#mining colony

Hi, anon. Thanks for your note! Ido have a few head canons about the different alien groups in VLD:

Galrans

They have a warmer body temperaturethan humans or Alteans due to increased metabolism. This gives them some oftheir more Captain America-like abilities, including quick recovery and resilience.

They have music and recordings,but these are used to perpetuate the Galran empire’s aims. Galrans would gowild for human culture and music, which is so diverse and often unrelated orcritical of politics.

Galrans can and like to eat bone.It’s considered a delicacy. On this note, I head canon that Planet Feyiv hasskeleton-like creatures as part of its wintry ecosystem, and that resource iswhy the Galra desired to conquer that planet first, even though they are suited or hotter climates.

They have shorter life spans ingeneral compared to Alteans but still much longer than humans. I wonder if thisis why Zarkon spoke of the desire for immortality in that s3 flashback.

The Galran race has interbredoften, and their ability to still interbreed with Alteans, etc. would suggestperhaps a common evolutionary ancestry somewhere.

Galrans have enhanced senses wellabove those of a human’s, but Galrans with the big fluffy ears have betterhearing than sight, and Galrans with elfin ears have better sight than hearing.

There are planets through theuniverse where Galrans from the original fall of Diabazaal settled and lived inpeace with the native people, sharing their passions about honor and personalself-discipline.

Galrans would love human soapoperas. And trashy reality TV.

Alteans

They have the strangest cuisines of any other people.This is why Emperor Zarkon often hosted dinners for the first paladins, becausehe could not stand the traditional paladin lunch Alfor liked to offer them. Buthe was also too honorable to insult his friend.

The Alteans suffered a major cataclysmand loss of culture in its far-ancient past, like an Atlantis story. Oriande issaid to be an ancient/legendary place, but in s3, Honerva scoffs that the ancientsbelieved lightning was sent from the gods. I think Oriande was built at a veryearly time for Alteans, was well-known at one point, but there was some kind ofmajor collapse (either natural cataclysm or massive war). The remaining alchemistscreated the guardian to protect it from the threat, and the surviving bottleneckedpopulation of Alteans mostly forgot about it, until the riddles and facts becamelegends and bedtime stories, and a lot of scientific knowledge faded back intomythology. It wasn’t for several millennia that science began to once moreovertake mythology.

Royal Alteans have a deeperconnection to quintessence than most Alteans, because they have white hair(there seems to be a connecting factor there between white hair and quintessence?).

The “Ones Who Came Before” mightbe a reference to the destructive, trans-reality rift creatures/The Entities. Itis interesting to me that the term “Life Givers” is explicitly separated from “OnesWho Came Before.” I wonder if the far-ancient Alteans understood that the meddlingof The Entities was necessary for the creation of the branches in the multiverse.Honerva was attempting to seek more knowledge of them but failed to fully grasp/controlthat knowledge, and so it destroyed her.

Olkari

They might share a distant evolutionaryrelationship with Alteans and Galrans. (Perhaps the diaspora from the originalfall of far-ancient worlds?) Their abilities with nanocellulose heavily mimicAlfor’s abilities to build weapons from quintessence, but over time they adaptedto their new environment, hence their excessively different physicalcharacteristics.

Nanocellulose might have once beenmore readily available throughout the universe.

Their traditional music is beautifulenough to make anyone cry. But it is also sacred enough that one must be connected to the planet to be given the right to hear it.

They have regenerative abilitiesand can regrow lost limbs. 

The Olkari once had a great alliance with the Galra and helped them and native Alteans to build a large amount of pre-rift technology.

Honerva and Alfor had several teachers who were from Olkarion.

The Mining Colony (The one Lotor was in charge of before Zarkondestroyed it)

I originally named it Strayix inmy story The Second Law.

The people of that planet knew ofEmperor Zarkon and feared him well before he ever arrived to establish acolony.

About my thoughts on Ven’tar/Lotor:When Lotor was sent to oversee quintessence mining, the people wanted to createa tie between their people and Lotor to ensure their ongoing survival. They’dheard he was a little more reasonable than his father (But Lotor would havebeen quite young still and obviously still attempting to please his father, andso might not have been as kind/diplomatic as seen later in his life.) Ven’tar,a beautiful woman of high rank and education, volunteered herself to make surethe prince would enjoy his stay. (Think of Scheherazade from 1001 Arabian Nights.) Despite aromantic interest and his increasing curiosity in the kind ways of Ven’tar, Lotor soondiscovered that Ven’tar’s kind actions toward him were originally an engineered ploy, and perhaps that her people had an interest in establishing immortality for themselves through such an alliance or otherwise escaping the bad consequences of Galran imperialism. And so, whilehe respected and greatly admired Ven’tar, he could not believe her love for him wasever truly real. This would align with Lauren Montgomery’s s6 statements: “PoorLotor, he’s never experienced a trusting relationship. So he has no clue. Like,all of his relationships are lies… Like, this is normal. This is what normalpeople do.” It was out of respect for her that he ultimately desired to save the planetfrom his father and see it thrive. Ven’tar/his colony experiences might have been a majorinfluence for his ongoing interest in cultures, and for his later attempt topreserve the Alteans.

The people of this planet havemultiple types of vocal chords, resulting in the garbled sound of their voices.

Because of their many vocal chordsand the complexity of their throats/mouths, the people have antennae throughwhich to taste or smell.

They have regenerative abilities.

Some of them managed to escape thedestruction of the planet, just as many Alteans escaped the destruction oftheirs.

Ven’tar lived. Zarkon had nointerest in speaking to her or her people and might have completely ignored herpresence in s8, ep2. (To talk to or do anything to her would require he “lower himself” to interact with an “inferior” species.) Her people might have dragged her away from the fallen Lotor,perhaps using escape pods to disappear to a lesser-known moon.

The people of this colony havebeen rebuilding in secret for the last 10,000 years, living in a hollowed-outplanet previously mined for quintessence. The planet’s thick crust hid themfrom Zarkon’s radar. They nearly appeared to team Voltron when they heard of Lotorrising to the throne, but the subsequent fallout between Voltron and the emperorinspired them to remain hidden.

9,000 years ago, Ven’tar allowed fora fledgling Blade of Marmora to train within their sanctuary. Before dying ofold age, surrounded by family, her last communication to an outcast Lotor wasan encrypted message that “hope is in the stars.”

Does anyone actually KNOW what happened on that planet?

Or is it so ridiculously embarrassing for Obi-Wan he stops all anyone who speaks of it?

What happened?

He even stops Cody from talking about it - so it must have happened early in the Clone Wars.

So…

Did Cody tell new recruits about it? Were there strategy meetings of the Third Systems Army where no one could look at Obi-Wan with a straight face? Did Anakin tell Ahsoka, and did Obi-Wan groan because “Really, Anakin, that was months ago - no she really does not need this information. Stop talking, please and thank you.

What happened in the Temple? Did the Jedi Council mutter about it? Was Obi-Wan given a particularly tricky situation, and did Mace deadpan, “Make sure it's not another Cato Neimoidia?” Did Obi-Wan slouch in his seat when Yoda snickered, “Fall into a nest of Gundarks, you should not, Master Kenobi."

Was this widespread throughout the Republic? Did hackers try to figure out what happened? Did Obi-Wan hire people to take down information about it, because Force forbid someone find out his stellar reputation had flaws in it?

Did someone eventually take pity on Satine (cough*Anakin*cough), and did she think it was absolutely hilarious?

Did Obi-Wan eventually snap, and for some obscure reason, when Luke is cleaning R2, there's a holorecording of THE Obi-Wan Kenobi chasing Anakin Skywalker around a ship bridge yelling, “That was supposed to be confidential, Anakin Skywalker!”

Luke can't figure out who the blonde woman laughing is in the background, or the two clones shaking their heads, or the Admiral muttering, “Why didn't I request a transfer?” He does ask Ahsoka about it, on one of her rare days where she is around and she just winks and says, “The Force works in mysterious ways, young Skywalker.”

She doesn't tell him that Obi-Wan is yelling from the Cosmic Force: "Ahsoka! Ahsoka, for the love of the Force - DO NOT TELL HIM!" Followed by Anakin, whose saying, "Tell him tell him tell him!"

Orchard Green mining outpost - Lonely Galaxy

My friend and I started a new project where he writes an excerpt and I create the image. Read story below:

Orchard Green Orchard Green - don't go here. I hopped freighters there before I found out there was a transfer satellite only mere light-seconds away. But as I had to suffer a fifty-hour layover there, here are some notes.

Orchard Green is your average asteroid drilling facility - a handful of excavation modules slapped together with a smattering of space rock wedged between them. It's the kind of place you get sent to when you screw up at a slightly less worse place. Kendrell, the rig supervisor - and author of the station's ironic name - told me Orchard Green suffers from what space rock aficionados like to call, 'TPTMTETD' - basically, 'Too Poor To Maintain, Too Expensive To Dismantle'. Apparently there's a bunch of rigs in this system who yield way too little ore to be profitable, but are too remote for the Company to recall. The fuel costs alone exceed the raw material pr

I believe it was background in some scenes. There was an article (or two) up on a screen that people did detective work on. We also have Jackson talking about while Raven is flying around the lab. The audience is busy going “WHY IS RAVEN FLYING!???” and Jackson is busy dropping plot hints and foreshadowing.

So therefore it was canon evidence, easter eggs, foreshadowing.