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It's right on the path of the Imperium Crusade, so it's easy for everyone to get to. There's easily enough Sith Ghosts on the planet that one can decide to pop out.

But I think you've missed a trick by going for a Skywalker. If it's the Tyranids attracting his (whoever he ends up being) attention, then why not straight-up possess one of them? Not a Norn-Queen herself, but a key Synapse critter would let him steal and control a fair chunk of the Hive Fleet - provided, of course, he can keep from being controlled himself.

As to whose side a Sith Tyranid army would be on, the Ones only know. I'm inclined to say he'd side with Palpatine - not because he particularly likes him (Sith don't make friends easily), but because the Dark Side is likely to go extinct if the Tyranids (who the Imperium have pointed at the Empire) get their way. So it's self-preservation by way of all-consuming bugs.

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I was reviewing Vitaite's feats and have come to the conclusion that he would be a better choice than Revan if only because in game canon Vitaite was kicking around for almost 2000 years. It would not be too much to reach to say he found away to exist as a Sith Ghost for another 2000 years until he was freed.

Probably similar to the Revan scenario, he finally sensed the time was ripe for his return and he called out. This time instead of calling someone to Korriban, he called them to Zakuul in the Unknown Regions.

A startlingly perfect recreation of Mystique approached Marina, her teeth startlingly white against her blue skin. "Harry Dresden, unless I'm mistaken?" She held out a hand. "Dax. Just... Dax. Intelligence."

From Lexicanum:

Waaagh! Tuska

Lead by the infamous Tuska the Daemon-Killa, this Waaagh! devastated the world of Prosan in the Cadian System, breached the Cadian Gate and disappeared into the Eye of Terror. It left numerous Daemon Worlds in the Eye in ruins and eventually was locked in the eternal battle with the daemonic forces of the Blood Prince.

Emphasis mine. Has the power-level of the daemons and Slaanesh increased since the 4th edition, or is there some other explanation for why Orks can leave daemonworlds 'in ruins' but Palpatine can't?

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An Inquisitor managed to divert a Tyranid Hive Fleet in the direction of a Waagh. Sure, the two are still fighting it, but the act the fight attracted allways more Orks and Tyranids from outsde, killing their way to the planet, and knowing that Orks get stronger through conflict, and Tyranids too, the winner...

Let's say the Inquisitor who had this wonderful idea got his thank you card from the Officio Assassinorum, and everyone agree that was a stupid idea.

You could have Palpatine be utterly taken over without the Warp trumping Force. We just need to establish a stronger Force Wielder. Now from main stream film canon, we are kind of out of luck, Yoda is the only one that comes close and that is up for debate. but if we dip into legends?

You've already mentioned Battle Meditation, what if there was a way to bring some of the most prolific users of Battle Meditation? Namely Revan. Now I know what you're thinking...that was 4000 years ago. How could he come back? The Light Side sort of canon Revan? Probably impossible without time travel shenanigans. But a Dark Side Revan? That creates a few more options.

Palpatine was able to Force Jump through Bodies. A Dark Side Revan would be more willing to attempt something like that to pass through the ages. But in Legends we also see how Sith Spirits are able to have influence Millennia after their death, see Exar Kun died 3996 BBY. Influenced events until his spirit was finally put to rest 11 ABY. And we also see how even as a spirit Sith can be powerful, and even posses living bodies. See Kallig and Vitaite (AKA Valkorian, AKA Tenebrae, AKA Sith Emperor) who actually managed to kick around for about 2000 years by possessing various bodies.

So we could say that an ancient Sith got disturbed by all the goings on and seeks out a willing host, possibly even a increasingly desperate Luke or Leia?

I imagine it happening something like this:

Flashback to 3956 BBY. Revan stands above their former apprentice Malak, so unworthy to wield the powers of the Star Forge. Once again the entire might of the Sith Empire is at Revan's fingertips. At last the galaxy and be united against the oncoming threat. Only with the power of the Dark Side of the Force do they stand a chance. Revan must go to Korriban to set the plan in motion. Cut to KotOR 2 and TOR happening. Darth Revan is interred on Korriban...

Cut to the start of the Imperium-Empire War. The Imperium rains fire down upon the ruins of Korriban, and something or someone begins to stir. The Spirit of Darth Revan stirs once more. And Revan calls for a willing force sensitive to learn the teachings of Revan. A few weak force sensitives have come, but none had the proper potential. 10 years pass. And with the new Force-Sensitive Tyranids, desperation is rising. A single push could deliver Revan a worthy Apprentice/Host.

Now it could go one of a few ways. Assuming Ezra Bridger survives Rebels, Ezra would be a good host. We know he is strong in the Force, and we have already seen him fall to Maul's teachings. Though all the training and development he did with Kannan would make him less susceptible to a second corruption. The other options are Luke or Leia. Same age as Ezra (technically two days younger) but with two differences. Yes they have been training with Yoda by this point, but they've been on the front lines. And they cannot afford to be training. While they know more and are probably more skilled than Ezra now, they have not had the test of the Dark Side yet. As these new Force Sensitive Tyranids appear, especially if Yoda manages to fall in battle, it the Skywalkers are ripe the fall to the Dark Side.

And if we are assuming a Dark Side Revan for this, that also means the Star Forge is still out there. The promise of the Star Forge for a reeling New Republic is hard to resist.

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Hey Thoth,

Excellent, I'll go and check them out, thank you for the link! No monetization of data is a big plus for me, I hadn't heard of them before. My HTML skills are a little rusty because I haven't used them in a long time but I think I can pick them back up in a couple weekends and afternoons. There may also be a way for me to export TeX to HTML, which also makes my life a lot easier.

I'll continue to PGP sign my official releases, so this might help somewhat.
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The statement by Paramount that Bay isn't directly involved wasn't released until just yesterday, so chalk it up I guess to both me and my agents merely going off what we knew at the time.

I'm still questioning the very concept of a live-action Dora movie in the first place, but I guess that clarification does soften the blow somewhat.

That is an Imperium Specialty by this point. More than a few Inquisitors have done so in the past.

"'s your funeral. Take it in sips and you just might make it. Don't gulp, and don't get cocky. You're pressuring your defects here - breaking down is inevitable." He grinned. "Anyways, Thoth?"

Tom produced two glasses, and Thoth, giving a glare that could cut stone to Gall, poured some of the liquid into each. "I feel that you would work well with those I came dressed as. A pity then: I am not them. However, the necessity of Bleeproducts in our line of work means that I have learned to drink like them." He casually took a glass and quickly downed it.

((You've read Prospero Burns? I've been meaning to get to that. Newbie that I am, I've not read many of the novels yet. I started with A Thousand Sons (for reasons that should be obvious), and I was working my way through the Ahriman books when Real Life happened. Crimson King is sitting on my floor right now.

What? I like to be informed about my faction! :-D. It helps that McNeil is pretty good usually from what I can tell, and that John French nailed everything that makes Ahriman great - a fact he managed to convince me of over the course of a two page introduction. I suppose I'll see if his writing can match.))

((And yes, Gavin - that is, Miracle of Sound: he's a one-man band - is awesome. Tom agrees with this statement. Anyone up for Spot The Reference? :-D))

One thing though, the Chiss probably would have sent an Agent to Jakku to disable the Observatory to prevent anyone from easily finding a route through the Unknown Regions.

"A lot of it was learning legal process, actually," Ix said. "Everyone thinks being an Auror is really amazing and all, duels with Dark wizards every day, but most of it is sitting at a desk doing paperwork and the like. They even said on our first day—if you're here for excitement and glory, get out."

"I can do the same, yanno," Charlotte said. "Break the sound barrier, I mean. Can't go much faster than that, though—especially not as fast as you." She grinned. "On the other hand, I'm willing to bet I'm much stronger."

I can accept that.

I think what we have, then, is a Slaanesh effort to launch a direct attack, which is undercut by the trickery leading to the fall of the Hail of Flames. Which... well, Khorne's distracted by Slaanesh's gain in energy, so Tzeentch is probably behind that. So PPalpatine's 'escape' is actually just him being allowed to reach the Maze.

I think we can't have Palpatine being utterly taken over - that would be a flat statement that Warp trumps Force. I think the best option would be a Saruman scenario, where he /thinks/ his plan is his own doing, despite his goals actually being warped by Tz.

Palpatine's goal is to break the Alliance, because that's what Tz wants to do: to stop the infuriatingly uncorruptable Tau from getting too big for their boots, while simultaneously letting them deal with the equally irritationg Tyranids. Once Palpatine has managed that... well, Tz has plans for then, too.

(Though Palpatine may prove more resistant to those backup plans than Tz expects. He has no knowledge of the Force, after all...)

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So yeah, Vader's Orks are going to repeat that effort, only bigger. I don't think Vader's /plan/ was to use them to get Khorne's attention, but he'll settle for it.

hS

Okay, so Abaddon still wants to keep hold of the Fist (of Palpatine, if he's not renaming it for use), simply to avoid Vader getting it. Because Vader might /well/ use it, and Abaddon fears (well, you know what I mean) that he might be usurped.

He does use hyperdrive tech, though - maybe not for travel (disrespecting the Warp) but for surprise attacks. Cadia is definitely going down.

Vader is terrifying. Anakin Skywalker at his peak, dual-wielding a lightsaber and a Chaos blade. And obviously also corrupted in body, but lightning-fast with a hammer-blow.

This does mean the Imperium is unlikely to join Palpatine's effort. Given their showing in the canon 13th, maybe they're using some of the unaligned xenos to resist Chaos and the Empire. Hmm... I assume it's not possible for them to divert a Tyranid Hive Fleet to the GFFA?

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"Oh, no," Derik muttered.

She burst into song:

Drinking mead in the halls of Whiterun
The maidens and the men!—

"Gall, please, not this," Derik groaned, but she ignored him.

We swig our brew
Until we spew
Then we fill our mugs again!

NORD MEAD!

This was by way of being her answer to the question. Having not the slightest notion of what she was actually asking for, she held out a hand and beckoned eagerly. "Bring it on!"

"You know I hate that song," growled Derik, ex-dragonrider of Pern. If looks could kill, Gall was lucky his expression was partially masked.

"Yeah, but you're gonna drown your sorrows in booze anyway." She turned back to Thoth. "Come on, jötunn, show me what you got." She winked.

(( "NORD MEAD" by Miracle of Sound. I was hoping for an excuse to drop that. It's awesome. So are their other Skyrim songs.

(( Tom and/or Thoth may feel free to assume that Gall is merely stupid, not suicidal, and hand her something normal. But I'm perfectly willing to send her to Medical to get her stomach pumped, too. I recently read Prospero Burns; I know what toxic jet fuel the Vlka Fenryka drink. {= D ))

"Hey Derik, Gal." Tom shook Derik's had firmly. "Tom, and my that's partner Thoth. RC 65536+3i."

He scratched his head. "Anyways, I guess we're up for the first drink. For the mortals, Mjød or regular?"

Matt chuckled, looking at Charlotte and Izzy.

"Look... Ix, was it? Yeesh, that's a bit hard to pronounce smoothly, sorry." He cleared his throat. "Look, Ix, in my book you're as much an auror as Mad-Eye was. Charlotte said you only missed graduation? You've done the training part and that. is. awesome." He pointed out the last three words by tapping the air with his finger. "So why not skip the bragging, if that's not your thing, and tell me a little bit about the training itself?"

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"You know you're talking to a girl that can break the speed of sound in her pajamas?" Izzy grinned, as her conversation with Charlotte developed. "I can prooobably restrain you before you move one foot to hurt anyone... no offense, I'm sure you have it in you to not actually do that, but... y-you know, I think we've got the issue of safety covered."

"I, er, thank you," she said. "But I'm not an Auror, I'm really not—"

"Don't be so modest!" Charlotte said to Ix. "Look, you go brag about yourself to Matt for a bit, I'm gonna talk to Izzy." She stepped around Matt to do just that. "I don't think the Flowers would like me doing that, since I'm not supposed to be eating fellow agents," she said. "But it would be really neat to find out—the only problem is, I've been off human blood for years now, and if I went back, bad things could happen. Makes it harder to keep control when someone gets hurt, you know?"

Ix turned to Matt, face still red. "Uh... I'm not really good at bragging, sorry."

Izzy leaned a little closer, her eyes starting to lit up the more she talked. "Like, you know, if it's possible to transfer the Speed Force energy through my meta connection, to maybe increase your natural speed? Or what eye color you would gain? Or what would—"

Matt cleared his throat, gently elbowing Izzy, before pushing in front of her.

"Did you just say 'Hogwarts'?" he turned to Ix, starting putting on a similar expression to his partner's. "Are you kidding me!? That's, like, the greatest thing in the fictional worlds! And it's a no-brainer you're a fully-fledged auror! That is beyond cool!"

"You've got that smell in your blood," Charlotte said. "And I'm not trying to be creepy when I say I bet your blood would have a lot of zing to it if I tried it. Not that I would, because that'd be wrong, but it's kind of interesting to speculate—"

Ix nudged her and she coughed, grinning sheepishly. "Right. I'm a Twilight vampire, if the telling people they smell good wasn't enough of a tip-off for you. And Ix is a witch! Hogwarts graduate, Auror, the whole nine yards!"

"I got kicked out before I finished tra—"

"You were like four days away from graduating, it was all but formalized at that point," Charlotte said, folding her arms.

The Ork Big Boss of that one considered Demons as the best enemies ever. After much rampage, his Waagh ended when he invaded a Demon World of Khorne, and succombed to the numbers... Except on this particular world, they resurrect every day after being killed, so basically Ork Walhalla (and since Orks get bigger as they fight more, they could potentially 'win' someday, and nobody will be ever to defeat that Waagh).

"And I... have a Speed Force stink on me?" Izzy looked at and around her costume.

"Answering your question, yeah, she is... kinda," Matt added.

"Yeah... very kinda."

"What about you two? Earlier you said 'vampire', but there's so many representations... and you?" Matt asked, looking at both Ix and Charlotte.

Slaanesh would act to restore it because the destruction is a blight on his realm. The god of Perfection wouldn't want that kind of blemish. Also, the Slaaneshi legions would be the ones most likely to capture Palpatine in this case, because they'd be gunning for him in revenge. He dared to attack their realm.

Tzeench has more careful plans than just sow chaos. I wouldn't be surprised if he planted some kind of ward in Palpatine's mind so that he could be brought to heel the instant he does something that Tzeench doesn't like.

"You smell like the Speed Force—that kind of ozony smell, you know? And that would explain all the food."

"Charlotte, you can't just tell people that," Ix whispered.

"Why not? I'm just asking," Charlotte said.