GOTS- Jetpacks

In a Mando mood lately

Solo pics~

GOTS- Trio!

To celebrate this May the 4th I went and redrew the old group shot of the protags!

GOTS- Sikha Designs

And last of the Star Wars peeps!

Sikha gets the most minor design change but probably the most significant, having her feet/lower legs cut off by an enraged Xekhad as a major turning point in his descent into the dark side...

GOTS- Sikha Cas'

Quick doodle of Sikha's newer casual outfit, had some issues with the first doodle ohoho

GOTS- Casual Update!

Updated doodle of the Star Wars trio in casual wear~

(ignore the shitty background I didnt know what to do) Solo pics and Mando helmet alt below!

GOTS- Mother’s Day

Quick doodle of Sikha in her original Mandalorian armour before modifying it to suit her Kaleesh origins after her adoptive mother Karam returned her to her family.

GOTS- Mando Couple

Redraw of a super old doodle of Sikha and Amato together~

Star Wars- Beskar!

Normally don't hop on trends but in this instance I happen to have a curvy Mandalorian gal ohoho

GOTS- Tea Break!

Still doin oc updates dont worry, just felt like doodling Sikha

GOTS- Sikha Changes

Minor updates to Sikha's design, changed her Mando helmet (again), eye shape to contrast with the Noma and Narea’s big Kaminoan/Nautolan eyes, jetpack design, gauntlet design, and made her czerka outlands rifle more accurate 

GOTS Lore- The Start

  Another lore piece! This one isn’t lore lore more so a rough overview of the first arc of the story since you and I both know I’m not actually going to start the comic anytime soon ehhe... Anywho! I’ll probably do more of these since while not terribly cohesive since GOTS is meant to be more anthology than single throughline, I do have several arcs/story ideas so might as well share em!

 The beginning of Ghosts of The Separatists actually takes place from the point of view of Noma as opposed to Sikha and Amato and starts with Noma’s master Sidnis Eltair seeing her off as he departs to fight on Saleucami as the war begins to ramp up. While concerned as this is her first solo command and their separation is not a matter of choice, his clone commander Nix assures master Eltair that the mission will be accomplished without issue and the three of them say their goodbyes as Noma, Nix, and a small contingent of clones depart to Balmorra. 

 With only an Acclamator and two Arquitens, Noma and Nix are deployed for what should be a small incursion to simply subdue a minor pro-Separatist insurrection on the foundry world of Balmorra and while en route through hyperspace we’d see cutaways of both Noma happily chatting with clones on one end and Sikha suiting up in her Mando armour and CIS uniform adn embrace with Amato with hints of anxiousness as both sides convene. Now inside the CIS fleet we meet Sikha (and Amato in the background) as she instructs her bridge crew to prepare weapons as the Republic ships emerge from hyperspace and talks to herself under her breath whispering movements eyes darting about as if trying to figure out her new, and first, major opponent despite the battle not having begun. From Noma’s perspective they are met with sudden shock as to the CIS presence as they had no indication of the insurrectionists having direct Separatist support yet decide to engage having their comms jammed preventing reporting their finding whilst vying to bypass the CIS fleet and concentrate on taking the planet from insurrectionists hoping to take the capital of Sobrik and use it’s defences against the CIS ships overhead. Overconfident from expecting the small fleet to use the usual overwhelming droid strategy, Noma and Nix send the Arquitens forward with starfighter and bomber complement to rush down Sikha’s small fleet hoping to knock out one of her Munificents to make an opening and free up comms yet they instead face screens of turbolasers upon the light cruisers not from Sikha’s Providence, but from a Munificent frigate taking point itself. The realization the Providence is not the capital ship severely damages one of the Arquitens as they attempted to fall back while Separatist missiles shred Republic bombers and droid Tri fighters prevented the clones from escorting and as deployed Amato cuts straight through their confused and scattered squadrons in his Fang Fighter. Allowing a sigh, Sikha returns to her command chair having gained composure from her trick of using a meager frigate as her flagship over the more common carrier and no longer whispering but clearly speaking, she orders her Providence forward deploying small strike units of Hyena bombers and Vultures with two Tri droids tailing behind. The Tris breaking off and speeding forward to intercept any incoming Republic fighters while the Vultures stay close to defend the bombers from any stragglers or simply to take fire in place of them with the turbolaser support from the CIS ships in the rear overwhelming reinforcing Republic fighters and cutting their retreat short as Hyenas obliterate one of the Arquitens while the other’s engines are disabled and the vessel left to be boarded as Sikha brings up the Munificents intent on eradicating the Acclamator before it can escape.

 Onboard said Acclamator, Noma begins to panic as Nix orders immediate landings to the planet's surface as troopers hastily pile into gunships abandoning the cruiser to be torn apart by the bombers while Sikha’s frigates took aim at the transports attempting to escape to the surface. Crashing just outside Sobrik, Noma struggles to come to inside a pit with sporadic glimpses of Nix and other clones under heavy fire with her passing out once more to Nix picking her up and running as mortars erupt across their small trench. We then cut to a hologram of Sikha communicating with the insurrection leader as he reports that his fighters paired with her droid backup decimated the Republic troops who made it to the surface with the few who escaped the shelling fleeing into the city. Affirming importance of finding them, Sikha states her intent to land shortly with heavier droid reinforcements to hunt the Republic survivors as we shift to a title card and similar narrated opening to the 501st Journal albeit from Nix who explains his exhausted survivor force having been staging guerilla strikes against the droids though their numbers have been significantly depleted since they began their stealth war 3 weeks since the catastrophic battle and Noma being largely the sole beacon of morale. Noma having been initially dejected from the lack of any Republic response continued to push forward and lead the charge intent on insuring the survival of the remaining clones as they sabotage a supply depot and have to make a quick escape as droidekas swiftly roll in. Rushing into Sobrik's alleyways leaving detonators to cover their escape from the pursuing droids and insurgents, the small cadre of Republic soldiers find themselves at the city’s outer wall and despite Noma’s efforts to cut down as many pursuers as possible she is ultimately winged in the arm and leg and forced to huddle in with her clones as droidekas rapidly enclose every possible escape route and insurrectionists flood in. 

 Taken to their HQ and brought before Sikha and Amato (again hanging back leaning upon a wall) Sikha begins to not so much interrogate but rather insult and jab at Noma for being a Jedi and getting a rise out playing up her failure to even begin the assault on Balmorra, Noma in her emotional state and fear can do nothing but look down. Grabbing and squishing her face, Sikha begins to go on a tangent as to the “injustices” that Noma was fighting for and forcing her face to survey the courtyard of insurrectionists, she expands upon the eon long plight of Balmorra being a world of great resources that the Republic military heavily depended on yet were more than content to the leave Balmorra’s people in squalor and portions of it’s surface polluted beyond recovery. The insurgent leader highlights this referencing the Old Republic’s proxy war on their planet where they abandoned them to the Sith Empire during the Cold War as he details how the GAR military refineries poisoned the land of his province killing hundreds and pushing him into organizing his underground movement to undermine the Republic military efforts exploiting the planet at the detriment of the people. Following up with a passing comment on the famine of Kalee, Sikha eagerly elaborates her intention to quickly dispose of her but mid rambling Noma quickly appeals to Sikha’s blatant grudge towards the Jedi by commenting she’s likely never fought one and suggesting an execution by combat to Amato’s noticeable surprise. Initially insulted by the suggestion that a Jedi could possess or understand honour akin to a Kaleesh or Mandalorian she was unable to comment before Noma continues on stating that in exchange for their duel and her life, Sikha would return all the surviving clone troopers to neutral space for Republic pickup. Grabbing her face again Sikha asserts her less than favourable opinion of the Jedi girl but accepts her terms and unbinds and rearms her. The two circle one another exchanging words as a now serious Noma asserts her resolve in the Jedi code as Sikha continues to disparage them for their actions in the past and perceived hypocrisy. However before they can actually engage one another they are interrupted by a transmission from Count Dooku to the insurrection leader as he congratulates their liberation but more to the point, gives Sikha a direct assignment to bring Noma to Serenno and moreover, in one piece.

 And that’s the basic idea of the start, the following “episodes” (despite not knowing how to animate I think of everything as an animated series) would be the trip to Serenno where Noma would contemplate Sikha’s words, her current position, and also would meet and talk to more laid back Amato as he gets a proper introduction to the series and we get insight into both his and Noma’s deeper character. Upon reaching Serenno,  Amato and Sikha would talk with one another and we’d see more on their relationship and what Sikha is normally like when not possessed by her hatred of the Republic as Noma speaks with Dooku and is slowly convinced more towards the Separatist cause and the Count gives a small test of her abilities before deciding whether or not to bring her into his Acolytes.

GOTS Lore- Sikha’s Family

 This lore tidbit isn’t BLAABR but instead me Star Wars story Ghosts of The Separatists! You may have noticed my love for the Kaleesh and while there are seemingly many Kaleesh characters, most are actually part of Sikha’s family so this entry will briefly take a deeper look into her background that her bio didn’t cover!

 Sikha’s clan known as “Ourag” originate from the small port city of Shakren named after a Kaleesh Sith lord during the Cold War. As with most Kaleesh, ancestral reverence was important to her and Sikha’s ancestors played a significant role in turning Shakren into a hub of foreign trade during a previous generation of five siblings whom branched out to expand Kalee’s position in the galaxy. Two sisters left to neighboring Muunilinst and learned of trade and finance, a brother maintained tradition becoming a proud warlord of a small mercenary army in the Outer Rim, while the remaining two brothers remained on Kalee consolidating the outside resources and funds of their siblings into their hometown to overhaul and expand Shakren’s infrastructure into a small, but capable, spaceport and shipping dock. The combined efforts of these siblings’ wider worldview beyond Kalee pushed Shakren into the corporate eye attracting the IGBC and their subsidiaries and such investments laid a foundation for what was on a galactic level a minor trade spot but for the Kaleesh meant a stepping stone into greater regional affairs beyond mercenary work. The small industry these five brothers and sisters spearheaded laid the foundation for clan Ourag to be respected clan in Shakren as well as leave a significant amount of wealth to their descendants through their enterprises within the IGBC’s network of commerce. The city stands in the shadow of Kaleela but remains a bustling trade hub for Neimoidians, Muuns, and many other aliens overseeing business in the city with the IGBC, Baktoid Armor Workshop, and Hoersch-Kessel Drive all maintaining small facilities and cargo depots in it’s industrial shipping zone. While the Ourag’s business has since fallen under the IGBC, they maintain autonomy when it comes to affairs on Kalee and operate with minimal outside oversight due to the significant cultural nuances of the worlds masked denizens. 

 Beyond these enterprising ancestors clan Ourag has few claims to fame beyond one distant individual being a slave turned Sith apprentice during the time of the Old Republic which thus brings us to her immediate family and current generation during this time of the Secessionist Crisis and Clone Wars. Sikha’s grandfather was a veteran of both the Huk War and the even older Kaleesh-Bitthaevrian War having fought first hand beside and later against the Jedi during the conflicts. Recruited and trained by the Republic as a pilot, he bombed many Bitthaevrian bases and worlds and his deeds during this conflict would weigh on him in his old age though his immense feelings of betrayal from the Jedi during the Huk War left him largely dejected and withdrawn. It was only the onset of the Clone Wars did he spur back to life jumping into the pilots seat and acting volunteer to the CIS navy as a squadron leader deployed under the IGBC’s forces. His war stories acting as inspiration to a young Sikha, he only shed his withdrawn nature when it came to his grandchildren trying instill within them a nobility to their Kaleesh beliefs as a form of safeguarding their inevitable lives of combat from being manipulated as he once was by the Republic. 

 Following this are his two sons, Sikha’s father Aukad and her Uncle Isso San Ourag. Isso left Kalee at a young age being sent into an exchange program with Muuns to learn banking and gain greater exposure to the larger galaxy and as a result is scarcely much of a warrior and is a true and proper businessman and doesn’t even live on Kalee currently, residing instead on Scipio following the war encroaching upon Muunilinst and Mygeeto. While sporadically present in Sikha’s childhood, Isso holds a spot as a loving bringer of many curious gifts from beyond Kalee’s space and is someone she holds very dear.  Isso’s younger brother Aukad on the other hand had to forgo a normal life when the the Huk War broke out when he was just entering adolescence and thus was thrusted upon an unrelentingly violent conflict that ravaged his home. All he had was his father who was forced to teach a young Aukad many difficult lessons in the name of survival, the scars of which haven’t fully healed. As a result of his stolen youth and strained relationship with his father, Aukad is an extremely protective father who’s jaded feelings towards his peoples fixation on warfare left a lingering cloud of concern when it came to raising his children in Kaleesh custom whilst fearing the outcome it could have in whatever conflict falls upon their world next. He is a deeply conflicted man feeling immense shame over the rift between him as his son, overwhelming fear of Sikha’s wellbeing both physically and emotionally now that she serves in the CIS, and self doubt as a father for his youngest daughter Aicha. Despite this, Sikha views him only as her perfect father regardless of flaws or familial loss and after the death of her mother the two came to rely on one another for their reunited family following Sikha’s return from Mandalore. While worrisome of the greater war, he actively serves in CIS intelligence in a largely unimportant listening post in the Kadok Regions under Admiral Riivas.

  Speaking of, Sikha has two siblings in her older brother Takhan and little sister Aicha. Khan left Kalee and his family behind when Sikha was still little and she knows very little of him and her parent’s lack of explanation developed feelings of abandonment within her towards her older sibling, a sentiment that turned from somber to bitter following the death of their mother. Meanwhile, small innocent Aicha is fiercely protected from the outside world by both her overprotective father and her coddling overbearing older sister who both seek to give her a life away from their family tragedy and conflict. By in large they’ve succeeded to this end as she is largely unaware of problems both at home and the greater galaxy and is simply enjoying her childhood with only brief curiosity as to the ever diminishing size of their family as the war progresses. Khan, while absent from family and Kaleesh only in species not culture, has created a small mercenary army based on Jedha offering his security services to the highest bidder portraying himself as a carefree vagabond ignoring the considerable chip on his shoulder towards his home. He intentionally distances himself from all things Kalee even seldom wearing a mask and fully embracing greater galactic culture as a spacer with the constant comments on his lack of “Kaleeshness” being infuriating jabs to his ego though he simply presses on in his search of wealth he doesn’t even care for. His resentment for home is only tempered by his relationship with comrade and fellow bounty hunter Kla Sekkru. The peppy and excitable Trandoshan is close to her culture being a hunter purely for sport to gain Jagannath points yet is similar to Khan in that she appears highly irregular to most of her kind. Kla is endlessly energetic in pursuit of new experiences and methods of gaining points. Her joy in experimenting with her peoples deep rooted customs is a curiosity to Takhan who sees none of the burden his culture holds upon him holding Kla down, in fact it seems to drive her forward instead. The only person he’s ever opened up to and an object of fascination, Kla is something of Takhan’s missing piece though her whimsy persona diminishes his emotional sentimentality to unequivocal acceptance of who he his; Kla doesn’t act his therapist, being her loving self unchanged by his exposing of emotion means more than her sympathies ever could and she as such chooses to simply love him in the simplest form.

 Lastly is Sikha’s unnamed mother. A hunter from the north who battled an everyday fight for survival while the Huk pillaged the rest of Kalee, she grew up close to family and communes of her small tribe trekking across the tundra with all tribesmen and women being a single unit united in survival and mutual care. It was during the warmer season where the blizzards broke did she and other young tribes members venture to the mainland to sell and trade their polar goods and she would meet Sikha’s father Aukad when he purchased meat from her only to spend all his budget on her handmade trinkets after instantly becoming infatuated with the heavy coated nomad. For the rest of the season he would visit her in the market and even help her sell her wares as the two bonded. It wasn’t long before the two were wed and she would return to the tundras for another season before returning to Aukad to stay for good, the time and distance had changed nothing and despite his coming of age, he took no additional wives despite the option and happily awaited his distant bride. They had a happy marriage living in the Ourag estate and raising their children alongside Isso and his family. Where Takhans departure weighed heavily on Aukad, his wife instead accepted her son’s decision hoping for his return once he concluded his personal journey and always made preparations at clan shrines awaiting his eventual return with calm confidence. Her warmth and caring nature while being deeply tied to northern Kaleesh customs lent to Sikha’s development as a more worldly and open individual who is Kaleesh first, but always seeking new and greater knowledge to expand upon herself. Despite her closeness to her father, Sikha takes far more after her mother though her death at the hands of Huk defending a young Sikha dramatically altered her disposition reserving the aspects of her mother behind a near impenetrable wall to all outsiders to her life and manifesting a stoic coldness at best and borderline sociopathic grudge to those she blames for tragedy at worst. The Huk War, death of mother, and time enslaved by the Hutts and subsequent freedom by Mandalorians distorted her mother’s values in Sikha making her present self someone who speaks of the morally gray whilst practicing only in black and whites.

 Beyond this Sikha’s uncle Isso also has two wives who both serve in the CIS on the frontlines as shocktroopers while their triplet sons all joined the Bounty Hunter’s Guild to gain martial experience being sporty and supportive cousins to Sikha while their mothers were the ones who trained Sikha and caught her up to the Kaleesh rites and customs lost during her time away from Kalee post Huk enslavement.

GOTS- Formal Wear

Formal outfits for Sikha, Noma, and Amato!

GOTS- Uniforms

Felt like drawing the girls in their military uniforms 

GOTS- Waiting

Sikha waiting for the tram for the latest twitter poll”

GOTS- Mandalorian Mayhem 

Wanted to draw some of my Mandalorian characters and its finally done!