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[SOLDIER FOR THE EMPIRE] THE MASSACRE OF SULON part II: Resistance

2026-04-16T09:51:40Z

|| STAR WARS || Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire || William C. Dietz, Dean Williams || 1997 || Novella || Science Fiction ||

In the first part I talked about the Empired backed Sullustan company named SoroSuub and now in this entry I will talk about how the moon of Sulon tried to secure their own independence from the SoroSuub and with it, from the Empire.

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[FANART] -- Commander Fox --

2026-04-16T08:44:46Z

It was ages since I uploaded something and this Commander Fox was among my finished art quite a long time I think. I really adore clones in Phase I armor, and I especially love Commander Fox's phase I armor design.

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[GENSHIN IMPACT] Words to think about

2026-04-12T14:05:07Z

"If you can't come to love or be loved by everyone over such long periods of time, you'd drown the world in sorrow."
-- Josephus, Genshin Impact

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Death rituals are actually fascinating

2026-04-11T20:15:36Z

Visited an exhibiton about Emperor Qin's Terracotta army, and it also included the part of bural rituals in general that makes you wonder: people actually cared for the passing of their dead. They worried about their loved ones whether they will have necessities after life, so they made animal figurines, plates for food offering, jugs for drink, they put money for wealth, and generally they put things into the grave they thought their loved ones can use it afterlife.

What do we have now? You are dead, you are God's problem now, lmao. Here is a very expensive flower wreath that will wither after 3 days.

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[SOLDIER FOR THE EMPIRE] THE MASSACRE OF SULON part I: The influence of SoroSuub

2026-04-08T22:28:25Z

|| STAR WARS || Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire || William C. Dietz, Dean Williams || 1997 || Novella || Science Fiction ||

Here comes a little lore about Sullust, and Sulon and what lead to the event that is called: The Massacre of Sulon. Based on the book called Soldier for the Empire and the available lore that can be found in Legends sources. The challenge is that I had to keep in mind that when these books were written, The Phantom Menace weren't out yet, so I had to filter out the prequels when I needed additonal information to fill out some holes that the chapter itself doesn't mention.

If you know my taste in fiction then by now you probably know that I'm fond of fictional dictatorships which is why Palpatine's reign is one of my favorite thing to talk about; and what happened here on Sulon definitely aligning with my area of interests.

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[RepComm] Kal doesn't know anything about being normal

2026-04-04T13:08:02Z

Kal has memories of normalcy. Faint ones. As in having a civilian life. He is from a worker family after all. Mom and Dad loved him for who he is just because he existed. Ideally you don't raise a child because you want to invest in them or you want them to be useful. You give life to them, because you want them to exist. This was Falin Mattran. And having Mama and Papa taking care of him and loving him is the only thing he remember about the world without pain and misery. And this life was taken away.

But the truth is, Kal has no idea what is normalcy. What is civilian life. He has no idea what is to have a family where people are staying together, where parents are not absent, and their brains won't get blown out and the walls don't get exploded into the dining table. He only knows the shadow of something he yearns. He just knows that the happiest time of his life was a very short one and it ended abruptly.

Kal is the anchor of normalcy, a moral anchor to the Null ARCs as well, but he is just as antisocial as them.

The question is, which society is the standard for Kal? The Mandalorian one and living by the Resol'nare? Or being an aruetii civilian?

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I'm starting to hate the fix-it genre. passionately.

2026-04-01T23:55:46Z

WHY IS EVERY FUCKING REPCOMM BLOG IS LIKE

"I love RepComm but I hate the author and the books so much so I create an au where the characters are former shadows of themselves, everyone love each other, and of course everyone is politically correct and nothing bad ever happens to anyone."

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN LIKE IN THESE BOOKS THEN??? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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[TRIPLE ZERO] Chapter 1: Kal is so proud of these little assassins

2026-03-30T21:41:02Z

|| Republic Commando: Triple Zero || 2006 || Book series || Military, Sci-fi || 18+ for violence and harrowing themes ||

What little we know about the Nulls, we know from their body language. That they are scared and they want to runaway, but they can't. They are like trapped animals with no escape. And nothing is more dangerous than a wild animal who can't escape. Because then the only escape is TO ATTACK.
This is a trauma reaction. Flight or fight. And the Nulls choose to fight when seeing the opportunity. It wasn't a fight they could won, but they won't go down without one.
This guy, this Skirata behaved so differently than the adults they have met before. Behaved differently than the Kaminoans, behaved so differently than Jango.

Kal Skirata was so emotional and so ANGRY FOR THEM. The guy was angry, because the Kaminoans wanted to hurt them. And I think the Nulls understood this. They knew that this guy won't hurt them, this is why they knew they can use him.

I think the biggest test came after this - nobody knew this was really a test. Maybe not even the Nulls themselves. But Kal passed. Because Kal's behavior was consistent. The Nulls misbehaved -- and Kal did not punish them. Kal didn't change his mind about them, saying: ok, fishpeople, you were right, these boys are nuts, send them to the incinerator.

Kal truly became a safe person:

The kid clicked the safety catch. He seemed to be checking it was off.

“It's okay, son,” Skirata said, as gently as he could. He didn't much care if the boy fried the Kaminoan, but he cared about the consequences for the kid. And he was instantly and totally proud of him—of all of them. “You don't need to shoot. I'm not going to let him touch any of you. Just give me back the blaster.”

The child didn't budge; the blaster didn't waver. He should have been more concerned about cuddly toys than a clean shot at this stage in his young life. Skirata squatted down slowly behind him, trying not to spook him into firing.

Kal wouldn't have mind if Orun Wa dies but he feared for the boy's life. Boys maybe dangerously smart but clearly couldn't think that far. Not yet. But Kal is already so proud of them. These little warriors playing him like a fool. These little survivors. Kal makes a promise: nobody can and will hurt them.

But if the boy had his back to him … then he trusted him, didn't he?

Maybe this implies that Ordo already gave his trust to Kal the moment he had the blaster in his hands. Or maybe when Kal furiously charged at the Kaminoan. That if Ordo kills the Kaminoan, then Kal won't punish him.

“You touch one of those kids, you gray freak, and I'll skin you alive and feed you to the aiwhas—”

“Come on … just put it down, there's a good lad. Now give me the blaster.” He kept his voice as soft and level as he could, when he was actually torn between cheering and doing the job himself. “You're safe, I promise you.”

I SO ADORE how Kal is also bloodthirsty but trying to be a responsible person here for the sake of the children. :D

The boy paused, eyes and aim still both fixed on Orun Wa. “Yes sir.” Then he lowered the weapon to his side. Skirata put his hand on the boy's shoulder and pulled him back carefully.

“Good lad.” Skirata took the blaster from his little fingers and scooped him up in his arms. He dropped his voice to a whisper. “Nicely done, too.”

Kal giving him a loud praise for obeying. But secretly giving a praise for the little boy for deceiving him. This. This is everything to me. This is so fucking everything to in their relationship. Especially that Ordo being a great actor and deceiving Kal will return later in the books, holy shit...

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[TRIPLE ZERO] Chapter 1: Tiny Assassins

2026-03-30T21:10:24Z

|| Republic Commando: Triple Zero || 2006 || Book series || Military, Sci-fi || 18+ for violence and harrowing themes ||

Okay, the entry of the Nulls is just brilliant.

It really shows that we are not seeing ordinary children here. They are not harmless. They are not someone to be underestimated. They are already trained to kill, and now these people want to get rid of them. Except this one singular dumbass, Kal Skirata...
But let's go back to the start:

“Well, I'm keeping my end of the deal?” Skirata adjusted the fifteen-centimeter, three-sided blade that he always kept sheathed in his jacket sleeve. Two Kaminoan technicians walked serenely across the floor of the facility beneath him. Nobody had searched him and he felt better for having a few weapons located for easy use, including the small hold-out blaster tucked in the cuff of his boot.

The knife is actually very important to Kal, but the centerpiece of the scene is actually the blaster of his boot.

Skirata was not a man who easily fell prey to sentimentality. But this did the job just fine.
They were children: not soldiers, not droids, and not units. Just little kids. They had curly black hair and were all dressed in identical dark blue tunics and pants. He was expecting grown men.

Kal not just gotten sentimental and lost all his professional attitude toward this job, he lowered his guard around the kids. I mean, who wouldn't? But Kal decided they are just little kids. Nothing out of ordinary (if we don't count that they are 6 mini-jangos)

The boys huddled together, and it ripped at Skirata's heart in a way he wasn't expecting. Two of the kids clutched each other, looking up at him with huge, dark, unblinking eyes: another moved slowly to the front of the tight pack as if barring Orun Wa's path and shielding the others.
Oh, he was. He was defending his brothers. Skirata was devastated.

I think this was GENUINE. Ordo PROTECTED his brothers from the adults. But still, the boys are continuously gave those signals, that they were harmed, tormented, and are scared. They are looking vulnerable in Kal's eyes.

“These units are defective, and I admit that we perhaps made an error in attempting to enhance the genetic template,” Orun Wa said, utterly unmoved by their vulnerability.

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“Chief Scientist Ko Sai apologizes, as do I,” said Orun Wa. “Six units did not survive incubation, but these developed normally and appeared to meet specifications, so they have undergone some flash-instruction and trials. Unfortunately, psychological testing indicates that they are simply too unreliable and fail to meet the personality profile required!”

“Which is?” said Jango.

“That they can carry out orders:'

Orun Was says they are DEFECTIVE and the reason they are deemed defective that they are not obedient. They don't obey to orders. They are not reliable. They cannot be trusted.

The kids' gaze darted between Skirata and Jango, and the doorway, and all around the room, as if they were checking for an escape or appealing for help.

I think this is straightforward, they wanted to find a potential way to escape somehow.

Then Skirata registered terminated and his instinct reacted before his brain.
His clenched fist was pressed against Orun Wa's chest in a second and the vile unfeeling thing jerked his head backward.

“You touch one of those kids, you gray freak, and I'll skin you alive and feed you to the aiwhas—”

Kal heard the word terminated and he totally went berserk. It's like he didn't even recognized what he heard. For him, these kids were still vulnerable and scared kids, and evil people wanted to execute these kids.

He yanked his arm out of Jango's grip and stepped back in front of the children. They were utterly silent. He dared not look at them. He fixed on Orun Wa.

Kal NOW physhically stood in front of the children so HE can protect them with his own body if needed.

Skirata half turned to check on them, and their gazes were locked on him: it was almost an accusation. He glanced away, but took a step backward and put his hand discreetly behind him to place his palm on the head of the boy defending his brothers, just as a helpless gesture of comfort.

But a small hand closed tightly around his fingers instead.

A physical contact was made. Kal's one hand got occupied.

“No, they're not units.” The little hand was grasping his for dear life. He reached back with his other hand and another boy pressed up against his leg, clinging to him. It was pitiful. “And I can train them.”

The little boys getting really physical with him.

AND THEN IT HAPPENS:

And then the little lad grasping his leg suddenly snatched the hold-out blaster from Skirata's boot. Before he could react the kid had tossed it to the one who'd been clinging to his hand in apparent terror.

The boy caught it cleanly and aimed it two-handed at Orun Wa's chest.

“Fierfek.” Jango sighed. “Put it down, kid.”

But the lad wasn't about to stand down. He stood right in front of Skirata, utterly calm, blaster raised at the perfect angle, fingers placed just so with the left hand steadying the right, totally focused. And deadly serious.

Skirata felt his jaw drop a good centimeter. Jango froze, then chuckled.

“I reckon that proves my point,” he said, but he still had his eyes fixed on the tiny assassin.

Jango indeed got his surprise:

“We could do with a few wild cards,” Jango said carefully, moving between Skirata and the Kaminoan. “It's good to have some surprises up your sleeve for the enemy."

The boys realized that Kal Skirata is the weak link among the adults. And also with a gun in hand's reach. And they used this to their advantage. I think they were able to connect that Kal is TOUCHED by their presence. That this vulnerability lowers Kal's defense more and more. And it worked. Kal DID NOT EXPECT this to happen, that he will be played like this.

But even if they deceived Kal, his kind heart wasn't unrecognized by the Nulls after all...

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[TRIPLE ZERO] Chapter 1: Quality Null Class

2026-03-30T20:20:39Z

|| Republic Commando: Triple Zero || 2006 || Book series || Military, Sci-fi || 18+ for violence and harrowing themes ||

“I can train them,” he said. “What are their names?”

“These units are numbered. And I must emphasize that they're unresponsive to command.” Orun Wa persisted as if talking to a particularly stupid Weequay. “Our quality control designated them Null class and wishes to start—”

“Null? As in no di'kutla use?”

The sentence in English was weird for me, but in the Hungarian edition, they used the mando'a word di'kutla as in Kal asked whether the kids were mentally disabled. Just a trivia I find interesting.

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[FANART] -- A'den's happy place --

2026-03-30T17:03:26Z

I think A'den just want to be left alone, doing his own things that actually makes him happy.

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i haven't even drink my morning tea yet and people are already annoying

2026-03-30T11:09:04Z

Sometimes I get into the trap that I can't tell whether an art was made with AI or not, but when people say it's AI because the creator gives fake ass edgy titles like "this is my suffering" and shit, and I look at all MY edgelord art with potential edgelord titles... well :DDDD We arrived on that level that all art should be titled like ART No. 465465/2026 so people won't find you AI. :D Crazy times.

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[SOLDIER FOR THE EMPIRE] Morgan is badass af

2026-03-28T23:32:29Z

|| STAR WARS || Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire || William C. Dietz, Dean Williams || 1997 || Novella || Science Fiction ||

Morgan’s mouth felt desert dry. He worked his mouth as if preparing to speak, mustered some saliva, and aimed for Jerec’s face. The liquid fell woefully short and splattered on the other man’s boots. Jerec shook his head mockingly.

“How disappointing. I expected more from someone of your reputation. A snappy reply, a Rebel slogan, or heroic silence. Ah, well, it’s always better to overestimate one’s opponents than the other way around. Now tell me, who do you take orders from, and where are they?”

Morgan felt his heart pound against his chest. So that was it. Jerec hoped to start at the bottom and work his way up through the Rebel chain of command. Kill the leaders and you kill the revolution. It was as simple as that. He thought about Kyle, wished he’d been allowed to see him one last time, and willed himself to die. It didn’t work. His mouth was still dry and words felt unwieldy.

“A Gamorrean princess delivers my orders every morning and lives under my barn.”

DJFSOIGSIGHOIFDHGODFIHGODFHG Now I know where Kyle got his attitude. :D Morgan is badass too.

~~(Jerec is a theatrical drama queen. He likes to hear his own voice.)~~

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[SOLDIER FOR THE EMPIRE] Starting

2026-03-28T19:54:45Z

|| DARK FORCES: Soldier for the Empire || 1997 || Novella || Science Fiction ||

I usually enjoy hyperfixating on things. I never get bored. This is why I can replay one part of Kyle Katarn's journey 1000x times, but somehow I just couldn't care for the others. Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is my all time favorite Star Wars - and dare I say my favorite videogame too and Kyle Katarn shaped my taste in Jedi too. And while I know his backstory, and I never played the previous games, nor read the books related to it. So before continuing on Attack of the Clones I decided to do a little detour with the story of Kyle Katarn. Ex-Imperial Trooper, ex-mercenary, the guy who stole the Death Star plan's, Battlemaster of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy and wielder of both Light and Dark Side of the Force.

The trilogy is based on the game of the same name Dark Forces, and it focuses on how Kyle left the Empire, met with his future mercenary partner Jan Ors, and overall how he got included with the Rebellion.

If you ever wondered why I have beef with Rogue One and Andor, Kyle Katarn is the reason. But I realized that maybe I have to finish Kyle's journey to accept that just because the new canon went to another direction, I can still enjoy my personal favorite Jedi whenever I want. And then maybe I can watch Rogue One and Andor without feeling I'm cheating on him or something. :DDD

~~I may have a childhood crush on this guy~~

So I will use the opportunity to gather lore about Kyle Katarn and his life here.

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[THE PHANTOM MENACE] ... has a very sad ending

2026-03-27T17:56:07Z

|| Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace || 1999 || Book Adaptation || Science Fiction || PG ||

It certainly took me a while to finish The Phantom Menace, but yesterday my driver teacher got sick, we had electricity outage, and because I already did the traditional sketch quota for the day, I was like: why the hell not.

-- I really enjoyed the book, especially that it gave me more understanding what is between Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, and you just can't sense this tension in the movie.
-- Anakin is equally the main protagonist of the book just as Qui-Gon, not just a child character who is supporting the adults, therefor we were able to get into his life and mind more.
-- The Trade Federation's politicial game has much more sense
-- I still can't get over Palpatine and Padmé and how they threw over Valorum

But the ending just hits different due to Anakin. When you watch the movie, the ending is an obvious victory to the Republic, to the Naboo. Despite the losses, it radiates hope for the future. But when you read into the mind Anakin, it just breaks your heart:

Anakin Skywalker stood with Obi-Wan Kenobi near the Queen. He was feeling out of place and embarrassed. He thought the parade wonderful, and he appreciated being honored with the others, but his mind was elsewhere.

It was with Qui-Gon, gone back into the Force.

It was with Padmé, who had barely spoken to him since he had been accepted for training by the Jedi Council.

It was with his home, to which he might never return.

It was with his mother, whom he wished could see him now.

He wore the clothing of a Jedi Padawan, his hair cut short in the Padawan style, a student in training to become a Knight of the order. He had achieved all that he had hoped in coming with Qui-Gon to Coruscant and beyond. He should have been happy and satisfied, and he was. But his happiness and satisfaction were clouded by the sadness he could not banish at losing Qui-Gon and his mother both. They were lost to him in different ways, to be sure, but they were gone out of his life. Qui-Gon had provided the stability he required to leave his mother behind. With the Jedi Master’s death, Anakin was left adrift. There was no one who could give him the grounding that Qui-Gon had provided—not Obi-Wan, not even Padmé. One day, perhaps. One day, each of them would play a part in his life that would change him forever. He could sense that. But for now, when it mattered most, he felt all alone.

So he smiled, but he was sick in spirit and lost in his heart.

Anakin lost everyone. He lost his mother. His lost his mentor, and I think it is important that the text focused on this: the stability in his life. Now he is with a person who didn't like him first, and he couldn't be with Padmé that much as before. Anakin feels he lost her too. He is a padawan now, he ventured into the stars, he reached everything he could never hoped for but he feels terribly alone.

I'm glad I could read this book, and I can't wait to start Attack of the Clones to follow more on Anakin's journey!

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[FANART] -- Ribcage Dwellers --

2026-03-27T17:45:15Z

Ordo x Besany x Maze in surreal soft bodyhorror-ish edition.

I made this for Ordoweek, but the event blog and collection got deleted since.

Anyway.

Love is when you cherish your loved ones so much you want to put them in your ribcage so your beating heart keep them warm forever.

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mental health matters UNTIL...

2026-03-25T13:23:50Z

Maybe it's just me, but I would rather have a mentally ill/suicidial person doing suicide jokes about themselves if this gives them a momentarily relief rather than one day they just don't say a thing because they actually killed themselves.

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[LAYERS OF FEAR] Nyöööööhhhhh

2026-03-25T01:40:53Z

Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to play Layers of Fear 2 in the middle of the night???
Oh. Right. Me. The dumbass.

I am at chapter 2 but this scenario with the ship is more dreadful than the house. I loved the Painter's house and I never was claustrophobic but damn...

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[TRIPLE ZERO] Chapter 1: Jango cares. A little.

2026-03-24T21:18:50Z

|| Republic Commando: Triple Zero || 2006 || Book series || Military, Sci-fi || 18+ for violence and harrowing themes ||

“We could do with a few wild cards,” Jango said carefully, moving between Skirata and the Kaminoan. “It's good to have some surprises up your sleeve for the enemy. What are these kids really like? And how old are they?”

“Nearly two standard years' growth. Highly intelligent, deviant, disturbed—and uncommandable.”

“Could be ideal for intel work.” It was pure bluff: Skirata could see the little twitch of muscle in Jango's jaw. He was shocked, too. The bounty hunter couldn't hide that from his old associate. “I say we keep 'em?”

People usually like to paint Jango as someone who didn't care for clones. In a way, they are right. He didn't care on the grander scale, he is part of the great plan after all. But he went for great length to save deviants from termination. Like the Nulls here. Or Spar later.

Kal maybe brings the emotional charge into the scene, but Jango is the one who tries to bullshit out of the little boys from being executed like "whatever we will find use them. somehow. We'll figure it out when we get there."

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[TRIPLE ZERO] Chapter 1: Murder Mando

2026-03-24T20:53:04Z

|| Republic Commando: Triple Zero || 2006 || Book series || Military, Sci-fi || 18+ for violence and harrowing themes ||

Skirata could hear his pulse pounding in his head and all he could care about was ripping Orun Wa apart. Killing someone in combat was one thing, but there was no honor in destroying unarmed kids. He yanked his arm out of Jango's grip and stepped back in front of the children. They were utterly silent. He dared not look at them. He fixed on Orun Wa.

Okay, Murder-Mando No. 2. has no right to be this sexy right here. GET THEIR ASSESS OLD MAN!!!!
Just like Ghez Hokan didn't find glory in killing farmers in Hard Contact, I love that this Mandalorian mindset returns here too with Kal, that killing opponent who can't even fight back is not a worthy fight. That's not even a fight. That's just massacre.

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ART MASTERPOST

2026-03-23T20:34:16Z

I slowly upload old art as it is because I love them, old art I wanted to redraw and new ones as well.

I don't really ride on trends, I just try to draw whatever inspires me and hope my hype on the idea will keep up until I actually finish the work. I work with many genres, so I can't really put my style or themes into one box, but I usually draw Clan Skirata related stuff, especially about Ordo and Kal and ships relating to them.

I draw both SFW and NSFW and things that are not for sensitive audience.

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::: Falling in Love : Ordo (x Maze), blood, injury
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::: Ribcage Dwellers : Ordo x Maze x Besany, surreal, soft body horror
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::: He has problems : Fanart of Kal Skirata, horror, surreal
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::: A'den's happy place : A'den's fishing
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::: Commander Fox : Phase I Commander Fox, character art
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[FANART] - He has problems -

2026-03-23T20:24:37Z

I decided to start uploading actual finished fanarts here as well, so I guess here I go!

I started this one last year and rested for a very long time in my sketchbook, but recently (due to very frequent electricity outage) I was manage to finish it.

Sometimes it is very hard to talk about Kal Skirata. And sometimes I don't want to give him exact labels that can put him into one exact box of psychological issues. But when you only draw about these mental illnesses without giving any explanation, any context, any labels, it feels like, connections are still made. It resonates with people without words. Vocalized words are not an ally to the mentally ill. Not in this world anyway.

So uhmmm here you go under the cut. I really adore Junji Ito and his work inspires me a lot when working with ink.

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[TRIPLE ZERO] Chapter 1: I've only knew these kids for 2 minutes...

2026-03-23T19:25:58Z

|| Republic Commando: Triple Zero || 2006 || Book series || Military, Sci-fi || 18+ for violence and harrowing themes ||

“In this case, terminated.”

There was a long silence in the bland, peaceful, white-walled room. Evil was supposed to be black, jet black; and it wasn't supposed to be soft-spoken. Then Skirata registered terminated and his instinct reacted before his brain.

His clenched fist was pressed against Orun Wa's chest in a second and the vile unfeeling thing jerked his head backward.

“You touch one of those kids, you gray freak, and I'll skin you alive and feed you to the aiwhas—”

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[TRIPLE ZERO] Chapter 1: Kaminoans and eugenics II

2026-03-23T19:13:14Z

|| Republic Commando: Triple Zero || 2006 || Book series || Military, Sci-fi || 18+ for violence and harrowing themes ||

There was a long silence in the bland, peaceful, white-walled room. Evil was supposed to be black, jet black; and it wasn't supposed to be soft-spoken.

You have a haunch when the Kaminoan took a look at Kal's disabled leg and remarked him DEFECTIVE.
But when you read this scene, it is now obvious. The Kaminoans not just use eugenics in their own society. They are using it while creating the clones too.

This is how the clone babies in the tubes are introduced:

The cavern—surgically clean, polished durasteel and permaglass—was filled with structures that seemed almost like fractals. At first glance they looked like giant toroids stacked on pillars; then, as he stared, the toroids resolved into smaller rings of permaglass containers, with containers within them, and inside those
No, this wasn't happening.
Inside the transparent tubes there was fluid, and within it there was movement.
It took him several minutes of staring and refocusing on one of the tubes to realize there was a body in there, and it was alive. In fact, there was a body in every tube: row upon row of tiny bodies, children's bodies. Babies.
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“You said—”
“I said you'd be training special forces troops, and you will be. They just happen to be growing them.”
“What?”
“Clones.”

When Kal arrived here expected that he will train fully grown men to be soldiers. He didn't expect that soldiers will be harvested from these tubes. That he will find children here grown in a laboratory.

“Ko Sai said something wasn't quite right with the first test batch of clones,” said Jango, ushering Skirata ahead of him into another room. “They've tested them and they don't think these are going to make the grade. I told Orun Wa that we'd give him the benefit of our military experience and take a look.”

For the Kaminoans the clones are not children. They are products. Well cared products, but still not people. It means that however the first batch of clones ended up, they aren't meeting with their expectations. They are imperfect.

“I would still be happier if you confirmed that the first batch of units is below the acceptable standard.”

Orun Wa and Ko Sai already decided that this batch is faulty and should be terminated, but they didn't want to go behind Jango Fett's back with this decisions. They wanted Jango Fett's approval for it.

“These units are defective, and I admit that we perhaps made an error in attempting to enhance the genetic template,” Orun Wa said, utterly unmoved by their vulnerability.

Skirata had worked out fast that Kaminoans despised everything that didn't fit their intolerant, arrogant society's ideal of perfection. So … they thought Jango's genome wasn't the perfect model for a soldier without a little adjustment, then. Maybe it was his solitary nature; he'd make a rotten infantry soldier. Jango wasn't a team player.

The Kaminoans didn't find Jango Fett's genes perfect to make, so they tempered with his genes to create the "better version of himself". Ironically this made the whole experiment a disaster in their eyes. Which now they are apoligizing for.

“Chief Scientist Ko Sai apologizes, as do I,” said Orun Wa. “Six units did not survive incubation, but these developed normally and appeared to meet specifications, so they have undergone some flash-instruction and trials. Unfortunately, psychological testing indicates that they are simply too unreliable and fail to meet the personality profile required!”

They were 12 of these children. 6 of them didn't survive.
The other six were already tried for tests but it turned out, psychologically they are not adequate.

“Which is?” said Jango.
“That they can carry out orders:' Orun Wa blinked rapidly: he seemed embarrassed by error. “I can assure you that we will address these problems in the current Alpha production run. These units will be reconditioned, of course. Is there anything you wish to ask?”

This current batch is uncapable of carry out orders, but fixing is underway by developing the "Alpha Batch". Meaning, the Alpha Batch potentially will be more inclined to obey whatever is asked from them.

“Yeah,” said Skirata. “What do you mean by reconditioned?”
“In this case, terminated.”

The Kaminoans decided that these six children will die due to their psychological imperfections.

Evil was supposed to be black, jet black; and it wasn't supposed to be soft-spoken.

This quote will probably stay with me for a while.

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[TRIPLE ZERO] Chapter 1: The fateful meeting

2026-03-23T18:32:02Z

|| Republic Commando: Triple Zero || 2006 || Book series || Military, Sci-fi || 18+ for violence and harrowing themes ||

Kal's expectations what he is about to see:

poor marksmanship, poor endurance, lack of aggression? Not if these were Jango's clones. He was curious to see how the Kaminoans could have fouled up producing fighting men based on that template.

And what he got:

Six identical little boys—four, maybe five years old—walked into the room.

Skirata was not a man who easily fell prey to sentimentality. But this did the job just fine.

They were children: not soldiers, not droids, and not units. Just little kids. They had curly black hair and were all dressed in identical dark blue tunics and pants. He was expecting grown men. And that would have been bad enough.

Not fell prey to sentimentality, I wanted to say BIG FAT LIES, but then I realized that for a moment I mixed up sentimentality with being emotional. Kal is EMOTIONAL but not sentimental. So when these kids walked into this room, something truly break inside him.

The boys huddled together, and it ripped at Skirata's heart in a way he wasn't expecting. Two of the kids clutched each other, looking up at him with huge, dark, unblinking eyes: another moved slowly to the front of the tight pack as if barring Orun Wa's path and shielding the others.

Oh, he was. He was defending his brothers. Skirata was devastated.

Kal is so deep into the sentimentality, he already refers them as brothers. But no wonder. One of them - the one who is later called Ordo -, already protecting them from Orun Wa.

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