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[sandhate]

Who: Anakin Skywalker
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Paisley
When: Right meow

There are a lot of questions and interests about other worlds lately. I have one question that I'm interested in right now. [ Alright, Ankain you can do this. Forget about that scolding Obi-Wan voice in your head telling you that the future is always changing. ] Does your universe-- do you believe in fate?

[ Oh, great. It sounds like a load of bantha dung when he actually hears it out loud. Awkwardly: ]

Destiny.

[ That doesn't help, which is fine. It's fine. It goes against the Jedi teachings and feels wrong just saying it. Nevermind that things are different with each universe, so it can't be really applicable, right?

Whatever, roll with it.

He adds, without pause, a completely unnecessary definition. ]

That certain things needs to happen in the future.

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[archaeotechnician]

If you think it'd help.

[sandhate]

[ Scoffs: ] I doubt that's the kind of help you need.

[archaeotechnician]

[ unflustered! ]

If you didn't want anyone saying anything, you should have practiced beforehand. Maybe written it down.

[ ~*~making friends~*~ ]

In answer to your question, though, it depends on where in the galaxy you're at. Further away from the Core you get, the less anyone believes in anything they can't see with their two eyes. Or…more eyes.

[sandhate]

[ Core? Sure sounds like lingo he knows. ]

What about what you believe in?

[archaeotechnician]

I don't.

[sandhate]

So, you're saying you're not from the Core.

[archaeotechnician]

You catch on quick.

[sandhate]

You're not hard to catch.

I'm Anakin Skywalker. And you must be new.

[archaeotechnician]

Two for two, Anakin Skywalker. Do you prefer 'Anakin' or is that too familiar? I don't know, only Jedi I've met is Ahsoka.

[ and luke who doesn't count for his general luke-ness. ]

[sandhate]

[ Of course, everyone meets Ahsoka first. ]

Anakin's fine. And I never said I was a Jedi.

Good guess.

[ Sure, it's probably a guess ]

[archaeotechnician]

Your padawan kind of outed you. And you're pretty famous.

[sandhate]

Great. [ UGH AHSOKA ]

I didn't know the Rim worlds even had the propaganda Coruscant spews out. Or care for it.

[archaeotechnician]

They don't. [ #bless the rim worlds ] I happen to travel a lot. You hear things.

[sandhate]

You know what I'm not hearing? A name. Yours, in fact. You seem to know all these is about me already, thanks to Ahsoka. Seems only fair I at least get a name.

[archaeotechnician]

First, wrong assumption; you're now two out of three. Second, I haven't heard a 'please.'

[sandhate]

I could get it from Ahsoka.

[archaeotechnician]

Really? [ she adopts a mocking approximation of his voice: ] "I'm a man, my ego is too fragile to say please."

[ she drops it quickly, her eye roll almost audible in her tone. ]

Come on. You can do better.

[sandhate]

[ Chuckling ] If you don't want to, that's fine. But this isn't a very big fleet. I'll find out eventually.

[archaeotechnician]

It's not that hard when you know who to ask.

[ yes, she knows it'll be easy for him to find out her name. as she knows he met luke. luke, whom she had shocked into unconsciousness not a few days ago. ]

Doctor Aphra.

[sandhate]

Doctor Aphra.

[ He says her name with an ease and smugness and a 'ha ha', similar to Nelson of Simpsons fame. ]

Pleasure.

[archaeotechnician]

[ u having a giggle there m8

far from taking offense, however — really? this is anakin skywalker? — aphra prepares a little dig.

curiously, ] I have to say, I don't know what I expected from Luke's father.

[sandhate]

[ Gonna be having an aneurysm at this rate.

Because he didn't exactly end things well with Luke before he left. And now this, this is happening. ]

How do you know Luke?

[archaeotechnician]

We met at a Jedi temple. The ruins of one anyway.

[ 100% true. exact circumstances described on a need-to-know basis.

update: no one needs to know. ]

[sandhate]

[ But he wants to know. ]

Where?

[archaeotechnician]

[ rejected.jpeg

sweetly, ] Is that your way of saying 'please'?