Life Day Events

[Natasi Fortan]

O Come, All Ye Faithful - Tree-Lighting Ceremony​

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Tis the Season - Shopping & Holiday-themed Frivolity​

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If you have a Life Day themed thread you'd like to share, please feel free to post below and I'll add it to my list ​

 

[Ludolf Vaas]

This is cool. I think it would also be awesome if we were to somehow come up with our own cultural spin on Life Day. Maybe the holiday has a certain religious purpose for the people of the First Order? It's 900 years after the original Galactic Empire, so maybe the significance of the holiday has changed. Maybe now it's tied to celebrating the old Empire? Just a thought.

 

[Natasi Fortan]

I'm treating it as an nonreligious Christmas / New Years hybrid marking the end of another year of success and triumph for the First Order. Does that not work for us?

 

[Roderik von Brinkerhoff]

I'm treating it as an nonreligious Christmas / New Years hybrid marking the end of another year of success and triumph for the First Order. Does that not work for us?

I think this is the best interpretation of Life Day for our needs, and is in fact a little bit of our own spin of it already. Life Day itself was introduced as a wookiee holiday on Kashyyyk celebrating the trees as a cultural and biological bedrock of their people/world's life source. It slowly made its way out to the rest of the galaxy in very non-invasive ways, which turned into your standard merry-making/caroling/gift exchanging but dropping the wookiee cultural underpinnings. Nonreligious Christmas.

I think keeping it as a kind of non-denominational hybrid of Christmas/New Years is a perfect idea, and one that doesn't require us to try to subtly make it a pro-Old Imperial celebration -- especially when we teeter so often between reverence for the Empire of old, and subverting the Empire's organizational structure which we've put in place.

But really, the significance of the holiday has always, at least outside of Kashyyyk, been about remembrance of the year and taking solace in time spent with friends and family. That's the perfect opportunity for these threads, I think, too. Less laser focus on the bigger faction lore/etc issues, and more focus on getting a little respite of chill role-playing before the looming war and additional bounce of activity hits home in January.

 

[Ludolf Vaas]

I'm treating it as an nonreligious Christmas / New Years hybrid marking the end of another year of success and triumph for the First Order. Does that not work for us?

That also works. Just throwing out ideas here.

 

[Natasi Fortan]

A martial holiday would be good. Empire Day. But perhaps in a different season? What do you think?

 

[OK-3103]

My post in the Life Day thread sums up this character's view of the ceremony - but there is extreme logic in turning the event into a pro-Empire occasion as opposed to trying to subdue it (which always leads to failure).

And I like the idea of a calendar of holidays throughout the year. Parades where our military might is on display for the galaxy to witness.

Empire Day would be a good starting place.

[member="Natasi Fortan"] [member="Ludolf Vaas"] [member="Roderik von Brinkerhoff"]