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"Sure. Can they teleport with our ship?"

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"Maybe! Depends on size, really."

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"She's not tiny, but she's smallish - we'll need the onboard computers anyways for coordinates, so we might as well head over."

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"I would like to see one of these ships in person."

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"Sure."

She leads the way, this time. Her ship's one of the roughly disk-shaped ones, larger than most of the more personal craft present but smaller than the cargo ships. Cherish fiddles with something, and a ramp lowers from its belly.

The ship has some rust, some old paint, a good bit of dinginess, and an awful lot of hidden compartments. Cherish leads the way to a booth around a projector table like the ones in the bar, lounging in the seat.

"Make yourselves comfortable."

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"An impressive piece of technology, this."

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She pats the ship. "She's pretty solidly reliable. Good design."

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Ellayania would like to know approximately everything about it's design, construction, and operation.

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"I know more about operation and maintenance, but I've got manuals or textbooks for everything. Still, if we're in a rush for that world you want to save - aerospace engineering can take years to learn. Might be a good 'for later,' and we explain politics now?"

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"Very well."

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"Politics is approximately my least favorite subject, but it's important for survival - dad's a Sith, and so's the other you. Ebele's half trained as one. They're one of the types of people able to use the Force. I'm not Force sensitive, so I don't know as much about all that - still, politically, an angry Sith can kill pretty much whoever they can get away with doing away with. Dad killed his master pretty openly way back when I was tiny."

"Dad's Darth Animus, and the other you is Darth Occlus. They're both members of the Dark Council - very high ranked, can't afford to be seen tolerating disrespect. Dad's chill for a Sith, but mostly expresses that in private."

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"That sounds like a very stable system. What are the other types of people able to use the Force?"

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"Jedi. We're at war with them. They do this power through self control thingy. Sith are more about power through emotion."

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"I see. And this involves... multiple planets? Multiple stars?"

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"Multiple stars. Some of them have inhabitable planets circling them. It's a pretty big galaxy."

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"Hm. What are the capabilities of this Force?"

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She explains the ones she's familiar with.

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Most interesting.

They should probably go see about finishing their recruitment here.

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Cherish pulls up coordinates of a point in space that should be empty, an explanation of what the coordinates mean, and a three dimensional holographic map (very zoomed out, to show nearby planets).

"I'll message him from there for instructions on where to meet him - should be in flying distance."

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"Glint dear, if you would."

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"Let me and Ebele get into the cockpit first - there's a small seat for a third person if one of you wants to observe. There's going to be a lot of movement when we fly, and I don't know how good godhood is at canceling out G-forces, so you guys might want to be strapped in then.

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"After you."

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Cherish points out how to use the seatbelt when they're at the cockpit. It's full of buttons and levers their guests are to not touch at all, unless told otherwise.

Cherish and Ebele buckle themselves in.

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Glint remains standing - she's pretty sure she can ignore acceleration if she feels like it.

And then the view outside changes from dusty planet to starfield.

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And Cherish messes with a few things to get their position stable.

"Alright, we're good."

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