Tag: starkillers

generallyhuxurious:

Loyalty by KaiLeng / @brenhux

Peering around the corner, Ren blinked as he saw Hux sitting on his bed, a cello between his knees. His side was to Ren, but his eyes were closed as he leaned into the instrument, long pale fingers playing over the neck, the other hand drawing the bow over the strings. His face was utterly content, a small smile curling his mouth as he played. The way the general cradled the instrument in his hold was oddly intimate, and Ren almost considered leaving, but he stood, transfixed.

I’ve wanted to draw some art for Loyalty for ages. It’s by far my favourite canon universe stand-alone fic, I highly recommend you read it!

fyouhux:

Anybody remember the White House petition to build a real Death Star? It reached its goal so the White House had to issue a response (it was NO).

  • The costs for building a Death Star were estimated at 850 quadrillion dollars. For one single weapon.
  • Now, the Starkiller was – what – ten times as big as the Death Star? With the power to suck up an entire sun. I think it’s safe to say that the costs of developping, constructing and maintaining that thing were abhorrently high. (Think GDP of all the industrialized economies combined and higher) 
  • Yet, once again, they manage to leave a vulnerable spot that allows it to be destroyed completely within maybe an hour.
  • First of all, the First Order is leading a total war. Where do they get that money from?? 
  • Second of all, imagine what they could have accomplished if they had poured all those resources into marketing instead. 
  • Buy all the big companies of the Galaxy, the ones that have branches on every single inhabited planet (the Fortune 500 of the Galaxy)
  • Infiltrate these planets by bringing trustworthy First Order men into the highest positions at these companies 
  • Infiltrate their political systems with lobbyists, representing First Order interests to the governments 
  • Meanwhile send the Resistance on wild goose chases around the Galaxy by having completely unimportant parts of the fleet fly here and there, broadcasting “We’re gONna kILLl Luke SKYwaLKer!” to attract attention 
  • While the Resistance is somewhere at the Outer Rim tracking down what they believe is an intricate scheme to find and kill Luke, Kylo Ren and General Hux walk right into the middle of the Senate. 
  • “Yeah, we’re the new representatives of, like, ninety percent of your democratically ruled planetary systems.“ 
  • “What do you mean mass-murdering fascist regime? We got ourselves elected by bribing the competition and puring millions into the election campaign. Just like everyone else.“ 
  • “Are you seriously trying to oust us? You do realize we hold the shares to all your favourite porn websites, don’t you.”