X-Wings & History
@xwnhist
Public, military, and social history, in this galaxy and beyond. Also TTRPGS and this space camp I went to one time.
Kessel rules are one of the variants. It's got Corellian Spike, Coruscant Shift (my game), Kessel, and the MUCH more complicated EU version of the game.
Trying to replace doomscrolling with playing Sabaac on my phone. Going okay so far.
They sacrificed Lindsey Graham to fuel The Contraption keeping Mitch McConnell in stasis, just like throne of the Emperor of Mankind.
That was a busier ride than planned. Time to turn in for the night at Wetland Stable.
That island had been turned into a fortress by a band of bokoblins. I dropped their aerocuda right onto their roof with a peach of a bow shot on the way in, then set fire to works. We scaled the cliff into the middle of their fort. The sages took the low side while I fought my way to the top.
On the way through the tunnels my dogshit Master Sword, in a game whose story centers around powering up the Master Sword by letting it bathe in the divine light eminating from the forehead of a draconified Zekda for millenia, got tired halfway through fighting a horriblin.
Found the base for that monster camp further up the hill, where we interrupted the local Boss Bokoblin's dinner. That chamber had a lit entryway to a whole tunnel network, coming out onto a island I had never been to before.
Found and cleared the monster camp that bokoblin must have been operating from. Also, learned that while the Lightning Helm make *me* immune to lighting, that does not include my horse.
I ran into a travker getting attacked by a bokoblin. Saved him by a quick arrow from horseback. He rewarded me with a new preparation for rice I hadn't seen before. Going to be try to make that with cheese when I get to Hateno.
Letting you import your horses from Tears of the Kingdom is the best feature in any Zelda game, because it is the only way to get Epona in this game.
At the first turn, I found a sleeping Hinox. I'm out of practice fighting these, so it got to butt stomp me once before I killed it by throwing that big two-hander sawblade on my back through his heart.
Stolen from the bird site, and I need something to distract me from the physical and moral horror of the day.
[screeching high and loud enough to affect the local bat population]
But come on. This is Borsk Fey'lya we're talking about here. THE self-serving schemer of the New Republic. Do we think he's waiting for *permission* to start seeding Coruscant with operatives who blur the line between intelligence assets and criminals? Absolutely not.
Not bad for an old man operating mostly from muscle memory. That Star Wolf fight was HARROWING. Before that game over, Fox and Peppy had been the last two standing. Peppy had actually gotten Pigma.- gameplay as storytelling. Though I do like the idea of Slippy coming in CLUTCH when it counted.
Enter Borsk Fey'lya. Because he was already introduced as a scheming backstabber totally willing to throw the Big Three under the bus at the slightest opportunity, he arrived pre-hated. Which is a shame, because the crazy bullshit he pulls here sets up the rest of the series. #BorskDefenseForsk
Now I read it more like the Yalta Conference: a high-end planning meeting where all the major players kick in their bids to shape the endgame of the war - and set up the conflicts to follow.
Replacing Jace as the other j.o. human ace in the squadron is Pash Cracken. Nath Tensent took a squadron with him into piracy, rebellion, and death. Seeing Pash, who brought a whole TIE wing with him into the Rebellion and had them all outfitted with brand new A-Wings, would have melted Nath's brain
For as much as he lives rent-free in Corran's head, we never really get much of Jace. We don't see him do any great piloting feats; he's always off-page from Corran's view, putting together an equally impressive kill record.
The book slow-walks the reveal that Bror Jace died between books (though leaving some breadcrumbs picked up in The Bacta War).
I've been busy, so I'm well into what is, if not my favorite, then the most compelling of the Rogue Squadron books: Wedge's Gamble.