Knights of the Old Republic / Defenders of the Lost Temple
redbean-nom reblogged
Embo's retirement
#star wars#tcw#the clone wars#embo#old art rb#didnt want to draw a background so they are in the Grey Void lol#really happy with how the perspective on this turned out#fun little details:#the vest embo is wearing in place of his armor is based on the felucian farmers outfits#in turn the hat (leftmost yellow felucian); belt skirt bit (left side orange felucian); and fingerless gloves (middle yellow felucian)#are based off of embos outfit#dont worry marrok is perfectly fine hes just napping in the house#bringing this back because i got new glasses and art is going slowly right nwo
kind of funny how fanon tup is always The Baby but also he shot two jedi (one w intent to kill and the other to stun) and was successful both times
#star wars#tcw#the clone wars#clone trooper tup#redbean talks#im pretty sure he was the one who figured out how to lure krell right?#and he wasnt even that experienced in general at the time#much less at jedi-hunting#random hc that if he had survived he would have eventually become one of the 501st legendary arcs#along w rex fives echo and jesse
why is boil affiliated with death watch
#star wars#tcw#the clone wars#boil#clone trooper boil#wait i looked it up and the death watch one is slightly different (narrower sides and a bit pointier in the middle)#so the options are#1) boil genuinely is death watch/a death watch sympathizer#2) he's honoring an influential trainer who was/is death watch#3) it's something else entirely???#i think the funniest option is for it to be in honor of a death watch trainer#because then that's how you get numa in rebels wearing the death watch symbol in memory of boil's memory of a trainer#i think sabine's mom was in death watch? so imagine sabine meeting numa and seeing that pauldron like !?!?#anyways boil's maybe-deathwatch symbol is up there with the armorer's maybe-deathwatch/shadow collective helmet horns#redbean talks#wait boil is 212th so obi wan has to have seen his maybe-deathwatch paint at some point right.#as in obi wan who has a fairly extensive history getting tangled in mandalorian politics and most notably conflicts w death watch#did obi wan ever ask him about it#the actual weirdest option character interactions-wise would be for boil's death watch buddy to be the guy obi wan yoinked the armor from
tactical droid vs clone culture
I was thinking about how General Kalani is one of the only droids with an actual (non-serial number-related) name, and I looked up the super tactical droid wookiepedia page:
and huh! of the four known ST droids, three of them have obviously individual names, and given that their serials would be ST-something, Aut-0 is probably a name too!
(Aut-0's name also seems to demonstrate that he has some sort of sense of humor, and Kraken's paint is suspiciously kraken-looking.)
a bit of further delving found pictures for Kalani, Kraken, and Aut-0 (Linwodo doesn't seem to appear in any visual media).
not only do they all have individual names, they also seem to have unique paint!
now, basic tactical droids do have some distinguishing symbols, but these tend to be simple central lines or logos - just enough to be distinguished.
since ST droids are pretty easily distinguishable from tactical droids (and there'd only really be one on the battlefield anyways), and none of their units have anything similar design-wise, we can conclude that the ST droids' paint is an individual choice.
I doubt Dooku would be busy painting and naming his tactical droids either, so they most likely named and painted each other and themselves...
...much like a certain other batch of beings-not-formally-recognized-as-sentient.
#star wars#the clone wars#tcw#droids#super tactical droids#general kalani#commander kraken#general linwodo#commander aut-0#aut 0 is also voiced by dbb???#kalani seems particularly fashionable compared to the others lol#headcanon that kraken's name + paint is the droid equivalent of wolffe#his name is kraken and he has a tentacle design painted on his face arms and chest. that is absolutely intentional#i now need to draw these guys painting each other#i found two unidentified STs#one is light green with round white eyes and a red circley design#other is maroon with round red eyes#hc that kalani and kraken were assembled/trained together (droid-batchmates?) bc both of them have a X shaped central eye and matching pain#yerbana commander maroon and anaxes ST red circle both have round eyes#aut-0 is the only one i've seen with a square central eye#i can't figure out what eye color denotes#it's not rank bc kalani (general) and mr. maroon (commander) both have red#maybe it's somethign about training specialty?
between krell, tiplar, and the entire temple, the 501st definitely has the record for most jedi killed
headcanon that Appo was supposed to be the battalion commander, but his number was CC-7567 and Anakin got him and Rex mixed up in the paperwork.
#star wars#tcw#the clone wars#captain rex#commander appo#they go through their first battle w rex as accidental commander/captain and anakin's like 'yeah this guys doing just fine'#and so he ends up stuck in the command position while the battalion cc is a sergeant#and then later when anakin got rex's promotion through for mandalore he decided might as well fix appo's rank while hes at it#which is how they then ended up with appo going from sergeant to commander overnight
rewatched carnage of krell and it just hit me that between the entire? 501st battalion and the entirety of Ghost:
- general's dead
- unable to contact commander and other general
- ghost lieutenant's dead
meaning that, for the post-execution battle to defend the base, Rex was the highest ranking on that side of the planet and therefore had to be the acting general for an entire 1.5 battalions.
#star wars#tcw#the clone wars#umbara arc#captain rex#redbean talks#between krells death and them contacting cody rex was the highest ranking officer on that half of the planet#and it's not like krell gave them anything to start from so he probably had to organize the entire battle on his own#and then right after that he gets dropped into kadavo#poor guy does not get paid enough#(or at all)
thinking about 17's grievous incident again
(he also sent the pic to Grievous)
shebse interactions once again inspired by @thefoundationproject, because I feel like Priority would have Much To Say about it
#star wars#tcw#the clone wars#alpha 17#soft wars#doodling in the soft wars sandbox#very brief chat fic i guess#(don't show this to domino lol)#he has far too many scars from the ventress incident i had to find so many references to get the arm/shoulder ones right#oops i colored this with the blue light filter on and forgot to check the color balance#oh well sorry if he's extra yellow#between ventress and grievous everyone has learned that if 17 is marked as assumed dead he's probably just in the bacta tanks#recovering from getting chopped in half or something#but he's fine!#this is probably why he lives on kamino permanently lol#he has tiny green and blue lightsaber shaped piercings in the frame of his cybernetic bits as a symbolic middle finger to grievous#16 makes plenty of jokes about spine piercings