo-Katan as she, with gritted teeth forced her Westar back into it's holster, leather groaning with the force of the action. 

"Surface." The only orders the woman could offer her team through the growing ringing and steadily increasing weariness. There were other things she'd rather kiss than that support beam, she was sure of it. Even an imperial death ray sounded like a better deal than the way her head felt at the moment. Each team reconvened at their main entry point, where Bo-Katan was able to fall behind the two tribes. Everyone was on much lower alert for the return to the temporary camps, considering they'd cleared the entire level, and the other side was decorated with debris and scorch marks, where the mandalorians had already set up survey markers. Bo-Katan almost hadn't noticed that someone had sidled up next to her, though, The Armorer carried an air of steadiness that was impossible to ignore. The two did not speak, and The Armorer did not stray from her position as they walked, providing a strength in her silence that Bo-Katan never thought she would need, and yet never seemed to get enough of. 

As the team broke surface, everyone seemed to part their own ways. Koska, to clean her armor, Axe to check his weapons, the children of the watch to eat or drink. Bo's feet never stopped moving, neither did The Armorer's, as the latter seemed to pick a direction and take off, expecting the Mand'alor to follow, and she did. The ringing persisted in her ears as their boots crunched against dirt and gravel, until eventually, they came to a halt, where the armorer held back the flap to her tent. Without the need for any words to be spoken, Bo stepped inside. The interior of the tent was modest for the woman who led the Children of the Watch, a cot covered with heavy furs, crates stacked to the side, meticulously cleaned in a way that proved The Armorer's care that went into what was hers. 

"Remove your helmet." The gold helmeted warrior ordered in a tone much softer than the first time she'd given it. Bo complied immediately, silent aside from the snap-hiss of her helmet being removed. Beneath the helmet, Bo's poorly concealed grimace was bare to the world, sweat pooled at her brow, intermingling with a stream of blood originating from a cut near her forehead, running parallel with the uppermost scar along her forehead. When her helmet collided into the beam, her head was smashed violently into the beskar protection. A small wound to be sure, though it bled like a waterfall until the blood had finally dried along her face. Without the tint of her visor, the woman's eyes had narrowed, even the minimal lighting inside the tent magnified the ache against her skull. 

Once more, a strong, gloved hand reached out, guiding her to the edge of the cot and nudging so she'd lower into it. Bo couldn't remember anytime she felt no need to be on her guard with another living person, with her sense of awareness dulled, she trusted that The Armorer wouldn't lead her into a fight while she was vulnerable, it was new, but more welcome than she'd have ever liked to admit. Green eyes snapped back to focus, meeting the dark void of The Armorer's visor, as the woman started to wipe away the dried blood from the incision. The medkit was layed out beside Bo, though she couldn't recall when it had even been retrieved. Just like with every piece of equipment the woman handled in the forge, she handled Bo like something priceless, laying a bandage over the wound before focusing on the end of the blood trail. Bo could only stare up at her helm as a finger pressed up against her chin, angling her face upwards so the last remnants of blood could be wiped away. 

She hadn't been ready for the other woman to step away, unknowing of how much of her weight she'd been relying on The Armorer to support with those gentle touches until she'd had to catch herself at the loss of contact. Her elbows shifted to rest against her knees, back slouching as she held herself upright on those contact points. The other woman moved around the tent impossibly silent, Bo would have had a hard time tracking her if she could hear past the ringing, which dulled down to the relief of a quiet roar. The Armorer was back again in her limited sight, painkillers and a half-full canteen being handed off between the two, which Bo took thankfully. "Koska almost got herself turned into dust." She finally explained after swallowing a mouthful of water. This time, when her head dipped forward, she met the coolness of a beskar plate against warm skin. She received no reply to her explanation, though she soon heard the thud of a heavy glove dropping against the furs beside her. The hand that rested against the back of her head in the following moments felt hotter than the forges, The hand that carded through red locks of hair was gentle, and the fingers that massaged against the base of her neck provided more relief than the painkillers had. 

An unknown amount of time had passed, though when The Armorer pulled away and replaced the glove, Bo felt much better than she had since they'd even gone down into the facility. As the niteowl stood, helmet tucked securely under her left arm, she'd nodded her head in respect towards The Armorer. "Thank you," Bo spoke on her way out of the tent, a smile forming on her lips at the expected reply, "This is the way." It sounded redundant and unnecessary from the many others she'd heard it from, though she doubted she would ever tire of hearing it from The Armorer. 

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Memory

This is a concept I have been kicking around in my brain since Forever. It's sort of included in my fic on Ao3 To Kill the King, but this is the more generic version, I guess? It's based in the theory of collective memory, and considering Fives and Echo have lived and trained with each other for years, they'd have some serious overlap in cognitive routine. Anyway, @fivesarctrooper said they'd read it! So here ya go! It's pain!

Memory is a fickle thing--something everyone learns about a billion times in their life. Mostly, it was inconsequential. Forgetting a few events, a few names, a few places usually wasn’t a huge deal, but most people weren’t supposed to be perfectly engineered fighting machines. Clones couldn’t exactly afford a lapse in memory, not if it meant forgetting which planet had the purple plants that killed you and which one had the purple plants for food. There was even less room for error for clones with extra training, like ARCs or commandos.

And Fives had been forgetting things.

Little things, usually, like briefing times, shift changes, stuff like that. And it was starting to piss him off, actually. He’d been remembering these things for years now, he’d been in a routine for the past two years doing the same things on the same ship over and over. He should have known it was his turn to run bunk inspections this week, not have Jesse remind him twice already.

His feet carried him to the sparring rooms of their own accord, but he decided against arguing with them. Apparently, he needed to go over his damn schedule with himself because he couldn’t keep track of it anymore. Not since--

Well.

Anymore.

He piled his armor in one corner, muttering under his breath about how stupid this whole thing was. How angry he was at himself.

“Next thing you know, I’m gonna forget which end of the blaster goes up,” he grumbled, stalking towards one of the dummies and swinging his arms to loosen up.

The day you forget how to use a blaster is the day Rex retires, i.e. never. And you’ve got a briefing in forty minutes.

Fives opened his mouth to respond, then froze, half in a fighting guard. He had a briefing in forty minutes. When had he remembered that? And more importantly, he looked around. Who in the hell had just reminded him? He was the only one in the room.

He shook his head. Best not to question what was helping him. “Since when did I have a briefing in forty minutes?” he said, mostly to himself, rubbing his eyes.

Since yesterday when you were talking with Rex…

… Right. He remembered that now. He actually remembered it, he could recall the conversation where he had agreed to have a meeting today. Okay, while his brain was in a remembering mood, what else was he forgetting?

He crossed his arms, cupping his chin with one hand. “Briefing in forty. Still doing bunks today. What else?” Something nagged at his brain. “There’s something else…”

You haven’t done a kitrep in about a week, and you haven’t eaten since 1800 yesterday.

His stomach gurgled as if to prove the point. Well. He had some rations stashed away, he could eat before the briefing. It was a little unnerving he’d almost forgotten to eat, though.

Yeah, you’d be dead without me, we know, you’re welcome.

“Would not,” he muttered.

Ooh, look at me, I’m Stick Man the ARC trooper, I don’t eat enough--

“Oh, you little--” The sentence never finished, because half-way through, a realization hit.

Echo. That was Echo’s voice. All of it, that was his twin.

A second realization landed just after, carrying enough weight to bring him to his knees on the floor.

Of course he couldn’t remember shit. Of course. Echo had always done that. Echo did the schedules and the meetings and the reminders. Fives’ memory had been dependent on that for years.

And suddenly, it was gone.

A bright flash, a huge noise, a wave of heat, and half his memory had come unmoored.

Fives finally just sat down on the mats, curling his knees to his chest and hiding his face in his arms. It wasn’t fair. Not only had he watched yet another batchmate go up in flames and had to leave him behind, but it felt like he’d lost his mind to boot. Like there was an Echo-shaped hole in his life and he kept tripping into it, face-first. He couldn’t just keep tripping. He was an ARC, he had shinies to keep alive, he had a captain who depended on him. There wasn’t time to trip up. There wasn’t time…

“So what? What am I gonna do?” he murmured, because it’s what he would have asked Echo.

You’ll keep going. Keep pushing forward, you’re good at that. When you start feeling like you’re stuck, I’ll be here. Always have been.

Fives could almost see the soft smile his brother would have given him, could almost feel the gentle nudge to his shoulder. But he kept his head down. He wanted a few more seconds to pretend his world hadn’t been turned inside-out last week. But not too long: he had a briefing in thirty minutes, and Echo wouldn't let him forget it.

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As an artist who loves drawing Clones, from “I will draw this with ease” to “cry at your desk internally”, would you rank the types of Clone armour when drawing the Clones. This is ranging from the Phase 1, Phase 2 and Clone Commando armour. There’s probably more I’m not aware of, so feel free to add them to your small ranking list. I’m just curious, cause I can tell drawing armour can be the bane of an artist’s life.

I love your drawings though! They’re amazing!

Thank you for sending this! Ok so I think a list, yes a list will do quite nicely for this, so ranking from 1 (I will draw this with ease) to 5 (crying at desk, gnashing of teeth, walking back and forth while shaking my head at my tablet and saying "no" like Gollum) Phase 1 Clone Armor: 3....because there are SO MANY PLATES. Still, despite it having a simpler bucket, there are just *cries* SO MANY PLATES and angles...I'd say this is the easiest armor to draw, but not by much

Phase 2 Clone Armor: 5...because, again, SO MANY PLATES, but then they have the audacity to add breathy hole greeblies, antenna, scopes, and angles, and....aesthetically give me Phase 2 over Phase 1, but drawing it? I... *shakes head again like Gollum from Lord of the Rings*

Oh hey and also special shout cry out to our favorite commanders who feel the sun is just too much for the delicate eyes and went and added visors to their buckets...*lovingly glares at Fox, Cody, Thorn, etc.* (ok but for real, I love drawing their visors, I don't know why, it's tough (for me) as all get out, but...artistic pain and suffering I guess?)

Now onto the specialists!

ARC Trooper Armor: 15....greeblies, angles, plates, AND NOW YOU WANT A PAULDRON(S) AND A SKIRT? Are you kidding me with this? There are also buckles upon buckles....these ARCs were outfitted and went "oh no not enough, let's hit up Hot Topic for some Utilikilts and buckle pants..maybe we'll just add plaid...."(I need to draw a plaid ARC now)....

Commando aka Katarn Armor: 4.5....this shit is bulky...like bulky and angular with an extra special frowny face bucket and a clip-on (duct taped on?) backpack for extra stuff (probably cupcakes and candy). Ok so despite it's bulky angular-ness, Katarn armor is actually some of my favorite to draw I think because the bulkiness leaves more room for hiding of errors? Also look at this face? It's....it's the puppy dog face of the armor types

I'm guessing I'm missing types of armor as well, but these, I think, are the 4 big types. All in all, I really love drawing Clones, both because of and despite their armor. There's something therapeutic about drawing them and finding out their personalities which I think very much is reflected in the armor and armor paint they choose. Once again, thanks again for sending this in, sorry if it got longer than you expected. XD

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Ramblings inspired by an earlier conversation

So I was thinking about the Bad Batch series and who all we may see in the show, besides Clone Force 99 obviously (even though I’m excited for more Echo!).

One handsome devil I hope we see is Rex, as well as Ahsoka. We know that Rex is hanging with Wolffe and Gregor in Rebels. We know that Wolffe followed Order 66 and we can assume Gregor did too (although more about him later). How did these three meet up? How were inhibitor chips removed? I have a feeling we may get some of these answers in The Bad Batch. Rex would be trying to save as many of his brothers as he can, but here is where he could run into issues. He can’t save all of them and some will be far too dedicated to their new roles. He had tried to sway Jesse in the finale, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

I brought up earlier that there is a lot of connection between The Umbara Arc and the finale of season 7. On Umbara, Fives sniffed out Krell as being a shifty bastard almost immediately. It’s possible that, since is an ARC Trooper, that he had heard more about the General than Rex had. Fives repeatedly tried to convince his Captain that something needed to be done. Even some of the other troopers noted it, Kix comparing Rex to Krell at one point. But Rex didn’t want to believe that a Jedi would intentionally try to harm them. That this was all a casualty of war. That this was a tough campaign with a new General who had a leadership style they weren’t used to. He even tried to justify Krell’s actions by bringing it back to him having effective strategies that get results. But Fives insisted something wasn’t right. It took Krell ordering the 501st and 212 against each other unknowingly. The incident crushed Rex, it made him question why his superior officer would do this. Why a Jedi would do this.

When Fives was being pursued through Coruscant and had demanded a chat with Rex and Anakin about the chips, the General and Captain had already been warned that Fives was crazy. He was cautious and Anakin did most of the talking. I don’t think he necessarily disbelieved what Fives was saying, but I think his doubt won over. The incident surrounding Fives’ death disturbed him to the point where he filed a report. One he knew would likely be ignored, but he felt like he needed to do it. Again, he wasn’t sure if he believed him then but he believed that Fives believed it was true. He was forced to face the fact that Fives had been right (“you should’ve listened to the ARC trooper! He was right, I was using you!”) when the chips were activated. He managed to fight it for a short time, warning Ahsoka in the process.

Twice Fives had warned him, twice he hadn’t wanted to believe what he was being told (for obvious reasons, you can’t fault him for that), and both times there were crushing consequences. That’s the Rex we’ll get if he appears in The Bad Batch. Not a broken one, but one who won’t ignore another warning. One intent on saving as many of his brothers as he can. Ahsoka would likely join him, as I don’t truly see them separating like they did in the novel. Not after surviving Order 66 together. But I see this as being a new challenge for him. He’ll have to come to terms that he can’t save all of his brothers. That he will have to shoot them. I’m sure he has thought about the ones that are still alive. Bly, Cody, Wolffe, among others. He knows that Cody is with Kenobi, and Kenobi went into hiding after Order 66. He probably assumes that Cody killed Obiwan.

Cody is another that could possibly show up. Being part of the Imperial Army now obviously. Idk if this is still canon or not, but he apparently been assigned to train the new recruits. He dealt with clones being phased out and birth-born humans replacing them. Cody became bitter and resented the birth-born troops due to them not being as efficient as clones. I am not sure if this is the route Disney will take with him. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he shows up as an antagonist. It would be interesting to see how Rex deals with him, since Cody essentially stands in the way of Rex saving and freeing clones. Cody would recognize Rex from a mile away and both know the others skill level.

Wolffe is an interesting one that could pop up too. From what I’ve read, he did follow Order 66 for a while, but it wasn’t him who ordered Plo shot down. That was Captain Jag. This makes me wonder where Wolffe was, since he was usually at Plo’s side. But it may have been as simple as him not being a pilot. He was probably on the planet, but on the ground. At some point after Order 66, he removed his chip. But we don’t know when or how or why. It’s possible this is explored in The Bad Batch.

Gregor could come in to play as well. However, the bro was essentially blown up in the episode he was in. He is in Rebels, so we know he lives, but he’s obviously suffered heavy mental trauma. Whether this is related to the explosion or not, we don’t know. For all we know, there was an error in removing his chip. It looked like was over the frontal lobe which is responsible for a lot of stuff. Gregor’s chip could’ve been damaged in the explosion.

So Rex getting Wolffe (very formidable fighter) and Gregor (a Commando Captain) would be very hard tasks. Both officers wouldn’t be just hanging around. Like Cody, they’d likely be in charge of troops. It would require help to get them, subdue them, and remove their chips. Help from perhaps Clone Force 99? The guys who helped him recover Echo. Rex attempting to save Cody would be fascinating to watch honestly. Perhaps him fighting his brother, trying to subdue him, only to realize Cody is too far gone and is fighting back just as fiercely, and aiming to kill.

I would think Vader would make an appearance as well. It would be interesting to see if any of the clones recognize his fighting style. Both Echo and Cody have been around Anakin long enough to know his style of fighting. I don’t think Rex ever figured out Vader was Anakin, as that was a closely guarded secret. Ahsoka knew, but she never saw Rex again after her fight with Vader. However, it’s possible Rex knew if he’s seen Vader fight. He would know Anakin’s style of fighting better than anyone. I don’t think that part would change, unless Vader decides to learn a new style of combat in the minutes before he carries out Order 66.

Of course, maybe none of this will happen and it strictly focuses on Clone Force 99.

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Media captionSyria Warfare: Why is Idlib wait on in the records?

Turkey's president has warned the Syrian authorities that this might perhaps well well moreover "pay a if truth be told, very heavy impress" for assaults on Turkish troopers in north-west Syria.

5 troops had been killed in opposition-held Idlib province on Monday, because the Syrian navy endured an offensive.

Turkish forces struck dozens of targets in response, however President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated: "This is in a position to proceed."

Within the intervening time, Syrian troopers got here shut to regaining full maintain watch over of the country's vital north-south highway.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-basically based mostly monitoring team, reported on Tuesday morning they had pushed riot and jihadist opponents from the ideal share of the M5 that they held accurate west of the city of Aleppo.

Then all all over again, there was once no confirmation from the navy or roar media, and clashes had been reportedly ongoing alongside parts of the highway on Tuesday afternoon.

The authorities has no longer controlled the total M5 highway, which connects Aleppo with the capital Damascus and the border with Jordan, since 2012.

Also on Tuesday, a authorities helicopter was once reportedly shot down shut to the village of Nayrab, south-east of the opposition-held city of Idlib, killing its crew. Videos perceived to camouflage the helicopter on fire earlier than it plummeted to the bottom.

And 12 civilians, six of them teens, had been killed and 30 had been wounded in air strikes on the Sinaa and Jalaa areas of Idlib city, in accordance to the SOHR.

Turkey, a backer of the opposition, has sent troops to Idlib below agreements with the Syrian authorities's allies Russia and Iran - the 2017 Astana and 2018 Sochi accords - that sought to de-escalate hostilities.

To this level this month, Syrian navy artillery fire has killed 12 Turkish defense power personnel and one civilian contractor.

The Turkish defence ministry stated Turkish forces replied to Monday's assault by hitting 115 Syrian authorities targets and "neutralising" 101 troopers. Then all all over again, the Syrian navy didn't inform any casualties.

In a speech in Ankara on Tuesday, President Erdogan stated: "We gave the famous responses to the Syrian aspect on one of the best level. Especially in Idlib, they obtained what they deserved. However here is no longer enough. This is in a position to proceed."

"The extra they assault our troopers, the heavier impress they will pay. We are in a position to portion these steps with the overall public tomorrow," he added.

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Listing caption Syrian authorities forces are shut to regaining maintain watch over of the strategic M5 highway

Turkey's roar files company stated a contemporary convoy of defense power vehicles and commandos had been sent to Idlib to toughen Turkish positions there, adding to the a total bunch of tanks and hundreds of troopers reportedly deployed ideal week.

The Syrian navy later stated Turkey was once "escalating acts of aggression by focusing on populated areas to wait on terrorists" and that it will most likely well acknowledge to assaults.

Within the intervening time, Russia known as for the de-escalation agreements to be implemented and warned it thought to be unacceptable "any terrorist exercise directed in opposition to the Syrian militia and Russian defense power products and providers".

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Listing caption Almost 700,000 other folk, including 400,000 teens, occupy fled their properties since December

The Syrian navy has stated its troopers, who had been supported by Iran-backed militiamen and Russian air strikes, occupy recaptured bigger than 600 sq km (231 sq miles) of territory and "liberated" dozens of towns and villages in most up-to-date days.

No longer decrease than 373 civilians had been killed and 689,000 others occupy fled their properties since the offensive began in December, in accordance to the UN.

"Right here's, from our initial analysis, the vital selection of different folk displaced in a single interval since the Syrian disaster began nearly nine years up to now," a spokesman of the UN Location of job for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs stated on Tuesday.

The overwhelming majority of displaced other folk are moving north and west, in the direction of areas shut to the Turkish border which would be already overcrowded and the assign there might perhaps be a lack of enough safe haven. Many had been forced to camp on farmland and not utilizing a infrastructure in harsh winter stipulations.

Médecins Sans Frontières warned that a if truth be told critical selection of hospitals had been hit and either partly or fully destroyed in the previous few months, which contrivance that wounded other folk had been struggling to even entry health products and providers.

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Error n’ Reg Shenanigans #56

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“Apparently Sev found another commando who got out, he’s bringing him here for a meeting.”

Cadel sighed as she went to join Skirata at the mock landing site his little compound had.

He always got excited at the prospect of finding a clone that managed to get away, moreso if they were a commando.

Hoping to find more of his boys, she thinks.

The sting of that thought has lessened over the years, she realized, I guess time will heal all wounds.

Cadel joined the Cuy’val Dar late, she never saw herself training elite squads of any kind, she had been listless, after so much loss in her life she needed something to focus on. Kal Skirata was the one who talked Jango into sending out the invite to her, and she accepted.

Having lost her family, she already felt like she didn’t exist, so why not make it official?

She’d only had time enough to train one batch before being discharged after Jango Fetts death, but that was all the time she needed to become attached.

“Buir, can I help?”

00, Flare, Snap, and 404…her sweet 404. Always wanting to know what she was doing and if he could help, her little cooking assistant. She remembered once he snuck down to the kitchen to steal ingredients, apparently she was out, just to make his vod a late night snack.

Hearing they had survived Geonosis, one of a few commando units to do so, filled her heart with pride, that she taught her boys well and they used what they learned and survived.

When Skirata called, yet again, asking if she would help him as a advisor for the commando’s, she jumped at the chance. If anything to see her aliit again.

She saw them a handful of times since, listening to them excitedly tell her about their last mission while she treated them to her home cooking, bragging they get it fresh knowing she’d bring the leftovers to the barracks for whatever squad was back at that time.

“Cadel…the report says they are MIA, no bodies were discovered but it’s highly likely they-Cadel I am so sorry”

Skirata delivered her the news, after throwing a fit at the Jedi who sent them on the mission. She lost count of how many times she’d gone over the report.

Standard information retrieval mission, in and out, her boys had done similar before. But this one…something was wrong with it. Location, nature of the intel, all blacked out and now behind so much red tape. To much for it to be the “standard” they kept saying it was.

Skirata, ever the bleeding heart, tried to help and find out as much as he could. Going so far to have one of his boys slice into the system to see what he could find.

Nothing.

More blacked out documents.

They were gone.

She grieved, still grieved, but remained to help. If anything she strived to help keep the others alive, they deserved better than this…better than what her boys got.

Which is how she found herself here, after everything went to osik’la she helped Skirata get his own out and started this little clan. She still felt the outsider, these weren’t her ad’ika.

Flare, always patching up his vod.

Snap, constantly hacking into her data pad and changing her training programs.

00, she never knew someone could find so many creative ways to blow things up.

404, for as quiet as he was on his feet and as lethal a assassin as he was…he was the most gentlest of the 4.

As she stood by Skirata, watching the ship land, she thought back on everything. Her training Sigma, their death, everything leading up to now. Skirata joked Sev was now her’s, all she did was mother the man when he first came here, and he took a liking to her cooking. Anything with nuts.

The ship lands, dust settles, side door slides open, ramp comes down, time to meet the new member to clan Skirata-

Cadel freezes.

Sev is first off, following him is a familiar face.

They all have familiar faces Cadel, it can’t be-

But the tattoo…she remembered, right before Geonosis, her boys wanted to get tattooed.

Flare and his blue square, Snap a purple triangle, Flare a red circle, and 404…her 404…a green X.

Whoever this was saw her, he looked as surprised as she felt, but his excitement quickly turned to concern as he raised his hands in surrender.

“Cadel, what are you-ok…Cadel…lower the blaster.”

Cadel wasn’t aware she had drew her side arm and was pointing it at this stranger. It felt like she was outside her body, Skirata calmly talking her to lower her blaster sounding muffled to her ears, Sev looking between the two confused.

“Who are you?” She was proud she kept the shake from her voice.

“Buir…it’s me-“

“I’m not your Buir.”

The hurt that crossed his face at that statement caused her heart to ache, but this wasn’t 404. 404 died with his squad, this clone is some imposter who dared to get the same tattoo as her ad’ika.

“Buir, it really is me-“

“No, no it’s not.”

“Cadel-“ Skirata reached out to grab her arm, to get her to lower her blaster.

“No, I want to know who this is, and why he has Fo’ika’s tattoo.”

“Well that’s a long story, but it is me Buir-“

“I am not your Buir, my ad died, years ago. You aren’t him.”

The stranger took a deep breath and started reciting…a recipe? Cadel was confused at first till it clicked. It was a dish she used to make when her boys did well on a training exercise. But how-

“How do you know that?” She couldn’t keep the shake out of her voice that time.

“You used to make it for us…heh, once I snuck out of our room to go to the kitchens and-“

“-stole the ingredients to make it,” Cadel didn’t know what to feel, “all because the others wanted a midnight snack.”

“404?”

He looked sad, “You are half right Buir, 404 did die, it’s Error now.”

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Author’s Notes: The Secret Academy, Pt. 1

WARNING: These notes will completely spoil Servants of the Empire: The Secret Academy. Haven’t read it? Stop and go here.

(Go here for notes for Edge of the Galaxy, here for Rebel in the Ranks and here for Imperial Justice. )

Part 1: Zare

Imperial Justice was torture to write, but The Secret Academy was actually fun! Final chapters are like that ... if you’ve put in the work. I’d spent three books establishing the characters and their motivations, laid the groundwork for the themes I wanted to explore, and then layered in complications and reversals. The fourth book was the chance to make all that pay off, and I enjoyed doing it.

Rather than alternate chapters as I had in Imperial Justice, I split Zare Leonis’s and Merei Spanjaf’s stories and followed them one at a time, without intercuts. I’d considered doing that in Imperial Justice, rejected the idea, but now thought it made sense.

I had a dopey reason for doing that, and a smart one.

The dopey reason: I was still annoyed at not being able to end Imperial Justice with Zare running into Beck Ollet inside the tower – a cliffhanger that had made me cackle happily. Splitting Zare and Merei’s stories would give me a second chance at that moment.

The smart reason: Imperial Justice had separated Zare and Merei and concluded with Merei’s discovery that Zare’s transfer to Arkanis wasn’t a reward but part of the Inquisitor’s plan. Taking away the intercuts was a way for the reader to feel a little bit of that separation and anxiety.

One challenge in The Secret Academy was unexpected. Story Group sent back my outline for Books 3 and 4 with a note that by the time Zare got to Arkanis, the Inquisitor would be dead, killed off in Rebels’ Season 1 finale. That would certainly change my story! I scrunched the books’ timeline a bit and was able to get the Inquisitor and Zare to briefly overlap on Arkanis, but that was the most I could compress things.

So I leaned into it. I reasoned that the Inquisitor’s offstage demise fit with an idea I’d been playing with – that Zare, for all his bravery and determination, also gets a bit lucky. In Imperial Justice, Zare decides he won’t follow another immoral order even it means he’ll never find Dhara, and is saved from dismissal when Oleg’s warehouse raid goes awry. The Inquisitor’s death would be another bit of luck, as his plan is to return to Arkanis and break Zare. I don’t think that undercuts Zare or his quest – one thing I like about Zare is he isn’t a Jedi, a veteran commando or some kind of superhero. He needs a little luck; most heroes do.

One idea I continued from Imperial Justice was Zare’s “shadow story” – a not too different tale in which Dhara was never kidnapped and Zare remained the loyal young Imperial officer he’d assumed he’d become. Arkanis essentially resets Zare’s cadet career and the shadow story culminates with the training exercise on Sirpar. Those scenes are some of my favorite in the book – they show Zare as a young officer who improvises intelligently, drives himself and his troops to accomplish unlikely goals, and earns those troops’ loyalty and affection. He’s come a long way from the kid impatiently killing time at AppSci.

But as in Imperial Justice, Zare eventually has to ask himself what he isn’t willing to do to find Dhara. In the previous book, being ordered to take children into protective custody is his breaking point; in this one it’s being ordered to murder a fellow cadet.

No aspect of The Secret Academy attracted more interest than the revelation that Brendol Hux’s Commandant’s Cadets are forerunners of the First Order stormtroopers overseen by Brendol’s son Armitage. The funny thing, to me, was that the connection with The Force Awakens came late and was a lucky break.

I’d known since Edge of the Galaxy that Dhara was being held in a mysterious tower on Arkanis, that Zare would try to get inside, and that Beck’s unexpected reappearance would ruin everything. From a storytelling point of view, the Commandant’s Cadets were merely the mechanism that would get Zare into that tower at the right time for the hammer to come down. 

But why did they exist? I was up against a problem that’s common in richly detailed fictional universes. I wanted the Cadets to have a purpose and be more than a generic bunch of Imperial “mean kids,” but if that purpose never affected any other Star Wars story, readers would know from the beginning that the Cadets had failed to achieve their goals.

In November 2014 I visited Lucasfilm for meetings about DK’s The Force Awakens – Incredible Cross-Sections and got a synopsis of the upcoming movie, accompanied by on-set photos. Finn’s origins reminded me of both clone troopers and the Jedi; a few minutes later, it struck me that General Hux was awfully young.  

Somewhere between those two thoughts I saw an opportunity: what if the plan to raise children as stormtroopers dated back to the Rebels era, and came from Hux’s father?

Story Group’s Pablo Hidalgo liked the idea and ran it up the chain. I braced myself for a reason the answer had to be “no.” When I got a “yes” instead, I wrote as fast as I could and then crossed my fingers.

The connection made sense within the Star Wars galaxy: the elder Hux had served alongside clones and Jedi during the Clone Wars, seen the deficiencies of the stormtroopers, and imagined a better way that drew on his wartime experience. That program began in secret and was taken up by his son to create the First Order’s soldiers.

It also solved my plot problem admirably and turned a weakness in The Secret Academy into a strength. Before the release of The Force Awakens the Hux connection would spur interest in the book; afterwards, new readers would see the Commandant’s Cadets as a real threat, because they’d know that Hux’s program had succeeded beyond his fondest dreams. 

Notes on Part 1:

The first scene was the original ending of Imperial Justice, but I decided I didn’t want to introduce a new planet that late, and preferred ending with Merei and Tepha wondering if they’d ever see Zare again. Moving it was an easy change, at least. 

I wanted Arkanis to be something new for Star Wars – a waterlogged world that I likened to what you’d find if you turned over a log. I also wanted the Academy and its surroundings to feel plucked out of a gloomy Gothic tale. A lot of things in The Secret Academy are pretty shameless goofs on a well-known Gothic novel and movie, in fact. 

it was a pain ensuring Zare’s cadet service fit the chronology of the first two Rebels seasons. The initial idea was that Rebel in the Ranks and Imperial Justice would cover a full academic year, with the top cadet earning a transfer to Arkanis for the next year. Chiron would back Zare, while Roddance supported Oleg. But I couldn’t figure out what to do with Zare and Merei over that second summer, and feared readers would get impatient that Zare wasn’t trying harder to rescue Dhara. Fortunately, Rebel in the Ranks had introduced the possibility of a midyear transfer – an offhand line that became critical once the Inquisitor’s death forced me to speed things up. But how to get Zare to Arkanis? The obvious answer was for Merei to slice a transfer into the system, but that struck me as a lazy, unconvincing solution. I got so lost in blind alleys that I missed the solution Story Group found: the transfer wasn’t a reward but an unexpected order from some Imperial. I realized that Imperial should be the Inquisitor: it was plausible, solved my chronology problem, let me have a confrontation with Zare on Arkanis and added to the story’s tension. Whew! 

Contrary to what’s stated here, the journey between Lothal and Arkanis isn’t a short one. That was my fault: I was working off the idea that Lothal was near Kessel, a bit of head-canon I’d gotten used to and so failed to vet. There was no reason to define that here; doing so led to an unforced error.

Note that Colonel Julyan challenges Zare with a question about grav-ball and leadership, as Sergeant Currahee did in Rebel in the Ranks. In the earlier book Zare ducked the question; now he gives Julyan a thoughtful answer that reflects his experiences.

Julyan’s lessons reference Legends material: Admiral Screed, General Romodi (before his appearance in Rogue One), the Order of the Terrible Glare and the Empire’s campaigns in the Western Reaches. Much of this was taken from The Essential Guide to Warfare and additional material written for it. It seemed ready-made for Julyan’s teaching and unlikely to confine future storytelling, so why not use it?

I invented the diplopod as a mount for Sarco Plank in The Weapon of a Jedi, only to see my beastie get subbed out in favor of the happabore, appearing as an Easter egg for The Force Awakens. I liked the critters, so I put them aside for some future project. The Secret Academy gave me an opportunity not just to use the diplopod but also to kill one in a gross way.  

I liked the bit where the Inquisitor invites Zare to come out of the weather and into the shelter of a stasis projector. In that context politeness seems decidedly menacing. 

Scaparus Port was fun to write – equal parts Treasure Island and some gloomy town out of Cthulhu, what with its salt-encrusted gloom and fisherfolk missing limbs and scarred by sucker marks. Arkanis is just a nasty place.

Scaparus was the right place to bring back the jogan fruit, or more specifically its scent, which makes Zare remember Beck Ollet’s orchards on Lothal. Scent unlocking memory is a theme throughout Servants of the Empire, working up to its critical role in the climax. Here, it’s a heartening renewal of the connection between Zare and Merei that suggests their break might not be final after all.

I never explicitly stated it, so I’ll leave it to Wookieepedia to work out the canonicity, but Gesaral Beta is supposed to be the planet where it rains razors of glass on Ania Solo in Dark Horse’s Legacy series.

I enjoyed writing the demented beach scene with Hux and the cadets debating how to raise nerfs. The sea monster is an homage to the great Jack Vance, who imagined a similar predator in Ports of Call. (If you’ve never read Vance, fix that posthaste!) Note that Zare’s reaction to the nerf’s death is quite different than the casual cruelty shown by the other cadets.

Sirpar was another attempt at a new setting. Its heavier-than-standard gravity is noted in Legends depictions of the planet; I added making the light so intense that the cadets had to take precautions against it. Light would vary dramatically from planet to planet, another Jack Vance idea I didn’t recall seeing in Star Wars. I decided to try it and liked the results. 

Note that the accident set to befall Penn Zarang will be dismissed as a “slight weapons malfunction.” I’m all for little nods like that as long as they don’t interrupt the story or distract a casual reader. 

Perhaps emboldened by my success tying the Commandant’s Cadets to The Force Awakens, I looked for an even stronger connection. Might Anya Razar and Captain Phasma be one and the same? I decided that was a dumb idea and never proposed it, but did suggest a scene with DDM-38 pushing a red-haired baby in some kind of space pram. Lucasfilm shot that down, and rightly so – less was more. There’s awesome fan art out there of a baby Hux in the arms of his creepy nanny droid, though. 

My original treatment had Zare, Chiron and Roddance all transferred to Arkanis as part of the “valedictorian” storyline. When that idea got abandoned I decided we’d explored that triangle sufficiently on Lothal, but did need to bring Chiron back for the finale. I liked dropping him into the middle of Zare’s dilemma about the Commandant’s Cadets as a tempting but dangerous lifeline. That was also a bit of misdirection: since Chiron can get into Area Null, he’s a potential route to Dhara that would let Zare escape having to kill Penn.

We’ll see Cass again in A New Hope, as an aide aboard the Death Star.

Next time: Speaking Bocce and the Case of the Missing Bounty Hunter. Right here!

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Update

I finally managed to open the crashing file and got rid of the blue layer !

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Part 2 of the Cadel Aliit holopics series !

The 2 main characters who don’t know they will spend the rest of their lives together yet.

Back then 404 being a commando knew and cared only about his batch mates and due to his rank, tended to act like a dick to clones lower than him.

Reg (freshly named thanks to a particular lanky commando) on the other end, suffered the losses of to many brothers troopers and grew accustomed to being by himself in the workshop…

(Featuring his beloved Caff machine Lucy !)

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First part of a little series of holopics depicting the Cadel Aliit from baby commandos to 4th generation!

Here you can see sergeant Yetunde Cadel and her sons from the Sigma squad: Snap, 404, Flare and 00 !

It’s not 100% done sadly because the app I’m using keeps crashing when I tried to open the file, I’m stuck with a blue layer so let’s hope the photo editing and filters will do them Justice

Edit: update !

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Ding Dong

Reg and Error enjoyers come get your plate !

@exhaustedtech99 dropped the second chapter of Spite And Caf !

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Part 3 of the Cadel Aliit holopics series !

Pause the disk! this are the boys how you know and love them ! Where 404 became Error and Reg started to have a better nutrition (oh the horror!) and where their shenanigans and brotherhood blossomed.

They’re introductions started on a bad note but now they are closer than ever!

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