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Who: Obi-Wan Kenobi and You
Broadcast: Video
Action: Hospitality Deck - Marsiva
When: January 2nd

[ Obi-Wan is no stranger to waking up to unknown locations, but this seemed odd . . . even for him. He gropes for his lightsaber . . . which is gone, obviously. He huffs, before straightening himself and brushing his hair back. Communications . . . communications . . . ah, there it is.

A video feed. Somewhat archaic, but it'll do. He doubts anyone from the Republic will be nearby, but perhaps the locals will offer some aid. Obi-Wan clears his throat before speaking. It's time for his other skill set to come in use. ]

Greetings. My name is General Kenobi. To whom do I have the pleasure of addressing? And I don't suppose there is someone willing to answer my questions? Because I have a great deal many of them.

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Then, you're welcome, Mister Kenobi. I'm glad I could help.

Hopefully, I can repay the favor.

It probably won't be long before you do, really. I mean, no matter how advanced our ships are, they won't let us get properly equipped until it fits into their schedule, so a lot of the time we'll be depending on each other out here, even if we're all on different ships.

True enough. Still . . . what kind of incidents take place here?

Well, the main thing is that we've been attacked twice by a group of ships that are suspiciously similar to our own -- since our ships were made by the Marsiva, it seems pretty likely that at the very least, there's another ship going on a similar flight path. We haven't spotted anything like another Marsiva yet, but if the ships were designed the same, they likely have the limitations of having to stick with a mothership too.

They haven't actually tried to kill us yet, but last time we met them, they specifically made a point to show they could, and it seriously hurt one of my crew members.

Aside from that, there was also a time where we wound up answering a distress signal and wound up finding a merchant ship run by a race known as Nunnilis. Once we discovered them, we found that everyone still alive on board was infected with a parasitic fungus that controlled their bodies and forced them to spread the fungus to other Nunnilis colonies. We managed to put together a cure for the Nunnilis, but... Not in time to save them. The fungus did a lot of brain damage to them, and by killing the fungus, we killed them, too.

The final ship in the fleet, the Iskaulit, was the ship that took place on. The ship itself has been purified, and a local Nunnilis colony performed the funeral rites for them and gave the ship to us.

Do you think this could have been . . . orchestrated by our kidnappers?

[ Again, it seems like a bit much and a way for them to lose their key players. But the more he knew, a better understanding he would receive. ]

I doubt the Nunnilis incident was orchestrated by them, at least. The attacking ships... I can't say either way.

A lot of people are convinced they're working for Atroma. It's a fact that their ships are at the very least, designed to the same specifications as the ships the Marsiva produces. That would seem to imply them to have either been created by the Marsiva, or a similar mothership. I doubt the Marsiva is the only one in existence, after all.

Either way, the ships that attacked us seem to be considerably more advanced than ours. They could have completely destroyed us the last time we fought, but instead they dragged everyone into a nebula that disrupted all systems on the ship, including our implants.

[And one of my crewmates is a robot, so.]

So there might be several other ships like these out there.

[ That's a depressing thought. ]

It's hard to believe there's just one, yes. The only one that we know of is ours, of course: The attacking ships didn't exactly respond to hails.

So we were left in the dark.

I can believe there's a bigger conspiracy at work here.

There's probably something going on behind the scenes, yes. It's hard to tell what exactly it is with the information we can get a hold of, though.

At the very least, there's definitely something off about the "victory prize".

The victor prize? What is that?

I mentioned it before, but it's "to go home". I believe they also indicated that it will be "exactly as you left it"... But also that only one person gets to go home.

So what happens when there's more than one person from the same world, then? If only one person can go home, then won't it be a different place if everyone else stays behind? Then it definitely can't be "exactly as you left it", can it?

Then we'll find another way. I happen to be quite decent at that, if I do say so myself.

That's true, I'm just... curious about why they would word it in such specific ways.

It feels like it's worded like that for a reason, but I can't quite understand what the meaning behind the contradiction is.

It could just be that it's a lie, and that's that, but... How do I put it? I don't think they would go about making such a direct and obvious lie, so I think there's some sort of meaning behind it.

Perhaps a hint of sorts.

[ It would line up with everything he's heard. Give them a fighting chance, but not too much of a chance. ]

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