meanwhile, on the ss babysitting duty

[resnipstance]

Who: Ahsoka Tano, you
Broadcast: Video
Action: OUT AND ABOOT
When: 31st

ACTION
[Ahsoka is wandering around outside with her usual air filtration mask on, but something is different-- obviously different. This isn't the sixteen-maybe-seventeen year old girl of yesterday. This is a pre-teen. And she seems lost.]

... Skyguy? ... Master Kenobi? I know you guys are around! You can come out now...! "Prank the padawan" isn't funny any more...

[She shudders.] This planet is giving me the creeps.

VIDEO
[The video is simple: a young, familiar alien graces the screen, except... something's off. Way off. It's not just that her clothes are different-- she's shorter, horns smaller, too. When she talks, her voice is more high pitched, and the cadence different too. Less... calm.]



Hey! Is everyone just okay with the fact that we can't go outside without air filters?! What sort of condition is this for people to live in? What's being done to help the local inhabitants? Or move them off-world?

I need to speak to the person or people in charge! Immediately.

Comments

video;

[forcesensitive]

[Finn squints at first and then looks excited - hey, it's another togruta, Ahsoka's going to be excited! He hasn't noticed it's broadcasting from her network ID yet okay.]

Hey! Uh, we're helping the government fix the terraformation machines so it'll clear the toxins. But I guess if you really want to talk to them, you can? It's been like this a while, though.

[resnipstance]

Wait, they're not fixed yet?!

[ Her voice is indignant-- the injustice!! ]

[forcesensitive]

No, that's why it's all messed up like this. And they only just let us into the main core machine so we could check it out, but we did have a new template program in our files. So they're going to research and make sure it'll work instead of messing things up worse, and if it looks good, they'll implement it.

[resnipstance]

All right. Show me the way!

[forcesensitive]

[He blinks. Did he miss part of a conversation somewhere?]

The way to what? The core terraformer?

[resnipstance]

Duh! Do you have somewhere else to be?

[forcesensitive]

Not really? But what are you going to do that they haven't already done?

[resnipstance]

I'm a Jedi. Maybe I can spot something they haven't.

It can't hurt just to look, right?

[forcesensitive]

You're a Jedi, too?

[HOW MANY JEDI ARE THERE HERE? But he shrugs.]

I guess not. Where are you? I can meet you with a shuttle, we can fly over.

[resnipstance]

Ummm. Apparently the ship is called the Starstruck...

[Ahsoka's ship.]

[forcesensitive]

[Easy enough.]

All right. I'm coming over in one of the Caprine's shuttles. I'm Finn, Security on the Caprine.

-> action?

[resnipstance]

Okay, Finn! I'll be waiting.

action!

[forcesensitive]

[Piloting a shuttle still isn't his favorite thing in the universe, but he's all right at it. The Caprine's shuttles are a little better now that they have an engineer, anyway. One he docks, he pops his head out, hoping the girl is waiting because he didn't catch her name.]

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka's there, swinging her legs idly in the cargo hold as she sits on top of a rather large crate. She jumps down to greet him once he pops his head out.]

Hey partner! You ready to roll?

[forcesensitive]

[Oh, good - that gets a look of relief.]

Yeah, come on. You been down to the planet before or do we gotta stop along the way and pick up a gas mask?

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka holds up her gas mask in one hand.]

It was in my room when I woke up here. Thoughtful of them. [It's clear she's being a little sarcastic.]

[forcesensitive]

Lucky. I had to buy mine. [He holds up a heavy-duty mask he'd picked up for himself a while ago.]

It's about fifteen minutes ride from here. You got everything else you need?

[If so, buckle up!]

also i just realised the html in that link was borked whoops

[resnipstance]

Well, I wish I had my lightsaber...

But yeah, I'm good.

no worries!

[forcesensitive]

You and every other Jedi. The guns they give us aren't as good as real blasters, but there's not much on this moon they can't handle. We'll be fine.

[resnipstance]

[With a little bit of false bravado while she buckles up:]

Of course! I can handle myself just fine.

[forcesensitive]

[Considering there shouldn't actually be anything dangerous, well, he's inclined to believe her. Finn talks a bit as he navigates the shuttle carefully out of the cargo bay and down to the moon.]

So did you just get here?

[resnipstance]

That's right! I woke up on the Starstruck-- at first I thought Anakin was playing some kind of weird prank or training exercise...

[forcesensitive]

[Okay, now Finn's starting to look a little confused. It might finally be sinking in.]

Not the Marsiva? Most people wake up there.

[resnipstance]

No... [she seems to droop a little.]

Master Kenobi said I time traveled. Apparently I'm supposed to be older. Even though I don't remember being any older than this!

[forcesensitive]

Oh!

[He's quiet for a full minute, unusually for Finn, as he processes that.]

So how old are you now?