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Who: Jaina
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: There's a new engineer joining the Bishop.
When: She might manage to wait five minutes after the latest shuffling.

The layout of these controls don't make any kind of sense. Not by any scheme I've seen on a ship, anyway.

[Yep, there is a teenager with her device propped on a nearby console, leaning elbows on another while she peers at it, intent. As she goes, she nearly taps buttons and levers, behaving enough not to actually muck with anything.]

It's not like snubfighter controls. Believe me, I know. But if this were anything like a Corellian YT-series I'd expect this to handle pitch, and...that should be yaw. Are the thrusters strictly forward? Maybe there's a z-axis control.

[These are all incorrect, and she seems to understand that. She chews her bottom lip, distracted with thought, before she finally turns her head to look directly into the camera again.]

How universal are the designs on these ships? I'm on Bishop, and there's a few things I can peg as customizations, but not too much. I've got a feeling I should try to learn as much as I can. Especially if I'm going to have to open a few of these panels up after a while to make sure it keeps working correctly.

[Admittedly, part of that feeling is the simple fact that regardless of the circumstances surrounding her presence in this fleet, she is stoked about learning the intricacies of a new style of ship.]

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Like the back of my hand. My family has a YT freighter, and dad was great about letting me get designs to study.

[She's very proud of this. The home part, that's a little more complicated.]

Where is home for you? Are you from Shili? Most of my family has been living on Coruscant, but I'm spending more time on Yavin 4 for the academy these days.

Oh! I'm from Coruscant too! Sort of. I was born on Shili, yes. But Coruscant is where I grew up.

What academy is on Yavin 4?

Sometimes it seems like everyone lives on Coruscant. Comes with being a capital planet, I suppose. Yavin 4 is definitely tame in comparison. Pretty much the only thing there is the academy and the old Massassi temples. Uncle Luke set it up a while ago, and it's really starting to take root.

Uncle Luke?

[I have a bad feeling about this.]

I'm going to take a wild guess here [because there's no such thing as coincidences] ... but is your uncle's last name Skywalker, by any chance?

[No coincidences, no luck, only the Force. Or when it comes to Skywalker drama, Murphy's Law. She doesn't seem surprised Ahsoka knows him, since Luke, Han and Leia pretty much hit celebrity status in her continuity.]

That's right. I wouldn't plan a surprise visit, though. There's a few ships kept in orbit these days, since security needed to be tightened up a little bit.

[Ahsoka just looks stunned for a moment-- in actual fact, she's doing some quick calculations. She can't be too different in age from Ahsoka. And Leia's now around Anakin's age. Even if this girl is born only a year in Leia's future, that still puts her around four decades in the future. At minimum. Ahsoka would be... in her fifties.

She lets out a long sigh.]

... I'm getting too old for this.

[That's a confusing reaction. Ahsoka's young. Maybe there's a difference in the rate of aging between their species that Jaina isn't aware of. Then again, if there is...why would Ahsoka bring it up now?]

You look fine. I'm not bothering you, am I?

Oh-- no. Nothing like that. I was just calculating how old I would be in your time.

Sorry. Let me start from the beginning. Hi. I'm Ahsoka Tano.

I was your grandfather's padawan. In the Clone Wars.

[Anakin Skywalker had a padawan? It feels like she should know about that. She isn't entirely certain what a padawan is yet, her generation's understanding of the old order's traditions and structure being rudimentary, but it sounds like an important thing.]

Jaina Solo. You're really from the Clone Wars? That's...a pretty big thing.

Welcome to timeline shenanigans. Population: everyone here.

Glad to be here, I guess. The welcoming party could use a little work.

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

... Sorry.

It's just-- it's a lot. From my perspective, Anakin's only twenty-two.

[She's quiet while she makes a mental note to try and remember to think in terms of Anakin Skywalker, not Darth Vader. She knows one identity could be considered distinct from the other, and that it was Anakin at the end who saved Uncle Luke from the Emperor.

It's still a little weird to hear someone casually refer to him by that name.]

I wonder what he's like. All I know about him from that time is he was a pilot and a Jedi.

[Ahsoka seems to brighten instantly. She knows of Order 66, of the Empire, but she doesn't yet know about Darth Vader. All she knows is Anakin Skywalker, her mentor and brother-in-arms. It had been gutting to meet Leia at first, to realise that Anakin has a daughter who wants nothing to do with him, because as far as she's concerned? Anakin is a great guy. So to hear his granddaughter ask "I wonder what he's like," gives her hope that maybe all isn't lost.]

Maybe you can ask him yourself. He's here too.

[Then Ahsoka gets a devious look on her face.]

You should definitely call him Grandpa.

He'll love it.

[She suspects there's more to this, going by Ahsoka's look. But doesn't that just make it that much more interesting?]

He is my grandfather. What else would I all him?

[Ahsoka brightens, cheered. You're okay, Jaina.]

Exactly! Now you're catching on.

Everyone's spread out among the ships, right? I wonder if there's a crew manifest anywhere I could consult.

Oh! Yeah, there is. Hang on, I've got it somewhere...

Here.

[Jaina will get a "beep" on her comm, notifying her of a file transfer.]

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[Excuse her while she nabs the comm and goes over the file.]

Hey, that's perfect. Thanks!

Should help with getting some things lined up, I think.

Plotting anything in particular?

Hard to say just yet. Judging by what I'm hearing, anything viable would be more difficult than I'd be picturing at the start.

... Yeah. You get depressingly used to that.

[Going to try to stay positive, though. There is no try, etc. etc.!]

First thing is to talk some pilots into a race. I want to see exactly how much these ships are capable of, and how much they vary. Plus, it'll be good for morale.

A race, huh?

[Like father like daughter. Or perhaps like grandfather like granddaughter. It runs in both sides of the family, Ahsoka guesses.]

Okay. Count me in.

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omfg where did my icon in the previous comment go WHY THIS

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