#new galactic empire

[emilianadarling]

Imperial High Prince Skywalker - Outfit Concept Art by lovey-dovey-and-sad; after-edits by emilianadarling

The final version of these sketches by @lovey-dovey-and-sad that I shared a few months back. 😍🙏💖 Wow!!  I did a few lighting, editing, and detail edits in consultation with lovey herself with @universeinorbit’s art beta suggestions

Specifically, this is Luke’s outfit when he disembarks the shuttlecraft in ‘only as strong as the warrior next to you’ Chapter 9. Later, a galactic newscaster reports on him as giving ‘big Sith energy’ during the visit as a result of that bold, distinctive colour.)  

Eternal thanks for helping me workshop the writing of the outfit while I was writing the fic, lovey, and for bringing this outfit from words on a screen to stunning visual life! 

#star wars #dinluke #luke skywalker #imperial luke skywalker #sith luke skywalker #only as strong as the warrior next to you #imperial high prince luke skywalker #skydalorian #galactic empire #new galactic empire #new sith order #god I love it SO MUCH #SO HAPPY THANK YOU AGAIN AKSJDHAKSJHD #outfit concept art #like ahhhh #the ignorant and the weak

[ravenhairedwaywanderer]

Gonna go make me some food, pack me a vase full of happy trees, and then Ahsokatime 😂

#ahsoka tano #star wars #once a rebel always a rebel #anakin and ahsoka #grand admiral thrawn #sabine wren #ahsoka show #hera syndulla #chopper the war criminal #dave filoni #get ready to watch some wars in the stars #george lucas #the galactic empire #the new republic

[netmors]

Eleventh Fleet AU - Thrawn, Eli Vanto and Karyn Faro's timeline concept arts set.

Suddenly I wanted to make a selection of art and see the progress - I really enjoyed drawing the timelines for the characters. I'm especially pleased with how they turned out ////v////

#star wars #eleventh fleet au #thrawn #grand admiral thrawn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #senior captain mitth'raw'nuruodo #eli vanto #eli'van'to #karyn faro #commodore faro #admiral faro #commodore van'to #art #my art #netmors #digital #concept art #illustration #star wars rebels #ahsoka series #chiss #human #chiss ascendancy #galactic empire #new republic #three “admirals” #thrawn books #thrawn comic #thrawn trilogy #thrawn 2017

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: X-Wing - Rogue Squadron #32 (Mandatory Retirement #1 of 4) Cover Art by John Nadeau

#Star Wars #Star Wars: Legends #Star Wars: X-Wing - Rogue Squadron #Mandatory Retirement #X-Wing #Starfighter #TIE Fighter #Rebel Alliance #New Republic #Galactic Empire #Imperial Remnant #Imperial Star Destroyer #Sci-Fi #Mecha #Spaceship #Dark Horse #Comic #Comics #Covers #Cover Art #John Nadeau

[inquisitor-apologist]

All the problems in the Mandalorian could’ve been solved if Sabine had kept the Darksaber

#that girl could use it #Gideon shows up like surrender or we’ll bomb Mandalore and she’s just like ‘nah’ and whistles for Ezra and his Purgil #she’d wipe out all the imperials in the sector with homemade bombs 1000x more effective than the empire’s and paint gorgeous murals about it #could totally see her working with Luke and Ezra to build a the New Jedi Order on Mandalore #creating a culture of the most badass light side users in galactic history #man I love writing banger fanfic ideas in the tags and never using them #star wars #Mandalorians #sabine rebels #Sabine wren #Mand’alor Sabine wren #Mand’alor Sabine #the darksaber #darksaber #the Mandalorian

[coaz-photography]

Beasts

#star wars #star wars rebels #the mandalorian #bo katan kryze #sabine wren #A New Hope #The Empire Strikes Back #return of the jedi #Solo a Star Wars story #rogue one #star wars battlefront #Star Wars battlefront 2 #stormtrooper #toys #toy photography #coazphotography #emulation project #Galactic Empire

[star-wars-forever]

#star wars #grand moff tarkin #peter cushing #galactic empire #retro star wars #a new hope

[pedroam-bang]

Star Wars: Squadrons (2020)

#2020 #gif #gaming #Star Wars: Squadrons #Star Wars #Squadrons #Galactic Empire #Titan Squadron #New Republic #Vanguard Squadron #Var-Shaa #EF76 Nebulon-B frigate #CR90 corvette #MC75 cruiser #MC80 Star Cruiser #TIE Interceptor #star destroyer

[sabinaisempress]

the best

#new hope #starwars #movies #star wars movies #star wars series #star wars 2023 #grand admiral thrawn #thrawn #galactic empire #alderaan #ahsoka tano series #ahsoka tano #star wars edits

[revanknightwoman]

#starwars #star wars #the old republic #old republic #star wars legends #star wars eu #sw legends #sw eu #swotor #swtor #exarkun #exar kun #darth marr #darth nihilus #darth plagueis #sith #sith lord #the dark lord #dark lord #dark side #valkorion #darth bane #tenebrous #darth zannah #kotor ii #galactic empire #new republic #kotor 2 #kotor #vitiate

[emilianadarling]

When @lovey-dovey-and-sad shared these sketches of Imperial High Prince Skywalker outfits inspired by ‘only as strong as the warrior next to you’, I honestly lost my mind and haven’t yet found it again. 😳🙏🤯 

These sketches are evocative, stunning, and just exactly the vibe I've been imagining. Thank you so much, lovey, for crafting and sharing them! 😍😘

#star wars #imperial luke skywalker #sith luke skywalker #dark luke skywalker #dinluke #skydalorian #galactic empire #new galactic empire #only as strong as the warrior next to you #the ignorant and the weak #luke skywalker #love love LOVE #fanart #thank u for this blessing #😶 #it's like playing paper dolls with my blorbos I JUST

[declan-ail]

Star Wars and the Vietnam Connection

Trigger Warning: Mentions of Nazis, SS, Perpetrators of the Holocaust, and mentions/pictures of the Vietnam War.

For my first post, I wanna talk about something that many Star Wars fans are aware of, but something that I still think is cool and a good starting point!

Many people know that the Galactic Empire in the Star Wars franchise was, from a design perspective, based off of Nazi Germany. This is evident all throughout the original 1977 film, written and directed by George Lucas. The uniformity of the grey officers’ regalia is reminiscent of the infamous uniforms of Nazi SS Officers. Peter Cushing’s antagonistic character and the face of the Empire in this film, Grand Moff Tarkin (below), represents this connection, and his fellow Imperial Officers share similar clothing (While I will picture Tarkin below, I do not feel comfortable posting a picture of an SS officer on here). Another similarity would be the use of “Stormtrooper” to describe the Empire’s soldiers, a term which developed to describe special forces of the German Empire in World War One and became the common identification for Nazi troops.

While these more surface-level similarities are worth talking about, there is a different connection beneath that surface. George Lucas was not making Star Wars in the 1940s, he was making them in the 1970s, and he was an American man with a strong distaste for the recent events of the Vietnam War.

In James Cameron’s limited docuseries, James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction, the acclaimed director behind sci-fi hits like The Terminator, Aliens, and Avatar sits down with Lucas to discuss his space opera. Cameron asks him about his choice to depict the noble Rebel Alliance as a group of rag-tag freedom fighters, and how they are similar to what the US Government might call terrorists today. Lucas qualifies his point, specifying that he was thinking of the Viet Cong, the guerrilla fighters of North Vietnam who warred against the United States for many years, of which Lucas refers to as the “American Empire.” The clip of the interview will be pasted at the bottom of this post if you want to watch! The Rebels (top left) fought against a major technological power in the Galactic Empire (top right), in a similar way to the Viet Cong (bottom left) ending up in a war with one of the world’s military superpowers (bottom right).

Ultimately, while Lucas was putting forward an anti-authoritarian message in general, comparing the Nazi-inspired villains of his film to America’s actions in historical events very recent to him was a biting commentary, especially when McCarthyism was still fresh in Hollywood’s memory. Although a simple message, that simplicity of the “little guy” standing up to the “big guy” trope is one that works, and is likely why Star Wars has been immortalized in every generation since its release.

I hope you found this connection as fascinating as I did, and I hope that you enjoyed reading! If you want to suggest me to cover something, feel free to mention it below! I have lots of other ideas, but I'm always open to new ones as well!

#star wars #history #world war 2 #george lucas #rebel alliance #galactic empire #grand moff tarkin #wilhuff tarkin #stormtrooper #a new hope #Youtube

[abduloki]

Star Wars The Bad Batch S2E3 / The Mandalorian S3E6

I didn’t understand as a kid when they say the Jedi lost its way but understands now. The Jedi aren’t supposed to serve anyone, be it Republic or Separatist. They are good and bad on both sides. It’s the Jedi duty to seek the truth and protect the innocent caught in the meaningless wars. 

Anakin Skywalker became a Jedi not for the Republic but to free his mother from slavery and save several others from the same fate. But he wasn’t able to do so because the Jedi Council receive and obey orders from the Republic and go where they instructed to instead of deciding themselves.

It’s like Steve Rogers refusing to sign the accords which makes the Avengers to obey the UN Council instead of having the freedom to decide where to go and whom to save, which makes doing the right thing difficult because everything gets political that it defeats the purpose of saving others.

Ahsoka learn this the hard way and left the Council. She did not acknowledge herself as a Jedi because to her it seems that being a Jedi means working for the Republic. Djin Djarin is smart that he told Teva he only take the job from him on a case by case basis indicating that he’s not working for the Republic.

#star wars the bad batch #the mandalorian #star wars #count dooku #separatist #ahsoka #djin djarin #old republic #new republic #galactic empire #anakin skywalker #steve rogers #christopher lloyd

[alphamecha-mkii]

Battle for Kuat - B-Wing vs Walkers by Chris Trevas

#Star Wars #New Republic #B-Wing #Starfighter #Kuat #AT-AT #AT-TE #Walkers #Galactic Empire #Sci-Fi #Mecha #Spaceship

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Watching Andor episodes 7 and 8 kind of reignited my disappointment in the sequel trilogy. I know, that trilogy has been talked to death by this point, but I can’t help but picture a version of the trilogy where the villains are an extremist faction of the former Rebel Alliance rather than the First Order aka Empire 2.0.

Andor clearly established that the rebels wasn’t this uniform movement, they were a collection of movements that were all united by their hatred of the Empire. With the Empire gone after Return of the Jedi, it’d make sense that the alliance, now without a reason to stay together, descends into in-fighting. You’d have Luke, Leia and Han trying to keep the peace, but failing to do so due to how stubborn each faction is. And not only is this in-fighting tearing the New Republic apart, it’s affecting the main heroes too since there’s disagreement on which faction is “correct”.

Oh well, at least we still have Andor and Rogue One to give us “morally grey Star Wars”.

#andor #Star Wars #andor tv #andor the series #cassian andor #rogue one #star wars sequel series #luke skywalker #leia organa #han solo #galactic empire #return of the jedi #first order #andor star wars #star wars andor #new republic #andor spoilers #luthen rael #saw gerrera

[coaz-photography]

#star wars #rogue one #star wars rebels #A New Hope #The Empire Strikes Back #return of the jedi #the mandalorian #star wars battlefront #Star Wars battlefront 2 #toys #toy photography #stormtrooper #flametrooper #Galactic Empire #coazphotography