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Where Trash World Rules Are Concerned

Who: Ulaz and YOU!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: various
When: Anytime while in system

Option 1: Scrapheap
[Ulaz could be found a lot of the time at the piles of junk on this planet. With so many projects to work on and a big one being Shiro's arm so that he didn't have that problem anymore, he needed a lot of supplies. Luckily he was a big guy and not likely prone to people trying to take things from him.

It seemed to be a worth while endeavor at least. He was finding a lot of things that he could use]

Option 2: Blameless
[Some of Ulaz's supplies from scavenging were squirreled away in his room because he didn't want to leave them out. Some, however, had been temporarily moved to the lounge space on the Blameless whenever he found himself with a moment.

From previous discussions with Death over on the Caprine, he had decided to try his hand at building something for Loyalty, Justice's cat. He had taken some time during the drift to read up on the tiny felines - especially since one kept coming in trying to chew on things in his lab - and he was prepared to try a solution that might keep her mildly distracted.

So he was currently seated on the floor of the lounge trying to put together pieces to make something of a "cat tree". There were also length of rope next to him and what must have been once some carpeting, but he wasn't ready for those yet.

Help him? Hinder him? Keep him company while he works? Your call!]

Option 3: Junker Racing
[He had mentioned it to only a few people since he had been here, but Ulaz had, in his youth, been quite a daredevil. Most however, didn't really know that.

But in the course of his investigations of the planet, he found the junker racing. Ah... youth. But he couldn't seem to tear himself away from watching it...]

Closed to Lyall: Arena
[He couldn't quite be sure how of their frequent conversations circled around to it, but it had. Probably the arena had come up somewhere along the line and it had sparked the conversation. Seemed the most likely.

Ulaz had been curious for sometime about the actual physical capabilities of a werewolf, but wasn't sure if it was polite to ask a gentleman when they tried to maintain a certain air eighty-night percent of the time.

Lyall was apparently frustrated after his glitch, as beat up as he had been. Understandable.

So it had been decided they were going to face off in the arena. It was not the venue Ulaz would have thought Lyall would pick, but who was he to complain. It had intrigued him too much to worry about it for too long.

Here they were, in the arena. Ulaz could have worn his full armor, but he had decided to keep it more fair, only the suit he worry under it. It was the most superficial of protection. But it wasn't a slight against what he thought Lyall could do; the tradition of palen bol meant Galra were notorious gluttons for pain, seeing it as an opportunity for growth. He did however have one of his swords. He didn't intend to use it, but if found he did, he'd have it]

Whenever you are ready.

[Lyall would have the first move]

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Earth is in your galaxy and you've never heard from it outside of Shiro?

[It's strange to think that way, that there are inhabited planets that people don't have much interaction with. She knows logically there are planets that isolate themselves, but she's much more used to planets with significant populations being involved and connected in interplanetary relations.]

My universe. Not my galaxy. It is on the other side of where the Galra normally operate. They were just beginning to investigate that region because they were looking for something. Shiro and his crew were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Incredible. You're far more widespread than the galaxy I'm from, if that's the case.

[Not important, but a fact Leia can't help but add regardless.]

I haven't heard that part of the conflict Shiro was involved in.

[She's heard a lot, certainly. Enough to draw comparisons between what they've been through and what she's been through.]

I'm not surprised. It's not something most would want to talk about. The Galra... as a whole, are not nice. Some of us are trying to change that, but in the meantime we have to deal with the way the Galra operate.

There were Galra forces or at least someone having visited at most galaxies I know of.

[Leia nods. She's heard as much from what Shiro described of the war he'd been fighting. They sounded too similar to the Empire she was fighting for her tastes.]

But not you. You left them?

I left being a part of the Empire a long time ago. I was part of the group that was fighting against them. I was a spy in the Empire trying to get information to help my cause.

Something else I can relate to, to some extent.

[Not that she would've ever considered herself "part" of the empire, but she was certainly pretending to be.]

I'm glad to know you broke off from your Empire.

I am as well. I can't imagine how I would live with myself if I hadn't.

Your world has a similar problem?

My galaxy, yes.

[Her world, well, that has other problems at the moment. And though she's generally hesitant to talk about the Alliance and anything connected to it, because it's such an ingrained habit from being involved in it since she was young, it can't hurt to add just a bit of an explanation. Out of fairness.]

My world was better off compared to others, but no planet truly has a good existence under the Empire strangling what little freedom remains.

Yes, that does sound very similar to our Galran Empire. Planets are safe only so long as they are compliant and have something of value?

[Ulaz was open about specifics of his group with only certain people and even they only had a name and what they did, not anything that would have exposed locations. Besides, there were no Galra and the Blades were not a secret anymore from what he had heard]

[Leia nods. There were other arguments for what kept a planet "safe" beyond just resources and whether or not they were well behaved by the Empire's standards. Or there were. The attack on Alderaan changed up the usual rules, but Leia isn't getting into that.]

That, and a planet's prominence. Though most core planets fall under having something, or several somethings, of value, I suppose.

Of course. The more prominent, the more they can show what they did. A minor planet has less value than one that can show their dominion over others.

Precisely. And more than a few core planets have had their ways of life changed so little with the rise of the Empire that they and their corrupted leaders don't care enough to look beyond their systems.

Our two empires do seem remarkable similar. Though of course absolutely power doesn't really change, no matter who is wielding it or in what universe.

It certainly seems that way.

[Not that Leia's glad to hear that other universes have the same or similar problems as hers with the Empire. She'd hope that no one else has to deal with something like that.]

If I had to pick something to find familiarity in with another universe, this certainly isn't the one I'd hope for.

I agree. It is not one that I would wish on others. Our own is bad enough. There does not need to be another one.

I suppose even with the Empires, there are still good things out there in the universe.

Knowing that there are those in other galaxies also willing to stand up to oppressive Empires is already a good start.

It is. I thought we were the main ones in our world, but it turns out that after Voltron, more worlds have begun to fight back as well.

I'm glad to hear that.

[It's hard, she knows, gathering or inspiring more people to actually openly stand up and fight back. But there's one thing here that Leia isn't sure on--]

Can I ask what Voltron is?

Voltron is a weapon in our world. It is formed by combining five robot lions into another larger robot. It is the most powerful weapon we have.

[She isn't sure what she expected Voltron to actually be, but combining robots is likely not that.]

Incredible. What sort of abilities does it have?

[Probably most people didn't think about that]

It can create a sword or a firearm for itself to use for itself. It generally functions as a humanoid. However, being a robot, it can travel in space without a problem.

I'd imagine that makes certain things easier. I can point out more than a few moments where having a robot like this available for us would have been much easier than having only snub fighters ships on our side.

It does. Most planets have smaller crafts, which cannot go up against the cruisers and the sheer number of drone ships that the Galra have. Voltron is not so easy for even the cruiser to take out.

Typically when we're faced with Star Destroyers, we either outrun them or attempt to manipulate their captains into crossing paths.

[Because after all, the're a bit too big to steer accurately at that size.]

A Voltron of our own would be a big help.

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