Nod. "We will save her," he reassures.

She nods, and goes quiet for a minute.

"What's it like where you're - well, I guess Felix - is from?"

"Uh... primitive when compared to galactic standards? Our technology level means that we haven't reached farther than our moon. We also don't have artificial intelligences and our holonet equivalent is only a few decades old. Humans are the dominant species, but there are some other magical intelligent beings around. And there is diverse magic, instead of just the force. It isn't super common, but it's a thing."

"Wow. We barely have records from that long ago."

"Yeah, Felix was actually trying to figure out if this is a different version of our galaxy, because of the humans. But he has been busy going around making money and donating to charity too."

She nods. "We can help, if that's important to know."

"Thank you. We are lucky to be able to sort of blend in because of all the aliens, but we are very much flying blind here."

She nods. "You'll need to talk to Dusk, I'm not sure which contacts she'll still be able to get things from. But if you just need information about the galaxy as it is now - we can't get much about the Republic, from here, but most things about the Empire and Hutt territory we should be able to help with."

Nod nod. "We are in no hurry, though. Is Dusk just going to want to stay around?"

She considers. "The new magic might change things. My guess is that she'll want to stay, though."

Nod nod. "Why this place?"

"It's hers, and that's important to her. And she likes being the most powerful person around; she doesn't use it, much, but knowing that nobody can challenge her makes it easier for her to keep her calm."

"How attached is she to being the most powerful person around?"

"It would depend a lot on the situation. Just someone else being around, but not bothering her at all, would probably be okay, but if they tried to challenge her - I don't know. She is a Sith, no matter how nice of one she is."

"Ha! Felix is the least challenging person ever. At worse he is going to unobtrusively going to donate things around the place. Which he has to do regardless of Dusk, because one doesn't wave this sort of power around."

The droid chuckles. "I don't think she'll mind, then. She does some of that herself."

"Heh. Cool."

"Yeah, it's - the rule for Sith is that they're allowed to do literally whatever they want, so long as nobody wins a fight with them about it. It's really messed up, a lot of the time. But what Dusk wants is for herself and her people and the people around her to be safe and happy and fulfilled, and she's strong enough to get that, now - it is, actually, the kind of thing other Sith would try to kill her for, for 'being weak' - so she really enjoys making it happen, when she has a chance."

"Making the people around him be safe and happy and fulfilled is basically Felix's goal in life."

"Hopefully the first impression won't hurt them too badly, then. Though I'm not really sure we mean quite the same thing by that - it does seem like Felix generalizes more. What I mean is, like - we live a few hours' drive from a town, and she thinks of that as hers and would defend it if any other Sith came, donates to the library, that sort of thing; she doesn't care the same way about the city, that's not hers."

"Huh, yeah, I see what you mean. Felix generally wants to offer his help as far as he can reach."

Nod. "She's very good to the people and places she does care about, usually. I think she doesn't feel like she can stretch very far before she has to give that up, and it's important to her."

Nod nod. "That is wise of her. I- I kinda wish Felix was more like that? Or at least that he would be better able to accept his limitations. He won't do anything actually stupid or bad, but he sort of mopes that he can't do more."

Nod. "I'm not sure how she does it, exactly. I know part of it is that she doesn't like dealing with conflicts of interest - there are things about how I was treated at the hospital that I'm not going to tell her about, because she would go kill some people over it, and if she did care about the city and not terrorizing people in it, she'd have an uncomfortable choice to make there."

Slow nod. "Why it's so hard for people to realize that droids are people?"