Angedechu Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 (A post to try to show the community how rich the SW universe) For people not knowing SW lore, Killiks seems to be just a random bug specie (insert ''they ripped it off from Warhammer/Starship Troopers/Starcraft/HG Wells (1)'' Killiks are in fact one of oldest specie of the Galaxy on par with the Rakkatas. They were made ''servants'' (read, enslaved) by the closest equivalent the SW universe have to Gods, the Celestials. The Rakkatas got in full ''Milton's Paradise Lost'' mode and overthrew them. Of the servants of the Celestials, only the Killiks remains faithfull. And of all Celestials, only three remain : the Father. the Son and the Daughter, and a being of uncertain origin but who was granted Celestial powers : the Mother. The dynamic of the Force of the Galaxy is closely linked to this quite dysfunctionnal family. The Son seeks the rise of the power of the Dark Side. The Daughter, the Light side. (Both are quite amoral). The father try to balance. Remember this iconic sentence of Yoda ? In motion, the future is always ? This is saying that kinda aims at discouraging Jedis to try to change the future they see in visions. When Jedis (or Sith) try to correct the future, because they see the other faction becoming too powerful, it's the time super disaster strike The disaster being the Mother (known in modern SW setting as Abeloth). Basically, the Celestials dislike when mortals try to play God and change the future they have set for the Galaxy. Abeloth is like an attack dog (or attack God, ah ah ah) : she destroy everything, Sith and Jedi to allow new civilizations, new orders to rise. Hubris is the key word : to unlock the mysteries of the Force (and change the future), a Jedi or Sith will search the galaxy for power. He will be drawn, like a moth to a flame, to the current prison of Abeloth. Abeloth tricks her victims with a very cost efficient technique : she entices them with vision of the future (thus creating the urge to change it). Most of her victims are weak-willed enough that they will stay in the prison, to be feed with further visions. (Abeloth then leechs them of power, building her). When someone is strong enough to resist her, Abeloth can put him/her on a path with the said visions. To change the future is almost impossible, and require tremendous effort, tremendous destruction : the rise and total domination of one side or the other of the Force. Such things send more and more Force users to a pilgrimage to Abeloth prison (example : as the Sith raise to absolute power, Jedis go seek Abeloth to try to block them....) : at one point, she can break from her prison. And then, Death and Destruction sweeps the Galaxy. When she have done enough havoc, the Son and the Daughter join force (ah ah ah) to tag-team her in submission. The Killiks have the glorious role of serve as cannon fodder against Abeloth and her thralls, and build prison for her when subdued. Basically, the Killiks are the only eternal civilization of the Galaxy : in exchange of being thralls, they will always exist..... All of this is not invented : this is actual, real lore. (Oh btw, all this stuff no longer works in modern SW. See, the Father, seeing his power slipping, tried to enlist help to reaffirm it. Unfortunately, he got the ''help'' of Anakin Skywalker, and the whole gig ended with everyone except Anakin dead, which is kinda a recurring problem...) (1)If you did not know, HG Wells was the first author to come up with the idea of marooning astronauts on planets full of bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joonbeams Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Starship Troopers is a better example. But nice post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angedechu Posted April 16, 2012 Author Share Posted April 16, 2012 I dont see why people keep moving lore topics out of General You don't have enough people complainign bloody murder ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crezelle Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 i always figured vector had some major tapping into the force with his hive mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angedechu Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 Jesus, why I even bother... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afedyuki Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I other words, beware of self fulfilling prophecies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crezelle Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 the song of the universe will not be changed >:3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingskywaller Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 So basically Anakin mess it up didn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutive Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I love this post. And yes, I agree...the poor Killicks are most neglected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaWaffle Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Wait, wait, the Mortis Trilogy actually happened? Like, it wasn't some metaphirical vision or anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImmortalAlien Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 You do know, nearly all of that comes from the same guy that introduced the Killiks in Star Wars? He's still pretty much the only guy to do considerable writing on the Killiks in published Star Wars novels. And almost all of your post comes from a book released just 3 months ago. It's less that the Killiks have a rich history of Star Wars lore, and more of one guy taking an extreme liking to his own contribution to the lore, just like Karen Traviss and her spiel on Mandalorians. Killiks are still interesting, even if they are hardly original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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