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eastbound2023-01-20 12:01 am
allforthecause) wrote in eastbound2023-01-20 12:01 am
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[ Cassian is perched just outside one of the furthest tents of the caravan, out of the blazing sun as he reads over the vellum scroll in his hands several times, trying to memorize it. Only once he is done so does he put it away and pull the silver pendant out of his clothes to send a message to the rest. ]
So, I am still fairly new here. Finding my feet.
Surely there is a way to be useful? A way to earn a credit or two?
I’ve heard that there are things in the desert, that can be found by those with sharp eyes. But are they even worth the retrieval, I wonder? Who would even want them?
So, I am still fairly new here. Finding my feet.
Surely there is a way to be useful? A way to earn a credit or two?
I’ve heard that there are things in the desert, that can be found by those with sharp eyes. But are they even worth the retrieval, I wonder? Who would even want them?
Swapping to video
Good to see you, brother.
Tech, I can do. Artifacts, I need the history before I can judge the worth.
Magic… just a few children’s stories about the Jedi. I don’t even know where to start.
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Kahl fix things, catch food... [He chuckles.] And people pay Kahl to be big and look tough. Brasso could look tough, maybe.
[As for the magic, they're both dealing with unfamiliar stuff.] Mm. Kahl not know much more. Seen Tenno magic, but this place different.
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[ He parses Kahl’s description for a second, then nods. ] I think I’ve seen her. I’ll seek her out.
I don’t think I’ll manage looking as tough as you, so I’d best find other work. Fixing tech is my best bet - don’t think it’ll take long to figure out how things work here. Just need to know who to go to.
What’s Tenno magic?
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Now Brasso's turn. What is Jedi?
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[ He paused to consider the question. Unlike many he didn’t grow up on stories of the Jedi - the adults of his home world had been abandoned by the republic and killed during a mining disaster. He heard most of the stories through osmosis after Maarva adopted him. But even then, it was hard to describe what one was in a way that made sense to someone completely foreign to the concept. ]
Jedi come from all over - people who had a special connection to the force. They say they could manipulate minds, move things with their thoughts, and survive conditions that would kill the rest of us. But they were all killed when I was very small.
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What force? Army? [That's the only time he hears the word "force" getting used.]
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No. The Force. [ He gestured vaguely around him, at everything. ]
You know. The stuff. That holds everything together.
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...Gravity?
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No, no. Not gravity. It’s - the stuff life is made of. It’s in everything, moves everything. I don’t know, I’m no Jedi.
When the force is with you - that’s when the universe is with you.
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...Heh.]
Can Brasso explain Force with trains?
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Cassian paused, considered. ]
The Force is why it moves.
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Now Kahl understand everything. [He still has no idea what the Force is. Whatever it might be, it makes things work, at least in Brasso's dimension. That's good enough for him.
More importantly, he wants to make sure his new brother is settling in.]
Brasso doing okay here?
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I’m here, I’m alive. Everything else will sort itself out.
Just wish I had a better idea of where we’re going.
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Kahl want to know more too. [Sounded like a lot of undead were there, but he didn't know anything else.] Map good thing to have. Kahl can make one there. [Give them an idea of what the defenses were.]
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[ He’d heard whispers, but he didn’t know what to make of them. Kahl had been around long enough to know what it meant. ]
You have survey equipment?
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I had no idea. We have cybernetics, yes - mostly prosthetics, or droids. Never met someone who had that kind of functionality in them.
Is it a risk? Can it be hacked?
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He shrugs.] Never happen to Kahl. Just glitch. Kahl get hit with shock, everything get messed up. Augments reboot quick. Quicker than Kahl do. [Kahl has been through a lot.]
Why Brasso's people not have this? It make stuff easy. [There's some humans that don't like augments, he knows that. They really don't like Grineer. Brasso seems fine with him, though.]
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[ He frowned, shook his head. ]
I wouldn’t trust anyone with putting something in my head that they could access. And I’ve yet to find a piece of tech that couldn’t be hacked.
[ Nemik’s old gear, maybe, if he took Nemik’s word for it. But something had gone wrong in the heist, for all the work they’d done to keep it going right. So he wasn’t going to put his trust in anything. ]
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Kahl's friends can share data. But Kahl never get hacked. Even in war. Kahl's brain get hacked, not augments. [He doesn't know why the Worms wouldn't have done it if they could. It would have been easier to kill and control Grineer who got lost in the battle.]
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The Clone Wars— that’s a long story. I’ll tell it, when we can sit and have a drink over it.
What do you mean, your brain got hacked?
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[He sighs heavily.] Maybe tell more with drink.
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[ He says it with a solemnity that underlies exactly how angry that makes him, a low simmering fury at the idea of anyone doing that - least of all to Kahl. ]
Later, then. With food in our bellies and drinks in our cups.