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Who: Manji and you!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Vanquish and Iskaulit
When: During the day

[Manji had seen Katie had left on the roster. He checked after hearing Makie had left and saw her name listed there. Still he waited another week before returning to the ship, half expecting them to come back.

He quietly looks around Katie’s abandoned room as if to assure himself she’s really gone before picking up an item and walking out again to return to the Iskaulit. It has been more of a home to him then the Vanquish has been. Which is why when he makes his broadcast it’s in the garden on the Iskaulit.]
Katie is gone if you haven’t checked the rosters. Don’t know if she left anyone anything as I didn’t check, but you can look at her room if you want. Sorry. I guess. [He’s really not good at this sort of thing.

He thinks he has turned the broadcast off as he tosses the communicator down on the ground. Maybe he did and it’s turned itself back on, but either way it gives a crocked shot of Manji standing with the item he stole from Katie’s room: her lightsaber.]
How’dcha turn it on again? [He gives it a couple wags in his hand before the beam erupts from the handle as Manji yelps in surprise.] SHIT! [At least he didn’t stab himself with it this time? He turns the handle over in his hand several times.] There we go.

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[Harsh, but well. It's not like it's something she can argue when it is true, as much as she enjoyed talking with Katie here.]

It looks similar to something that a good friend of mine has back in my galaxy.

[Have? had? Probably still have, since there's at least two she knows of still in use. Tenses are hard with Jedi things.]

Oh yeah? Well, I can't tell you if she stole it to begin with or not. [That's not what Leia is saying, but that's what Manji is hearing.]

I didn't say she stole it.

[Manji what is your fixation with theft....]

What I'm wondering is if there was a planet the Fleet visited somewhere that had this sort of technology available.

[BECAUSE HE STOLE THIS FAIR AND SQUARE AND IT'S HIS NOW, OKAY!?]

Sorry, I can't tell ya that. She had this long before I showed up here. [But he can understand the feeling of wanting something familiar so he does feel a little bad he doesn't have more information for her.] Probably best to ask someone who's been here longer.

[Probably Katie would've been the best option for answers, but well. That's not a possibility anymore. But it does bring up another question--]

How long have you been here?

Not quite a full year. I think about... seven? No, nine? [He hadn't really been keeping close track. Time didn't matter so much to him and the lack of a steady day/night cycle was still messing with him.] A few months.

[She'd understand the difficulties of keeping time in space, knowing that well from home. It's why she prefers time on planet rather than in space.]

Longer than I have this time, at any rate. It's difficult to keep track of here.

It is. I've never been in a place before here where the sun doesn't come up. Or sometimes multiple suns show up. It's... strange. [There's probably a better word for it, but he can't think of it.]

If it's something you've never experienced before, it would be difficult to get used to.

[multiple suns, planets with too long days, all of that is nothing new to Leia based on what she's experienced back home.]

But extended stays in space are difficult on anyone.

I had never left Japan before this, let alone the planet. It has been a bit of an adjustment.

From the sounds of it though you've had a bit more experience with this sort of thing?

Space travel is commonplace where I'm from. My own homeplanet only has one sun, but I've been on several that don't fit that standard in my life.

Any of the places we've visited look familiar to you? [He doubts it, but still asks.]

Unfortunately no.

[Which proves the story she's been told about the fleet, but is still unsettling to see in practice.]

They aren't even remotely similar to the sort of systems I'm used to.

Shit. Well, that's the answer I expected, but I was kind of hopin' to be wrong. Universe must be a pretty big place that you haven't even found a similar system yet.

It's possible we're stuck somewhere in the Unknown Regions, I suppose, but I don't think it's likely.

Unknown Regions? [He tests the words and gives a quick nod of his head. He gets the concept.] So, space really is that big then, huh?

Big enough that we can't truly measure it. Even within only one galaxy.

Yeah. I'm just going to stick with one galaxy. Thanks anyway. [He makes a deadpan joke because seriously his mind tends to melt and/or explode enough as it was just trying to comprehend one.]