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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.

Comments

[goldenglasses]

Hm, maybe not, but I still have trouble believing that what will be is set in stone.

[sandhate]

Maybe not set in stone. But there could be a path towards a common outcome.

[goldenglasses]

I still not sure I can really believe something like that. I'm the one who chooses what I do with my life. No one or nothing else.

[sandhate]

I'm guessing you don't believe in something greater.

[ Because he's starting to think maybe it's the matter of having the Force in the world ]

[goldenglasses]

I suppose that depends on your definition of something greater.

I know of religions believing in a higher power that watches over their actions. And I have heard of the idea of preordained fate before, but for myself? In what I've seen in my lifetime people are free to make their own choices and it's our choices that change things. That's why no matter how bad things may seem you always have the power to change it.

Or, at least, that's what I believe.

[sandhate]

My Order follows the idea that everything is connected through the Force, that the Force has a greater plan and we must trust its will or be led astray. The Force is our "something greater".

Choice is always there for you. The right ones centre on what the Force tells us.

[goldenglasses]

The "right choice" it almost sounds more like a type of conscience.

[sandhate]

...Not always.

[ A beat as he struggles to explain it. ]

The Force ... doesn't care for a lot of things; its guidance doesn't always make sense and it might take a long time for the purpose of your action to have any sense. All it does care about is balance. And balance isn't always the moral choice.

[goldenglasses]

Hmm. [Vash is quiet as he considers that.] I suppose balances are important, but the means matter with how you get there.