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[resnipstance]

Who: Ahsoka + You
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: Not really (though if you want to find her, she'll be in her room on the Starstruck)
When: idk today

Hey! Soooooo since we're all stuck here, and going outside on this planet kinda sucks bigtime right now, I've been making it a project of mine to try and learn as much as I can about the different cultures of the other worlds people here are from! Particularly Earth, because there's so many of you! Someone told me the collective noun is "Earthlings"? Anyway.

I've been trawling through the media library, but to be honest, I'm not very good at sitting and reading for long periods of time. So I figured, why not just ask you guys instead?

Tell me one (or more!) thing about your home world that you think is culturally significant. It can be traditional, religious, social, or pop culture is fair game too! After all, it's no fun when people are making pop culture references that fly over my head.

The only rule is that you can't say the same thing as someone else. You ready? Go!

Comments

[resnipstance]

Oh, droids have had AI in them for several thousand years. It was only recently they started being mass-produced for war.

Not all droids are bad-- I had an R7 unit that helped me with my fighter. If I got knocked out by an enemy pilot, it can exercise it's own judgement to take over pilot controls and look for the nearest safe landing without my needing to be conscious to tell it to.

[beathach]

Ah - okay, that's a good use of - robots and AIs. Sorry, I have bad experiences with robots.

[resnipstance]

Bad experiences? How so?

[beathach]

Er. A giant robot tried to kill me?

[resnipstance]

Oh, is that all? [Look, Ahsoka faces battalions of robots trying to kill her every day. They've kind of lost their effect.]

I mean-- I guess that must be pretty scary for a civilian, but they're really not that hard to kill. You just have to know where to aim.

[beathach]

[he can't help but huff a little, but he's smiling] "That's all?" she says . . .

Robots aren't - common where I'm from. Especially ones like those.

[resnipstance]

I guess it's harder if you don't have a lightsaber, too.

[beathach]

I'm - going to say yes. What's a lightsaber?

[resnipstance]

Hmmm. [Ahsoka considers him for a moment. She isn't really certain about the different levels of technology on Earth-- when certain things were invented, and so forth. She wants to make comparisons to help explain it, but she doesn't want to be too condescending either.]

Do you have lasers yet?

[She's talked to some people from Earth who don't. It's a viable question.]

[beathach]

[he smiles a little and nods]

We have lasers.

[resnipstance]

Okay! [That makes it much easier then.] So it's like a really super highly charged laser that can cut through just about any material-- like butter. But put into a sword.

[beathach]

So . . . a laser sword.

[. . . that sounds too advanced for his world but he won't lie and say it doesn't sound cool either]

[resnipstance]

Yeah! Exactly. "Laser sword" sounds kind of silly, though. Lightsaber sounds way cooler.

[beathach]

Lightsaber does sound a lot cooler, that's true.

[resnipstance]

Yep. Anyway, back home the best way to stop a standard battle droid was to take off their head with a lightsaber. Super easy. You'd think they'd make sturdier models, but it doesn't seem to be a priority.

[beathach]

Maybe it's cheaper to make more of them the least . . . sturdy way?

[resnipstance]

That's probably it. Why waste money on good manufacturing when you can just make a hundred billion droids and overwhelm the enemy with sheer numbers and firepower?

[There's a heavy amount of disdain in her voice.]

[beathach]

It makes sense, but it's such a stupid idea. Quantity is not always better than quality.

[resnipstance]

Right? They say one Jedi is worth a hundred men-- or droids! I don't even know what my kill count is for droids, to be honest with you. I must have taken out hundreds of them per mission. Thousands, when we hit factories.

[beathach]

I can't even imagine dealing with more than one, let alone - hundreds or thousands. [he handled a grand total of one (two if you counted a romp in Erik's heart) and it had completely turned him off to robots. Which is saying a lot when it's someone who loves tech so much] But - I mean, like you said, it's easy with a lightsaber? It just - cuts through them?

[resnipstance]

Yep. Shears right through most metal like butter.

[beathach]

Huh. I'm glad you have something to combat them, at least.