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(video | live with han solo and obi wan kenobi.)

(welcome to the shuttle bay with han and obi-wan. excuse the fact that there's a shuttle that han's stripped and that obi-wan generally looks like he has a bad feeling about all of this.)

I think if you follow the guidelines set by the Security Team, you should be safe. Stay in groups. Don't engage.

(there's a beep and a long protest as Arfour says something, but she's not in view. that's when han just takes off his goggles off to actually prove obi-wan wrong.)

No, this is what you do. If you see a pirate? Shoot them. (wait, this is a jedi he's talking to.) Or use the Force, you know what you do.

(obi-wan looks irritated for a moment, but he'll take this moment to roll his eyes and cross his arms)

If you don't have training, don't engage.

If you don't have training, get someone else to shoot them. If they talk to you, shoot them. If they even look at you, shoot them. If they ask you how you're doing, shoot them. If they're dying outside your room, watch them die and then shoot them to make sure they don't get up.

(han's getting a little serious about this.)

I'm going back to work.

(aaaaaand Obi-Wan walks a little away, Arfour beeping after him, but she's still not visible on screen)

Don't touch anything, I'm redoing the - (han was running after him before running back to turn off the communicator.)

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We run salvage missions. It's a shame you people don't get that, but I'm not here to explain how life works. I'm here to take care of my people and get us in and out with no fuss and no blood, as long as everyone stays calm.

Sir, if you had contacted us and asked for supplies? We might well have given them to you. But you come in and threaten our lives and our livelihoods. You come in to steal from us. I don't want to see you dead, no, but for your sheer hypocritical, self-righteous conduct I'll not be shedding any tears if it happens.

How many people have you killed?

It's not your ship.

...I don't keep a count, Christ. That's-- [ wtf even ] A little sick, Miles. Now you're making me worry about you.

We didn't have to shoot anyone to end up here, so I think our claim is slightly more legitimate.

But surely, sir, you can give a rough estimate. Two? Five? Twenty? A hundred?

You keep saying that, but the guy who eats people and the guy telling everyone to shoot us? Not helping your case.

...what is wrong with you people?

What's wrong with you? What the hell kind of a man doesn't even bother to remember the lives that he's taken? You pretend to be kind and friendly and concerned, but I think you nothing more than a common -

[wait]

Hold on. Who eats people?

Why don't you ask Kenobi and Solo that one? Or is it only murder if you got a problem with it.

...yeah, no. I don't think so.

[Oh - of course. It must be one of the vampires and some reference to that...In any case.]

Murder is murder; its definition is inflexible. What is not murder, however, is self-defense. We're defending ourselves from you, and I'm pretty certain, sir, that you lost the moral high ground the first time you killed a man for withholding some thing that you wanted.

I've never killed anyone outside of the job, and I don't plan to start here but so help me, if you try and hurt anyone in my crew I won't hesitate to take action.

We fire to warn if you draw first. If you keep coming, we'll defend ourselves.

You've never murdered anyone outside of your armed robbery. Don't play noble with me. I've seen a hundred men like you go to the execution chamber, and the world was better for the lack of them.

Sounds to me like between the two of us, only one wants this to end with dead people.

[ a long sigh. ]

I don't like killing. I like drinking and screwing around and I really don't mind fighting, don't get me wrong, but if you think this is about looking for a fight then watch your own goddamn people. Not us.

Edited 2013-04-21 15:25 (UTC)

Right.

All right. Let's turn this around. We board your ship with guns and threats. What do you do?

It's not your ship, Miles.

[Louder:]

We board your ship with guns and threats. And sophistry, apparently. What do you do. Tuck your tail between your legs? Tell us to take whatever we want?

You're squatting on a missing government vessel. How are we doing anything you're not doing already?

Squatting? Fine. Use your ship to take us to the nearest space station or inhabited planet. A safe one, please, preferably without any brain operations. Once we're all off, you can return and help yourself to the damn thing. Enjoy all the things you find on it. How does that sound?

Sounds like bullshit, Miles. You keep demanding we do things your way and tell you everything you wanna know, but we still haven't gotten the real story from you. I let you near our girl, I'm starting to think this clueless act drops.

Edited 2013-04-21 15:38 (UTC)

Did you see any means by which we would have gotten onto this ship? Any docked shuttles not the Tranquility's own?

If you think that means anything-- come on, even you gotta know when to stop.

Really? Come, now - even a sociopathic meathead like yourself has a few brain cells to rub together. If we're squatters, how did we get here?

You jettisoned them. You took them apart for scrap. You found this thing docked at a station.

I can keep going.

Does any of that make any sense whatsoever? Why would we do any of that?

Because they were shit and this thing was top market once upon a time? Hayes says the tech's fucked all to hell, and I believe my own people over somebody who keeps insulting me like I don't know what he's saying.

...What is it you all want? Spare parts? Technology?

...what the hell else would we want? We'll raid the kitchens, sure, but considering these ones haven't even been touched yet somehow I think it's not gonna be missed too bad.

[ the idea of people having this much food and bitching about them taking some of it kind of pisses fields off, more than the tech. the tech he understands their issues with, even if he doesn't care. ]

Edited (LATE EDIT BECAUSE FIELDS IS NOT A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL) 2013-04-22 19:31 (UTC)

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