[RepComm] RAMIKADYC II: Enabling
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Skirata called it ramikadyc—in a commando state of mind. It was a soldier’s unshakable belief that he or she could do anything, endure anything, take any risk, and succeed. It was stronger than muscle. It made the body do the impossible.
-- Imperial Commando: 501st
-- Imperial Commando: 501st
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Please know that I find the topic of Ramikayc very fascinating. Very fucked up. But fascinating! It requires having self-awareness of your body, and also the knowledge how body functions to begin with, how it reacts to different situations.
So what is Ramikadyc when it’s not dissociation against feeling pain or terror?
So what is Ramikadyc when it’s not dissociation against feeling pain or terror?
IT IS ALSO ENABLER OF EMOTIONS and with it the related functions of your body. And most importantly, enabler of Fight or Flight reflexes.
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“You can do it if you want to,” Munin yelled. “But you don’t want to, and that makes you a nibral. You know what a nibral is? A loser. A waste of space. Deadwood. Get up!”
Falin wanted one thing, and that was to show that he wasn’t lazy or stupid. His dad had never called him stupid. Neither had his mother; they loved him and made him feel safe, and now they were gone forever. He struggled into a kneeling position, then stood up, swaying and tottering, before breaking into a run again.
“That’s more like it.” Munin jogged alongside him. “Come on. Shift it.”
Falin’s legs didn’t feel like part of his body anymore. He’d run so far that they wouldn’t do what he wanted; he was trying to run, but stumbling along in small steps, unable to find a steady rhythm. His lungs screamed for a rest. But he wasn’t going to stop and be a nibral. He didn’t want to be one of those.
- Republic Commando: Order 66
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“You think I’m lazy and stupid,” Falin said.
“No, I just say that and shout at you to get you mad enough to push yourself to the limit.” Munin watched him empty the bowl and then refilled it. “Because strength is up here.” He tapped his head. “You can make your body do anything if you want to badly enough. It’s called endurance. When you find out just how much you can do, how much you can face, you’ll feel fantastic—like nobody can ever hurt you again. You’ll be strong in every sense of the word.”
- Republic Commando: Order 66
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“He used to slur the words quite a bit, too. And he didn’t like clones.”
“That was all bluster. And you know it.”
Yes, Kal Skirata said awful things about clones, but it never sounded as if he meant them, not to the clones, anyway. He got uj cake from home, no easy feat on secret, sealed Kamino, and shared it with the commando squads he was responsible for training. He called them his Dead Men, his Wet Droids, all kinds of abusive things. But if you caught him off duty in his cabin, he would sometimes fight back tears and make you eat some delicacy smuggled in for him, or encourage you to read one of his illicit texts that wasn’t on the accelerated training curriculum.
- Republic Commando: Hard Contact
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Before I talk about what is happening here, let's talk about what is anger.
Anger is a feeling we experience when we face injustice. In evolutionary relevance, it developed so people can defend themselves and/or the community. It makes the relevant hormones, such as adrenaline in motion to prepare you for a potential fight or flight. It’s a self-preservation instinct against predators or anyone who threatens your safety or your community.
The function of the emotion stayed the same for us, but as the ages passed, priorities became entirely different. While the dangers aren’t the one anymore that could actually kill us, our brain cannot make a difference between a wolf and an a boss we have to tolerate daily and our paycheck is depending on.
Today’s wolf is your boss. A customer with karen-tendencies. Wolf is your not arriving paycheck. Wolf is the climate changing. Wolf is the war in the neighboring countries. Wolf is the social expectations, the conformity; Wolf is the neverending weeks of work with no reward; Wolves everywhere and you can’t protect yourself from them. And because we don’t have functional outlets anymore to release anger, (bashing your boss with a rock in the skull is illegal) it leads to ANXIETY, due to the adrenaline in your blood that you can’t use up. Why? Because adrenaline makes you hypervigilant too to dangers and physically you are read to jump at everything, but you can’t do that.
Kal even talks about it to the little Cadets Nulls about how fear response works in relation of ADRENALINE:
Okay, Zee, why is this little biology/psychology lesson is important?
Kal even talks about it to the little Cadets Nulls about how fear response works in relation of ADRENALINE:
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“Are you scared?” asked Skirata.
“Yes, Kal,” said Ordo. “Is that wrong?”
“No, son. Not at all.” It was as good a time to teach them as any. No lesson would ever be wasted on them. “Being afraid is okay. It's your body's way of getting you ready to defend yourself, and all you have to do is use it and not let it use you. Do you understand that?”
“No,” Ordo said.
“Okay, think about being scared. What's it like?”
Ordo defocused slightly as if he were looking at something on a HUD he didn't have. “Cold.”
“Cold?”
A'den and Kom'rk chimed in. “And spiky.”
“Okay … okay.” Skirata tried to imagine what they meant. Ah. They were describing the feeling of adrenaline flooding their bodies. “That's fine. You just have to remember that it's your alarm system, and you need to take notice of it.” They were the same age as city kids on Coruscant who struggled to scrawl crude letters on flimsi. And here he was, teaching them battle psychology. His mouth felt oddly dry. “So you tell yourself, okay, I can handle this. My body's now ready to run faster and fight harder, and I'll be seeing and hearing only the most important things I need to know to stay alive.”
-- Republic Commando: Triple Zero
-- Republic Commando: Triple Zero
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Okay, Zee, why is this little biology/psychology lesson is important?
Because Munin tried to unlock THE ORIGINAL ROLE OF ANGER in Falin. To make his body feel the anger and with it, gather the strength to move forward, to finish the task that seemed impossible for his body.
Falin’s legs didn’t feel like part of his body anymore. -> Even when you are at your strenght’s end, your body can go into this autopilot mode, same when you are dissociating.
I used the quote from Hard Contact too in relation of the Commandos and how Kal trained them, I think the point is not to make them resentful, but to make the Commandos realize what they have to feel in their body to get the desired result and act upon it. Omega Squad are not berserkers. They are master of their own body and mind, especially the Skirata commandos and the Nulls.
I used the quote from Hard Contact too in relation of the Commandos and how Kal trained them, I think the point is not to make them resentful, but to make the Commandos realize what they have to feel in their body to get the desired result and act upon it. Omega Squad are not berserkers. They are master of their own body and mind, especially the Skirata commandos and the Nulls.
Now I have to admit that the related quote from Hard Contact is a bit long shot, because I have three theories for that particular part:
- He called the clones abusive names like you would call your cats a whore or little shit. It was purely from affection. But later in the books you don’t see him calling them abusive terms, only during Kamino.
- He wanted to emotionally distance himself, and miserably failed everytime he tried, because he can’t turn his back to his cadets, just like he couldn’t turn his back to the Nulls. Kal is just too emotional and compassionate to pretend he doesn’t care.
- Ramikadyc: He used the same motivation techniques on his commandos, like Munin did to him: being abusive with words to make them angry and make them motivated to survive. But just like Munin, he always made sure to express, he loved them by giving comfort, such as uj-cake or telling them stories (spreading Mando propaganda while at it :DDD). Like an after-care after training.
There is another thing I want to talk about inside the topic of Ramikadyc and especially talk more about Falin Mattran/Kal Skirata, but that will be another post. 
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Date: 2025-08-28 09:09 am (UTC)Also, for the Kal's training methods: I think the most important thing is how the Commandos themselves saw their training and sergeant. Because THEY KNEW they were loved. They knew that he tries to do his everything for them, from training to enable them to survive their later life as commando, the show of affection of care with contraband sweets and reading materials, that he always performed the tasks first he demanded from them, to show them it's doable.
The commandos love him and remember him fondly and oh how excited they are when they see Kal again!!!
Kal isn't even in the first book phisically and yet through the memories of the Omega squad you can feel how important he is to them. :')
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Date: 2025-08-30 01:46 pm (UTC)I agree that Kal's affection could ease the damage it could have done in them. The commandos' psyche is relatively stable in the first books but later it hit back, especially with Darman.