A gentle reminder that Tatooine is not part of the Republic.

Jedi have no authority on Tatooine

Republic has no authority on Tatooine

Republic system didn't fail the people of Tatooine, because people of Tatooine don't live within the Republic's system

Yes, Republic is flawed, yes it's horrible a planet is controlled by gangsters. But membership in the Republic is completely voluntary. To act against rulers of another planet is an act of war. To absorb a planet without it willingly applying is not what freedom and democracy stand for.

Tatooine is messed up because of the Hutts, not because of the Republic or the Jedi.

Qui-Gon talking about Anakin not having been born in the Republic.

Embankment

George Lucas makes an entire trilogy about how a flawed democracy is better than dictatorship, only for countless people to stan the separatists

I think what most people don't realize about the Galactic Republic is that it was failing, but it was never flawed. This is a very important difference. A flawed republic is suffering from issues that are pretty much encoded into its DNA, so to speak, leading to its downfall. But a failing republic was the best that you could get, but democracy, by its very nature, is something we do, not something we have - so it's demise is the result of people no longer functioning as a republic. George Lucas repeatedly said, he was making a story about how a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship. Not about how power-hungry elites sapping and colonizing an entire galaxy then finally closing the coffin onto themselves.

Also we all know that Coruscant is the city scene of the galaxy but what is the rave/festival scene of the galaxy? You don’t normally have rave festivals without some big field for everyone to enjoy their hangover in the next day before the next party, what’s the rave scene of the galaxy? You’d get heat stroke and die if you did it on Tatooine. You can’t mix alcohol/drugs and swimming so no water planets. You can’t fit the prim and pristine aesthetic of Alderaan or Naboo by having a bunch of drugged out idiots in a club… or maybe. Idk on Alderaan but DEF not Naboo. Naboo gets underground fight clubs and garden wine parties tho. Mandalore is the heart of conventions (mainly weapons, armor and slam poetry for sure) but not much in the way of nerdery. You can find a million nerd stores in Coruscants underground (meaning not ‘surface level’) shopping districts because what the fuck else are they gonna do down there but get drunk at a cantina, learn parkour and watch anime. Stewjon and Kalevala are obviously the Actual Scottish Highlands so they’re all making yarn and fabric (which is my scene but not a rave girls scene you feel me?) and so they think the pub on the weekend is a little rough but only 17 guys came home with black eyes and missing teeth so we’re calling it a win. Idk man, who’s got the rave scene???

The Prime Override - Chapter 65 is up!

Seventeen - The Present: Holocall, Part II - The Republic

Here's the next chapter!

As you may have noticed, I made a lil chapter header banner for myself to use to announce updates for this fic on my socials. I'm too lazy to go back and make them for all my past chapters, but I'll be using these for all the Book 2 chapters moving forward! I hope it makes these posts a lil easier to spot!

(and yeah, I'm reusing my filigree clone & Mando helmets yet again, but hey I worked hard on those, might as well use them? And yup, the symbol behind the logo is the Vode symbol in this AU! This might be the first time I've posted anything with it publicly??)

Anyway, onwards!

This Chapter: Bail updates Obi-Wan on his friends. And some unfortunate news regarding the direction the Republic will be taking.

Warnings: The Republic being a very transparent parody of the U.S., as George Lucas likely intended.

“War is like a drug, an addiction,” Organa murmurs. “Once they have felt the power of being able to beat those who oppose them into submission…it’s difficult to convince them that that power is not necessary.”

> > Read Ch 65 on AO3

Want to read ahead? Early access chapters up to chapter 67 are up on my Patreon rn, with 68 coming in a few more days!

Jedi consular and Qyzen Fess are besties, sorry I don’t make the rules

Separatists Nightmare

fan art of my version of nose art separatists nightmare from clone wars

Deadman's Clean-up

Captain Rex assists his troops in recovering fallen members of Torrent Company after a fierce battle.

Another way I realized the opinion that "the Jedi got too involved in Republic politics" is stupid:

How in the fuck are they supposed to be effective at their job of peacekeeper-diplomats if they aren't involved in politics?

You can't eat your cake and have it too! No one listens to people who have no political authority!

Politics involves you, whether or not you're involved in politics!

never posted these

I’m having SO MUCH FUN doing all of my funny little projects instead of the things I need to do. Just about a week ago, I put together THIS GUY

With files from Droid Division on Etsy, I 3D printed this tactical droid head and painted him (for which I have no pictures yet but I will keep updating). Now all that is left is to put in the guts of a Google Home (or similar device) and make him corporate spyware!

I love how Darth Sidious and Cad Bane refer to Force-sensitive children, not yet took in by the Jedi Order as "children of the Jedi." This implies that the galaxy views Force-sensitive babies as children who born into two families: their birth families and the Jedi Order.

"Of course anti-Jedi people are also anti-Senate and anti-Republic!"

Then where's all the fucking anti-Senate and anti-Republic posts, huh? Maybe make more of those and less of your anti-Jedi rhetoric instead and I'll start to believe that statement.

Also I'll point out that most pro Jedi people (REAL pro Jedi, not fake pro Jedi) are actually also pro Republic and even, for the most part, pro Senate. Because the Republic and the Senate were a system that WORKED, for 1000 years. Palpatine manipulates a successful system into being dysfunctional, but that doesn't actually means the system itself was bad to start with. There are lots of people IN that system who are also corrupt, sure, but the system itself was very successful for a very long time. None of us are anti-Republic, we're anti Sith taking over the Republic for their own agenda and twisting it into something it isn't.

The people in narrative who were anti-Senate and anti-Republic were generally portrayed as EVIL or misguided. Look at all the Separatists who, while they had legitimate grievances, are mostly portrayed as absolutely gullible and idiotic and incompetent. Look at Dooku who is prepared to commit atrocities in the name of burning down the Republic for a "better" system (which seems to still totally rely on the Corporate Alliances and slavery, so, you know, better is subjective here). The people we see more actively FIGHTING for the Republic are pretty much always considered the good guys. Padme. Bail. Mon Mothma. The Jedi. Rex during TBB. The Rebellion, Leia, Luke. They're all fighting to bring back a system that WORKED, they're fighting to protect it or rebuild it from the ashes. You're not supposed to believe Maul when he claims that the Republic is already an Empire beyond saving. If that were true, then the Rebellion's efforts later are pretty much all in vain and pointless in the extreme.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars AU fanfic…

Where a legal battle between the GAR and Techno Union over Arc Trooper Echo sparks the movement for clone rights across the Galactic Republic.

So I recently watched the deleted scenes from the Clone Wars season 7 and there was an interesting scene between Anakin and Wat Tambor around how Echo ended up in the hands of the Techno Union. According to Wat Tambor, the neutral system “legally purchased” Echo after his capture at Lola Sayu, where he was pronounced KIA. Now, in the show the Techno Union just takes the loss and doesn’t actually try to “recoup on their investment” as Wat Tambor says at the end of the third episode. BUT could you imagine if they decided to fight the legality of the GAR swooping into a neutral system’s territory and stealing their property?!?

Like, imagine the Techno Union initiating a whole legal campaign saying that the Republic stole Echo from a neutral system and was therefore in the right to demand the return of their property.

Imagine, the Jedi and the GAR arguing that Echo cannot be legally purchased by anyone because he is a sentient being and purchasing a sentient being is illegal. Imagine, the Techno Union and Separatists trying to take the moral high ground by pointing out that the Jedi/Galactic Republic purchased the clones for warfare and were never naturalized as citizens of the Republic. Cue Anakin, having the biggest existential crisis wherein in he realizes he is part of a system that has rubber stamped slavery. Cue the legal and ethical pissing match between the Republic and Techno Union sparking a movement to naturalize the clones as citizens of the Republic. Cue the entire GAR questioning their role in the war when the Galactic Senate is totally divided over the naturalization of the clones.

- Fox and Corrie Guard just yeet their way to a full labor strike on Coruscant

- Obi-Wan, Cody, Rex and The Bad Batch take Echo to a far of Jedi temple and claim sanctuary

- Anakin leading a full standstill of the Outer Rim sieges because he refuses to participate in legal slavery and taking full dive into investigating just why the fuck Sifo Diyas commissioned a clone army 10 years before the war (sooo annoyed that was not picked up on after that one throw away episode in season 6!)

- the Jedi Council actually start to question how this war started, which leads them on the trail of Darth Sidious

- Plo Koon adopting his Wolfpack and hyperspacing them all to safety

- Bail Organa, Riyo Chuchi and Padme Amidala write up a Clone Rights bill so fast that Palpatine has no idea how to keep all his plans from going off the rails

- Ahsoka rallying Coruscant citizens into a full on movement to make clones citizens and ending the war

OMG do I wish I had the writing chops to pull this story off….