#sw aftermath

[stars-n-spice]

The Holy Trinity

Gay ass ex-Imperials.

#lmao we've got one for every era too #tag yourself #im sinjir #no seriously why are there so many gay imperials huh??? #🤨🤨🤨 #someone make a venn diagram thingy with em #tbb #the bad batch #rebels #sw rebels #sw aftermath #aftermath trilogy #alexsandr kallus #sinjir rath velus #edmon rampart #agent kallus #admiral rampart

[queer-starwars-bracket]

Queer Star Wars Characters (Round 1): General Bracket Match 32

Ceret/Terec | Identity: non-binary | Media: The High Republic comic (2020)

Ceret and Terec were a pair of Kotabi bond-twins Jedi, meaning they shared a consciousness across two bodies. Promotional material has clarified that their use of “they/them” is about their gender not plurality. They’ve also been described as “trans non-binary”, a useful clarification here. Because they presumably were assigned a binary gender at birth, so despite their different neurology, I haven’t labeled them as alien non-binary. They’re very closed off, increasing the uncanniness of their nature.

They’ve unfortunately kind of been a punching bag in the comic series they appear in, with one or both of them suffering something terrible in basically every issue. However, this typically provides the protagonists important information about whatever they’re facing. They’re in most issues of the 2020 run of the main High Republic comic series, taking the same missions as the protagonist Keeve Trennis. When she went undercover with the Nihil, she was joined by Terec, so that they could give updates to the Jedi through their twin. However, in that mission they were nearly killed by the Leveler, forcing both twins into hibernation. Thankfully, they awakened from their hibernation during the destruction of Starlight Beacon, thanks to Avar Kriss’ battle meditation. After participating in the group Force feat to keep the top half of the station together just a little bit longer, they escaped in an escape pod with Keeve.

Rae Sloane | Identity: bisexual | Media: Aftermath Trilogy

Rae Sloane was created for the first New EU novel A New Dawn, where she is a sympathetic antagonist. Dutiful and loyal to the Empire, she serves it because when she was younger she was attacked by criminals and saved by stormtroopers. She opposed ruling through fear and enslavement, because such tactics were ultimately ineffective for maintaining order. As a cadet, she foiled an assassination attempt against Vader and the Emperor, making her a special favorite of Vader. She was assigned to leader the secret operation to complete the genocide of Alderaan by killing off planet survivors. Her internal thought process there remains unknown. She also got lost and missed the Battle of Hoth, but Vader didn’t kill her for it like everyone expected.

She appeared in a handful of short stories and the Kanan comic series, but her character really came into its own in the Aftermath trilogy. After the Battle of Endor, she formed one of the more powerful Imperial remnants. This attracted the attention of Gallius Rax, the man who Palpatine had groomed to arrange the establishment of the First Order. Under his guidance, her remnant grew in power and she assumed the rank of Grand Admiral. It was from her remnant that phase two of Operation Cinder was launched, the elimination of all imperial remnants that weren’t aligned with the Contingency plan. She attended the New Republic Liberation Day celebrated, signaling the beginning of a diplomatic end to the war. However, Rax had arranged the mass assassination of New Republic leadership using inhibitor chips implanted on former imperial prisoners. These tactics disgusted Sloane, turning her against Rax. Rax assumed control of her remnant and she was forced to team up with the rebel Norra Wexley to take him down.

Nora and Sloane tracked Rax to Jakku, where the cultish devotion of the Imperials Rax had deemed worthy and the brutality required for Imperials to survive after the war had turned disturbed her. The two women tracked Rax to the Observatory, a secret site where Rax was going to complete a Dark Side ritual which would cause Jakku to explode- killing most of the New Republic military and Imperials deemed unworthy. They stopped the ritual, and Sloane killed Rax. As Rax died, he told her that the rest of the Contingency plan was for her to take a replica of the Imperialis and lead the remains of the Imperial Remnant into the Unknown Regions. Sloane did so, hoping she could lead the Empire away from the crazy plans of people like Palpatine and eventually return to the galaxy to save it from itself. She did so, founding the First Order. Then ??????. It’s assumed Snoke killed her at some point, but honestly everything is up in the air. Her absence in the new Shadow Council in the Mandalorian, is conspicuous. She is possibly already dead by this point, or she has sent Brendol in her place as a deliberate snub, unaware he seems to be part of the coup that will eventually befall her.  She has been confirmed as being bisexual, and certainly had sexual tension with her aide Adea Rite. The only textual element of her orientation in the trilogy is that she specifically muses that she never had a chance to have a “wife or husband”. She’s also kind of a nerd. When trying to find out more about Rax or Kanan, she went to a massive imperial intelligence library. She was considered the only officer of her rank sufficiently knowledgeable enough about shuttle technology to conduct an inspection. She also successfully figured out that the Millenium Falcon survived fleeing through the asteroid field in Empire Strikes Back.

#star wars #sw #sw aftermath #rae sloane #the high republic #sw thr

[juniperika]

I was marching to the wrong drum (with the wrong scum) (3858 words) by KindOfASorcerer Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Aftermath - Chuck Wendig Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Alexsandr Kallus/Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios, Conder Kyl/Sinjir Rath Velus Characters: Sinjir Rath Velus, Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios, Alexsandr Kallus, Conder Kyl (mentioned/in flashbacks) Additional Tags: Drinking, Implied/Referenced Torture, Briefly Implied/Referenced Homophobia (made up slurs), Established Relationship, Post-Star Wars: Rebels, Post-Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End, everyone is drinking except Kallus but he's stressed out of his mind, basically an elaborate bar joke, come to the dark side we have cookies, consider the ex-Imperials redeemed, this fic can fit so many almost canon mlm couples in it Summary: “I see you’ve got a thing for ex-Imps,” Sinjir says to Zeb with a thin, sly smile. Mainly to get a reaction out of the man who joined them, but to his disappointment, he doesn’t even see a flinch in response. Impressive. He doesn’t just admire the self-restraint, but quickly draws another conclusion. “Let me guess, ISB?” “ISB,” the man confirms, his face blank, his tone even. Or, a Lasat and two ex-Imperials walk into a bar. One of them is hiding something and the other is determined to get to the bottom of it.

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I thought this was worth sharing on Tumblr to reach the target audience (people who are interested in a minor Conder and a not-so-minor Sinjir appearance, or an outside perspective on Kallus and Zeb).

#ao3 #aftermath trilogy #sw aftermath #Also quite a lot of Kalluzeb content! #Sinjir x Conder #sinder or conjir idk which is worse #shameless self promo #also the fic already got more attention than I thought it would thank you all so much #sinjir rath velus #conder kyl

[caffeine-freee]

This list of rhetorical questions is all I've got in the ol brain box rn and I had to let them out.

Forgive me if I've missed something; I haven't read Aftermath in a hot minute and there might be other shit out I haven't read that plays into this.

If The Mandalorian is happening in 9 ABY, and Aftermath Empires End happened in 5 ABY then like what's up with Moff Gideon's Imperial remnants?

Where were they during Aftermath? Were they at Jakku? Why didn't they leave with Sloane?

Did your friend Palpatine tell them to remain behind so they could collect midichlorians for his clones? At least that's what I'm assuming is happening lmao. Iirc Gideon says they got everything they wanted from Grogu in the end so why are they sticking around and causing problems? On our pal Friendpatine's orders? To have an arm for him back in the main galaxy? For funsies? Elia is told that she'll be rewarded 'in the new era' so is that the baby FO talking or just these Imperial remnants specifically thinking they can retake the galaxy?

Or maybe it's the baby FO sticking around just to keep the Mandos on their toes? I'd think that the early FO couldn't give less of a fuck about the Mandalorians but maybe the FO think down the line the Mandos could be a threat to the rise of the FO? God I'll be so pissed if the Mandalorians get back on their feet only to have the FO destroy them. Again.

Also. What's up with Pershing? You'd think if they needed him they'd just kidnap him and bring him to Exegol. I'm assuming they'd have all the technology there for him to fuck around with. Maybe we'll find out.

(Or maybe they forgot about Aftermath lmao /j)

#sam post #star wars #the mandalorian #sw aftermath #id love it if it was never addressed #thatd be hilarious #to me personally

[thechaoticfanartist]

At least she didn't say skills

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#this is right after the deception arc that's why obi wan is missing his beard btw #grim kennet #star wars #my oc #star wars oc #jedi oc #my art #fanart #star wars art #sw art #star wars the clone wars #obi wan kenobi #grim and obi wan #tcwganv art #tcwganv memes #<- except this is a real scene in tcwganv #not pictured is the immediate aftermath where obi wan freaks out even more because 'WHY DO YOU HAVE A LIGHTSABER SCAR????' #grim is going to give this poor man a heart attack he's still recovering from faking his death and his daughter is running off fighting sith

[zeb-z]

I am begging for the season finale to leave Brasso alone

#please he’s so kind he’s ride or die he’s working hard to take care of maarva and the aftermath of her death #he’s sweet to Bee and he’s just ugh he’s the good he’s the kindness in spite of the fear okay #i need brasso to live that’s all I’m asking for #Andor #Star Wars #sw #z speaks

[manofbeskar]

Day 2 of drawing a Star Wars character every day.

2 — Cobb Vanth

#sw every day #cobb vanth #the mandalorian #aftermath trilogy #the book of boba fett #tbobf #my art #timothy olyphant

[starwarstoxicfemslash]

#starwarstoxicfemslash #toxic femslash madness #trilla suduri #rae sloane #star wars #sapphic star wars #star wars wlw #star wars femslash #sw femslash #poll #bracket #jedi: fallen order #jedi: survivor #a new dawn #aftermath

[cohborikardok]

omg it’s finally happening, i’m finally starting aftermath

#only been hearing people tell me to read this one for forever #aftermath #sw

[clownery-and-fuckery]

Seriously though the way Wrecker AND Tech are immediately as curious about Omega as she is of them.... they're my favourite trio.........

#rewatching aftermath no one even speak to me #sw the bad batch #tbb tech #tbb wrecker #tbb omega

[queer-starwars-bracket]

Queer Star Wars Characters (Round 1): General Bracket Match 20

Dec Hansen | Identity: gay | Media: Join the Resistance

Dec Hansen is a main character in the aborted middle grade novel series following a squad of 14 year olds who joined the Resistance. He was born on the isolated swamp planet of Ques. An only child, his mother built him a droid named AG-90 to act as his brother. When he was young, he ran away from home because of “something that made him different”, before eventually crawling back to his mother and telling her about it, where it turned out his community was actually accepting. Ben Blacker, one of the authors confirmed this was about him being gay. Which feels like meta-commentary about representation. Ques wasn’t homophobic, but because Dec had never heard of same gender attraction he felt isolated. 

With the Resistance, Dec was quite the trouble marker, in part because command didn’t accept AG as his brother and let him train as a pilot. He quickly became friends with the main protagonist of the series, Mattis. After his shenanigans caused a power outage on the base, J-Squadron was sent to the thought to be abandoned planet Vodran to scavenge. Dec was separated from most of the Squad and ended up on the planet's moon, where Hadra the Hutt, the planet’s old ruler, was living in exile. They bonded over their mental health problems and feeling different from their community, which convinced Hadra to help liberate his friends from the First Order prison on the planet. With J-Squadron reunited, they traveled to Starkiller Base to save Jo from his First Order parents. They managed to escape right as Starkiller Base was being destroyed and returned to D’Qar right before the evacuation. They were presumably sent on a special mission shortly after, like the many Resistance characters who didn’t appear in TLJ. Unfortunately the failure of TROS means it will be a long time before his series is finished.

Conder Kyl | Identity: mlm | Media: Aftermath trilogy

Conder Kyl was a New Republic slicer employed by New Republic intelligence. Between the first two books of the Aftermath trilogy, he began a relationship with Sinjir Rath Velus (the first queer character in the New EU), a member of an Imperial war criminal capture squad. However, due to Sinjir’s alcoholism and hatred of vulnerability from being part of the ISB, their relationship was strained. Believing himself to be an unworthy partner, Sinjir broke up with Conder. However, Sinjir latter approached Conder and begged for his help to help work through all the politicking in the Senate against sending New Republic forces to Jakku. In the process, Conder was captured, and after Sinjir rescued him the two reconciled and got back together. Conder later got the chance to save Sinjir’s life in the process of foiling an assassination attempt against Mon Mothma. After the Battle of Jakku, he married Sinjir. His most recent appearance was a cameo in the novel Last Shot, where he is the chief of cyberware in the New Republic’s Digital Warfare Department.

As he is a supporting character, he doesn’t get any PoV chapters. Despite being a very skilled slicer, he is very straightforward and simply good. Despite Sinjir’s own self-esteem problems, he didn’t mistrust Sinjir for being an ex-Imperial. All the conflict in the relationship came from Sinjir’s own mental health problems. 

Art by @cinno on tumblr

#star wars #sw #sw aftermath #sw join the resistance #sinjir rath velus

[poreyneel]

Sinjir Rath Velus

#star wars aftermath #aftermath trilogy #sinjir rath velus #star wars #sw fanart #star wars fanart #my art

[myspacerebels]

Sinjir: Here's a list of things I hate that Conder, for some reason, loves.

Sinjir: Number one - me.

#Sinjir Rath Velus #star wars aftermath #sw books #star wars #incorrect star wars

[absolxguardian]

I love how Andor simultaneously is demonstrating the cruelty of the Empire much more than we've seen on screen ever, and in more realistic ways than blowing up an entire planet; while at the same time humanizing them the most you can in a story that isn't about an imperial as a villainous protagonist. It's people who do this. The decision to not staff the garrison with stormtroopers, so that you can see the fear on everyone's face when they're taken hostage. Giving the commandant a very sympathetic family that is also taken hostage. The crew in the bunker thinks to serve the commandant drinks. The ground crew for the transport are gambling on the job. The Empire isn't a faceless monster destroying everything it touches. It's so much worse.

#andor spoilers #sw andor #im also reminded of a post i saw comparing the og thrawn trilogy to aftermath #observing that in the 90s (and 70s) you could simply tell the audience that fascism and imperialism is bad #but in the 2010s and onwards you have to show

[leia-organa-fics]

You can now find a rework of my aftermath series on AO3 :)

#leia organa #han solo and leia organa #leia organa fanfic #aftermath #star wars fanfiction #sw fanfic

[bisexualwintermoon]

aftermath + alphabet squadron trilogies >>>>>>>>>>> the mandalorian + tbobf

#eclipse’s posts <3 #star wars #aftermath trilogy #alphabet squadron #listen if you need content connecting the originals & sequels read the books. who cares about jon & dave’s little shows (me tbf. but also #the canon sw books are better than the shows and i’m willing to kill on this hill.)