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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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Neither of which are something I'd want to see happen to me, on a ship.

It's a hell of a way to die.

You got shot before?

Shot?

[ She smirks. ]

Please. That's nothing.

What's worse than getting shot?

[Yuuup. Totally leaning in to the comm. Gruesome war stories are the best stories.]

Plenty of things. [ A grim grin. Girl has seen some shit, man. ]

Where I come from, there was once a gangster who tried to throw people who offended him into a monster in a pit to be digested for over a thousand years. [ A shrug. ]

That's- no way. How do you know it takes a thousand years? I bet he hasn't even been throwing people in for ten years.

He hasn't, sure. Hutts generally only live to be a thousand anyway.

The biology of the sarlacc is well documented, either way. People have been scared of it for a long, long time.

Edited 2013-09-21 22:35 (UTC)

A thousand years long?

[So, so doubtful.]

[ She squints. You can literally see the 'are people that backwater' thought running through her mind. ]

Longer than that. Xenobiology isn't exactly a new science.

Okay. And just how old are you supposed to be? Ten thousand? You're really tight for that kinda oldie.

[ A puzzled look. ]

I'm human. I'm thirty seven standard galactic cycles old.

[The same look back]

Humans don't really do the long term. And I don't mean living. I mean stuff gets burned down every couple hundred years.

Not where I come from. [ Well, it never used to. ]

Humans aren't the only creatures in the civilized galaxy either, you know.

Yeah, but I don't know shit about how they treat each other.

Like anyone else does.

Sometimes worse, sometimes better. They're not really all that different from humans, not really.

So they're all just running around killing each other half the time.

Mmm, or trying to keep others from killing another. It's not a human standard, it's a sentient life standard.

I'll buy that. But that just makes the whole thousands of years of learning thing just sound crazy. They should've burned it all down a dozen times over.

Believe me, in the galaxy, they did.

But some information's retained. I mean, who wants to set back xenobiology thousands of years when it could hurt your own cause?

It doesn't make sense. But that's people for you, I guess. Drugs and dead kids don't make any fucking sense either. And if you're from some place with a lick of sense? Start forgetting it. We're here now. They just blew up one of our big science things.

Edited 2013-09-24 02:23 (UTC)

Any reason why?

Anger issues?

That seems like a really bad reason to do it.

It's more of a reason than why we're here.

What, anger issues is why we're here. Really?

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