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a genetic dead end

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forever obsessed with the concept of Coruscant being what only can be described as haunted

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its a giant planet with way too long and messed up history. apart from the general thing with overpopulation and pollusion and mutated animals roaming around the lower levels, the whole jedi order couldn't sense sith presence there because the vibes are just that bad

it got everything: ghost of extinct species casually walking around the markets, cryptic messages picked up by comlinks that transmit from the places that cannot be found and are written in languages that have never existed, deep tunnels that appear from thin air and lead nowhere, places and levels that seem infinite and refuse to let out anyone who enters them forcing them walk in circles for hours, every month corrie guard faces the mundane problem of one of them getting possessed during patrol

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shirt that says "i went to coruscant and all i got was force related psychological trauma"

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sims 4 let's me fence over funky terrain??? since when was this a thing? has this always been a thing?

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how did I not know about this

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Visas’s masters through her eyes

Have a headcanon that she can’t see the exile or nihilis thru the force, only the surrounding influence they have on the world around them

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How annoying must it be to have to run through Naga Sadow’s tomb with four of those fucking rods. Where do you put them? Just drop ‘em when you fight, or clamp them awkwardly under your arms while you fry your enemies. 

Definitely takes away from the intimidation factor to see this sweating acolyte jogging toward you while balancing a bunch of metal sticks, swearing violently and smoking from previous encounters.

Use them to bludgeon your enemies to death.

All the SWTOR levels being designed for viewing from the third-person camera makes it feel like the galaxy is really into monumental architecture during this period of history. Which is … plausible?

The Sith Empire wanting to project grandeur and intimidation through all its public buildings, from military bases and factories to stations and government offices, would be very on brand for them. The hutts need their doorways to be at least 3x3m rather than standard humanoid scale and engage in self-aggrandising nonsense like solid-gold statues. The Alderaani nobility have clearly been sliding into dysfunctional decadence for a while, given the mess they’ve made of their planet.

So, the Great Houses of Alderaan built monumental country estates and museums, the hutts built monumental casinos and palaces, the Sith Empire built monumental temples and state offices, but that still leaves questions about other parts of the Republic. The Jedi Temple on Tython is explicitly of Alderaani architectural design so … huge light airy spaces are in fashion?

It might say something about the Republic’s problems with prioritising and corruption, if you wanted to look at it that way. On Coruscant, the Senate Rotunda is flush with gilded decorations, but parts of the ecumenpolis’ basic infrastructure down in the Works are still on fire after the Sacking. The recolonisation of Taris is a white elephant, with a bonus additional risk that the rakghoul plague will escape the planet through the increased traffic. Corellia’s “morale-building” museum of industry that its government built at great expense in the middle of an economic depression, instead of using the funds for any of the thousands of more sensible projects you could engage in during a depression. All those Senators accepting bribes from the Sith Empire (and the Migrant Merchants Guild, and Czerka, and-) would be the kind to greenlight fancy buildings to frequent at the expense of more effectively equitable projects.

ok so did the jedi just. forget?? they could erase and edit people's memories or do they just all pretend they forgot because they realized how deeply fucked up it is to do that. like do modern jedi read texts that reference it and think 'wow that's a weird metaphor'? i know palpatine had his whole thing about being able to influence people's minds (even in tros, bleugh) but revan and their contemporaries were playing with people's minds like a jigsaw puzzle to the point where even republic soldiers were gossiping about it. are modern jedi just like 'no. we do not do that shit anymore.' or are they 'we used to do what.'

Struck me last night playing KotOR 2 that nobody ever uses the title Darth Nihilus. He's only ever referred to as Visas' master, or the threat beyond the Outer Rim, or the Sith that destroyed Katarr, but never with any name or personal title, a being known exclusively through his connection to others.

In-game, however, you see his title when targeting him in battle and it's listed with his mask if Visas retrieves it for you. This could easily be explained away as gameplay convenience, just like how nobody ever refers to the player as anything other than the Exile to accommodate player customisation, but both those things could in fact be something more.

Perhaps the Exile knows the name Nihilus took for himself because the Exile understands his conception of identity on a level no other can. Both of them once Jedi, their lives defined by their connection to the Force, a connection now twisted and inverted, luminous beings now a walking shadow, and with that their identities themselves being robbed from them in the eyes of all who would see them through the Force, known as individuals in their own right no longer but only by the echoes and imprints they leave on others. And perhaps the Exile, whose strength always lay in their ability to forge connections through the Force with ease, understood Nihilus on an instinctive level because his very being was of the echo they carried in their heart for ten years, to look upon him was to look within themselves and hear a terrible harmony, a bond such as those between master and apprentice but just as twisted as their connections to the Force itself, as the Exile finally looks upon the worst product of their fateful command and Nihilus finally sees his maker.

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Luke was an invasive species in the tatooine ecosystem if you think about it, like he grew up in a space deathworld full of bounty hunters and slavers and this pansy boy was like ugh.... this place is so boring.. nothing to do... what do you MEAN you moisture boy sandstorms come in once a month there's the constant danger of tusken raiders jabba tries to raise the water tax every other week there's a fight in the marketplace every single day, what do you MEAN its boring

He shot womprats in his spare time and he was like oh.. so boring.. so bland :((( meanwhile the womprats are feral creatures the size of a wolf that can bite your head off, he threaded the needle with his skyhopper in breakneck speed and he was like :] fun and wacky activities to do with your friends,, seriously it's no wonder that he took all the wacky jedi stuff in stride because that's literally what's normal for him. Insane stuff happening all around him is just another Taungsday, he did shit like this every day after his chores were done on Tatooine. As a jedi he's like oh golly gee! Another beautiful day of smashing stuff and raising hell! His head is full of flowers. But those flowers are carnivorous and also insane

I suspect Beru killed a lot of beings to keep that boy safe. His ferality was learned from the best.