I Think I Cracked It, The Reason Everything Produced In The Times Of The High Republic Is Soo Good Compared

Qyzen Fess Dynamics

-Respect-

Elvira and Qyzen’s relationship is characterized by a deep mutual respect. The Trandoshan Scorkeeper’s way of the hunt is quite different from the Jedi code. So Elvira learns how to be open and respectful of Qyzen beliefs while still staying true to the Jedi code.

Through Qyzen, Elvira sees that the way of the Scorekeeper isn’t all that different from the Jedi. Both codes treat life with a deep respect, both teach awareness of the environment, mind, and body. These are similarities that Elvia begins to uncover, further cements her this sense of kinship.

Qyzen’s loyalty isn’t something Elvira asked for, and it definitely isn’t something that she feels like she deserves. But she has it anyways, so now there is part of her that is trying give back some of what he gave her.

It this respect that binds them together, because of they grow from each other. Elvira now has a part of her that is a hunter. She also much more prepared to deal with incredibly different cultures because of first hand experience with Trandoshan culture.

SOURCE. - I’m just posting it here as an aid and taking no credit.

Galactic Standard Time Measurement

60 Seconds = 1 minute

60 minutes = 1 hour

24 hours = 1 day

Galactic Standard Calendar

5 days = 1 week

7 weeks = 1 month

35 days = 1 month

368 days = 1 year

10 months + 3 Fete (Festival) weeks + 3 holidays = 1 year

Fete/Festival Weeks

New Year Fete Week = first five days of the new year (takes place before the first month)

Festival of Life =  five days between the sixth and seventh months. It was marked by parties, get-togethers, and gift-giving.

Festival of Stars =five days between the ninth and tenth months of the year that celebrates interstellar space travel. It was marked by vacations to other worlds most often.

Days of the Week

Primeday (first day of the week)

Centaxday (second day)

Taungsday (third day)

Zhellday (fourth day)

Benduday (fifth/last day of the week)

The Galactic Standard Calendar is based on the luno-solar calendar of Coruscant (from before the official founding of the Empire). It is the ‘standard’ in both the Republic and the Empire for basic measurements. However, there are many, many variations for various species, planets, etc. This is just the ‘standard’ used; similar to measurements of weight, etc. 

Basically, this is not the ‘only calendar’ but the one used most often by governments, the military, etc. to be the ‘standard’. I thought it might be useful for people writing or roleplaying in the Star Wars galaxies to have a rough idea.

NOTE: There is mention in some sources of a 12 month/368 day calendar, but it doesn’t mention length of weeks, months, etc. other than ‘30-31 days’ so basically seems to be a ‘real life calendar’. I’m not 100% sure which is considered ‘canon’ so I choose to list the one that was a bit more ‘different’ for fun.

SOURCES http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_Standard_Calendar http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Fete_Week http://swtor.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_Standard_Calendar http://starwarsrp.net/topic/63474-resourse-galactic-standard-calendar/

My Hearth of Stars

from the tips of my fingers, the cosmos yawns

each star a hope. suspended in its web 

so immense, so small

lost in it glory, yet lost to space 

just grant me the strength 

to shield just one star

its warmth so distant

it’s an ache that never goes 

for there is an emptiness even a soul can’t fill

please just let me be a shield 

that defends what I can’t reach

so that others may have a hearth of their own

maybe by faith, I’ll finally feel 

the warmth, I never knew 

Crodek Ger’Nok

Titles: Sith Lord,

Home Planet: Dromund Kaas

Age: ?

Backstory: His father Ragnarr was a Jedi knight before falling in love another Cathar, the lovely Nenasu. So Ragnarr renounced the Jedi and followed his passions to the dark side. Although he went on to become full Sith, Ragnarr’s Jedi ideals of duty, temperance, and community are still with him. Especially so in his family life as the father of a litter of five boys.

Fighting Style: Vengeance Juggernaut/?

Crodek favors the simplicity of single lightsaber as it allows him to focus on more what he can improve on while fighting.

Crodek is unsurprisingly for a Sith an adept user of form VII: Juyo. The sheer aggression that juyo expresses is powerful, but precisely directed and it can be stronger still. This is what Crodek’s measured light saber assault exemplifies.

He is despite his considerable bulk, Crodek is incredibly fast, leaping, and dashing around constantly. He has the reflex’s and senses of a cathar with the force pumping it all up to hundred.

Relationships:

Love Interest: none (at the moment)

Family: Ragnarr (father), Nenasu (mother), Tovah , Ryosh, Jarivan, Norik (all brothers).

Apprentices: Jaesa Willsaam

Best Friends: none

Friends: Vette (dubiously), Malavai Quinn, Pierce, Broonmark.

SWTOR Ages of the Companions

I search for these often. So it might be helpful to have them in a single document. I don’t know if it is stated somewhere, but I myself interpret the ages as those the companions have when you first meet them.

These are the ages as stated by the SWTOR Encyclopedia:

Trooper Aric Jorgan           30 Elara Dorne          26 Tanno Vik              34 (enlistment records suspected of falsification) Yuun                     28 M1-4X                     -

Jedi Knight Fideltin Rusk          40 Lord Scourge       300+ Kira Carsen            20 Doc                         28 T7-01                   200+ years in service

Jedi Consular Felix Iresso              31 Nadia Grell              22 Zenith                      36 Tharan Cedrax        29 Qyzen Fess             unknown (claims to be middle-aged)

Imperial Agent Vector Hyllus            26 Scorpio                     age of programming unknown, current chassis  < 5 Raina Temple           24 Kaliyo Djannis          29 (unconfirmed) Eckard Lokin            65 (unconfirmed)

Sith Warrior Pierce                       29 Jaesa Willsaam        21 Broonmark                unknown Malavai Quinn           37 Vette                          21

Sith Inquisitor Khem Val                 2000+ Andronikos Revel        35 (unconfirmed) Ashara Zavros             20 Talos Drellik                 27 Xalek                           24

Smuggler Akaavi Spar                  28 Bowdaar                     197 Corso Riggs                 22 Risha                            21 Languss “Guss” Tuno   33

Bounty Hunter Blizz                              indeterminate Skadge                         37 Gault Rennow              54 Torian Cadera              18 Mako                            19

Dance the night away

This dude a piece of work in enjoyable sort of way.

Ammix Kirollan is from a long line of Sith and fancies himself a new, more progressive voice in a tradition he thinks could be better. This does not mean he's a nice or good person, but more that he thinks Sith philosophies and fear and hatred and violence should be made accessible to more people. Like, Jadus, without the supervillain monologues. If you met this man, you would probably want to stab him, except then he'd be proud of you as he's Force choking you in revenge and that's just bizarre.

Ammix genuinely thinks being violent and casually cruel is a sign of strength - the aesthetically strong man who has never contended with his own problems and instead chooses to stab his way past them. He also thinks he is imparting some great wisdom on others when he tries to share this concept with them. Because adults who are not already entrenched in imperialism and fascism don't tend to listen when a guy holds them at lightsaber-point and says "you'd be so much happier if you weren't afraid to kill people," he finds that youths are more... Receptive... To his "teachings."

So he becomes an abusive adoptive father. His children are raised to compete for approval, stab each other in the back metaphorically if not literally to come out on top, and to mistreat those "lesser" in order to prove their own strength and worth. Some thrive on this (or at least think that they do - they truly do not) but most either crumple under the emotional and physical abuse or, like Del'qarev, cut Ammix and the other kids off as soon as possible. Ammix doesn't get why - Del is one of his success stories, risen to the role of Emperor's Wrath, and he thinks he's the one who got Del there. Talking to Ammix always gives an impression of a genuinely cordial man up until someone does something to displease him, and then the real Sith comes out.

(playing him in-game reveals the same paternalistic energy - it's how he behaves toward Jaesa, who he definitely makes fall, and he actually appreciates Quinn's betrayal as much as he hates it because that is how to do it! The friendliest of my dark-side characters, and the most horrifying because of it)

Here’s a squiggle of my Jedi Consular while I ramble.

The subject of today’s ramble has to do with the captured enemies that the consular either get handed over to the republic and or to the Jedi counsel.

Elvira does not spare these people out of a sense mercy, she spared them out a sense of justice.

She spares the life of her enemies and turns them into custody where they have all the tools they need to change their own lives if they so choose. The difficulty of reform is that it takes work. They have to put in the effort to use those tools and if they have no desire to change they’re stuck as a prisoner essentially. A prisoner of their own choices really.

To be clear these prisoners are treated well, but from Elvira grim understanding all you can do, is extend a hand and hope the other person extends theirs too. Sometime people don’t reach out their own even if she wanted it otherwise.

Love how Jazz is drawn here. It blends a lot different elements of his character very well. Like a love the all roundness in his design it brings how friendly and bubbly he is.

There is more black and red in this design. Then is typical for a Jazz design but it does highlight the darker parts of his character. It also works great for the Jazz in the fic (Mistakes on Mistakes Until, by Jabbrish) that that is fanart was drawn for.

All this was just say I love this plus it introduced me to a good fic.

I’m back with even more of Mistakes on mistakes until fanart ahahhcjvmgkb

They are….very special to me you don’t understand

Transformers Hound Headcannons

His Awe

Hound is blown away by the small things in life like how molecules make metal he appreciates how delicate their structures have to for life to just work. To him the fact this can echo from molecular level up the levels of an ecosystem. He never gets tired of how miraculous it is that things just work and that work well enough for things to just keep living.

Hound carries this awe with him as an insatiable curiosity. He can see the miracle in things working! Enough to listen appreciatively has Prowl ranting about strategy, Wheeljack gushing about what could work, and Mirage literature takes. All of these things are genuinely incredible to Hound.

He always wants whoever he talking to tell him more about ever it is their going on about. As a result of being a very engaged listener he has a lot friends amount the Ark crew. Even with difficult bots like Cliffjumper and Mirage. Hounds ability to always talk to people can be annoying since he has held two separate conversations at the same time before. To the irritation the two bots trying to talk to him.

This curiosity is what drives him. Drives Hound to explore, to make friends, and to lay on his stomach in the mud to watch the fish doing their thing for hours at a time. This curiosity and constant learning that goes with it is part of where is his reigned tracking skills come from.

His cause

It is this constant amazement that life just lives, that Hound fights for during the war. This is cause he chooses to risk his life for, this is what he comforts himself with on nights where even the stars are dark.

This part of his being is why Hound treasures Earth. There is so much living in the earth from the people to the worms beneath their feet. It just blows Hounds mind. Because it’s so beautiful, and so preciously balanced it’s…every Cybertron isn’t. Was but is no longer. So Hound will treasure and record as much of Earth’s life as possible.

He’d treat a weed he dug up like it’s sacred. While carefully photographing and documenting it, for his holograms. Then he’d gently replant it before going to the Ark to reconnect and share.

Authors note: I just think there could be this beauty to Hound so now you all get to have it too.