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mid-nighttiger · 9 months

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mace in shatterpoint is so good

"You are better prepared than most." Mace balanced his lightsaber on his palm. "But like all those others, you've forgotten the only piece of equipment that would actually do you any good." "Yeah? What's that?" Mace's voice went cold, and his eyes went colder. "An ambulance."

[Image ID: The two-panel "Call the ambulance! / But not for me!" meme. The old man pulling out the gun has been labeled "mace windu." /End ID]

#midtalks #star wars #mace windu #shatterpoint #star wars memes

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a-random-pillow · 11 months

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Stop, this is a very harmful family tradition!

#the fandom dosen't need anymore emotional trauma #star wars #also sorry Mace for giving you zero pixels #star wars rebels #ezra bridger #depa billaba #kanan jarrus #mace windu #shatterpoint #shatterpoint lineage #sacrificial lineage #master windu #master depa #star wars clone wars #the bad batch #sw tbb #caleb dume #star wars tcw

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jewishcissiekj · 4 months

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Jedi Masters as parents

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of The Clones | Shatterpoint | The Clone Wars Season 1 Episode 13 - Jedi Crash | The High Republic: A Test of Courage

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novelmonger · 1 year

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Things I never expected to read in a Star Wars novel:

Mace Windu flipping off the police while standing dripping wet and completely naked in front of them.

#star wars #shatterpoint #matthew stover #mace windu #(fyi he immediately proceeds to mop the floor with them)#we're only 50 pages in folks!#looks like it's going to be a wild ride

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phailhaus-paints · 3 months

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Well, I’m all abuzz with progress so let me introduce you to the first 2 of my Bee2 B2 Super Battle Droids.

These guys have more than a sting in their wrist mounted lasers. Looking sharp, it’s good to see the CIS is following proper health and safety with these guys.

Although I have gone slightly loopy with painting chevrons, only two more of these to go.

#boardgames #minipainting #tabletop #star wars #shatterpoint #tabletop wargaming #shatterpaint #atomic mass games #paintingwarhammer #40k

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petepaintswarhammer · 7 months

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, this happened…

#model making #wargaming #painting #star wars #shatterpoint #star wars shatterpoint #501st #anakin skywalker #clone captain rex #bo katan #asoka tano #count dooku #jango fett #cad bane #aurra sing

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primerjohn · 29 days

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Took some time to paint my Shatterpoint terrain. I wanted something brighter than the sandy-desert theme of the box art. My goal was to have something bright but lived in.

#miniatures #minipainting #painting #miniature painting #miniaturepainting #terrain #atomic mass games #painting miniatures #star wars shatterpoint #shatterpoint #Shatterpoint terrain #star wars miniatures #painting terrain #terrain building #miniatures game #miniature games #tabletop miniatures

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adragonsfriend · 2 months

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Started reading Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover. The introduction is titled “Dangerously Sane”

Has there ever been a more perfect character description? Really breaking Mace Windu down to his bare essentials

#star wars #mace windu #shatterpoint #matthew stover

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sonicrainbooms · 1 month

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New Shatterpoint content just gave us the confirmation of Hunter and Wrecker's CT numbers, CT-9901 and CT-9903! We know Crosshair's is CT-9904, so that means Tech's is was CT-9902.

#tbb #the bad batch #tbb wrecker #tbb hunter #tbb omega #i know the ct numbers are not surprises to literally anyone but its good to get confirmation tbh #shatterpoint #pudge yaks on #image #text

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sparrowsabre7 · 10 months

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"You can't fight the way things are"

"But we do. Every day. That's what Jedi are."

"You can never win."

"We don't have to win. We only have to fight."

#mace windu #depa billaba #star wars #jedi #shatterpoint #quotes #books #matthew stover

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virus00001shatterpoint · 5 months

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#ShatterPoint #aizen #eye #zen #djedi #magi #transcend #shinigami #hollow

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is-that-sand-in-my-waffles · 25 days

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shout-out to me on this day, 4 years ago when I finished the novel "Shatterpoint" and sat staring into the abyss for two hours, brain chemistry irreparably altered.

#Mace windu #Shatterpoint #Matthew stover #It was so intense I had to read it in segments #Loved the Mace character work can't wait for the canon Mace novel

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jewishcissiekj · 6 months

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Assorted Star Wars characters + assorted headlines I found 3 Parts 1, 2

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ilikejedi512 · 4 months

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never forget mace saying the jedi are his family😭

#jedi #mace windu #star wars #shatterpoint #“they can’t have family” ok pal💀

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phailhaus-paints · 3 months

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Work started on the Kraken Super Tactical Droid. Always imagined it in a purple ish colour, and I’ve been wanting to push my ability when it comes to lighting on models.

Overall It’s looking pretty good to me so far. Just got to get the rest done to the same level now.

#boardgames #minipainting #tabletop #star wars #shatterpoint #tabletop wargaming #shatterpaint #atomic mass games #paintingwarhammer #40k

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smhalltheurlsaretaken · 2 years

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The latest issue of the Obi-Wan comic has me wanting to write SO MUCH STUFF ABOUT IT it’s insane - but I’d have to brush up on Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now and Shatterpoint to be halfway coherent about it!!

But!!!!

There’s this imagery of going up the river into the jungle to confront and probably kill a man tortured by death and war into a demented agent of death - with the risk of becoming the very same thing, and with the line between hunted and hunter blurring. It’s all swamp and mist and shadow and night! It’s that classic structure that has already been used in Star Wars so well! (In Shatterpoint, which was heavily inspired by Apocalypse Now and follows the same beats and atmosphere.)

We have that same insight into the pov character's struggle with the idea of killing a comrade who has lost their way, while questioning whether adherence to peace is even possible, or if it wasn't just denial and hopeless naivety.

Going up the river is a grotesque parade of dead bodies that chills the soul - and the living share the characteristics of the dead. The person looming over the story now inspires cult-like devotion in the other lost souls. It's SUCH an effective storytelling trope and one of my favorite explorations of war! Compare this to the previous issue.

This was the 'classic' examination of war: fairly straightfoward violence with clear goals that you either achieve or die trying, followed by the contemplation of how hollow and bitter victory feels.

This is the next step - there's no longer anything to fight for or against. Violence and death have become the very fabric of the world rather than an anomaly that can be rectified. Moral considerations have no weight and actions have no effect. The road is a river - you can't stray from it, and it only leads to one place, death (whether you want it or not. Anakin didn't want to kill Mekedrix, but he does). As Mekedrix says:

There's no point in virtue or honor or courage anymore, as all roads lead to death.

And the only way to escape this apocalyptic and perilous night and go back to the sunrise of the last issue (the sunrise that Obi-Wan kept seeking) is even more death.

It's so bleak but SO POWERFUL and effective. I'm not kidding, as means of conveying a tragedy go it's next to the perfect trope.

Going back to the cult-like aspect, with people being warped into symbols...

(I wish they'd make Shatterpoint into a movie just for this comparison. THE COMIC STRIP LOOKS LIKE ACTUAL FOOTAGE)

I'm going insane over these personifications of the outcome of war, shrouded in shadows and stripped of personhood that you find in desecrated old Temples.

People who can't connect to their names anymore or are robbed of their faces by the shadows or robbed of their health or cannot talk at all anymore (Shatterpoint). Obi-Wan keeps trying to remind Mekedrix that identity and life are what give nature and death meaning, but THE NIGHT IS JUST TOO DARK.

The art is SO GOOD. THIS IS THE FACE OBI-WAN MAKES WHEN HE KNOWS SOMEBODY IS LOST

From the very beginning of the story he KNOWS he won't save Mekedrix just like everybody who goes up the river into the Temple KNOWS what they'll find will be far beyond any hope of rescue. The question with that trope is never - will we bring this person home? - but what will we be when we come back?

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THAT WHAT DEFINES OBI-WAN IS THAT HE'S DEMONSTRABLY INSANELY RESILIENT TO THIS FORM OF HORROR. The original trope has the pov character coming back irreparably tainted. The variation in Shatterpoint has Mace's faith hanging by a string - by the end, he's beaten, bruised, exhausted and thoroughly tired of it all, and it costs him incredible pain and every last reserve of strength he has to make it through. But in this comic, Obi-Wan's crisis was last issue, when he could still see the sun, more so than in this one.

In this issue he's Anakin's rock and he's more focused on Mekedrix's despair than his own. HE'S CENTERED AND MOTIVATED BY THE THOUGHT OF PULLING PEOPLE OUT OF THE DARKNESS WHEN NOBODY CAN SEE THE LIGHT.

I don't even know where I'm going with all of this except that!!!!! The parallels and contrasts between William and Mace and Obi-Wan!!!! And Kurtz and Kar Vastor and Depa and Mekedrix!!!!!! The ART!!!!! THE POV CHARACTER NARRATING HIS JOURNEY UP THE RIVER INTO THE JUNGLE!!!!! THE IDEA OF A STORY ABOUT SEEKING A PERSON THAT TELLS YOU MORE ABOUT THE SEEKER THAN THE PERSON SOUGHT!!!!!!!! I just. It's good.

#obi-wan comic #anakin skywalker #mace windu #shatterpoint #apocalypse now #long post #meta #my meta #obi-wan kenobi #kenobi comic #obi-wan issue 4 #mekedrix

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