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[shutterbugged]

Here's a question for my fellow long-timers, and medium-timers too: has living in this universe changed you? Whether it's through experiences, culture, the people you've met -- do you think you're fundamentally different, on a scale small or large, from the person you would've been if you'd never been grabbed by the Porter? And if the answer's yes, how does that change make you feel?

I just realized today at lunch that I like meat in jello now and I am horrified and ashamed of myself.

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[secondplacescrow]

[ Poor Edd, he's just so homesick for solid land. His hair floats around him like a halo when he makes a video. As usual, the camera upside down. Eddison Tollett will never get it right. ]

Please, do not go to space. It is not worth it. There's no wine here unless you smuggled some on board, leaving a man to thirst.

Already we have people fighting over tiny pods to talk to, everyone's a thief, and you can't eat the food here because it floats away if you don't open the packets right.

[ What's that he's holding? A flask? One of those skinny ones? Why yes, and he's taking a drink of it. Unfortunately, it wasn't designed for space, so the wine floats out of it, like an ominous liquid cloud. ]

See what I mean? I can't even get to wet my thirst here.

04 || Video

[art_of_war]

Greetings.

[ Again Thrawn is calmly seated in that same front room he has been in for all of his public posts. ]

It was recently told to me that the truth has merit. It has also been said that the galaxy that many of those of us, including General Grievous and the varying Jedi represented here, come from has seen a great deal of war. So to clear away any lingering haze of misunderstanding, or mistrust perhaps it is better to explain from neutral standpoint.

First please be aware that I am no Jedi, nor affiliated with the Republic. For me, all of this is history. But I have an interest in the Clone War era…and I rather mislike the use of noncombatants as ditractions.

The war's name is derived from the clone troopers utilized by the Republic against that of the battle droid forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The respective armies that each composed the Army of the Republic and the Separatist Droid Army. Beginning with the First Battle of Geonosis, the conflict quickly spread throughout the galaxy with both sides scoring significant victories over the other. At different times during the war, it seemed that either side was likely to triumph.

As the Clone War engulfed many worlds across the galaxy, the Jedi relinquished their traditional roles as peacekeepers, in favor of military commands within the Army of the Republic. Knights and Masters accepted the new rank of Jedi General. I personally find a deep flaw in this as they were niether trained for warfare nor prepared to handle the consequences of command.

The next two years of the war saw both sides skirmish with and raid each other, with worlds such as Ryloth, Felucia, Malastare, and Kamino becoming flashpoints. During this time, the Separatists resorted to varied forms of warfare, developing weapons like the twin ion cannons of the battleship Malevolence and a weaponized variant of the Blue Shadow Virus, all in order to impair the Republic war machine.

By the war's third and final year, the Republic drove the Separatists into redoubts within the Outer Rim Territories, initiating a campaign that was termed the Outer Rim Sieges. In an effort to reverse the course of the war, Grievous launched a massive strike on Coruscant through the Deep Core. Much of the Confederate fleet was lost in this assault along with, Head of State Count Dooku. The Confederacy would quickly lose its core leadership in quick succession, with Grevious subsequently falling in battle during the Battle of Utapau, and the Separatist Council being massacred on Mustafar. This, coupled with the deactivation of the droid army, lead to the capitulation of the Confederacy and with it, an end to the war.

It has been spoken of elsewhere that being brought to this "earth" is what amounts to another chance. Perhaps it is some twist of fate that so many of us are here. Because in that respect it is another chance. It is another chance to fight the ghost of a war that has no place here and is long since over.

Thank you for your time.

((OOC: Since Kalee plays a big part of Thrawn's career in Heir to the Empire for original Thrawn books I really wanted to do a thing with it. Cut lots out but overview lifted straight from the wiki. ))

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[notayoungman]

Flat Robotic Voice: (ala speech-to-text) Do Jedi protect people or would you let innocent people get hurt for some idea of "greater good"?

Kanan Jarrus: Protecting innocents is the greater good. That's what we're called to do, as Jedi. The Force has granted us these gifts, these abilities. In my world, Force-sensitives can do things other people can't. And so it's our job to protect those who can't protect themselves.

Robotic Voice: Anti-Jedi. Would you protect people with your life, or would you let them die for some "greater good"?

General Grievous: It is not my duty to protect the people of Earth yet you will condemn me for not sacrificing myself for just any cause.

003 {Video}

[pigmypouter]

[Blue has her phone propped up, enough so the camera gets a good swath of the organized, colorful chaos of her room. She's perched on her bed with a puppy asleep in her lap. It's small but the kind of leggy that makes you think it might be a horse some day. She's counting on that, honestly.]

So back home I used to walk dogs a lot. We could never have a dog at home because it was too crowded with people and cats, so walking dogs was my dose of puppy love for the day.

[She gives the little puppy a scratch, and waves its little paw at the screen.]

I finally got one here, but I was thinking, why stop there? So I'm gonna start doing dog walking again. If you live in De Chima or want to port all the way out here to let your dog have a party with other dogs, I'll walk them.

[Don't you want your furry bud to have just the best time ever?]

$10 an hour, $20 and I'll come to you. But only after school, I have my education to worry about.

[A lie™.]

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[momchester]

nobody cares about your shitty galaxy

get a job

[Who has two thumbs and a BAC over 9000? This gal.]