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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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What are "roombas"?

They're these tiny cleaning droids that we aren't allowed to touch apparently.

I might be touching them.

Who names a cleaning droid such a stupid name?

Do you think I know?

Well since you mentioned them, I figured you might.

I barely know how this ship is still held together. I don't think I could tell you anything else.

Oh, so it's just like being in the Falcon, then.

Don't bring the Falcon into thi-

Wait, wait, wait - how do you know the Falcon? Apart from her legendary status, I mean.

Well, let's just say I know most smugglers in the galaxy.

You know that they have a word for those, right?

I'm guessing smuggler.

I'm guessing someone who tracks smugglers.

Down for business deals, maybe. It's after your time, but I worked with something called the Smuggler's Alliance.

"Smuggler's Alliance"? That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one.

Not for good smugglers.

Good smugglers know better than to trust people.

Sure, but who better to trust than the other people in the same position as you? I'm not calling up old imperial patrols to get out of a boarding. I would call up another smuggler, though.