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Who: Han Solo [

falconing] and YOU.
Broadcast: Network-wide!
Action: The Huntress.
When: Now!

[ han solo, on board the huntress, has had a tumultuous week. nothing in comparison to his friends (though, really, if his long-lost family showed up here, han probably wouldn't be able to recognize them, let alone marginally care), but tiring all the same. he's been collecting information from passerby and explored arslae quite a bit. now, he's ready to talk on the network.

of sorts, anyway.

han is sitting at his pilot station in the huntress, and there are some missing panels and things being rearranged and han setting up his chair just the way he likes it. there's no chewbacca here (annoyingly, and, if han admits it, depressingly), so han is doing the work on his own. with some interruptions.

after a moment or two of thinking, han decides to speak.

(if he were smart, he would've figured out what he wanted to say beforehand, but that shit isn't for corellian smugglers.) ]

So I guess I've been assigned to the Huntress, and I've met most of you on board so far... but greetings, salutations, whatever. I'm Han Solo, your new pilot. I'd apologize for the mess, but you'll thank me later.

[ probably. if he doesn't blow up the ship first. ]

I've got a few questions about this Fleet -- one, how many people around here have actually set foot off planet before coming here? Two, any of you know how to fly a ship before getting here? Second part -- who here is a pilot? And three, if any of you have seen a Wookiee by the name of Chewbacca -- he's tall, furry, growls a lot, might've threatened to kill you once or twice -- steer him in my direction. He's harmless. Mostly.

[ han seems to be ready to leave it there, but he glances toward his station before resettling his focus on the camera with a grin, eyes bright. to those who know han solo, esteemed general of the rebellion and captain of the millennium falcon, you can almost be guaranteed what is about to come out of his mouth is no good. ]

So who wants to test out how fast these buckets of bolts can go?

[ confirmed. ]

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I'm listening.

[ This guy sounds like a major pain. But Haruka has been in bed for a week. She's ticked off at Atroma and knows she has to blow some smoke just in case she didn't get sick by accident.

That or he's speaking her language. But that would just be irresponsible. ]

The Han Solo? The one who broke the Kessel Run record?

[Really, her straight face is admirable.]

[Okay, this sounds like it could be spectacular.]

Looking to organize a race?

[ He does look like trouble, but that's exactly what most of Ino's friends look like too, so -- here's a pretty blonde on the video. She'll hold up a hand to count off the answers to his questions as he goes. ]

Technically yes, I'd been on another planet, but it was a situation like this one where I didn't exactly choose to be there. Otherwise, space travel hasn't been invented where I come from.

[ There's one finger down. ]

Never flown a ship, driven a car, anything like that.

[ And another. ]

Not a pilot, but if you wanted to hang out with one, I wouldn't recommend mine, 'cause he's super annoying.

[ She loves Vash, really. One more finger down, aaand finally ... ]

And I don't think I've seen anyone like that, but what's a "Wookiee" exactly, besides "tall and furry"?

Hi Han! Um. So I'd never been off my planet til I ended up here. Where I'm from everyone lives in a domed city named Proles, cause if you go outside you get your eyeballs eaten by dysthrophes or you catch the dystrophe and then you start eating other people's eyeballs and it's kind of bad.

I wasn't a pilot but I was mobile infantry so I'm really good at hover cycles and that's made me pretty good with the little shuttles we have. They're really fun! We should race in them some time.

I haven't seen your friend, but I'll look for him!

[ there is one quick way to make friends, han has discovered, and that is to openly air that you are a partially terrible person upfront so people are never disappointed.

he sees the same principal works here, and han offers haruka a grin. ]

Are you a pilot?

[ ready to lose sailor uranus ]

Funny you say that, 'cause all I've heard since I got here is 'are you the Han Solo who broke the Kessel Run record.'

[ his tone is dry (and he's not exactly exaggerating), but he at least has the good grace to look amused. ]

To make the race a little fairer, I don't have the Falcon. You'd all stand a chance.

[ probably. ]

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So long as people don't mind losing, I'm ready for a race.

[ lightly ]

I'm not having people complain at the end. Just for fun and games.

[ and glory ]

[ han files all of that information away for later -- how many people are relying on these augments to know what the hell to do is pretty scary to him -- but he grins a little at the news of the annoying pilot. good to know. ]

Wookiees are a species, like humans or togrutas. They're tall, furry. Grunt a lot. Kinda hard to understand unless you learn the language. Annoyingly loyal. Condescending fuzzballs.

[ sigh. ]

Chewie is my co-pilot, on my ship at home. A few people from my timeline showed up here around the same time as I did, but I haven't found him yet. I was just curious.

[ ah, snowball lady.

that sounds... pretty gruesome, but not unlike other planets he's dropped in on. some worlds are pretty fucked up, man. but the infantry catches his attention -- hover cycles! -- and he looks interested. ]

Thanks, for looking -- hover cycles, huh?

[ pause ]

You should talk to Luke.

[ han is certain luke is better at rocketing around in those tiny things than he is. he prefers his ship, and not dying. ]

[ She looks a little surprised when he mentions that others from his timeline appeared. ]

Others from your world? Hopefully they're friends and not enemies.

Well, I'll keep an eye out and let you know if I see anything. Though from your description, it sounds like he'd be kind of hard to miss.

Yeah, heavy combat models mostly, but those beasts move way better than the civilian models.

I don't know a Luke. You should introduce us!

Oh! I've been on the Huntress before — that's where I was assigned before I moved! It's a really nice ship and the accommodations are some of the best that I've seen and...and...

[And. And. Oh my god Han what are you doing please don't just —]

No, no, no, don't disconnect that wire, you'll electrocute yourself!

[— Engineer augment compulsions die hard, evidently. Even when they come in the highly unorthodox package of petite blonde Italian girls.]

[Waving a hoof!! ]

OH ME ME!

I couldn't fly a spaceship before, we don't even have spaceships where I come from. But then I cam here and BING! I suddenly knew how to fly a complex spacecraft. I didn't have to take a test or anything!

Alllso I was technically on another planet between here and home? Or was it another dimension?

...No, planet, I'm gonna go with planet.

Wait. You're friends with a Wookiee named Chewbacca? I know a Wookiee named Chewbacca! I wonder if it's a common name...

Anyway. You know my answers to questions one and two. But if it's a race you want, you're on. [With a little grin:] Think you can out-pilot an ex-Jedi?

Most of them are welcome.

[ he's not going to lie and say everything is sunshine and daisies when it's not, but luke and leia are certainly welcome. ahsoka hasn't been too bad.

anakin skywalker can jump off a cliff without a parachute for all han cares, but he'll keep that to himself. ]

He'd try and find me, first thing -- seems like the languages in this world are translated pretty well by this augment thing, so I'm sure you'd understand him. Not that the walking carpet thing wouldn't give it away.

[ interesting, interesting... ]

That depends on whether or not you're gonna hit him in the head with ice.

[ as funny as that would be, han adores luke and doesn't want him to get a concussion.

force or not. ]

Though I'd pay to see it happen, I need the kid conscious.

Oh? Nothing the whole fleet needs to worry about, is it?

[ If it's a personal issue, she'll stay out of it, but there's always the chance some overpowered douchebag could be lurking around waiting to kick a puppy or something. ]

From what I've seen, the augment actually doesn't translate everything. Most of the time it works well enough to get by, though. And I'd guess "Han Solo" is about the same in any language.

Calm down, I'm not gonna electrocute myself.

[ though han at least pays mind to what she says, and moves his hand, eyeing her critically ]

If you liked it so much, why'd you move?

[ . . . ]

You can fly with those things?

[ and han raises his hand, wiggling his fingers.

he'll get to the rest of that crazy ass statement later. ]

[ . . . the slowest arching of eyebrows. ]

We'll get to you losing to the best pilot in the galaxy later -- you've met Chewie?

[ wookiees live an awful long time, so it wouldn't be... a large stretch of the imagination. and chewie was around during the clone wars, for however little he talks about it to han. ]

When'd that happen?

About a year ago. [Idk my bff passage of time in The Clone Wars.]

I was kidnapped by Trandoshan hunters. He saved my life.

Haha, well, it's kind of a funny story...um, the truth is, I moved to be closer to my boss! It would've been really complicated to keep doing my job from a different ship, so...

[She shrugs a little, like it's sufficient punctuation for a technically unfinished sentence.]

It's not that much different than you looking for your friend the Wookiee, is it?

I haven't seen or heard of your friend, but as to your other questions: I live and work on a starship - an exploratory and diplomatic vessel to be exact -at home. And while I'm not a pilot per se, I do know how to fly.

[She gives him a curious smile.]

Why exactly do you ask? Surely it's not only in order to find racing partners.

[ ~~more like "kiss heranus"~~ Haruka doesn't quite grin back, but she continues to just look at this guy out of the corner of her eyes. Unblinkingly. ] What's the course?

[ Playing with an open hand may work for some people. But that's them. ]

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