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[tobeajedi]

Who: Vima and OPEN
Broadcast: n/a
Action: The Iskaulit
When: August 20th

[Vima is venturing on to the Iskaulit for the first time. It's been there for as long as she's been in the Fleet, but she's avoided it except when someone else on her ship has wanted to plot a course there.

Now she's taking a step inside. She still wonders if she ought to, but so many other people didn't have the luxury of keeping away. And if she's a Jedi, she can't hide from it because she's scared of how it feels.

But how it feels is horrible. The agony and the hostility and the death still coats the inside like a noxious film, thicker in some places than in others. She's not looking at all like her usual, upbeat self as she makes her way around. The idea of people using this place for recreation seems to her like putting a cantina in a graveyard.]

Comments

[tobeajedi]

Dr. Crusher asked me that too. [She shakes her head.] Not in the way you mean, I think. I'm Human, but I have a connection to the Force--it's an energy field that binds all life.

[She looks around the bulkheads.]

So a place like this, where there was so much pain... it leaves a mark there.

[pompous_today]

[Simon listened, fascinated.]

I have never heard of such a thing before... but I think... it makes sense to me, in a way. When death touches a place, you can feel it linger, especially if you knew the people- or creatures, in this case- who inhabited it. It leaves a mark. Some think of it as ghosts or spirits.

[tobeajedi]

[She nods fervently.]

I don't see you know... ghosts or spirits. [that's a dead-Jedi-Master thing and one she hasn't personally encountered, although since her Master became one with the Force, she hopes she'll see him again.] But yes. You know they were here--you can feel that they suffered badly. [She pulls in a little, holding her elbows.] It'll be here for a long time.

[pompous_today]

Indeed it will. I can understand why people want to make the most of this space, when we can get crowded inside of our ships, but it doesn't seem quite... right to me. I examined the remains of the ship's former residents, and worked with the living members of their species. I know they suffered here, and even if their comrades performed their own death rites to send them on to the afterlife, it's hard to forget that.

[tobeajedi]

Yeah. Being kinda cramped feels a lot better than setting up shop in a tomb. Just because it's over doesn't mean we ought to act like it didn't happen, or it wasn't important.

[pompous_today]

[Simon nodded.]

I have to admit I am conflicted- I came here to look at possible locations for a medical clinic. My job is to give my patients care, and having more room to do that would be a big help to me and the other medics. Giving people whose ships don't have medbays a place to go would help me rest a little more easily. But of course, there are the moral concerns we just discussed. There are no easy answers.

[tobeajedi]

For what it's worth, I think the medical clinic is a really good idea. It would... [make up? wrong phrase, seems a little pat.] It would start tipping the balance back if there was a place of healing here.

[pompous_today]

That's a good point. Restoring life, to make the place feel more alive again. Paying back something for the lives that were lost here...

[tobeajedi]

Yeah, exactly. It would put good back. [She brushes her fingers over a wall. Way better than sticking shops and cantinas, like they just dumped it carelessly.

[pompous_today]

Indeed. ... Again, I can understand the urge, while still disagreeing that it's necessary. But then, I wouldn't have much use for a bar or a shop. And perhaps the others think of it as a new beginning, or it doesn't enter into their heads that making use of this space for those things could be seen as disrespectful. It is a good way for us to all cooperate on something.