Mostly, people talk about family politics, which they note but doesn’t help Thrawn in any way. Military gossip, on the other hand, is a different story.
The military gossip, outside of the usual who’s (not so) secretly sleeping with who and what promotion this one did or didn’t get and why, is split between two ships:
VanguardandPariah.
The former is the elite of the elite. The latter is the dregs and dirges, the Ascendancy’s most incompetent and dishonorable.
Bonus: This is the story of a ship with two names.
okay so i just finished the first thrawn book right? and like all of it is making me feel insane and i am sure someone has pointed this out already but do you wanna know what makes me feel extrainsane?
thrawn send eli away to protect him
like sure he also sends him away to help the chiss and so he could reach his full potential and bla bla but look - thrawn realizes very early that eli is a target as long as he’s with him
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and then that is proven over and over again throughout the book until it finally accumulates in this - pryce outright threatening thrawn right after she showed how incredibly ruthless she is
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and then the very next scene is thrawn and eli talking about that very conversation, it’s eli first acknowledging how dangerous pryce and the high command are and then confirming- even if he might not be fully aware himself - that he is loyal to thrawnnotto the empire
which, let me remind you, comes after yularen just pointed a blaster at thrawn and accused him of treason
and i think that moment of eli pledging his allegiance to thrawn is the first time thrawn realizes both the depth of which he cares for eli and that he will be eli’s downfall if he keeps him around
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which then leads to him sending eli away to the chiss and this fucking devastating journal entry:
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like for a moment i was confused bc it happend so fast without a goodbye, plus he offered it to nightswan first and it kinda felt like eli was just an afterthought but no oh fuck no
like nightswan thrawn would have send to help keep the chiss safe, to utilize his abilities to help them fight whatever enemies are lurking in the dark, but eli, oh no, thrawn never planned on sending eli away in the first place, not until he realized it was the only way he could keep him safe
and yeah eli will obv also be beneficial to the chiss, like ofc he will, he’s smart as heck, but below all that is the simple fact that thrawn is doing all this empire shit to keep his people safe so even if the empire falls that is still the safest place for eli to be
and I’m just feeling very emo about that
@keldabaehello this is a brilliant addition why is it in the tags??
#I also firmly believe that Thrawn knows Eli isn’t built for high rank on an Imperial bridge crew #oh he learns tactics and leadership sure #he’s smart and keeps his head about him and he’s more politically savvy than Thrawn #but he won’t have the stomach for it #i think the Wookiees made him realize that #Eli was so deeply disturbed that a species had been enslaved and Thrawn couldn’t logic that away for him #he finally had to settle on the old ‘that’s how it is and we don’t make these decisions. #and Thrawn knows that won’t be the only ugly fact that comes to light #he knows the Emperor will do this and worse because they won the war by being ruthless #this is where it would have been kinder to leave Eli to his supply officer career #safe behind his numbers and his inventory lists #and since it’s too late for that Thrawn sends him where he’ll be the safest #and where he can thrive and do the most good #welcome to the thranto party friend! #the feels will be intensifying i promise
Beneath the skies of Csilla, separation is all too painful to bear – Ivant keeps the memories as tokens, dissecting them for signs, as if anything has escaped his notice before.
I don’t like the idea of separation, he’d told Thrawn so before his departure; he felt severed from all he knew. (Good day, Lieutenant Vanto – the indifference stings, even though in hindsight Ivant knows – Ivant hopes he was mistaken).
Ivant is Thrawn’s legacy, his gift to the Ascendancy, the problem is Ivant is not satisfied with just being that.
And if Ivant needs to throw his career into the metaphorical depths of Mustafar to get Thrawn back, well, the ‘greater good’ has always been more of Thrawn’s thing than his own.
Ivant is only human, after all.
—bisections of stars; scene vii(x) ||Eliot C.||☕||
After the duel, Trilla, Ahsoka, and Sacher all adjust their missions accordingly. Though in doing so, Omega reveals the truth about why she needed Ahsoka’s help—and Ahsoka is shocked by the news that a friend once thought to be dead is actually alive.
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