chiss

Well, what of it? asked Scraps.

That is Chiss, who causes a lot of trouble along this road, was the reply.

Chiss? What is Chiss? I think it is merely an overgrown porcupine, but here in Oz they consider Chiss an evil spirit.

He's different from a regular porcupine because he can throw his quills in any direction, which an American porcupine cannot do.

That's what makes old Chiss so dangerous.

If we get too near, he'll fire those quills at us and hurt us badly.

Then we would be foolish to get too near, said Scraps.

I'm not afraid, declared the woozy, for Chiss is cowardly, I'm sure, and if it ever heard my awful, terrible, frightful growl, it would be scared stiff.

And it's rumored that one of the reasons that Palpatine set up the Galactic Empire was because he had a vision and he saw that the only way to protect the galaxy from what he knew as the far outsiders was to set this up.

And there is some meat on the bone for that because Palpatine had heard that the Far Outsiders fought the Chiss and he convinced Thrawn to destroy outbound flight so that it didn't draw the Far Outsiders into this galaxy.

Right.

But that's only part of the reason why he was taking over the galaxy.

Sybesty

so the question I can't remember what is the primary language of the Chiss ascendancy Sybesty is the language that Eli uses to communicate to him because it's a trade language Mies Kalf is a secondary language that

comes in

later on.

What, uh, what is the announcer? Like, what species is the announcer?

He's a Chiss, weirdly.

[laughs]

[laughs] Oh.

"It's me, Vlank Tion." [laughs]

[laughs]

"Your pod ra- your Chiss pod racing announcer.

Here comes Buff Chuggins, the Karakarodon."

Gonna watch Deep Space Nine

Yes, I am also going to watch Deep Space Nine And gonna untangle this bag of yarn that my friend gave me And I do not think I will be writing Chiss hockey fan fiction but...

Jury's still out on that one

Jury's still out absolutely

it's fine

... transitions.

Like you have thoughts about Thrawn that you're gonna write about and publish in your Chiss hockey fic.

Uh, he's not gonna be in my hockey fic.

yeah exactly exactly so um another i don't know amazing thing from is that we got an ahsoka season 2 trailer which basically just confirms that season 2 is coming they didn't just shelve it um and on january 20th 2027 we will see it

I read an article about how they've changed the appearance of Thrawn for this season to make him more Chiss.

And I've looked at the pictures and he does look different.

And I think it's actually a smart idea because there are things they...

A little bit lighter skin like they are.

Yeah.

Like the Chiss are.

Like, yeah, I...

not a

common thing thing to be able to like close your eyes and drive through hyperspace right and like that's that's always been a jedi ability um that's always been something that Like I said, the Chiss have it, but only in their prepubescent girls, right? That have force powers.

So I thought that was like a really big deal that someone would be able to do that.

And it was treated as just like, you know, like we're in Footloose and she's not allowed to dance.

[laughs]

But from the unknown regions emerges a brilliant Imperial remnant led by a blue-skinned Chiss named Grand Admiral Thrawn.

And Thrawn is the absolute masterpiece of this era.

If we go back to our earlier discussion of the Sith architects, we had Bane's brute force corporate restructuring and Palpatine's systemic political maneuvering.

Any fiction.

The Chiss ski.

So it stands to reason that

they also might also skate.

I texted Lou the other day.

Do you think Chiss have winter sports? And Lou said, what the fuck are you making Chiss hockey fanfic? And I said, no.

And if I did, I would never tell you.

Is there Chiss hockey fanfic?