all aboard the ss royalty

[actsmagnificent]

Who: Crew of the SS Bishop & friends, visitors, interlopers!
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Aboard the Bishop
When: This week

[ Bishopites! How is station life treating you? Can you fit all the stuff you bought with your casino winnings into your bunk, or did you lose your last boring jumpsuit when Lady Luck abandoned you? Has anyone touched the gumball crates yet? Have at each other here and mingle away! ]

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[two_jedi_sticks]

[That feels like such a parental trap, and Jaina's trying to think how to answer without turning anyone's mood sour.]

You were happy we all got back in one piece, and with the present we got you. You'll have to wait for your birthday for it.

[There, totally navigated that without giving anything away.]

You think so? I think I was the only person in my class to use a synthetic crystal.

[imahologram]

I'll keep that in mind, twenty years from now.

[They have a ways to go to get to that point. Hopefully by then, she'll be better at parental traps, because Jaina really did walk neatly out of that one.]

We don't exactly have access to the natural crystals at the moment. [Frankly, she has no idea where they come from.] But we have several Jedi who could use lightsabers.

[two_jedi_sticks]

You already have the date. Just mention it to Threepio and he'll never let you forget.

[Tapping a finger while she considers that information. Luke had encouraged them to get crystals the way that felt right. For Jacen, it was the corusca gem he'd fished out of Yavin. For Lowie...]

Finding gems for ourselves on Yavin 4 was part of our challenge. Some were in a volcano, but Lowie found some by scavenging some tech leftover from the Rebel Alliance days. You'd be surprised where something might turn up.

[But she knows Uncle Luke gave Leia another saber after she'd built her own, and Luke had used someone else's at first. She won't say anyone can't use crystals she's made. Well, probably.]

[imahologram]

Who knows if I'll remember it by the time I see him again?

[A little smile. YOU MIGHT BE SAFE FROM FUTURE RETRIBUTION, DAUGHTER.]

There's no harm in keeping an eye out--but making more crystals is probably good practice. [Especially if it ends up being practice for Leia as well.] Are you doing anything else today?

[two_jedi_sticks]

I don't have too many things lined up just yet.

[Just pulling some panels open and studying the ship's wiring. Little unimportant things that aren't at all complex and hard work.]

Did you have something you need help with?

[imahologram]

Nothing in particular.

[All this idle time is a little grating, to be entirely honest, but it's hers.]

Maybe we can have dinner together later.

[two_jedi_sticks]

No ambassadors?

[A teasing tone. No one's going to be having diplomatic dinners around here. An idea strikes, though.]

Let's get Dad over for it, too. It'd be good for him.