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chucksnerdthoughts · 1 year

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Star Wars Hidden Empire #1

That was interesting. There was a lot of recap, but that makes sense. Not everyone’s read everything or remembers everything. It was def enjoyable. But I kinda wish there was a sliver of hope that Qi’ra will succeed. They’re kind of just beating us over the head with the fact that she’ll fail. And like, everything going bad for her. So I don’t really see where this’ll go, but not in a good way. I’m still liking it. It’s interesting!

-Chuck

#Star Wars Hidden Empire 1 #Star Wars Hidden Empire #1 #The Hidden Empire #Star Wars #Star Wars comics #marvel #Marvel Comics #Comic Talk

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finalskies · 2 months

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Godzilla x Kong is a very silly movie. I kinda love it. Shimo stole my heart. She deserves all the good things now.

#godzilla x kong: the new empire #Shimo #Hidden Cane #I actually completely missed all the marketing for this movie #I didn't even know who the villains were. Only afterwards when I was looking stuff up did I see how they portrayed Shimo as this huge threa #tbf she is but that's not her fault. She has done nothing wrong ever #Who hasn't caused an Ice Age every once in awhile #There is another character that stole my heart but no need to spoil by mentioning them

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queer-enderdragon · 5 months

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sometimes i wonder why do i genuinely like doing backgrounds,,

now i just gotta render this,,

#my drawings #empires smp #empires s1 #empiresblr #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #lil wip bc this has been in my folders hidden for Way too long #also. i did this by eye and from a different angle while watchin joel's first n second emp s1 eps #so it Might be a lil odd here n there #but yknow. gives it a lil bit of charm tbh #art wip

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dailymaul · 2 years

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Star Wars – Hidden Empire #1 variant by Mike Mayhew

#star wars #darth maul #star wars comics #swedit #swcomicedit #mauledit #starwarsblr #starwarsfilms #usernik #tusermerc #userallison #hidden empire #crimson dawn #maul #*edits #*#by jen

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faerunsbest · 3 months

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i imagine that Rolan likes his privacy so doesn't really anything straight away to Cal and Lia. His love life is his business after all not theirs.

So Cal strolls over curious as to why in the middle of the dang week his very responsible older brother has yet to be up and at his station. Imagine his surprise when he opens his door and sees Rolan laying in bed with someone.

Cal would of course make a swift exit and hurry off to ask Lia if she knew

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #artbyale #art #romance #tav #rolan #bg3 rolan #oc #sketch #tiefling #holy rolan empire #her horns are hidden in her hair shhh

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gffa · 1 year

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I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT I JUST LAUGHED OUT LOUD IRL UNTIL I CRIED ACTUAL TEARS BECAUSE I LOVE THIS DRAMATIC ASSHOLE SO GODDAMNED MUCH CHANATH CHA HERE IS A BOUNTY HUNTER OUT TO GET VADER’S ASS BECAUSE HE MURDERED HER PARENTS IN FRONT OF HER SO SHE SHOWS UP IN THIS BIG DRAMATIC CONFRONTATION, “I’VE WANTED THIS FOR SO LONG. I’M READY.” SHE IS SO READY FOR THIS SHOWDOWN TO BE REAL FUCKIN’ PERSONAL THEN CUT TO VADER’S DEAD SILENT FACE AND I AM IN FUCKING TEARS BECAUSE LOOK AT THIS ASSHOLE. YOU KNOW WHAT’S UNDER THAT DEATH’S HEAD MASK. HE HAS NO IDEA WHO THE HELL SHE IS HE IS UTTERLY WITHOUT A SINGLE FUCKING CLUE WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE NOT ONE SINGLE SOLITARY IDEA BOUNCING AROUND IN THAT EVIL HAMSTER BALL OF A SKULL OF HIS YOU KNOW THIS IS WHAT’S UNDER THERE:

THERE IS ZERO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO MOMENTS OTHER THAN A FEW MORE SCARS THAT MASK DOES ALL THE HEAVY LIFTING FOR VADER’S FACE, IT’S THE ONLY REASON PEOPLE EVER TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY AS VADER AND THEN HE HAS THE AUDACITY TO BE LIKE “YOU ARE DEAD. AND I AM YOUR DEATH.” THIS DRAMATIC ASSHOLE GAVE THE MOST TRYHARD VILLAIN MONOLOGUE AND ALL I CAN DO IS SHRIEK WITH LAUGHTER BECAUSE I KNOW HE’S CONFUSED AS SHIT UNDER THAT MASK AND JUST FAKING IT LIKE “I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON BUT I GUESS I’LL KILL THIS RANDO ANYWAY” AND THEN TOSSES OUT A GENERIC “I AM DARKNESS, I AM THE NIGHT” LINE AND I’M CRYING, I AM IN GENUINE TEARS, I LOVE ANAKIN SKYWALKER SO MUCH

#anakin skywalker #comics #reading comics: hidden empire #i make myself laugh and that's all that's important

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keyslox · 10 months

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woke up drew Pixl

#pixlriffs fanart #pixlriffs #empires s1 #copper king #you guys the lanterns…#there’s hidden gunpowder boys in this #d>:)#mwahahaha themmmm

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alltheleviathans · 2 months

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it's her hidden empire !!!

#sw #star wars #qi'ra #fanart #art #solo #crimson dawn #hidden empire #art nouveau #emilia clarke #star wars comics

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thoughtportal · 3 months

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#twitter #tweet #tweets #palestine #war crimes #imperialism #colonialism #colonization #empire #hidden empire

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bravetigerwildwolf · 14 days

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I hope we see Barriss again, and please let her have a white double-bladed Lightsaber. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 She bled the crystals for her Inquisitor blade, but then she purified them to protect force sensitive people.

#star wars #barriss offee #ahsoka series #white lightsaber #will we see Barriss again #maybe in Ahsoka Season 2 #and in a animated show like the hidden path #and give her a white double-bladed Lightsaber #white double-bladed Lightsaber #former Inquisitor #Inquisitor Barriss #Barriss the protector of force sensitive people #possible reunion of Barriss and Ahsoka #maybe meeting Ventress again #post tales of the empire

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nellarw95 · 9 months

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Happy Birthday Taraji +53 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

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blueiskewl · 17 days

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The Hunt: El Dorado, Fabled City of Gold, Remains Hidden in the Amazon

Centuries have seen countless explorers brave hardships to find the fabled city.

An ancient city of gold somewhere in South America is rumored to have been so fabulously opulent that it has become an expression for any place where people can amass great fortunes. But it has been so elusive that it has become synonymous, like the Holy Grail, with a prized object long sought but never found. Countless men have given their lives in the search for its riches as they ran out of supplies and food, were felled by disease, or encountered violent resistance along the way.

The goal of numerous explorers over centuries, from crews with wooden ships and horses to teams with drones and radar, El Dorado is a lost city, reportedly stretching over great distances in the Amazon rainforest and hidden from prying eyes by its remoteness and the warlike peoples in the forest around it. (The region got its name, in fact, from Spanish explorer Francisco Orellana, who compared the fighting women he encountered during his own search with the Amazons of ancient Greece.)

Tales of El Dorado, its name Spanish for “the golden,” began with the Muisca peoples’ perhaps-mythical account of a tribal chief who, in an initiation rite, coated himself in gold. He then went onto Lake Guatavita, near present-day Bogotá, threw a pile of gold objects into the water, and washed the gold off himself as his attendants also threw an abundance of gold objects into the lake. The 16th-century Spanish referred to him as the Golden Man or the Golden King.

“This is the ceremony that became the famous El Dorado, which has taken so many lives and fortunes,” according to a 1638 letter from writer Juan Rodríguez Freyle. That pile of loot was soon fused in the lore with an account of an entire city made of gold. Others posited that the city was called Manoa and was situated on the shores of a legendary Lake Parima, which has also never been found.

Supposedly one of the first to claim he visited it was the Spanish explorer Juan Martinez, who reported that the locals had brought him there blindfolded in 1531 and allowed him to witness it, and that he traveled an entire day through its streets before reaching the emperor’s palace.

When Francisco Pizarro conquered the gold-rich Inca civilization in Peru in 1532, Spaniards believed all the more firmly in the fabled El Dorado. Francisco de Orellana, a relative of Pizarro, unwittingly traveled the entire length of the Amazon, the world’s longest river, in his search for it.

Some gold did turn up in a lake, seeming to justify the continued search. After he found Guatavita, a sacred lake in the Andes, in 1537, conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada partly emptied it using a bucket chain. From its depths emerged a few thousand pesos of gold.

Bogotá entrepreneur Antonio de Sepúlveda, for his part, cut an enormous notch in the bank of the lake in 1580, removing a great deal of water before the notch collapsed and killed many of the workers. For his trouble, he uncovered three times as much gold as Quesada had, and sent it to King Philip II of Spain. Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th-century German explorer, would calculate that there could be as much as $300 million in gold in the lake.

English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh went looking for El Dorado in 1594, followed by the Spanish conquistadores, who scoured modern-day Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil in the search. Less well-known expeditions continued over the 17th and 18th centuries, bodies piling up but ultimately turning up nothing.

In findings from a major scientific investigation, Von Humboldt would claim, ca. 1800, to have disproven the existence of the lake El Dorado is meant to have flanked. In the following decades, two other researchers came to the same conclusion.

But the legend did not die. The search was revived a century later, when an English company drained the lake almost entirely. Despite their efforts, they extracted artifacts worth only about £500, some of which went to the British Museum, some of which sold at Sotheby’s London. In 1965, the Colombian government designated the lake as off-limits to further attempts.

The quest continues with the help of modern technology. A team led by Venezuelan archaeologist-explorer Jose Miguel Perez-Gomez went looking, employing aerial and satellite remote sensing surveys obtained from NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Missions (SRTM), the Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument, and TanDEM-X synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors from the German Aeropsace Center’s Microwave and Radar Institute, according to a 2019 paper. Of all the unlikely results, their findings strongly resembled the outlines of a lake in a map drawn by none other than Sir Walter Raleigh.

The area is not without rich natural resources, so dreams of a city of gold can perhaps be forgiven. Illegal extraction operations are underway to this day, in fact, in what the Venezuelan government in 2016 designated the Orinoco Mining Arc, which covers 12 percent of the country’s territory and is rich not only in gold but also bauxite, coltan, and diamonds, possibly totaling some $2 trillion in value. You can literally see the modern gold mining from space: in 2021, an astronaut passing over eastern Peru in the International Space Station used a Nikon camera to snap a photo that reveals numerous gold prospecting pits.

Over the years, El Dorado has shown up in popular culture countless times, from a 1989 Neil Young record to video games, a board game, and the Cadillac Eldorado. So even as the city has remained stubbornly hidden over centuries, it is, in its way, all around us.

By Brian Boucher.

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retrocgads · 4 months

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USA 1997

#USA1997 #LUCASARTS #ACTION #LICENSED #STAR WARS #IBM #MACINTOSH #PS1 #STAR WARS DARK FORCES #STAR WARS REBEL ASSAULT II THE HIDDEN EMPIRE

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bluntblade · 8 months

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The whole Crimson Reign/Hidden Empire is one of those things that wildly changes the way I view pre-existing parts of the canon, in a way that makes me cackle (complimentary). Like, Maul was trying to recruit Ezra to shape him into a weapon against Palpatine in a tragic echo of what Palpatine did to him... but also Maul spent nearly two decades building a criminal Empire in order to strike at the man who enslaved him, only to jack it all in for KENOBIIIII and leave his lieutenants with no idea where he'd gone for good measure

#Crimson Reign #Hidden Empire #Star Wars Rebels #Darth Maul

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thebuhonerodazorrow · 1 year

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Star Wars: Hidden Empire #5 (2023)

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dnangelic · 1 month

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the hollow nonviolence but nevertheless heavily palpable longing and empty vastness of daisuke's heart. post

#*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT.#full sincerity i do not mean this in an edgy oooh my cute moeblob's darkness(tm) his hidden evil side way #because this is dark's loneliness too. this is dark's wanting TOO #but dark's is daisuke's is dark's is daisuke's and they're both #the epitome of leroux's erik's description + christine's waved away loneliness too #a heart that could hold the entire empire of the world but has to content itself with a cellar #a child who's never taken seriously or properly respected despite his stubborn independent streak #or even the canon quote itself- it's enormous but empty. completely vacant. dark. there's nothing but a black pillar (themselves)#and 'nothing to satisfy someone-' i knoooow dai looks the way he does but oh my gooooodh -drags my hands down my face-#he's restless he's restless it's not blood guts violence edgy that his emptiness brings him #it's the heart of a thief someone who STEALS which is also why i abstain from too much hunger metaphor #because they DON'T want to devour they don't want to chew and swallow they want to KEEP!!!#they want to shelter and house and have something anything someone anyone they want to take care of it #BUT THE CURSE!!!!#what they do eat of is their own sin and fall; the apple. the fairy tale candy. the fairy table feast. the pomegranate #and once daisuke starts there's NOTHING left for him except to become the devil even if he's the innocent cherub!!#HE CAN'T RESIST THOSE TEMPTATIONS he can't resist the demands of his desires compassionate or not!!!#anyways i got sidetracked but i just think muses who ever see daisuke's heart #is it gentle? yes. is it warm? no. but it's a chill that makes a shared fireplace or someone's touch and blood warmer #it's lonely it's heavy it's grandiose and noble there are rooms waiting for you to walk in and spread light #candlelight starlight azumano's mock-gaslit lanterns!!!#everybody looks up 2 a rebel but nobody knows how isolating it is not just for dark as sb who decided to betray #and was therefore cast out alone left to bear enormous immense burdens all by himself ostracized and wounded #but for daisuke too caught in the shadow of dark's wings #u kno? ok. thats all

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