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[resnipstance]

Who: Ahsoka Tano + you
Broadcast: Video (Fleetwide)
Action: Aboard the Marsiva
When: Current

action.
[Ahsoka wakes with a start. Even before she's fully conscious, everything around her feels wrong. One thing is instantly apparent: this is not her beautiful home. Ha ha, that's a joke. Get it? Because she has no home right now, and if she did, it wouldn't be beautiful. Her hands fly instantly to her belt for her lightsabers, but-- oh, that's right. She doesn't have them anymore. She remembers that much. So why can she not remember how she got here?

Eyes wide and breathing hard, she fights down rising panic to take inventory of her surroundings instead. What does she know? What can she find out?

Spaceship. Gravity? Normal. Oxygen? Normal. Something about a game show? Whatever. She dismisses that piece of information, it's clearly not relevant right now. Next she checks the door-- not locked. She lets herself out. Hallways-- no guards. Well, that's slightly unsettling. In fact, as she runs down the hallways of the ship from one place to another, it becomes increasingly apparent that there's no personnel anywhere. And no way off. Eventually she stops running after what seems like her fiftieth traverse down yet another an empty passageway, one hand on her chest trying to calm her rapidly beating heart. Finally, she mutters to herself:]

Well. I suppose you don't need guards if you can't get out.

video.

Hello. If you're receiving this message, please let me know. My name is Ahsoka Tano.

I'm stranded on what appears to be a large cruiser of indeterminate class with no apparent crew and in an unknown system. If anyone has any information on what star system we're in, or recognises the vessel and knows where the escape pods are, I'd be very grateful.

Thank you. Over and out.

Comments

video.

[takeabow]

[ Nova pops up on the screen. the background is her bunk area, and she looks pretty relaxed, if inscrutable? ]

Hey. Hi. Yeah, you posted it right. But I don't have a lot of information for you. If you wait a little bit, they'll assign you a ship, I know that much.

[resnipstance]

Well, that's better that nothing...

Could you maybe, uh, define "assign" for me? I mean-- I know what the word means. I'm just a little unsure as to what exactly is going on here.

[takeabow]

Yeah. So, we're in a fleet now, I guess. And we each live on different ships on the fleet, with other people? Team-style.

[resnipstance]

[ "Fleet." "Team." "Assigned." These are all words Ahsoka knows, but-- only in one specific context. ]

... There must be some mistake. I'm... not part of the Order anymore. Did someone miss the memo? Or has the Republic started drafting civilians?

[takeabow]

Oh.

Uh.

We're not wherever you're from. It's like... a different world?

[ floating that like a question to test the waters ]

audio;

[redactions]

Hello, Miss. The ship you're on is called the Marsiva. The alien race that created it is supposedly called the Atroma — they're responsible for bringing us here. We don't have much more'n that, I'm afraid.

video; she is too lazy to switch lmao

[resnipstance]

... Huh. I didn't think there was a lifeform left in the galaxy I hadn't heard of, but the universe just loves proving me wrong these days.

Anyway, I appreciate the info. Thank you. Even a small thing could turn out to be important later.

audio forever

[redactions]

No problem. James Barnes. Of Earth, if you've heard of it, the year 2014.

\o/

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka shakes her head.]

Never heard of it. Sorry. ... Who names a planet "Earth," anyway?

Video

[tobeajedi]

Hey there--I'm Vima. We've been yanked into some kind of holoprogram... a "reality show", they call it. Right now we're at "Waypoint EA009", but we get towed around to different systems.

video forever \o/

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka knows the name Vima Sunrider. She's studied her history. But Vima doesn't give her last name, and, well-- who expects to come face to face with someone from the distant past? It's not like Ahsoka has memorized what she looks like. So it doesn't click immediately.]

... A holoprogram. ... Are you serious right now? Don't they have actors for this?

[tobeajedi]

Nope. Supposedly the excitement is from watching people's real life adventures, but it's pretty suspicious if you ask me.

But according to our fellow stars, there's... something weird with time and space going on, so we get brought here in an instant and if you get sent back, also in an instant. So at least we're not stranded millions of years from the Republic... or anywhere else they take people from.

[resnipstance]

[She takes all that in with a nod, but then the last thing Vima says makes Ahsoka's eyes go wide.]

... Wait. ... You've heard of the Republic?

Just to check-- we're not talking about different Republics, right?

Video;

[notkittenaround]

[ She responds soon enough, a blue and feline woman of late twenties in look. ]

I am Marhi Ohsi, or Metallic Gold Magpie. We have no escape pods, and I know not what stars we travel, for we have been kidnapped most cruelly.

Video;

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka's seen enough weird looking aliens in her lifetime that Marhi's appearance is barely even worth a blink. But she notes it and files it away for future reference.]

I'm starting to get that impression, yes.

Thank you for responding anyway. It's nice to meet you, Marhi, even despite the circumstances.

Re: Video;

[notkittenaround]

Indeed. It is a pleasure to meet you. It is certain that there always need be more men and women of greater age.

[ She manages a polite smile, interest clear despite the unpleasant start of the conversation - imprisonment is no small thing to discuss. ]

Do you oft travel between the stars? I have never left my home in such a way.

[resnipstance]

Let's just say I'm used to it.

What's your home world like?

video

[geonomy]

[Oooh, wow, sweet. She looks cool!]

Hey, yeah! Clay Terran here, I'm getting your message loud and clear. Have the people here told you everything you needed to know, or did you have any other questions?

permavideo \o/

[resnipstance]

Hello, Clay.

I think most of my questions have been answered-- aside from the obvious "How do I get home?" which it's starting to look like nobody has the answer to.

[geonomy]

You're right about that, unfortunately. If we knew the answer to that, a lot of us would already be home by now. [Including he himself, honestly, despite all of this.]

I think we were told that we'd go home if we win or if the, uh, audience gets tired of us? But don't quote me on that; I'm not 100% sure of it.

[resnipstance]

... I see. And how do you "win," exactly?

Video

[onlyanapple]

Very proper way of going about it, if I do say so myself.

permavid

[resnipstance]

... Is there another way?

[onlyanapple]

Panicked yelling, I find, is a popular one. Maybe even indignant yelling.

I take it this isn't your first space kidnapping?

[resnipstance]

I wish I could say it was.

Sadly, however, not.