#alpha-17

It was a gods damn ARMS RACE.

And you bet your ASS he won!

Don't be fooled by the *pat pat pat* "da..ddy?" *innocent blink of innocence*! He nearly lost a KIDNEY to that shit! Most Mandalorians raise ONE kid at a time! Maybe two! But him? He raise a COMMAND CLASS! Of tiny fuckin DEMONS! (He adores each and every one of them. Would drop kick them out an airlock. Get the FUCK off his planet.)

I say this? Because imagine! Oh no~☆! The Commanders have been De-aged! Who do we call? That they might recognize and respect the Authority of? (HA! Not even Jango Fett, brought back to life. You're on your ow-)(it's a chance to take blackmail photos?)(-Be on the next flight.)

Alpha-17 well aware and has tried to convince the jedi to weaponize tubie cuteness against the sente and the galaxy. They tell him no. But have they tried telling a tubie with big ol wet eyes that? They dont have the tolerance he has.

he has the senate audited, properly audited

it is his least popular move ever but alpha17 doesn't give a kriff because he's making sure that none of these scum suckers has any money squirreled away somewhere that could be used to commission the kaminoans (alpha17, in another time, learned very quickly how much money the jedi had which was basically nothing, alpha17 figured out very quickly that the jedi would never have been the ones to pay the kaminoans for slaves, so it's got to be someone in the senate)

the audit takes ages as it's being done properly and in such a way to avoid the auditors being bribed or otherwise incited to hide anything and the end result is a huge amount of corruption rooted out and the budget of the galactic republic being balanced for the first time in the entire history of the republic and the jedi receiving an increase in their budget for the first time in the history of the republic rather than it being cut...again (the senate has basically only been paying for the jedi temple's utilities for the last few centuries, everything else is paid for by the jedi's efforts via a considerable number of popular novels written by jedi over the centuries, art made by jedi, the agricorp selling excess foodstuffs they grow, those with foresight doing some very careful and conservative investing, and basically every jedi being an expert in games of chance)

He’s got Obi-wan in the room using the force to insure no funny business

finished the alt version of this that you can see without turning your screen’s brightness to 110%

@ficwip’s word this week is “teeth” and we have plenty of those in Worship The Ashes! Time travel means all sorts of fun and interesting things to argue about <3

He needed to make her listen.

He rose to the challenge as he always had, slamming his open hand down on the tabletop. Their caf spilled. One flame guttered out.

“War is coming, and it tears the galaxy apart. Worlds fall, trillions die, the Jedi are slaughtered. The Republic needs an Army, or the droids will burn it all. My brothers are the best there have ever been. They stood when the Mandalorians crumbled, and we need them.”

The armorer’s paired fangs glinted wetly in the dark. 

“We are not the Republic, straining to hold its own bloated carcass together. We are Mandalorian, and we will not raise children to the slaughter, Alpha Seventeen,” she hissed his designation as if it were a clanname, “because we have care for our hearts. This is the Way.” Infrasound had his lungs quavering in his chest, and he could feel the arrhythmic flow of blood in his veins. Fear was not the same thing as awareness. Adrenaline prickled at his fingertips.

“This is the Way, but you forget that I am not Mandalorian.” Dealing with non-humans often meant adopting a body language they could understand. To that end, Alpha bared his teeth back, flat and blunt and no less forceful for it. “I have no heart, and you have no fucking clue what’s coming. You’re dead by the time war breaks, armorer, and the Mandalorians with you.” His idle imaginings of her thrashing the Cuy’val Dar, of her leading them, were less idle now. 

They could change it.