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The Enemy Under Roof by bextia
Fandoms: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types
05 Jun 2026
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This is an old idea that has been living in my head for years.
At first, it began as a simple question: what would have happened if Thrawn had joined the Rebellion instead of the Empire?
Then I took the idea a little further.
The Empire has been defeated. Thrawn has returned from his second exile beyond the edge of the galaxy — and yes, I will be ignoring roughly 95% of what happens in the Ahsoka series, sorry — only to find the New Republic doing… well, what the New Republic does in Ahsoka. That remaining 5% I am keeping.
And Thrawn, being Thrawn, looks at the fragile, idealistic, politically tangled New Republic and reaches the only conclusion that makes sense to him: someone needs to impose military order before the galaxy collapses into something worse.
This fic will explore that very inconvenient premise.
Since I have other projects currently in progress, this story will not have a regular posting schedule. I will update it as the idea grows.
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Among the Blue: The Admiral's Shadow by bextia for beebee76
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
05 Jun 2026
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Time for Eli and Stent to pull the crazy stunt the rebellion cell has suggested: will Stent be able to pass as Thrawn?
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- Part 7 of Among the Blue
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Humans, Toothpaste and Other Crimes Against Morale by bextia for SilverDove9
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
04 Jun 2026
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The Blood Crow’s emergency supply locker was never meant to be interesting.
It held dental tablets, ration soap, sealed shower gel, the worst cologne in the Imperial Navy, and a number of deeply uninspiring personal-care items intended only for emergencies. Unfortunately, aboard a ship full of overworked humans, even hygiene can become a logistical vulnerability.
When Eli Vanto learns why civilian toothpaste is restricted aboard Imperial vessels, Rask decides the situation is hilarious, Thrawn decides it is operationally relevant, and the crew of the Blood Crow proves, once again, that humans should not be left unsupervised with comfort items, informal trade networks, or anything mint-flavored.
A companion piece to Chiss, Chocolate and Other Human Hazards, featuring naval bureaucracy, questionable toiletries, Rask being Rask, Eli trying to prevent paperwork, and Thrawn discovering that morale may be harder to regulate than expected.
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Among the Blue: Echoes of the Seventh by bextia for beebee76
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
02 Jun 2026
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Part six of the series: the search for Thrawn continues as Stent and Eli venture further into 'Lesser Space'
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- Part 6 of Among the Blue
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Chiss, Chocolate, and Other Human Hazards by bextia for Its_a_moray
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
22 May 2026
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Today, while chatting on the Everything Chiss Discord server, we somehow ended up discussing which foods Chiss might be able to eat that humans cannot, and vice versa. Which means I have to thank Its_a_moray for putting the truly excellent and terrible thought in my head:
What if chocolate were as toxic to Chiss as it is to dogs?
For context: chocolate contains methylxanthines, mainly theobromine and some caffeine. Humans metabolize these well enough that chocolate is usually just a delicious life choice; dogs do not, which is why chocolate poisoning can cause vomiting, tremors, tachycardia, seizures, and, in severe cases, death. So this fic runs with the idea that Chiss biology handles chocolate just as badly.
Which is unfortunate for Thrawn, because Eli Vanto has just received a birthday care package from home.
With dark chocolate cookies.
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The List of Things Eli Vanto Does Not Need by bextia for Diamond_Dove
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
19 May 2026
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It’s Eli’s birthday, and he’s bracing for the worst after previous experiences. A group of over-enthusiastic friends is something to be wary of.
A special gift for a special friend!
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Among the Blue: Raiders of the Lost Fleet by bextia for beebee76
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
18 May 2026
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Part five of the series: Eli and Stent are getting ready to travel across the galaxy.
What begins as a straightforward transit through lesser space turns into something far less predictable when Eli Vanto and Stent cross paths with the scattered remains of a fleet that was never meant to be found. Drifting wrecks, fractured signals, and half-erased histories pull them into an investigation neither of them planned for—one that refuses to stay contained within the neat boundaries of a mission from point A to point B. The deeper they look, the more it becomes clear that whatever happened to this fleet did not end when it vanished.
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- Part 5 of Among the Blue
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Inefficiently Yours by bextia for thrantastic
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
15 May 2026
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Lieutenant Thrawn is interested in Ensign Vanto.
Ensign Vanto is not interested in developing inappropriate feelings for his superior officer and therefore has not examined the situation too closely.
Thrawn follows standard Chiss courting procedure: carefully engineered minor inconveniences, flawlessly resolved, in order to establish indispensability and long-term structural alignment.
This would work perfectly... if Eli were Chiss.
Instead, Eli begins responding unpredictably. So Thrawn concludes he must try harder. The Empire remains unaware that one of its most promising officers is engaged in a highly strategic, culturally misunderstood act of flirting.
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Operation silent skillet by bextia for cathouse_mary
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
15 May 2026
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The Empire runs on order, discipline, and fear.
The Chimaera runs on contraband crock pots.
When an underground cooking network begins spreading through the lower decks, Lieutenant Vanto expects eventual disaster. What he does not expect is the Grand Admiral’s involvement, complete with performance analytics, stimulant recalibration protocols, and a refusal to shut down chili night—even after fermentation nearly causes a missed bridge shift.
Featuring:
• illegal pancakes
• emotionally significant spice smuggling
• porcelain tragedy
• oil-based combustion
• tiramisú-induced overclocking
• and one very controlled Chiss discovering the strategic value of dessertDomestic absurdity in space. No one is prepared.
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Among the Blue: The Odd Couple by bextia for beebee76, atticusblackwolf
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
25 Apr 2026
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Fourth part of the saga: Stent and Eli set out in search of Thrawn, who has disappeared from Lesser Space along with part of the Seventh Fleet.
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- Part 4 of Among the Blue
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The last command by bextia for Aquilea
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
16 Apr 2026
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The Chimaera is still fully operational.
That is no longer enough to justify its existence.
On its final voyage, old hierarchies resurface, absent voices linger in the spaces between orders, and one last command must be given—correctly.
As Admiral Faro prepares to stand down and an old commander returns to bear witness, what remains is not the failure of a ship—but the question of who, in the end, is meant to give the final order.
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Limited inmunity by bextia, Diamond_Dove
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
07 Apr 2026
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The Chimaera falls to influenza.
Eli Vanto insists he’s fine.
Thrawn disagrees.A quiet night of fever, Chiss legends, human stories, and the cultural reality that no Chiss sleeps alone.
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Among the Blue: The Price of Silence by bextia for atticusblackwolf
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars Legends: Hand of Thrawn Duology - Timothy Zahn
24 Mar 2026
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Eli Vanto entered the Ascendancy expecting structure.
He didn’t expect to be moved like a piece on someone else’s board.A sudden transfer pulls him deeper into Chiss politics, where custody is leverage, silence is currency, and every officer has a motive they won’t speak aloud. His work on the Steadfast reveals fractures the Families refuse to acknowledge, and every new assignment feels less like advancement and more like containment.
But buried transmissions, missing ships, and a ghost signal from Lesser Space suggest the Ascendancy is listening for something it won’t name—
and someone thinks Eli might hear it first.As the maps thin, as orders tighten, and as the edges of the galaxy begin to behave in ways they shouldn’t, Eli finds himself walking a line he never agreed to:
between what the Families want him to see…
and what the data is already telling him.Part III is where the silence around him stops being ignorance—and becomes intention.
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- Part 3 of Among the Blue
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On the Chimaera, silence has always meant evaluation. Eli has learned to navigate it—carefully, precisely, always aware that every answer might be measured against a standard he cannot fully see.
But when Thrawn asks for his analysis—without guidance, without correction, and, most unsettling of all, without expectation—Eli is forced to confront a different possibility: that his thoughts are no longer being tested, but trusted. And that the space between them is no longer defined by hierarchy alone, but by something far more dangerous—mutual understanding.
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Variable Preference by bextia for Alima_Kle
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
08 Mar 2026
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Saw this idea on twitter and couldn't help it, so the merit for the idea isn't mine.
If the tweet's author allows it, I'll link to the original tweet.Thrawn gets an ysalamiri, gets everything ready for her, and the ysalamiri falls in love with Eli instead.
The talented @pigonart made this pic for me a while ago. I had another fic in mind, but I never got to use it. So... Here it is! the perfect chance to give this pic the love it deserves! -
Among the Blue: Harmonic Coordinates by bextia for beebee76
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars Legends: Hand of Thrawn Duology - Timothy Zahn
10 Feb 2026
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Eli’s service aboard a Chiss patrol vessel plunges him into a world where silence is doctrine, mathematics is language, and navigation borders on ritual. Surrounded by officers who speak in restraint and move with impeccable discipline, he must learn the unspoken rules of a Fleet that reveals only what it chooses—and often less than that.
As he works to understand the ship’s methods and the strange logic of travel through the Chaos, Eli discovers patterns that shouldn’t exist and boundaries he isn’t meant to cross. Every calculation opens a new question; every briefing leaves him with fewer answers. What begins as standard duty becomes something far more intimate: an education in a science the Ascendancy does not name, a culture that guards its truths through precision, and a silence that feels increasingly inhabited.
Caught between duty, curiosity, and a growing sense that the ship itself is not what it seems, Eli must navigate a world where understanding is earned slowly—and sometimes withheld for reasons he can’t yet see.
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- Part 2 of Among the Blue
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Among the Blue: Humble Beginnings by bextia
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars Legends: Hand of Thrawn Duology - Timothy Zahn
31 Dec 2025
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When Commander Eli Vanto followed Thrawn into the Unknown Regions, he expected discovery.
He did not expect stillness.Among the Chiss, language is law, silence is strategy, and emotion is a kind of heresy.
Eli’s assignment as liaison to the Expansionary Defense Fleet was meant to be temporary—a diplomatic courtesy, a gesture of continuity. Instead, it becomes an education. In grammar. In patience. In belonging.From quarantine to command briefings, from language drills to unspoken understanding, Eli learns that translation is never only about words. It’s about survival. And the price of being understood may be losing the ability to think in his own tongue.
A story of adaptation, devotion, and the quiet alchemy of learning to live among the blue.
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- Part 1 of Among the Blue
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The art of order by bextia for aoitennyo
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars Legends: Hand of Thrawn Duology - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
15 Dec 2025
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In the far reaches of the Unknown Regions, Grand Admiral Thrawn builds something new.
Half Chiss, half Imperial, the Empire of the Hand is more than a fleet—it’s an experiment in balance: art as strategy, logic as faith, loyalty as geometry.From nebular battles painted in color and silence to alliances forged through language and pattern, Thrawn, Eli Vanto, Stent, and Commodore Parck learn what it truly means to see.
But when old empires return and loyalties fracture, even the most perfect design must endure tension—or shatter.A story about order, understanding, and the patterns that hold us together. The art of command. The art of belief. The art of loyalty.
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Careful what you wish for by bextia
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
26 Nov 2025
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Eli Vanto needed a shore leave—and convincing Lieutenant Commander Thrawn to finally take it felt like a small victory in itself. A transport ride, a modest cabin on the icy edge of Orto Plutonia, a few polite conversations with locals—simple enough, or so it should have been.
But nothing with Thrawn is ever truly simple. What begins as a quiet respite quickly becomes a landscape charged with unspoken tension, veiled secrets, and emotions Eli never meant to confront. Between Thrawn’s relentless observations, the moments that reveal more than they should, and the unsettling sense that he’s always standing on the brink of something important, Eli finds himself torn between frustration and a longing he can no longer ignore.
Here, where every detail feels weighted and every choice somehow matters, the ordinary takes on an unexpected sharpness. And Eli must decide whether to keep holding back… or risk seizing the moment before it slips away forever. -
Mark of Loyalty by bextia, Diamond_Dove
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
06 Oct 2025
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After a long day aboard the Chimaera, a quiet evening between Pellaeon and Thrawn reveals a new mark — and the story behind it. What's visible sparks questions about what's yet to be shown.