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The Jedi Exile (Meetra Surik) ([personal profile] echo_of_a_jedi) wrote in [community profile] compnetwork2012-10-08 11:57 pm
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First Echo

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[A serene-looking woman sits before the camera, cross-legged on one of the tiny couch-futon-hybrids they put in these apartments. Some people might recognize her from the other night, though she's currently not wearing the big hooded brown robe, but instead a cassock-like tan garment.]

I've met some of you other "Extraterritorial Guests" already, but for those I haven't, my name is Meetra Surik. I'm a traveler here, like we all seem to be, and I seem to have gotten even more lost than I thought I was - and I was heading somewhere with no real maps in the first place.

So, my request to the network is...tell me about Earth. We seem to be on Earth, and most of the people here seem to be from different "Earths"...which I guess could mean a kind of planet, but from context, it sounds more like multiversal theory turning out to be true. At any rate, I'm new to this planet, so please, tell me all about it. In return, I'll share what I can say about the Galactic Republic, where I'm from. Deal?
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greyerrant: (Grey Angel)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2012-10-11 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
We met sentient aliens. They were hostile, implacably so. They could be mind-enslaving would be godlings like the Nephilimm, rapacious and destructive like the Eldar, or mindlessly violent like the orks. We pushed them back and destroyed them where we could.


echo_of_a_jedi: (WHY IS THIS GAME SO SAD??)

[personal profile] echo_of_a_jedi 2012-10-12 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
And I thought hutts were bad...it's a tragedy you only met hostile aliens, though. The Republic is made up of thousands of cooperating species.
greyerrant: (The knight of shadows)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2012-10-12 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
We met a culture like that once.

They attacked us and claimed we betrayed them.

[ And then the Imperium happened to the interex. ]

echo_of_a_jedi: (Jedi Master)

[personal profile] echo_of_a_jedi 2012-10-13 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Did you?

[Trust a Jedi to ask the obvious yet wrong question.]
greyerrant: (helmet)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2012-10-13 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
No loyal servant of the Emperor betrayed them.
[ His voice gets very bitter. ]

But a snake within our midst betrayed us both to his dark masters.

echo_of_a_jedi: (atton stop crashing the ship)

[personal profile] echo_of_a_jedi 2012-10-13 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
And started a war for no reason other than that. That sounds familiar.
echo_of_a_jedi: (atton stop crashing the ship)

[personal profile] echo_of_a_jedi 2012-10-13 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
My galaxy's history is full of people who'd betray what they stood for and start a war to prove a philosophical point, or because it was the only way they saw to achieve a noble goal, or because some dead Sith's spirit clinging to material existence told them to. Even just in the past fifty years that's happened three or four times.

It's honestly getting a little old.
Edited 2012-10-13 17:41 (UTC)
greyerrant: (Grey Angel)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2012-10-13 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Betrayal is never noble. [ There is a hint of snarl in his voice. ]


echo_of_a_jedi: (everyone on this ship is an asshole)

[personal profile] echo_of_a_jedi 2012-10-14 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Of course not. However, if someone served a government or organization that one felt was corrupt or ineffectual, and there were no laws with which one could replace that leadership, would it not be the least evil to attempt to change that by force?

Or at least, could it not seem that way from a certain point of view?
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