#Nam Chorios

[legendscon]

We are so happy to announce that our next guest for #LegendsCon is the prolific author Barbara Hambly, known to the Star Wars fandom for the classic Expanded Universe novels Children of the Jedi and Planet of Twilight, as well as several short stories. She is a powerful force in the genres of science fiction and fantasy writing with an extensive bibliography of novels and TV writing credits. We are so excited to have her join us!

Photo Credit: Bill Purcell

You can meet Barbara at LegendsCon in Burbank, CA on September 9th & 10th 2023! Tickets are available now on Eventbrite:

#Barbara Hambly #Nam Chorios #Callista Ming #Callista Trilogy #Planet of Twilight #Children of the Jedi #Belsavis #Eye of Palpatine #SWEU #LegendsCon #expanded universe #star wars legends #star wars expanded universe #star wars books #burbank california

[magnetarbeam]

If I was actually capable of producing art, I'd totally draw the end of Conviction where it's just Luke and Ben and Vestara looking up into the Nam Chorios sky, watching the explosions from the StealthXs shredding Gavar's fleet.

#star wars legends #fate of the jedi #luke skywalker #vestara khai #ben skywalker

[teagrl]

Whatever Dark the World May Send

Chapter Four & Five are up!

Rating: T

Summary: Mara’s mind is gone. It’s up to Luke and Ben to try to bring her back.

Tags: LoTF AU, parenthood, grief/mourning, Nam Chorios, Skywalker family dysfunction, Non-Jedi Orders, memory, deconstruction, whump, relationship study, melodrama, copious flashbacks, rocks why does it gotta be rocks, boring married feelings, romance but make it hurt like a motherfucker

#my fic #luke skywalker #ben skywalker #mara jade #I am so late on a cover #but whine it takes me long enough to edit #have a twofer

[atamascolily]

In which Scout and Callista go visit Djinn Altis’s grave and attempt to talk to rocks, among other things. 

#callista masana #Nam Chorios #tallisibeth enwandung-esterhazy

[girlbossk]

ha ha remember how i was reading planet of twilight well it’s been. like 3 days without me looking at it or whatveer. yay fun!!! and ,,, after it is the crystal star so im not super motivated??? i mean eventually i get back to good stuff and if i read fast it happens sooner but MAN i do not want to read! 

#eventually i gotta let my interest in nam chorios override my self preservation of avoiding the writing style #but aaaaa no thanks

[mortallyclearwonderland]

Star Wars Alien Species - Tsil

Tsil, also known as Spook-Crystals or Smokies, were mineral-based life forms that resided on the planet of Nam Chorios.

Oldtimers, descendants of the planet's original Human settlers, gave the Tsils their names and nicknames, and were unaffected by the electrical storms they produced. Offworlders caught in the five-to-ten minute electrical storms that the Tsils created, were left sick for about a day and a half. The Guardian crystals were the largest of all the crystal variants; this made them capable of controlling the smaller crystals.

As Luke Skywalker discovered, Tsils could reflect and amplify light and life energy. This increases the Force sensitivity on Nam Chorios, and the slightest use of the Force on the planet would set off a wild Force storm. Tsils communicated via telepathy by putting images in another's mind. Oldtimer religious leaders known as "Listeners" could hear these "voices." One apparently had to be Force-sensitive to understand a Tsil. The Tsils warned the Oldtimer prophet Theras that the drochs which inhabited the planet were the cause of the terrible Death Seed plague. Drochs are weakened by light, so the Tsils' ability to amplify light rendered drochs harmless on Nam Chorios.

A number of Tsils were taken offworld for commercial and industrial exploitation. They were officially designated for use in filtering light for K-Class planets, but their primary purpose was to function as the core component of Centrally Controlled Independent Replicant systems in the CCIR Needle and synthdroid projects undertaken by Loronar Corporation. The reprogramming process used to harness a Tsil for these purposes was considered an atrocity by the Tsils. Tsils offered the solution to the Death Seed plague to Leia Organa Solo if she made sure all the Tsils thus enslaved were returned. She agreed, and most of the Tsils were returned to Nam Chorios after containing the droch threat.

In 44 ABY, Sith apprentice Vestara Khai killed a Tsil during a battle against the dark side entity Abeloth in order to create a death convulsion, which harmed Abeloth in the process while also allowing her and her Jedi allies to escape.

#star wars #star wars species #star wars aliens #Tsil #star wars Tsil

[even-stars-burn-out]

An Incomplete List of Vergences in WTPD

bc it’s midnight and this is what happens when I spend too much time on wookiepedia (also there are,,, multiple layers of bullet points. Tumblr sucks)

PEOPLE

Chosen Ones

A Rakata, at some point

Xendor

An unknown number of people between

Revelin Massi/Rev Ailyn/Revan

Anakin Skywalker/Ani Naberrie/Vader

Rey

The Ones

Father

Son

Daughter

Mother/Abeloth

LOCATIONS

Jedi Temples

Coruscant Temple (More accurately, the Room of 1000 Fountains)

Yavin IV Temple

Ilum Temple

Temple of Eedit

Sith Temples

Byss

Valley of the Dark Lords

Bast Castle

Sensitive-Aligned but not Temples

That Tree On Dagobah

Nam Chorios

Valley of the Jedi

Mortis

Whatever the fuck Abeloth’s planet is named

Mount Tantiss

OBJECTS

The Star Forge

The Star Maps

Dantooine

Tatooine

Kashyyyk

Manaan

Korriban’s actually powers the Valley of the Dark Lords and is indistinguishable

Centerpoint Station

Sinkhole Station

Various holocrons

the Heart of the Guardian (... sort of. It’s an “incomplete vergence.” A Chosen One can’t use it for their unique vergence manipulation stuff, but it does resonate with vergences in much the same way and always seems to end up in the hands of the present Chosen One)

MOMENTS (in chronological order)

the end of the Battle of Malachor V (centered on the Defiance)

The Conclave at Katarr (centered on Katarr)

the Second Battle of Bespin (centered on the Oblivion’s Promise)

the destruction of Alderaan (centered on Alderaan)

the dual events of Vader vs Sidious, take the last and the destruction of the DSII (centered on the Imperial Palace)

#wtpd #i should uhhhh go to bed #but i've been thining about this all day #how the Skywalker twins probably run into the Tatooine star map at some point and have Absolutely no idea what it is #Anakin is a little freaked out about it #why the fuck is tumblr incapable of showing the bullet points correctly

[i-think-in-metaphors]

On Nam Chorios

#vestara khai #star wars #fotj #cold #rocks

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

The Tsil were a species of mineral creatures from Nam Chorios. They had control over both life energy and light energy, amplifying Force powers naturally to create storms when they were used and could only speak to Force-sensitives.

Source: Planet of Twilight (1997)

#tsil #star wars aliens #the force #star wars #eu #expanded universe #star wars legends

[jedilegacied]

Tsil, also known as Spook-Crystals or Smokies, were mineral based life forms that resided on the planet of Nam Chorios. Oldtimers, descendants of the planet's original Human settlers, gave the Tsils their names and nicknames, and were unaffected by the electrical storms they produced. Offworlders caught in the five-to-ten minute electrical storms that the Tsils created, were left sick for about a day and a half. The Guardian crystals were the largest of all the crystal variants; this made them capable of controlling the smaller crystals.

As Luke Skywalker discovered, Tsils could reflect and amplify light and life energy. This increases the Force sensitivity on Nam Chorios, and the slightest use of the Force on the planet would set off a wild Force storm. Tsils communicated via telepathy by putting images in another's mind. Oldtimer religious leaders known as "Listeners" could hear these "voices." One apparently had to be Force-sensitive to understand a Tsil. The Tsils warned the Oldtimer prophet Theras that the drochs which inhabited the planet were the cause of the terrible Death Seed plague. Drochs are weakened by light, so the Tsils' ability to amplify light rendered drochs harmless on Nam Chorios.

#not a jedi : ooc #conviction reread

[irrfahrer]

Wookiepedia On Sweetblossom

The Original Text Is Here!

”...sometimes there's nothing that'll do it but sweetblossom. It's a good thing the blossom's not addictive... It could grind galactic civilization to a halt in a week flat... Blossom is exactly like sleep. A little of it—two drops, maybe—and it's like you've just woken up, before your mind is in gear to do anything: you just sit around in your pajamas saying, 'I'll take care of business when I'm feeling a bit more like it.' But, of course, you never do. Five drops is good for endless sitting, curled up, comfortable, thinking nothing, watching addercops spin webs or dust motes make patterns. Your mind is perfectly clear, you understand, but the starter won't engage. Seven or eight drops and you're paralyzed. Awake, but unmoving, unable to move, like those mornings when you open your eyes but your entire body's still asleep. A good way to get through—oh—days when things are happening to you that you'd rather not feel." ―Greglik to Leia Organa

Sweetblossom was a flower whose extract produced a significant narcotic effect. While not addicting, the extract was used nonethteless by abusers who preferred to evade life's demands. While completely aware of their environment, users of sweetblossom had an attitude of procrastination and apathy. Rebel Alliance pilot Greglik spoke highly of the drug. On Nam Chorios, Leia Organa Solo was drugged with sweetblossom by Seti Ashgad and Dzym the droch in an attempt to prevent her from fleeing their palace.

#inspiration #ohhh I LIKE that! #I can use that for RP IN SOME WAY! #BLESS WOOKIEPEDIA #BLESS IT1 #reference

[legendscon]

Please join us in wishing a very happy birthday to Legends Con guest author, Barbara Hambly!

Photo by Bill Purcell

#Barbara Hambly #Nam Chorios #Callista Ming #Callista Trilogy #Planet of Twilight #Children of the Jedi #Belsavis #Eye Of Palpatine #Luke Skywalker #Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina #Tales From Jabbas Palace #Expanded Universe #Star Wars Expanded Universe #Star Wars Legends #SWEU #Star Wars EU #SW Expanded Universe #Star Wars Books #Star Wars Comics #Star Wars Games

[magnetarbeam]

Trans Girl Ben Skykhai AU

I think Ben's been on HRT for a year and a half by FotJ. Like, since not too long after LotF. She's made a lot of progress - she has nice curves and breasts and long hair - and she's out to her family, but she's still closeted to the galaxy at large.

When they find Vestara on Dathomir, Ves can pick up on the female mannerisms that Ben unconsciously makes, even though Ben mostly looks like a boy in the baggy clothes she still wears, and Vestara has no idea what to make of it because I can't really picture the Sith going out of their way to teach this.

So she's into Ben, but she's not actually sure that Ben's a boy, so she has a crisis about the idea that maybe she's fallen for a girl. She has to hide it from Gavar whenever he asks her about Ben.

Ben has a hell of a time trying to distinguish between romantic attraction and gender envy about Vestara. It turns out to be both.

It's not until Nam Chorios that Ben comes out to Vestara. Ben uses Ship being male as an example to help explain gender identity.

Ben comes out to the galaxy on the last day before they finish the move to Shedu Maad. It's kind of overshadowed by the shock of the Jaina/Jag/Zekk marriage reveal.

Vestara redeems herself, but eventually it's just accepted that proper Jedi modesty is not an idea these two girls can be convinced to care about. They're both really hot and they know it and they love it.

#star wars legends #fate of the jedi #ben skywalker #vestara khai #skykhai

[teagrl]

Whatever Dark the World May Send

Rating: T

Wordcount: 54K

Summary: Mara's mind is gone. It’s up to Luke and Ben to try to bring her back.

Tags: LoTF AU, parenthood, grief/mourning, Nam Chorios, Skywalker family dysfunction, Non-Jedi Orders, memory, deconstruction, whump, relationship study, melodrama, copious flashbacks, rocks why does it gotta be rocks, boring married feelings, romance but make it hurt like a motherfucker

#my fic #luke skywalker #mara jade #ben skywalker #star wars legends #new year same bullshit!

[atamascolily]

In which Scout and Callista have a very long heart to heart, with 30+ years of drama to catch up on--on both sides. Callista thinks her life has been weird, until she learns more about Nam Chorios’s peculiar political and ecological history. 

Friends, if you think this chapter is complicated, please note that I grossly simplified the plot of Planet of Twilight, which is far, far odder than this.

(Holy crap, this chapter is finally done, and I’m so happy about it!!)

#in a dark time the eye begins to see #callista masana #nam chorios #planet of twilight #eu fuckery

[girlbossk]

drochs really are... something. 

#sw books #as of this point in the book they seem just like creepy bugs that have cool powers!! #but i've read. idk what but i'm familiar with them and with nam chorios and they're DEATH BUGS #:)