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[resnipstance]

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

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[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.

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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.

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[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?

[tobeajedi]

We could be! There seem to be a lot of different galaxies out there. Maybe universes. I mean the Galactic Republic--[well thinking about it that is sort of a generic name isn't it.] Have you heard of the Jedi?

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Have I--

[HAHAHA.

Please hold.]

Hang on. When you said your name was Vima-- are you-- Vima Sunrider?

[JAMES IS A HELPER.]

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[THANKS CAP. Wow. The shellshocked look is surprising.]

Yeah, that's right. Howcome you're making that face over it?

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Are you kidding? You're practically a legend!

[And then Ahsoka notices how young she looks.]

But... that... hasn't happened for you yet, I'm guessing. ... Sorry.

[tobeajedi]

[A legend? Well. She can believe that about her mother. But... herself? Yeah, most of the Jedi Masters she met as a child predicted great things but having it in the future is much different than it being told of as a historic matter.]

Uh... not unless it's for ways I got in trouble.

I guess this is one of those things with space-time that Dr. Crusher told me about... how far ahead of me are you?

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Uhhhhhhhhhhhh.

About... four thousand years? Give or take?

[She has the decency to at least look a little bit sheepish.]

[tobeajedi]

[........]

Wow.

[.....................]

It's nice to know the Republic is still around.

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Definitely still around. Despite the Separatists' best efforts.

[tobeajedi]

Separatists? Does that mean the Jedi are at war again?

[okay so two wars in four millenia isn't so bad, BUT STILL.]

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[Ahsoka's expression grows more serious.]

... They are, yes.

[tobeajedi]

[That's pretty sobering. A thousand questions crowd in at once: why? Who are they Separatists and why are they separating? Is the Republic the same Republic? How bad is the fighting? How long has it been going on? Are the Sith back?]

Have you been part of it?

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[Ahsoka looks away.]

... I was. I'm... not any more.

[tobeajedi]

[...Ah. A particularly unhappy topic here? It's obviously sensitive, but...]

And not just because you got kidnapped into a reality holoshow, huh.

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No.

[She hesitates a moment, debating whether or not to say anything else. She's disinclined to, but... on the other hand, it seems rude to answer in such an abrupt manner without any explanation. Eventually, she adds:]

... I left the Order shortly before coming here.

[tobeajedi]

...Oh.

[That is something... different. Ahsoka doesn't seem like she's a Dark Jedi or a Sith. And she's awfully young, hardly older than Vima.

Why?]

That sounds... pretty tough.

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[Ahsoka just sighs and the tension goes out of her body a bit as she shakes her head.]

It's a long story. But... let's just say something bad happened. I knew that if I stayed... I'd never be able to get past that event. And that's not the Jedi way.

So I had to get out. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with my life now, but I just have to trust that the Force has a plan.

sorry it's late!

[tobeajedi]

[Vima presses her fist into her chin in deep thought. It's distressing to think that a young Jedi would feel so traumatized that they left the path entirely. Did her Master die, or a friend? Or did the Jedi do something? They've made some mistakes, Vima knows that in her own life.

Interrogating about it when they're still relative strangers, though, isn't what she's going to do, as much as she really wants to know. Maybe Ahsoka will tell her more sometime. Maybe Ahsoka will find her way back, too. She is young. And it's never too late.]

The Force always has a plan. But it's not always clear. And it doesn't always go easy on us either.

no worries!

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[Ahsoka just looks resigned.]

Yeah. ... I know.