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Who: The most daring pilot of the Resistance, Poe Dameron!
Broadcast: Video
Action: if anyone else is on the Marsiva!
When: At this very moment

[He wakes up with a little gasp, immediately alert. Poe's not the world's lightest sleeper, but this bunk is way too comfortable, and it doesn't have the vague locker room smell of a Resistance base or the much mankier version that builds up after living in the cockpit of an x-wing for a couple of days.

Definitely doesn't look familiar.]

Huh. What the--

[This is not the first time in recent memory that Poe's woken up in an unfamiliar place. It's a sad measure of his life that this is by far the best one yet. He's not lost in a burning-hot desert with a pennelx-egg-sized bump on his head and no memory of who he is. Yep, still Poe Dameron, first thing he checks. And he's not strapped to the galaxy's most uncomfortable chair and waiting for the next deeply unpleasant conversation with either an Imperial interrogator or Kylo Ren (jury is still out on which of those was actually worse, he tries to not think about it at all).

So really, it could be a lot worse. Even though there does seem to be something going on with his neck, which is probably bad.

Sit up, look around, look down. Well, he's still got his orange flight suit, insignia and everything, but it's clean. So... that's nice. It's also a giant, flashing, hi, I'm with the Resistance sign, which is--good? Bad?

He slips out of bed and tries the door. Open. Okay. Peers out.]

Hello?

[Yeah, great move, Dameron. Warn the laundry-loving kidnappers that you're up and about. Excellent spy work. Well. Why not.]

Jess? Karé? Iolo?

[Maybe this is just some kind of elaborate prank. Sure, Dameron. And while you're imagining things, how about--]

...Finn?

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[ In a way, that camaraderie . . . reminds him of the Clones. We're brothers, Rex would say to the troops. Cody, Boil . . . Waxer. ]

Yes. I imagine you are.

[Deep breath. Just pack all those feelings down there, buddy. Be cool.]

Trying to have some kind of lightsaber fight with Kylo Ren like he thinks he's some kind of Jedi or something. If I weren't so happy to know he's okay I'd be threatening to kick his butt myself.

He does seem determined to pick up some of the basics.

[ Like some kind of Jedi. ]

[Somehow, he's not surprised.]

Determined is definitely another word I'd use to describe him. He won't give up.

[Though what is the implication here? Sideeye.]

I'm sure you have plenty of words.

[ Tone it down, bro. ]

[...did he say something dumb? Poe mentally reviews the last few minutes.

Dameron, you are a moron. General Kenobi seriously does not need to know how upset you are about Finn almost getting his stupid ass killed. Argh. Poe hasn't had a chance to talk to anyone else about this stuff and it just came out. It's been a busy couple of weeks. But that doesn't mean General Kenobi is the person to just emote at.]

Sorry, sir.

[ He chuckles, amused. ]

It's fine. It's been some time since I've talked to someone so . . . impassioned.

[He shrugs.]

Losing good people is part of war. But that doesn't mean I'm any good at it. [And he wouldn't want to be. He's lost too many people.]

How long have you been fighting? I thought the Empire disbanded.

Since not long after I signed up for the Republic Starfleet. The Empire disbanded, yeah, but some of the remnants reformed into the First Order--and the Republic turned a blind eye to it. Kept running across them and no one higher in command wanted to pursue.

I wasn't willing to sit and do nothing. Lucky for me General Organa recruited me before I ended up in a court martial over it.

Just like that.

[ Blast that Palpatine. Was his hold so strong that even with his death, his lingering threads remained?

But who - or what was Snoke? ]

Just like that.

All that hope people had after the Empire collapsed... it's just gone. Even I could see it. That's why I joined the Resistance.

[ What is with the galaxy? Has everything Obi-Wan and the others done unable to keep any lasting peace? ]

That is a depressing thought.

[Meanwhile, Poe's suddenly keenly aware of the fact that he's talking to a casualty of the war against the Empire. Does General Kenobi know? It doesn't feel like something a guy should just drop into a conversation. It's weird.]

My dad said something like that recently. But... that's why I'm out there. Why most of us are, I think. We have to keep fighting against the dark, and remember that it wasn't a waste. It was another step.

[ It seemed more of a cycle than a step in any direction. Was Obi-Wan and Padme now the only people who remembered a life when there wasn't a war looming over the horizon?

And again, the Jedi were gone. Wasn't Luke supposed to fix that? ]

No. It's never a waste. Still . . . something doesn't make sense.

Which part of it?

I couldn't say.

[ From the sudden arrival of Snoke to the Knights of Ren . . . something about it that he can't quite make sense of. ]

I guess that's fair.

I grew up in the middle of it and I still don't understand how the First Order got so much power.

[ He nods. ]

I know now what Palpatine did. And how it worked so well. I was there at the start of it all.

[That's. So. COOL. He probably shouldn't think about it quite that way, since the war wasn't exactly a great thing. But this is General Kenobi. He's still not over it.]

How'd it work?

It was the culmination of many things, I'm afraid. The Senate putting him in power. The existence of the Separatist plot. The Jedi being put in the public's eye along with becoming Generals.

All of these things slowly degraded the Jedi's power over time while the Sith grew.

...becoming generals degraded the Jedi's power? [That really doesn't scan. But what does he know about Jedi? Basically nothing. Because they're all dead.

Well, other than Luke. And that tree on the ranch. He's still not sure what's up with that, but Luke said it was important, so... Jedi stuff.]

Jedi are peacekeepers. We are warriors only as a last resort. We should have never been front runners in a war.

Stopping a war early seems like a pretty important way to keep the peace.

Not like that.

[ Though he does agree. . . . Or had agreed, long ago. Now the war has worn him down. ]

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