JonesandJoanna

Do you find that the Jedha testing of the Death Star is like the bell ringing of an IPO, in the sense that the Death Star and the company both “went public” at that moment?

*Sending hugs and best wishes your way*

This inspired a mental image of both Grand Moff Tarkin and Director Krennic one one of those podiums (there is a sign behind them that reads “DS-1”, with the Tarkin Initiative symbol), fake smiles plastered on their faces and trying to act nice so they can inspire confidence in prospective shareholders. The sort of faces that are telling: “No hidden faults, no petty rivalries among the management, everything is fine. Safe to invest! Give us your credits!”

If the attack on Jedha is the ringing bell, does that mean that the whole thing Tarkin did on Scarif was some sort of hostile takeover? 🤔

Here is why: I live with a house mate - a physics PhD student studying in the School of Applied & Engineering Physics. (For the record, I am a 3L, not a full-fledged lawyer yet but will be one soon! Sorry for any confusion.) From what I learned from him and other people studying physics, I get the following impression: physcists are responsible for finding out the theories (through experiments, etc) for building a machine, while engineers use those theories to build a machine and make sure the machine carries out its purpose. Even people like my housemate, whose specialization in physics borders so close to engineering, don’t actually do an engineer’s work. Thus, it would be impossible for Erso to 1) find the theory of the superlaser, 2) supervise the construction of the superlaser, and 3) take care of the inner design of the battle station itself at the same time. I am very frustrated by the extent to which the writers simplified the design and construction of the DS-1.

If they designed the fault together, that would imply Krennic either changed his mind at some point, or his loyalty didn’t belong to the Empire at the very beginning. That would make his character much more interesting. Also, under this headcanon, Krennic would need to come clean with Erso at some point. That would be a fascinating moment in their arcs.

I thought that it would be impossible for Krennic to ignore the question of what’s gonna happen to him and his team after they delivered the DS-1. Given Krennic’s talent of predicting and manipulating people’s actions (as we have seen in Catalyst), it wouldn’t be hard for him to realize that he and his team would likely be removed from the picture and slienced.

In my home country during the ancient times, the architect who built the cemetery of a King would be sealed inside the cemetery and die there because the King feared that people would find his body in the cemetery (dead people can’t talk) and do bad things about it. Krennic’s situation is compared to that of the architect mentioned earlier. He just knew too much.

This. Is. Good. Very good. Yes! I’m so hyped! :D

Catalyst. I got a copy last month but not the time to read it (and I’ve been meaning to for quite a while). Hopefully these holidays I’ll do it! I think I ate a spoiler along the post too but that’s alright!

About killing off the architects and people that know too much, it is established that the Empire does that (thinking about Tarkin’s Maw Installation in the old canon lore, and how Natasi Daala made sure that whoever knew too much never made it through on their way out the Maw). Orson Krennic, as an ISB Director, has probably handled similar situations, so it makes total sense that he knew what was coming next for him and his team.

Sorry for the spoiler! I hope you find some time to read Catalyst because it is great and provides a lot of background on Krennic, Erso, and Tarkin. Krennic and Tarkin make the best board-room drama. There were a lot of problems with Catalyst too, which opened up a lot questions about Krennic and Erso. But at the same time, possibilities and potentials. After you read Catalyst, I am sure one of the questions you have would be: well, what exactly did Krennic study in the Futures Program, what exactly did he build? The writer wasn’t being precise with his words. I will say no more on Catalyst now. I’d love to discuss it with you when you finish reading it but no pressure because I couldn’t imagine how busy you are! 

I completely relate to your frustration with some of the takes on Krennic’s character. People all have their problems, but Krennic’s flaws are artificial - in the sense that it’s not organic, that it won’t really happen in a real person’s mind and actions. The negligence and illusions that Krennic had towards the end of his project, which we saw in the movie, are entirely off the chart. I believe that criminal law has to set a new category for that type of negligence. Krennic’s flaws are designed to make sure the Rebellion will win. And I totally agree with you that an artist who created the Imperial brutalist architectural aesthetic is hypersensitive and thinks about “deep” questions like what my next job would be, do I even get the next job?

The problem with Krennic’s character, I guess, is that he was created by multiple writers, and some of their ideas/designs conflict with those of the others. Krennic is like a combination of a CEO (the type that got sued by shareholders for breaching their fiduciary duties - I won’t say he is the type that messed up financial statements because Krennic got things done), an engineer, and an artist. The combination makes him so wonderful and lovable but gives us fans endless frustration because we want him to be alive! 

In my headcanon, Krennic survived, and he lived on one of those planets close to Thrawn’s homeworld. Krennic built palaces for politicians on that planet. He also left many lovely houses and buildings in general, all with his signature designs. His work used designs far surpassing the-state-of-art architecture on that planet. Decades later, when the New Republic sent diplomats and exploration teams to that planet, they noticed Krennic’s work which seemingly didn’t belong to this place. And it was until the New Republic officials had experts investigate the Imperial-era art history that they realized the Father of the Death Star survived Scarif. I thought this would be a fantastic way for Krennic to make his statement to the universe that he survived, and he outsmarted them all. 

Fives: you're taller

Echo: You would eat yourself?

Fives: Yeah and I did that

Rex: What happened?!

Fives: Nobody died!

Rex:

Thire: international trade and (space) maritime laws. After spending his time aboard senatorial ships and negotiating access to space harbours, he knows everything about tolls, entry requirements, the legal status of diplomats and how to smuggle heavy weaponry on a civil freighter.

Fives: public law, especially everything concerning institutional transparency. Fives wants to KNOW, like he really wants to know things. He is as much into law as he is into journalism. He uses his knowledge in law not to lawyer around but request and receive information he needs to keep his brothers safe and curb his curiousity.

Tech: patent law. Since he continuously invents and explores things, Tech has a need to both have access to other peoples inventions as well as receiving the validation for his creations. At first Tech had little interest in registering his patents but soon he figured out he could hold a lot of them without charging others anything for their use of his ideas. He thinks ideas should be free to use.

Hunter: another public law specialist, however he is specialised in military law to keep the rest of the bad batch from getting court martialed.

Howzer: criminal law, especially sex offence issues. The clones grew up without much impact from outside of Kamino. But witnessing how underfunded and un-appreciated anything towards sex and gender in criminal law is, Howzer took matters into his own hands. He just knew it was the right thing to do. Sometimes the right path is not the easy path.

Fives: Why not?

Echo: It's ugly

Fives: NOT AS UGLY AS YOUR FACE

CHOO-CHOO ALL YOU LOVELY DI’KUTS! 💕 Show me your favorite lines and / or passages from your fics!

Destiny

From ‘Fireteam Daybreak- Discharge’

Laila summoned her Arcblade again with a bright flash and a violent thunderclap that energized the brick under their feet, and once the air had settled, Laila gestured for him to attack her with a one-handed taunt. “You think you know better than me…? Then show me your mastery,” she challenged, nearly growling it out.

For a moment, Cayde froze, processes halted and mouth lights bright- Laila was a live-wire in every sense of the word, threatening but intriguing, unapproachable; he may have been cocky, but he wasn’t stupid.

Detroit: Become Human

From ‘DBH: Illuminate- Coffee Break: Broken Nose’

It was supposed to be their fresh start, their chance at a better life, to escape the abuse and the toxic expectations that they were supposed to be anyone other than who they were: black sheep, troubled kids, the ones “with issues running so deep” adults had labeled them hopeless.

Star Wars

From ‘The Bad Batch: Trespass- A Statistical Loss’

Despite his expectations, the one thing he couldn’t account for was the degree of emotional dysregulation from his concussion exacerbating his own response. He had seen grief like this in the eyes of displaced civilians and retired veterans, but he had never held it in his arms, never felt it deconstruct a soul as he did when Reina reached around his body with their good arm and clawed at the fabric over his back. Tension rippled through their shoulders, despondent sobbing rattled their chest, the mass expulsion of melancholic energy permeated to his very core… the true weight of it was inescapable. ‘Crushing’ turned out to be his greatest understatement in recent memory.

This one is from Rain, my little ol’ Tech fic.

To Tech, they were. The reassurance that he had someone to look forward to coming home to (at least his home away from Kamino), that you cared for him enough to allow him to take up space in your apartment, even the way you just let him ramble on and on, was the greatest gift the galaxy had bestowed upon him. Your sweet smile was enough to cause his chest to tighten, and he could swear he felt the dopamine and serotonin flood his body, relaxing him almost immediately.

These are all from “Make love like a man” which is my smutty Star Wars (clone wars era) extravaganza. Honestly all I do is jokes and porn haha

Then a few others from a smattering of fics that I’ve written.

@neon-junkie @ashotofspotchka @sporadicthingcollection @let-karyn-faro-say-fuck @perfecttimemachinestranger

She is no fool, and certainly no innocent. Her longings have never been pure nor free, just as his beauty was never so either. That gentle and cruel beauty of his, inherently attached to concepts such as order and submission, of a force that conquers, that protects. The allure of the battalions standing at attention, of the hearts and minds of the crowds hanging on his every word. He, the individual. Her former position at the Coalition for Progress allowed her to study this specific imagery countless times; its high ideals and how they permeate the Empire’s flourishing artistic expressions. Aesthetics serving, enforcing, ethics. She is well aware of what the Coalition truly promotes, what her job there was all about. When she looks at the governor, she sees the same dangerous beauty, charming and ruthless, she has always been drawn to. Enticing her. Smothering her. Once more, she has brought that poisoned cup to her lips, and drank from it. She has let the taint raze her inside out, consume her, willingly.

So here is Galen and Krennic working on a math problem and something else.

Okay I have been away from tumblr for a long time coz…school and life and adulting are happening together during the past several months and I am NOT good at any of these. So lots of mental breakdowns and blah blah. Thus, sincere apologies to my friends here if I still have any. But I will be back after graduation!

Echo: No, I'm leaving. Me. By myself.

Echo, sprinting in: Hardcase are you ok?!

Hardcase: Yeah I’m fine. I just said that to make you come here quickly

Echo: Your face is on fire

Because they don't follow orders and they can't get along with the regs and by god are their landing skills absolute shit. They don't report to a lieutenant or a captain or anyone and I just think it's funny how Echo was a strict teacher's pet who repeated orders and liked peace and quiet and hated fighting on the front lines, and then he teamed up with a squad who was notorious for disobeying orders, had one of the loudest and most boisterous soldiers on the team, and constantly initiated aggressive and confrontational attacks. Pure sweet innocent Echo who read manuals for fun unknowingly chose to team up with one of the most reckless squads in the GAR.