And We Danced (Masquerade Overflow!)

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Vima Sunrider

[tobeajedi]

[Mostly continuations but if you want to thread with Vima: she's spending most of her time in the ballroom and wandering around the museum in a Thon mask.]

PADME AMIDALA

[tobeajedi]

[cont from here]

My mom's had to attend a lot of functions over the years--that, or she's organizing them. She held a big conclave on Exis station not that long ago. I usually thought it was a waste of time even though she was always so busy.

[diplomacme]

I didn't realize Jedi used to attend parties like this, much less organize them.

[tobeajedi]

Sure, we have to do things like this sometimes, at least at the level of Grand Master. Trying to restore the Jedi Order--there's more work on the ground, but it's kind of like showing that we're still strong enough to help the Republic.

[diplomacme]

I know I shouldn't be surprised that the Order has changed so much from your time, but parties are such a foreign concept, especially as displays of power.

[ Grand Masters, parties. Children. ]

Meeting the Jedi from my era must have been quite a shock.

BEVERLY CRUSHER

[tobeajedi]

[cont from here]

He's a Tchuukthai--my mother trained under him when she first became a Jedi, but they mostly keep to themselves. What's a triceratops?

[dancingmd]

They were a reptilian species that lived on Earth over 70 million years ago.

[tobeajedi]

70 million? Wow. Were they sentient? Are they still around?

[civilizations last an inordinately long time where she's from species might too, ya never know]

[dancingmd]

They were not sentient [That's what you think Bev!!!] - or at least, we've found no evidence that they were - but they were wiped out in a Mass Extinction Event that altered Earth's ecology significantly and eventually brought about the dominance of mammalian species instead.

[tobeajedi]

Wow, that's some history. It's sad to think that there's a whole era of life that's completely gone now... but then if it hadn't, I wouldn't be talking to you here now.

...I'm still not sure how humans got from one galaxy to another, though.

[dancingmd]

I can't give you the answer to that one. I don't even know if your galaxy exists in my universe. Our knowledge of galaxies outside the MIlky Way is very limited. Warp speed travel can only take us so far.

[tobeajedi]

Hyperspace is the same way. It's a tunnel that lets you bypass lightspeed, but it's still distance to travel--and it's dangerous to find new routes.

...How did your Galaxy get that name, by the way? It's kind of a funny one.

[dancingmd]

Ah... It's an ancient human name for it. When you're on Earth and you look up in the sky on clear nights, you can often see one arm of the Galaxy - a dense cluster of stars that looked to the ancients like a river of milk.

[tobeajedi]

[A river of milk? All right, well--it's descriptive, if nothing else.]

And it stuck all the way until you got into space? [She grins.] That's cute. I like it.

Have you gotten to exploring that particular arm?

[dancingmd]

Just a little - we've only explored barely a quarter of the whole galaxy.

SORA

[tobeajedi]

[cont from here]

[She smiles back, appreciating the optimism.]

If there's one thing I've learned, things can change in the blink of an eye. And there are a lot of people in the Fleet who are really smart. It might not be me, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of us had some brilliant insight into terraforming, or even previous experience.

FINN

[tobeajedi]

[cont from here]
It's good to have something to look forward to that doesn't involve getting hit over the head with something. [She grins.] I've explored the garden some... I'm glad that they still remember how things used to be and set that up. Things are pretty bad out there, but they haven't lost hope.

[forcesensitive]

[Finn snorts at her first remark, grinning a little. Yeah, yeah, he's been hit over the head a few times. But it's been fun anyway.]

Yeah. I think--well, I don't know how those terraforming machines work, but they'll be a lot better off if they can get it fixed. I thought about going out to explore some, but it feels kinda creepy out there. And some of the animals don't give you a warning before going all war games on you, if you know what I mean.

[tobeajedi]

Yeah, I know what you mean. [Vima shakes her head.] I ended up finding out just how fast I can run a time or two. The Force helps a little, but with all the sickness in the land, it kind of muddies things.

[forcesensitive]

[At that he looks more focused.]

So even the Force knows this place is in trouble?

[tobeajedi]

[She nods.]

Yeah. I mean--when all the life in a place is suffering, or there's been a lot of death, it leaves a mark. Not so much in here, because of the gardens and the healthy life, but when I go out into the wilds I can feel it.

[forcesensitive]

And not as much in the cities, I bet.

[It's more of a musing statement than a question.]

Huh. I didn't know that. Maybe if I feel something weird, I should have one of you Jedi check it out?

[tobeajedi]

Exactly. [you're picking up this Forcey stuff pretty good, Finn. and she grins at the suggestion.] Do you mean that you do feel that kind of thing?

[forcesensitive]

[He's trying. He wants to learn more about it - when's he ever going to get a chance to talk to Jedi again?]

The couple of flights I made out over the forests were uncomfortable, yeah. But I thought it was just because the pollution was so thick I could hardly see what was going on. I don't like low visibility.

[tobeajedi]

[Vima grimaces.]

I don't either, not when it comes to piloting. I don't want to put my ship in danger. [With herself is one thing, but not with almost a dozen people.] Was it like the 'creepy feeling' you mentioned before, though? Or is that just regular creepy?