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Who: Rey & Open
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: For Marsiva.
When: 9/16

[She is understandably confused, but after all she has experienced, she is taking this in careful strides. ~~Unlike a certain member of the Dark Side.~~]

If anyone can see this transmission, my name is Rey and I was just - [Meeting a cloaked Jedi. No big deal.] It doesn't matter. I'm looking for the Millennium Falcon and a tall Wookiee named Chewbacca.

[Unless she has been kidnapped by the First Order again.]

This ship is called the Marsiva, isn't it? It...wouldn't happen to be owned by the First Order, would it?

[Please say no. She has noticed that she is missing the lightsaber and that leaves her with only one option if she is cornered. ~~How does the Jedi Mind Trick even work?~~]

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How so?

I'm sorry for asking so many questions. [She knows she probably sounds like a overly-curious child and she doesn't mean to. Rey has been independent for years.]

Alright. I'll keep that in mind.

Do they take things when you arrive, usually? I had a weapon...

It's okay, Rey. It's a really disorienting situation, and everyone here has gone through it. I just don't know how much I can answer. I've been here for 8 months and it's a weird balance between accepted and surprising.

They do take your things, sometimes, especially weapons. They've also... I don't want to freak you out or anything, but they've implanted something in your neck. We all have it. It's called an augment.

What?! [Cue her scrambling to a mirror to check her neck. What...] Why do I have a...augment? What does it do?

[No, breathe. Be calm. She closes her eyes and finds her balance again.]

This really is too much. [She's wondering if she made the right choice is abandoning Jakku altogether.]

I'm so sorry. And I really want to give you a hug right now.

There's nothing that puts you immediately at risk, right at this moment. But if you try to mess with it, there are bad consequences. Mostly it's there to give you information—do you just know something that you can't quite explain knowing? It's probably the augment.

O-Oh, no, I'll - I'll be okay. [She's thrown by the offer and it's clear she probably hasn't been hugged very much before.]

I think I know more about these ships than I should. Particularly when it comes to flying them. Is that a possible augment?

Yeah, that makes you a pilot.

I might enjoy that.

Yeah? Is that in your wheelhouse?

I taught myself to fly on Jakku. I think I can handle almost any ship.

Really? How? That sounds very impressive.

A lot of practice. Once I scavenged enough parts, sometimes I would get a ship working again for a short while - just to test it out. I was even able to build my own speeder.

That sounds amazing. I'm not sure what a speeder is but it sounds like a great accomplishment.

It's a small ship that you can ride above the desert sand! Mine could carry a lot of weight and go faster than most other speeders I saw on Jakku.

And you built that? From scratch? That's incredible.

I had years to work on it. There really wasn't much else to do. [But the praises do feel nice and she can't help but like Kara.]

Not a lot of entertainment on Jakku?

It's a desert planet. I scavenged for spare parts, sold them, bought what food and water was available and then repeated it all the next day.

That sounds like a difficult way to live.

I...didn't have a choice. I was waiting for my family.

Did you reunite with them?

[ she suspects the answer, but she doesn't want to assume ]

No...not yet. They left me on Jakku when I was small. I thought they would come back, but I guess I knew deep down they either couldn't or wouldn't.

[ she wants to hug her again ]

I'm sorry.

I lost my family at a young age, too. I found a home with a new family, but it's never the same.

But a new family is good! I...haven't really found that yet. I've made friends and I care about them a lot, but I can't really stay around them.

Why not?

And, I mean, of course a new family is good. But it's also different.

I need to learn...how to be a Jedi.

Do you remember your...first family? That would make it harder.