Fictions Mentioned: Doctor Who/Faction Paradox, The Works of Stephen Baxter, Star Wars Franchise, Ben 10, Tokusatsu Franchise, Junji Ito Works
Episode 2 - The War of The Stars
OP Song:
Mother - YU-NO: Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo(Opening 2 Full w/ Lyrics & Subs in English)[4K]
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Star Wars - Grand Army of the Republic Suite (Theme)
501st Clone Trooper ( STARS ) POV: Journal
The Clone Wars Campaign "Preventive Measures"
"Throughout The Great Time War, The Daleks and their Axis allies never seemed to get the message no matter how hard we send it to them. One of the worst case scenarios in The War was that they were trying to change the entire timeline and history of The Clone Wars to suite their own nefarious purposes and greatly interfere in such critical events. Battles such as The First Battle of Geonosis and The Battle of Coruscant spring to mind among countless many which open up new Space-Time Battlefronts for The Axis. The Daleks themselves tend to make these battles even worst and complicated as they insert their own forces into these battles through the use of multiple progenitors that they seeded across many strategic points in the timeline. When activated at the right moment of Meta-Time, the newly created Dalek Drones and their Degradation Cousins tend to shoot down both The Republic and Separatist Fleets with no hesitation or remorse. And so, The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA) had tasked us in to finish the job. It seemed like a simple enough mission at first glance, but when we saw the large fleet of Dalek War Saucers, their Axis Armada, and other Nightmarish Allied Hordes, hovering over The Galaxy, we suddenly realized that this may be more difficult and a little more dangerous than we'd imagined."
"The slight whiff of nostalgia that The 501st had enjoyed in fighting The Dalek War Fleet over The Galaxy had already grown sour by the time we'd established multiple orbital positions in Space-Time for The Allied War Effort. Now it was time to find out what this was all about."
The Space-Time Battle of Geonosis "The Attack of The Clones"
"My first Meta-Day as a member of The 501st... it was hot, it was sandy, chaotic, just like the multiple confirmed or unconfirmed rumors surrounding The War that was described everywhere and everywhen due to numerous inconsistencies. Almost as if it were shifting like the dust of the sand. Nothing at all like the simulations on Kamino (Homeworld). Of course that's pretty much the way it was for all of us, wasn't it? All that breeding, all those Meta-Years of training... doesn't really prepare you for all the screaming or the blood, does it? Frankly, I'm still amazed we ever made it through the first Meta-Hour, never mind the first Meta-Day."
"Incredibly, The 501st survived the crucible of Geonosis, emerging battle-hardened, and ready for whatever The War would throw at us."
The Space-Time Battle of Mygeeto "Amongst The Ruins"
"In the waning Meta-Months of The Time War, The 501st faced missions critical to the agenda of The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA). When we arrived at the bombed out ruins of Mygeeto in order to assist The 21st Nova Corps, our Time Lord Commander believed that we had been sent to take out a Dalek energy collector. What he didn't know however was that our unit of The 501st was really after an experimental Dalek power source, that our Time Lord General, The Doctor, had wanted for A Certain Plan ("Keikaku") that could help him saved lives in many countless universes more effectively and more efficiently in the long and short run. Keeping him in the dark wasn't easy; The Time Lords, more specifically The High Council, had become increasingly wary of The Doctor's doings, and was on the lookout for the slightest hint of treachery in order to use it as an excuse to carry out their hidden nefarious and sinister plans in the background. Just like the rest of them though, he never caught whiff of what was really going on, until it was far too late."
"The success of the mission on Mygeeto was something of a revelation for the men of The 501st. Suddenly, we realized that The Time Lords could be fooled. And if they could be fooled, they could be killed. And that was something that would forever haunt us as the dark horizon of the Meta-Future makes itself known as the whispers of children were killed in the billions."
The Space-Time Battle of Skaro "A Desperate Rescue"
"As The Time War progressed, more and more ground-based legions found themselves pressed into Space-Time combat, including the fighting forces of The 501st. For Meta-Months, every Meta-Hour of our downtime was spent in the simulator, preparing for the Meta-Time when we would face our enemies from the cockpit of a 170. Finally the Meta-Day came to earn our wings. The Daleks had staged a daring kidnapping of a Time Lord VIP, and was being escorted from one of the cloneworlds of Skaro by a fleet of flying saucer ships. With only a few veteran pilots on-planet, many of The 501st were pressed into service in order to drive off The Daleks, and buy time for a pair of time travelers to rescue The VIP."
"After disabling the final Dalek capital ship, The Doctor and Professor Paradox took advantage of the opportunity that we'd created and rescued The VIP. Let all of us took the credit, too."
The Space-Time Battle of Felucia "The Heart of Darkness"
"It's been said that The 501st got The Best of The War. We also got The Worst. On the wild jungles of Felucia, The Daleks dug their metal plungers into the muck of that alien hellhole and dared The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA) to come in after them. So we did, only to be met with Meta-Month after Meta-Month of flesh-eating diseases, shrieking nocturnal predators, and other sights that haunt me to this Meta-Day. Cut off and for all we knew abandoned by our superiors, our only hope was The Doctor, our Time Lord General. Without his iron will, his ingenuity, and his brilliant tactical mind, none of us would have come out of that mess with our sanity, or our lives."
"When the 501st was finally rotated out of Felucia, The Doctor made it a point of seeing us off personally, calling us the bravest and finest soldiers that he had ever seen. It's a good thing we were wearing our helmets, because all of us have tears in our eyes as we look into his paternal ancient eyes as we considered him since the Meta-Day that we were born, as our father, who was present from the very beginning of our existence and had praised us, his surrogate sons doing a job well done. That was more than what we could have asked for. What I could have asked for. To be recognized. To be loved."
The Space-Time Battle of Kashyyyk "The First Line of Defense"/"A Line in The Sand"
No. 1
"When The Axis Powers Invasion of Kashyyyk caught The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA) flatfooted, a detachment of The 501st was sent in to stop the bleeding until reinforcements could arrive. It was a textbook suicide mission and we knew it. As we fought our way into Kashyyyk's atmosphere, most of us believed that the only way we'd be getting off this planet was in a body bag."
"As The 501st finally broke through The Dalek blockade over Kashyyyk, I took a long look back at the battle that continued to rage over the planet, as I and the rest of my brothers were satisfied as the natives (The Wookies) can live to fight another day. Then I followed my orders, and turned planetward."
No. 2
"When we arrived on Kashyyyk, things were just as bad as we'd feared. The Daleks and their Degradation Cousins had us outgunned, outmaneuvered, and outmanned by a five-to-one margin. What none of us had counted on was The Kamen Riders. We'd all heard the stories, of course, but we'd never fought next to them, never seen them rip apart a Dalek with their bare hands. They were magnificent. Even so it was still a suicide mission, at least it was until General Kadoya (Kamen Rider Decade) and the other Main Heisei Riders arrived. Then it became a battle; a winnable battle."
"With the timely arrival of General Kadoya (Kamen Rider Decade) and his fellow Main Heisei Riders, The 501st were able to hold the line against The Daleks and their Skaro Degradations on Kashyyyk. We left as heroes. We left as brothers."
The Space-Time Battle of Utapau "Underground Ambush"
"In our bones, we knew that The War was far from over as many Space-Time Battlefronts throughout The Known and Unknown Multiverse can attest too. The universe held its breath, waiting to see which side would make the final daring move. As fortune would have it, The STARS (Spatio-Temporal Armed Forces) moved first. After The Doctor was informed by The War Council and Cardinal Ollistra that a Dalek Death Cult that was well known and feared throughout The Known and Unknown Multiverse, were in hiding on The Planet Utapau in order to initiate their nefarious operations in secret, he gathered an army large enough to capture three universal systems. When the orders reached The 501st, our morale soared."
"With the destruction of The Dalek Death Cult at the hands of The Doctor, The Utapau Raid had broken the back of The Axis Powers. Although it was still not enough as their were still multiple leaders from that Death Cult that were left to be accounted for. We await are next orders as we ship in to the next Space-Time battle."
Side Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall"
"What I remember about in our History Lessons on Kamino (Homeworld) about The Rise of The Galactic Empire was... how quiet it was. During the waning hours of The Clone Wars, The 501st Legion of The GAR (Grand Army of The Republic) was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. What they were about to do. Did they had any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps they did, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down at the influence of the bio-chips, and not when they marched into The Jedi Temple. Not a word. And so we took a stand."
"With The Fall of Coruscant and the elimination of the traitorous Sith, Palpatine's rise to power was utterly undone. In recognition of our service and our loyalty towards the cause of sentient and non-sentient life, The 501st were placed under the direct command of The Doctor who was with us as we saved The Jedi Order and its children from the massacre that would have been a fatal blow to The Galaxy. Armed with deadly new weapons, blazing new ships, and shiny new armor, our presence let The Known and Unknown Multiverse know that The Meta-Days of The Time War had barely just begun. We were called to arms as we fight for The Future of The Future."
Xeelee Operation: Raid on Remina "Xeelee Diplomacy"
"During The Time War, the Planet-Eater Hellstar Remina was cloned by The Axis Powers as part of their Axis Operations throughout The Known and Unknown Multiverse as they begin to spread throughout the countless universal clusters and has rapidly established itself as a major irritant. After a number of planets, stars, and civilizations were eaten in various states of dismemberment, clearly enough was enough. Our orders were simple: take out Planet-Eater Remina and it's clone counterparts, which was easier said than done but we have been given reinforcements in the form of The Xeelee, with their Nightfighters coming in with their graceful large wings made from XCM (Xeelee Construction Material), sending a clear signal to this irritant planet and it's clone counterparts that it's Meta-Days were numbered."
"With the Planet-Eater Remina and it's clones eliminated, the civilizations of the various universal clusters would finally have some relative peace and quiet for a relative amount of Meta-Time. It wasn't the first time that The 501st was called upon to fight against horrors such as Remina and it certainly wouldn't be our last. Within the Meta-Months, The 501st gained a well-deserved reputation as 'The Fist of The Doctor of War'."
Space-Time Battle of Mustafar "Tying up Loose Ends"
"As the Meta-Times passed by right before our eyes, we'd made our way into the molten surface of Mustafar. It was apparent that The Daleks had been rather busy little octopuses. All by their lonesome, they'd found a previously hidden factory that was once used by The CIS (The Confederacy of Independent Systems), fired it up and cranked out their private army of Super Dalek Degradations. Needless to say, this got the men of The 501st... a little hot under the helmet, and not just because of all that lava. Truth be told we'd all had our fill of those gear heads during The War, and we couldn't stomach the thought of them going through another lesser war which was already filled with too much contradiction. So we blew them up. Blew up the drones, blew up the factory, damn near blew up the planet."
"The destruction of the mining facility put an end to any thoughts of any Super Dalek Degradation Invasions of The Clone Wars for a time. But this was far from over as the men of The 501st made themselves ready as they still have plenty of road to cover as there are still hidden droid factories that The Axis Powers could exploit for their own nefarious ends."
Dalek Operation: Kamino Uprising "Changing of The Guard"
"Officially, there never was a clone rebellion on Kamino since we all were trained from birth to be the best of the best. To be the ultimate defenders of all sentient and non-sentient life. Unofficially, approximately five hundred Meta-Years after we were created, a special detachment of The 501st Legion was dispatched to Kamino, with orders to deal with an army of brainwashed clones that had been bred by The Daleks through the use of Continuity Bombs in order to take arms against The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA). Our mission commander, an expert on the inner and outer workings of Kamino, was a treasure hunter named Daiki Kaito (Kamen Rider DiEnd)."
"The treasure hunter left after the battle was over. He said something about tracking down General Kadoya on Tatooine, claiming that he owes him one, whatever that means. After the Kamino uprising, The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA) decided that an army of genetically identical soldiers was too susceptible to corruption. Future troopers would be cloned from a variety of templates. Though The 501st itself and the rest of The Original Clone Troopers remained pure and were still created non-stop for the protection of all sentient and non-sentient life, the rest of The STARS (Spatio-Temporal Armed Forces) gradually became more varied and more diverse. The new guys tend to look up to us as their seniors, or senpais to those of Japanese descent. We never really got used to being called by that term (senpai)."
Forward Strike on Yavin 4 "The Fist of The Doctor of War Strikes Back"/"The Justice of The Stars"
No 1:
"When Half of The Galaxy was destroyed, The Alpha-Omega Alarm had just been sounded. About more than half of The 501st Legion were on high alert as they were still in the hangar bay getting to their ships. Of those poor souls who had managed to make it out alive, another third were caught in the supernova explosion. Afterwards, those of us hooked up with a nearby TPA (Temporal Powers Alliance) Member Fleet making a retaliatory strike on The Dalek base on the system where Yavin IV was located. It wasn't the best thought out plan, but we were cut off from our leaders, tired, and operating on instinct. If not for our training, we probably would've never gotten past through their orbital Space-Time defenses."
"And so the battle over Yavin came to an end. I'm told we destroyed hundreds of Dalek saucers that Meta-Day. Even if it had been thousands, it wouldn't have made up for Half of The Galaxy, time travel or otherwise."
No 2:
"By the time we landed on Yavin, whatever shock we'd felt at the destruction of Half of The Galaxy had been replaced by righteous anger. For Meta-Months of Meta-Time, we'd battled The Daleks like irritant cockroaches that never seem to go down, only to be repaid for our efforts with the treachery of this scale. Frankly, I don't remember much of the fighting. I guess we won."
"After the battle, the surviving members of The 501st finally caught their breath. The STARS (Spatio-Temporal Armed Forces) had taken The Daleks best shot and come up standing. Now it was our turn to strike."
The Space-Time Battle of Hoth "Our Finest Hour"
"No one ever complained about the cold on Hoth. We never felt it. Even though we were blinded by blizzards, we could see The Final Meta-Days of The Dalek Occupation on this planet in our staser sights. Was it only a mirage? Perhaps. But on that Meta-Day, on that planet, our blood ran hot with dreams of victory, melting the ice that stood in our way."
"As The Daleks fled, The 501st gathered around a burning bunker and let out a cheer that shook the stars. The Daleks were done, One of their many superweapons was destroyed. Order had finally returned to The Galaxy for a relative amount of Meta-Time, in no small part due to the efforts of the fighting men of The 501st."
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Star Wars: The Clones Theme | Order 66 Sad Version
501st Clone Trooper ( STARS ) POV: Interview
You eagerly sign up with all of your brothers when Gallifrey, one of the members of The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA), officially and formally declares war on The Daleks as a direct response to the attack that they had made across The Allied Member Races of The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA).
Civilizations such as The Monans, The Sunari, The Nekkistani and The Phaidonians spring to mind among countless many.
Finally, a chance to leave your homeworld that was filled with nothing but constant raining for most of the damn time, see The Known and Unknown Multiverse, make a difference, and kill some Dalek scum!
In the early Meta-Years, it was similar to a typical sci-fi space war, but with more advanced technology. Bigger super weapons, ships that are bigger on the inside, and more dimensions to fight in, but other than that, it's not radically different. It's mostly a game of multi-dimensional chess on seeing who can blow the other side up first with the biggest guns and bombs, and the battlefield is a multi-dimensional chessboard.
There are rumors of much worse things out there, though. Paradoxes, time loops, anomalies, and horrors that have leaked backwards from The Final Days of The War. Things such as The Nightmare Child that attacked The Gates of Elysium. These things are the exception rather than the rule, however, and many of the rumors are likely to be overblown.
Until one Meta-Day, you and your entire fleet are killed in a very costly defeat for The Time Lords. You think it's the end, but The War Council alters the timeline to bring you back. Lady President Romana has been ousted in favor of Lord President Eternal Rassilon, and the new regime is much more willing to take risks.
You have some concerns about The Laws of Time, as you were taught on Kamino on how they must be upholded and respected, but for the most part, you're grateful for your second chance at life. You are ready to make the most of it.
The means of fighting have changed. You have new weapons to use, which were previously forbidden. In addition to blowing up Daleks, you can also erase them from time, send them back through their own timelines so they collide with themselves an infinite number of times and collapse into singularities, make them age to death or backwards out of existence, and other creative time-based means of destruction.
The tactics have changed, too. Before, you could only visit a specific time and place once, but now you can go back to fix things if they go wrong. You can even create paradoxes on purpose, in order to ensnare your enemies in the fallout. Leave The Reapers to devour The Daleks, trap them in a time loop, or trick them into killing their past or future selves, or erasing themselves from history.
These methods of fighting leave a trail of devastation in their wake. The flow of time starts to shift. Peoples and places wink out of existence. Paradoxes and spatio-temporal cracks wreak havoc on other civilizations who may not even be aware of what's happening.
You feel somewhat guilty for this, but what other choice do you have? What other choice do we have? Leave The Daleks and their Axis Allies to overrun The Known and Unknown Multiverse, now that both sides have involved the paraward, alterward, and otherward versions of themselves?
You keep pressing on, because you must. You are killed several more times, but your brothers and comrades always manage to undo the events. It doesn't mean you don't remember it, though. It's still real to you.
The paradoxes become more severe. You start to remember multiple contradictory histories, and you can't tell which one is the "real" timeline. Perhaps all of them are.
When both sides have been manipulating time for long enough, time starts to change and behave in rather bizarre ways seemingly of it's own accord. The ripples are cascading. You are killed too many times, but the timeline always shifts to bring you back, even though no one's doing it on purpose half the time.
The fighting becomes a nightmare. A one Meta-Day battle can last a thousand Meta-Years as time undoes any progress, or shifts the objective as the situation rewrites itself. Your friends, comrades, and family vanish from history, only to be replaced by others who are seemingly new but you have memories of, old and new.
The fighting is meaningless. Since everything is shifting, no progress can be made. There is no battle that isn't re-fought, no victory that isn't turned into a defeat, no defeat or death is final. The boundaries between parallels, potentials, things that could have been, things that weren't, and things that can't have been totally and utterly dissolve.
Your existence is Hell. You have been fighting for Meta-Millennia, but much of it is in Meta-Timelines that no longer happened. Every Meta-Day you witness unimaginable destruction and things too bizarre and too eldritch to describe. You can't be sure what is real and what is part of your fevered dreams. The distinction may no longer exist. Still you fight on. Still you carry on. Because you no longer know anything else. This is your purpose, and escape is impossible. If you stop fighting, it only means more deaths. You can't leave, because every Meta-Moment in Time and Space is burning. You fight against monsters that defy The Divine Laws of Meta-Reality, such as The Nightmare Child, The Vortex Discordants, The Skaro Degradations, The Horde of Travesties, The Mob of The Unlived, The Regiment of What-Ifs, The Anti-Conceptuals, The Wraiths of Despair, The Mathematical Fish, and The Could-Have-Been-King with his Army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres among many other varied and countless horrors of known and unknown description.
Your one desire is for the hellish nightmare to end, but it lasts for an Eternity, without hope.
Until one Meta-Day, a message was broadcasted across the whole of creation, from the most dreaded warrior of all.
Our Father.
In his old, gravelly voice, he says:
"Time Lords of Gallifrey, Daleks of Skaro, and all other combatants in The Time War of every order and allegiance; I serve notice on you all. Too long have I stayed my hand, No more. Today, you leave me no choice. Today, this War will end. No more, No more.."
A smile crosses your weary face, right before a searing wave of white hot plasma sweeps across the whole front of The War, wiping The Daleks and every other Axis combatant from existence. At last, the insanity is finally over.
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Third Person POV
The Last Great Time War was a cataclysmic metaphysical-multiversal conflict in which The Allied Forces and The Axis Powers fought for dominance of reality and the destruction of the other side by using Space-Time itself as a weapon. Most of it was not fought in real space, but in The Time Vortex and other higher planes of reality.
Both sides would disregard The Laws of Time little by little and rewrote history with impunity, using paradoxes as weapons. Rewinding time to do-over battles that they lost. Blowing up whole galaxies and universes to stop their enemies from getting a foothold there. Building up vast armadas in the desolate far future and sending them back to fight in the past. Going to the far future to prevent those vast armadas from being built. Erasing enemies from the timeline. Splicing in alternate timelines where they win. Ripping out spliced timelines where the enemy wins. Calling for reinforcements of alternate selves from parallel universes. The list goes on.
The Star Wars Verse was hit badly by this spatio-temporal trainwreck. The reason multiple events changed things as it went along, the reason multiple events contradicted one another, the reason the old and new timelines had so many ridiculous and contradictory things, the reason it got wiped, and the reason that the old and new continuities, are so filled with contradictions, plot holes, left turns, right turns, and abandoned plots are because Space-Time itself is damaged. The result you see now is cobbled together from over two dozen alternate and often contradictory timelines. Many contradictory timelines keep getting created as The War drags on. The reason the characters of all backgrounds and foregrounds of The Galaxy and Beyond seem to have different histories and motivations in different individual works of history is because they literally do. They're different versions of themselves, cut up and spliced together.
The part of The Time Vortex corresponding to The Events of The First Order was the site of a particularly vicious Space-Time Battle in The First Order Campaign, where The Nightmare Child laid siege to The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA) outpost at The Palace of Whills for over a hundred Meta-Years. The Daleks attacked on all sides, and eventually even the Never-Weres got involved, and wiped the whole continuity before being brought back again by The Downstreamers in order to make use of these events for The Allied War Effort. After that, The Horde of Travesties got a huge boost to their numbers from the mangled timelines. In the end it devolved into a clusterfuck free for all between the Nightmare Child, Time Lords, The Space-Time Palace of Whills, Daleks, The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA), Travesties, and Never-Weres. The level of paradoxes reached a 6.9 on The Omega Scale, putting it in the top 20% of the worst battles in The Time War.
The records and footage from the fictional franchise that was created by George Lucas, whether in The Canon of Legends, Disney, or a combination of them both, was recovered from the highly corrupted contradictory timelines through the intervention of The Doctor, who was involved in said space-time battles, as he led The Clone Troopers of The STARS (Spatio-Temporal Armed Forces) into battle, where the blood of the innocent flows and only the monstrous survive.
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Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU NO Ending 2 Full
Characters:
The War Doctor - A: John Hurt
501st Clone Trooper (STARS) - A: Temeura Morrison
Professor Paradox - A: David McCallum
Tsukasa Kadoya/Kamen Rider Decade - A: Masahiro Inoue
Daiki Kaito/Kamen Rider DiEnd - A: Kimito Totani