spyscrapper:

on Senator Sejan and that classified military intel

so i was working on a Jedi: survivor fic tonight and i got to thinking about Senator Sejan, the Senator for Utapau who Cal is stealing that intel from at the start of the game - the one who sets up the themes of collaboration to survive/protect people and the idea of choosing the lesser evil. which is a brilliantly-done setup, and everything in it holds up the rest of the game really well, so i started going - why would they never explain what’s going on with that information?

from the holoprojection we see when Cal briefly takes a look, it looks like the intel Saw wanted was a list of Imperial military deployments and impending invasions across the galaxy - which is definitely incredibly sensitive, highly classified intelligence that a senator should not have been able to have access to, especially not on an unsecured location like his pleasure yacht, which is basically a glorified luxury landspeeder. it seemed like something incredibly weird for the writers to just… never acknowledge how unusual that is.

so then i get to thinking. it’s not really hard to figure out how he could’ve gotten hold of that information - one thing that we know is that the military, the ISB, the Senate, all of them will have someone dirty, at some level. trading secrets for secrets, or credits, or some other nebulous favor, is probably fairly standard. while this is definitely a high-value thing to get his hands on, Sejan had enough accumulated power to entirely seal off a level of Coruscant and force it to quarantine, despite not being an actual member of Coruscanti planetary government. that leads us to the much more pressing questions of what the hell did Sejan want with that information, and why the hell did he have it on his yacht?

and i think i’ve found an answer that explains everything.

Sejan is Alliance (Rebellion).

timeline-wise, we’re in 9 BBY, which i believe is post Partisan-Alliance split. we know the disparate rebel cells that will form beneath the Alliance’s banner are currently being funded, in varying levels of secrecy and deniability, by the governments of the senators who make up the Alliance’s leadership council (see: Leia and Bail involving themselves in getting ships and other materials to rebels). we know also that the cells mostly function via receiving information from Fulcrum - and she has to get that information somewhere. somewhere likely very high up. a list of current and future Imperial military deployments would be incredibly valuable to the budding rebellion. if Sejan was hoping to steal that information and then send it out, it makes sense that he’d smuggle it out onto a personal terminal he can control, that probably has his own encryptions - and we know that Fulcrum’s encryptions are damn good.

but Lee, you say, Sejan is an Imperial collaborator whose planet hates him! that doesn’t fit the profile at all! to which i say: doesn’t it? the entire game is about how there are more ways to fight than just the obvious. about how sometimes survival is a rebellion in and of itself. about how fighting back, becoming a weapon, may just get more people killed in the end. the bitter Imperial collaborator is not only an excellent cover to wear - it could even be true. sometimes fighting back means throwing your lot in with the other side, and resisting in the quiet ways. not all worlds are powerful enough, wealthy enough, and Core enough to survive their governing figures being openly anti-Imperial like Alderaan. to win a war you have to be alive to fight, and beyond that, you have to have something left behind to be protect, something there to go back to, when it’s all over. as for the bits where he’s canonically tortured people - well. have to maintain an image somehow.

the game gives Sejan’s reasoning for trying to capture Cal out from under the nose of the Inquisitorius as an attempt to gain favor with the Emperor, but i honestly don’t buy that. a clever man (and Sejan has to be a clever man) would know that Palpatine does not appreciate being undermined, especially where the Jedi and the Sith are concerned. i suspect it was an attempt at actually being able to talk to Cal, in some kind of privacy, possibly to try and recruit him away from the Partisans?

which really just leaves the final piece of the puzzle as: why would Saw Gerrera send Cal to steal intel from someone he almost definitely knows is Alliance? and that’s pretty easy. we know how Saw feels about the Alliance; of course he’d want to have data on Imperial military movements for himself. of course he’d believe that he could do more damage with it than the Alliance ever could. all he had to do was not tell Cal all the details, and it seems fairly clear to me considering the utter lack of contact Cal has from Saw that while he’s a useful frontliner and diversionary force, he’s not entrusted with the Partisans’ inner workings. for good reason, too - Cal can’t lie to save his life.

just some food for thought. but i find it interesting that Ninth Sister accuses Sejan of “consorting with traitors” and kills him without blinking, instead of listing out his actual, theoretically more important crime to the Empire (since it would be very obvious that he wasn’t willingly with Cal) - stealing classified intel, locking down an entire level of the capital planet he has no real authority over, and trying to keep a Jedi prisoner away from the Inquisitorius. she doesn’t accuse him of harboring a traitor - but consorting with them. to me that’s an important distinction.

(i made this post at 5 am, so if there’s any errors or anything i didn’t explain clearly enough, that’s probably why. this came to me like an hour ago while i was trying to write fic. figured the fandom might find it interesting.)

droidrights:

Was it a nice enough drawing before I added the blood?

….I guess.

play-exy-be-sexy:

thinking about the fact that wymack doesn’t ever stay the night places. A) because his foxes don’t like new environments BUT ALSO B) he doesn’t want to have to make the foxes share hotel beds. literally all sport trips i’ve ever been on, it’s four to a room with two beds. you know how much the foxes would hate that? they wouldn’t do it. wymack definitely knows this and makes the sacrifice for his team by driving home in the dead of night.

batmans-left-boot:

Smol Compilation of Dick Grayson and his dog, Haley!

Conclusion: They are basically the same person.

bd1-jediphotog:

Bode: poor bastard’s in love

droidrights:

Not Cal Kestis wearing a little charm on his holster that his witch girlfriend gave him to keep his dumb ass safe

alexsrandomramblings:

Saw someone say that the whole section where you play as Cere is a force echo Cal is sensing while holding her, and goddammit, I can’t get that thought out of my mind.

bd1-jediphotog:

In this together❤️

beedeewun:

have you seen bd-1?

now you have :)

calkesits:

STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR (2023)