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[ When she flicks the device on, she's pulling away, like she very obviously set it onto something so she could look slightly down at it. When she pulls away, the camera gives a sight of a woman who looks like she's in her mid-thirties. She's dressed in, well, something close to a black catsuit, and she folds her arms over her chest while she looks at the item. If anything, she looks a touch annoyed, but that's the last of the emotion on her face, and when she speaks, her voice is painfully level. The most important thing to note is that at her hip, there's a flash of metal that could just be a rather sophisticated, cylyndrical weapon. ]

I've done my research, so I don't need the basics. I'm looking for details, or specs, if you have them. I've figured out that whoever took me has to be an idiot for giving me an opportunity to talk over these things, and leave me with my weapons.

[ A quirk of an eyebrow. ]

It's messy.

So, has anyone met them? Has anyone said why, or are they just idiots? If not, then I guess there's at least some mystery to whatever it is I've stepped into this time. I don't suppose it's too much to ask about who's on here, is it? Getting a scope of the field will help out more than anything else.

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Ghosts.

[ She shifts, tightening her arms around her middle. ]

That's absurd. Got any other bright ideas?

I was joking.

[Now she's not.]

As far as we know the original crew is mostly dead. And the remaining members aren't terribly talkative.

Apparently. Nobody knows anything?

Nothing concrete, no. We're simply in another world, with time distorted. That's all we know for certain.

[Nomi holds up her own lightsaber, letting the other redhead see the distinctively clawed hilt.]

Yours was hard to miss. Are you a Jedi, or did you come by that from other means?

[ Jedi. Well. That's going to get awkward, considering this woman isn't one of the ones she knows. ]

I should be asking you the same thing. I don't know who you are, and I'm pretty sure I know all of the Jedi in the galaxy.

[Nomi smiles and leans forward to look at the camera.]

Do you now? Perhaps that might be true. But remember what I said about time distortions here on the Tranquility? In all likelihood, you and I will have that problem. Because I know all of the Jedi in the galaxy as well, and I don't recognize you either.

[She pauses, an almost cheeky smile flashing across her face as she straightens her shoulders.]

I am Nomi Sunrider. Who are you? And what year is it when you are from?

[If Mara's payed any attention to Tionne...well...]

[ Pay attention to Tionne? Well, passing attention. Enough that she knows the name, but those epics aren't really her stride. She can put enough together that she should probably keep the lid shut for the moment. ]

Year? [ A pause. How to explain the differences in time, Great Resynchronization vs. Galactic Standard time vs. the time after the Ruusan Reform. After a moment, she finally speaks, choosing her words carefully. ]

Let's just say I don't think that if I told you it would make a difference. You said something about time distortions?

[Nomi's smile widens into something more amused, but not unkind. Understanding, motherly, but still amused. The date wasn't important, but the reaction was.]

I did. If I may hazard a guess, I'm someone you've heard of in a history lesson? Can I ask how far into the future you are? Or would it be more prudent to ask if you're familiar with the Skywalker family?

[Oh, she knows.]

[ Oh, of all the statements, that gets a reaction. A mixed one, too.

Look, she married into a really weird family, and she knows it. ]

You could say that. You've met a member of them? [ A beat. ] From your time, or...here?

[Looks like she nailed it. Nomi can't help but laugh.

A weird family is right!]

Anakin, Luke, and Leia. All here. They've come from about 4000 years after me.

Ah.

[ Oh. Boy. Oh boy. There's a moment of mixed emotion. Husband! But. Father-in-law. That she didn't get along with. Going by a different name! She isn't sure what to feel at this, so she just narrowed her eyes a touch more. ]

I see. How long have they been here?

[Nomi narrows her eyes right back.]

Anakin before me. The others only recently. Now, who are you? I believe I've given you plenty of information in trade.

I see.

[ Now where was Skywalker, then? That was the question. If he hadn't come running... well, that was concerning enough. She didn't expect him to be incapable of staying out of trouble on his own, but they were stronger together. ]

Call me Mara Jade.

[ She omits the second part of her name. For the moment. No need to draw that question out. ]

Apprentice, Knight, or Master Jade?

[That reaction she mentally files away. On to the formalities then.]

Knight. A recently appointed knight. I assume you're familiar enough with the way things are, master, then?

[ She sounds like a Jedi Master. ]

Grandmaster in my time, actually. Though with the Order as it is, after the war with Exar Kun...

[She trails off, expression distant. So many dead, and so much devastation.]

Bad, I assume?

[ This was starting to sound a little more familiar. She'd heard bits and pieces, sure, but what hit more than anything was the name.

Oh, there were things Mara Jade did know about that name. ]

War never leaves us in a very good state.

Well losing sixty percent of the active Jedi, having several planets rendered completely uninhabitable for the next...at least two thousand years...and three star-clusters completely destroyed by Sith Sorcery hardly counts as good, I'd say.

[Excuse her, she'd only just escaped Ossus when things went kaboom. The not sleeping thing isn't helping.

And if Nomi knew what Mara had the misfortune of discovering about Kun's spirit...oh you could bet that Yavin 4 would look very very different than it does now. Glass wouldn't even begin to describe it.]

[ The only option would be to kill it with fire, honestly.

She gives her something of a grim smile. ]

I'm sure that would be tough to recover from.

[ Or you know, near complete eradication of the order. Good thing she wasn't tasked with rebuilding. ]

[Blowing it up from orbit is generally a valid way to kill things with fire.

Generally.]

We'll manage, I'm sure. Like I'm sure the Order in your time will manage to rebuild too.

[She does know about that. Blame Bail. Blabbing senators...]

[ You know, not knowing what other people know is going to get her in trouble, she can already feel it. ]

I see.

Well, that's not my job.

[ Well, maybe a little bit now. ]

[Nah, not from this one. She's totally nice, Mara. Really.]

No? You don't think so?

[Amusement trickles back in.]

By being a part of it, I'd say you've got a stake in it's success.

A small one.

[ Nobody important here, she's trying to say. Let her get away with that!! ]

We have a long way to go. But that's not really here, is it?

[Oh...but all Jedi are a treasure...]

No, here we've just got to deal with a ship that's seemingly possessed of some malicious intelligence. You'll pardon me if I sound strained. It's actively preventing us from sleeping, and I fear I haven't had a good night's rest in nearly a week.

[She guesses it's the ship, anyway. Seems the most likely culprit.]

Not to be the bearer of bad news or anything. This place...well...there are worse places to be I suppose, but it's definitely malevolent.

[Y'know, like Korriban or Dromund Kaas or something. It's like that.]

Yes, I noticed there was something off. [ She grimaced at the camera. ] Thought it was old instincts kicking in.

So it's this thing that's malevolent? It's nobody else, just the ship?

[ It doesn't sound as impossible as it would seem, especially to her. There had been the thing with the Eye of Palpatine, after all.

She wasn't going to think aobut that. ]

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