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Who: Leia Organa, possibly you too.
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Aboard the Marsiva and the Vanquish later on
When: Upon arrival and after the shuffle and anything else anyone tosses in as a wildcard.

A. Broadcast/Hospitality Deck

[Space travel, for Leia, is far from new. There hasn't been a time in her life where she wasn't able to board a ship and travel to another planet. Travel without her knowledge, though? That's new, and that has her on guard, because she doesn't recognize her surroundings, doesn't know whose ship this is, and doesn't yet know how to her people or to get away on her own. (good luck with that one, Leia.) Not to mention this whole reality show nonsense...

What she does recognize is a camera when she sees one. Narrowing her eyes and raising her chin, Leia peers down at the camera, her expression doing a good job at masking the unease she's feeling thanks to... well, everything here.]

If this is a joke, it's not a funny one.

[As much as she wants more information and needs to know exactly where she is and what's going on, she's too on edge, guarded, and distrustful to outright ask. But that's not to say she won't respond if anyone responds to her... less-than-amused broadcast.

For anyone else currently in or around the welcome area later on, they're likely to see Leia inspecting her new surroundings. She has questions--too many, probably, that she doesn't even really know where to begin asking them--and trying to find answers herself is her first instinct.

But, as closed off and standoffish as she may seem at the moment, noticing someone near her, well--that's a resource for more information, and someone else presumably in a similar situation. It wouldn't be right to not reach out.]

At least this is cleaner than the last ship I was on.

[meaning, the Falcon. Ha...]

B. Aboard the Vanquish

[You know who isn't quite fond of surprises? Leia. Leia isn't fond of them. This whole appearing in a fanfare of confetti and music and... chocolate goo? is really not her thing. Leia blinks, essentially stunned into silence for a moment, glancing around at the confetti, the dessert, and all this ridiculously unnecessary ceremony.

She doesn't plan on sticking around the bridge for long, though she will stop if anyone in the bridge as she arrives greets her. That, or if anyone in the bridge notices the untouched chocolate cream left behind. She's got other things on her mind to deal with now besides suspicious dessert goo.

Most of Leia's first day on board is spent, as likely all new arrivals do, wandering the ship and getting a feel for her new surroundings. ...And occasionally shaking yet another hidden poof of confetti from her hair. But rather than getting to know every inch of her new ship, Leia gravitates first toward the nearest porthole window, scouring the stars to see if there's any hint of any system or other space landmark-of-sorts that she recognizes. (There isn't.) Anyone who happens to come across her while space-gazing, may get hit with:]

There's something unsettling about not being able to place this system.

[Place it in relation to any of the systems she's more familiar with, that is.]

C. Broadcast/text

[In her time here, Leia has done some investigating, scouring the network to get a better idea of where she is, what's going on, and who else is here with her. It's information easily at hand, and it would be remiss of her to not make use of it. It's when looking through the media files that she comes across a few words that catch her attention, and as much as she's still reluctant to broadcast herself, she has questions that need answers--]

Have any of you found files here from your home galaxies that no longer exist in your current time?

[in other words, someone found the Jedi Code uploaded in the files. And more than just the fact that it speaks about the Jedi and indicates maybe others from her same galaxy had been here at some point, what catches Leia's curiosity about this is that, as far as she's aware, this information had likely been completely destroyed in the years since the fall of the Republic.]

D. Wildcard

[If you want something else not covered by the above options, let me know and we can work it out. Continuing test drive threads here is also 100% okay with me.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Heh, thanks. I like to think I try.

[Admittedly he has been rather distracted by all the new things and technology, but at the heart of it, he truly enjoys meeting new people.]

How long have you been on board this ship?

[She's heard a few varying lengths from a few people, but she'd like more information to have a better idea what she should expect.]

Two, three months? Somewhere round there; I haven't exactly been keeping track. Enough time to learn my way around, and still get lost sometimes.

[Usually getting lost on the Iskaulit, but when he does he invariably finds a fun, cool new place to hang out next time he's there.]

[Leia frowns. A few months isn't as long as it could have been, but it's longer than she would've hoped.]

That's still a long time.

[Kramm rumbles something of an agreement, although he doesn't really have any pressing matter to get back to.]

Yeah, it can be. Are you needed somewhere?

I am.

[Even though one of the issues she's determined to fix is apparently fixed here, despite Han not remembering it happened? Time shenanigans are weird.]

It's complicated, though.

Hm, I'm sorry you have to deal with this, then. Here's hoping you get a speedy recovery - but until then we'll just have to make your visit worth the wait.

[He smiles congenially, although his toothy grin makes it a little more menacing.]

Is it anything you want to talk about?

[Well there's a lot on her mind, certainly, but she's not yet able or ready to open up about any of that yet. It's too complicated, anyway, if you ask her, to talk about half of it. So instead--]

Is there anything I should be aware of on this ship?

[Kramm shrugs,] You'd probably be better educated in these things to tell me if anything's off. Seems like a fine little ship, perhaps a tad too 'little' for my tastes, but it's got food and a place to sleep and a place to work out, so. I can't complain.

It's larger than the ship I was just on before showing up here.

[But not as familiar, not as comfortable, not as much of a risk for "will this thing make it to hyperspace safely or will it collapse and kill us all.]

But I mean more in terms of habits of you and the other people on board here.

Oh! Ah, I dunno. We're a good crew. Manji doesn't care for our Captain so he spends a lot of time on the Iskaulit but other than that, I think everyone is alright with everyone else.

What happened between him and the Captain?

[She knows how frustrating it can be when you're with what you perceive to be an arrogant stubborn captain or anything like that, but well. Details are important.]

Nothing interesting, from what I can tell. I think he thinks she just talks too much.

[He is of course spreading misinformation that was spread to Manji, also,] Uh, we may have been drinking, too, so ... it might be a little hazy.

[Leia purses her lips, going over that information. She's not sure if it's entirely true or unbiased or anything like that, especially with the bit about alcohol being involved. So--]

Regardless, it's good to be aware of, in a ship as crowded as this.

Heh, yeah. I admit I'm not used to traveling with the same set of companions - some would come, some would go, maybe you'd meet the same friend months afterwards ... and I have heard of parties who stick together for months on end, but that's not my experience. It's ... new.

[But he generally likes people so he can't really complain so far.]

For the most part, I've been with the same people for years. There weren't many that made the choice to leave.

[As much as Han threatened to, he never actually acted on it. The ones who left were ones who were killed, who had no choice but to leave. Or ones who went awol to go do jedi training in a swamp, but she doesn't know just how long Luke was away from the rebel fleet.]