all aboard the ss blamless

[pyroelectric]

Who: Crew of the SS Blameless and visitors.
Broadcast: Nope
Action: SS Blameless
When: March, or until we feel like a new one.

[It's a mingle! Get out of the car!

Unique ship notes for new crew and visitors: giant, unmissable scorch marks currently line the walls of several corridors leading from the cargo hold to the bridge!

Also, thanks to Kate, we now have a SWEARS AND ATTITUDES JAR displayed prominently in the kitchen. Whenever someone's being naughty instead of nice, they're compelled to deposit a few credits (or at least an iou) into the awaiting jar.

Also also, we are all still bunking together. HAVE FUN.]

Comments

[resnipstance]

Absolutely not. That's why we worked so well together.

[t65]

Oh. [Luke isn't sure whether to be relieved or disappointed.] What about Ben?

[resnipstance]

Obi-Wan? Obi-Wan is... I guess you could say he's the model. The pinnacle of what a Jedi traditionally should be.

[t65]

[Luke isn't sure what to make of that.] And Yoda?

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka frowns, clearly not quite so pleased.]

Yoda too. I guess.

[t65]

Did you two... get along? [He feels he knows Ahsoka well enough to ask at this point, and he's always itching with curiosity about how the Old Order operated.]

[resnipstance]

[Carefully, neutrally:]

... I thought we did. But I guess I was wrong.

[t65]

[Luke speaks with the slow ease of the emotionally fluent,] Do you want to talk about it? We don't have to, of course. I can go back to standing on my head, if you like.

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka purses her lips for a moment, clearly uncertain. It's the face of someone who isn't sure whether their bond is close enough for her to emotionally burden Luke with something so heavy or not.]

Oh. Um...

[Instead, she does another hand-stand, to avoid looking at Luke head-on. After a moment, she starts walking around the cargo hold on her hands, seemingly relaxed. In actuality, it's to give her something to occupy herself while thinking.]

Mm. It's just-- it's a super long story, you know? When I left the Order, it wasn't on the greatest terms, and... well. It's kind of depressing.

[t65]

I'm sorry to hear that. You seem like just the sort of Jedi I'd want to be like. [He won't press her. Instead, he watches her walk on her hands and wonders if he'll ever be that acrobatic.] Honestly, a lot of what I've heard here about the Jedi of old... confuses me.

[resnipstance]

[That makes her smile fondly, and she comes back down on the floor right-side-up.]

Well, why don't you tell me the parts that confuse you, and maybe I can help shed some light on it?

Though-- just to be clear, there are some aspects of the Code that still confuse me as well.

[t65]

I think it's a bad sign when you feel like you understand everything, [he says with a bit of humor,] then you stop learning. But... well, first, I don't like the idea of taking children from their parents-- their families-- so young.

[resnipstance]

Oh. Well-- the idea is to prevent attachment.

The children aren't forcibly taken. Younglings who come to the Temple are given up by their parents willingly. It's a choice, and we would never remove that.

[t65]

But- what's so wrong with attachment? [luke no] That seems like the point of being a Jedi, to me. [luke stop]

[resnipstance]

No. The point of being a Jedi is compassion. It's a small but important distinction. To have love for all life, but not grow attached-- that's our struggle as Jedi. Attachment means... placing value or importance on one person or group or place over another. A Jedi must be above that. A force that the universe can depend on to always do what's right, no matter the personal cost.

[t65]

And what if the right thing to do is be attached? [This isn't a thought experiment, for Luke, but he can hardly tell Ahsoka that. He just speaks with complete conviction and hopes he won't be laughed at.]

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka raises one eyebrow, confusion evident on her face and in the Force around her.]

I'm not sure what you mean.

[t65]

[Luke can't really... tell her all the details, so he switches tactics, so to speak.] Have you ever met a Sith?

[resnipstance]

You mean, apart from the Chancellor?

I guess I didn't know it at the time, so it doesn't really count anyway...

[She does a small impromptu cartwheel across the cargo hold floor to burn off her flicker of anger thinking about it.]

[t65]

[Luke prefers not to think about Palpatine, thanks.] What were they like? The Sith you met, I mean.

[resnipstance]

Oh. The only Sith I ever met apart from the Chancellor was Ventress, I guess.

Though... I'm not really sure if she counts anymore.

[t65]

Oh? Tell me about her. [Luke smiles softly. Sith continue to be an area of interest for him, not in an academic or even intellectual sense. If you can save one, you may as well try to save them all.]

[resnipstance]

About Ventress?

[Ahsoka's surprise shows on her face.]

Um. Well. She used to be Dooku's apprentice. Wait-- you know who Count Dooku is, right?

[How much of history is lost in the next twenty years, anyway?]

[t65]

[Luke shakes his head.] He's a... count? I'm not familiar with the name.

[resnipstance]

[#YIKES.]

Count Dooku is-- was, in your time, I guess-- the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The secessionist separatist movement that the Republic is fighting against. He also happens to be a Sith Lord, which is part of the reason the Order decided to join the war in the first place.