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[This might be the only time anyone will see Pidge looking so happy. And feeling the tiniest bit social. The latter of which is really only obvious because she actually made a post to the network in order to share some of her more interesting findings with the rest of the Fleet. There are practically stars in her eyes.

This may never happen again.

Pidge is basically giggling as she positions her comm somewhere it can get a good view of her and her pile of seeming-junk, then immediately hurries back over to join her pile. From here, it's very easy to see the little green mouse droid rolling around, attempting to nudge the junk into neater piles, and what looks like a floating green caterpillar with glowing cheeks coming over to bump gently against the side of Pidge's head. She doesn't seem to mind.]

Okay! So there is a lot of really cool stuff on this planet, and I'm pretty sure I can work with it all. Check this out-

[Still beaming, she crouches down by the pile and starts picking at some of the stuff she's found. She goes through them all methodically, picking one item up and raising it for the camera to see before giving a brief explanation of what it is and what she can use it for. She does this for a while, one by one, but eventually she stops when both the mouse droid and the caterpillar start nudging into her sides.]

Fine, I'll wrap it up. Just- If anyone has a tech project in mind, just let me know. I'm basically gonna be planetside for as long as we're here, I think. There's a lot of awesome potential around here!

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[All the chatter was kind of lost to Keith as he focused on the new little droid thing that was hanging out with her.]

Where'd you get that?

[Was that another Rover?]

[Oh HI KEITH. Pidge looks so pleased to see you.]

Oh, you mean Little Green?

[She grins and turns toward the mouse droid, gesturing for it to come closer.]

Hux built him. I made some modifications of my own, of course. Cute, huh?

[Freya is on another trash heap and while she isn't really that far away, she is also digging through stuff and tossing some of it into a large box at her side.]

Right? This place is awesome.

I'm collecting parts for random things. Can I send you a list-ish so if you see anything you can snag it for me?

[Oh! A fellow dumpster diver. Pidge can absolutely appreciate that.]

Yeah, sure! Shoot the list over, I might even already have some of it. [With a grin, she gestures back at her pile of Stuff.] I've been picking up almost anything that's still more or less functional.

Hux? [Keith frowned a little.] I thought you guys weren't getting along.

We weren't. [Pidge shrugs a shoulder, and though her smile looks a little less bright it's still there.]

He made Little Green as a peace offering, I think. He figured I'd want one after I caught him working on it.

[Keith chuckled.]

Well, that's one way to get your attention, I suppose.

That's pretty cool, though. What does it do?

[Another shrug and her smile is back in full force while she reaches back to pat the little robot with one hand.]

It's a repair droid, primarily. I usually keep it in the engine room pretty exclusively, since that's where it's technically the most useful. I brought him down here to help me keep everything organized and potentially to help me move the bigger parts around.

Awesome! I have to be a little more picky but that's mostly because I don't know what all of this stuff is.

[If it looks functional she'll take it, if she doesn't know what it is she won't... unless it looks very cool.]

Is there anything you want to make?

[Oh my gods, nerd alert.

But a useful nerd. Kind of like Lucas - minus the whole "my whoopsie might destroy the world" bit.]

Not sure if "cool" is the right word, my dude, but definitely useful. Can you make an espresso machine?

I could probably show you sometime, if you want. Are you new to the Fleet or to- [Pidge gestures vaguely with a hand, offering a crooked smile.] -space travel in general, or what?

[Of all the requests Pidge expected to get... That wasn't one of them. But hey, it's not a bad request by any stretch of the animation.

But Pidge does have to snort a little, amused.]

Absolutely. If I find the right stuff, building one that can even auto-steam milk at the same time it brews should be easy.

What stuff do you need? I've been scrapping like my life depended on it, hoping to turn a profit. [Or really, hoping to buffer his ship because the paranoia about being sucked out into space at any given moment is too much. That and he has no idea how good the self-repair system is.]

It's not so much for me as my crew. Gotta fancy up the kitchen here as much as possible.

Well- [And here Pidge is going to list off some key components she would need, ticking them off on her fingers. It's pretty obvious Pidge knows exactly what to do, one way or the other.] ... Though if worse comes to worst I might be able to make whatever I need just out of scraps, or even just rig something else to make it work.

So is your crew super picky about food or something?

[Well shit. He's taking notes, but none of that made sense to him. He's a wizard, not a nerd.

WELP.

Time to con someone planetside into helping him. ]

Yeaaaah, I'll try my best, homie, but I'm from a fantasy world, so none of that made sense.

But my crew is worse than picky - they don't care. They have Istus' gift to food on their ship and none of them care. It's a tragedy.

Oh. [Fantasy world. It's not often that Pidge hears someone actually describe their home as such, so that kind of makes her smile.] Welcome to the space age, I guess?

What's Istus?

Eh, sort of? I lived on a base on a fake moon for the past year? Half a year? I dunno; it got confusing after being trapped in a time bubble.

[So nonchalant about that. Totes normal for his life.]

Istus is the Goddess of Fate. After she did me a solid, I switched from Oghma to her. She does some bitchin' crochet and knitting.

Oh. [Pidge's nose wrinkles ever so slightly. Religion and lore and talk of gods and goddesses is so not her thing. She'll happily let that topic drop because--]

A fake moon? [Now that's a way to get a Pidge's ears to perk up in interest.] How was it a fake moon? Was it not actually a body orbiting a planet?

More like it was a moon, but not a real one? I wasn't saavy on the lingo since whenever they talked about it, I'd zone out.

But what we thought of as the moon was a giant base of operations for this... place I worked.

It's cute.

[Well, sort of. It was still a robot...]

He even colored it to match your armor. Unless they're all green...

-Ish to both.

[She tosses a rather large scrap of metal behind her before the long messy blond hair comes back into the video.]

I've been here for a month or so. Already really antsy. I haven't ever traveled this much while feeling like I'm not traveling. I've decided that I don't like it but the making of dominoes has been helping.

[The greatest raised eyebrow in the world. Sounds terribly confusing.]

So... hang on, you're from a "fantasy world", but you worked for a place that had a base on what appeared to be a moon.

Try not to think of it as traveling. That's helped me a lot.

Dominoes? Like the toy?

[You're damn right it's cute, Keith. Hence the sparkles in Pidge's eyes.]

I think this one's the only one he painted. The others are just plain chrome and metal.

[Keith looked thoughtful for a moment.]

Hey... do you think he'd make one for each of us on the team?

[Granted, the one for Pidge had been a gift, but Keith would put up the credits if needed to get everyone on the team a little bot.

He had an idea.]

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