IC Contact - Consignment

[forgivetheinsubordination]

vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
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[vinculis]

FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

Runs it. The Empire is a hierarchy and although the Emperor is above all else, powerful, ruthless, and heartless Force users (ie Sith) pull all of the important strings.

FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

Believe me, the compassion here is overwhelming in comparison to the Empire. The unit leaders seem to actually care about those in their charge.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

Sounds like what you really need is a new Emperor. And then a new way of doing things in general.

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

But it's true that a lot of the unit leads are good people. All the ones I know who landed the position are, or are in my opinion. Then again, you're Orange. Orange is pretty nice, generally speaking.

[vinculis]

FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

I do quite like my teammates and leaders so far. But the Sith will never change. We will always be heartless and thirsty for power, though a thousand new Emperors.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

All Empires that keep their strength by preying on the weaker fall. It's the ones that understand all of their people are their strength that last.

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

They'll change, or they'll be lost to history.

[vinculis]

FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

Of course all their people are their strength. Most of those who aren't Sith are slaves or cannon fodder. They have their place.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

Yeah, not like that. No one should be enslaved or cannon fodder. Nobody. That's not the way to truly serve, and government needs to serve.

[vinculis]

FROM: FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

Governments serve themselves. To believe otherwise would be deluding yourself.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

Don't let your limited experiences hold you back. My people's government knows where their duty lies, knows what it takes to serve their people.

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

Lot of different universes and peoples out there. Lot of different possibilities.

[vinculis]

FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

Changing to a soft system like that would require the Sith giving up their power. And we never would.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

It's hardly soft. We're the military might of our galaxy and we've got the needs of the whole in mind because that's what's gotten us here.

[vinculis]

FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

Military might getting you to the point of destroying planets sounds exactly like something the Empire would do.

FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

You'll have to forgive my callousness, Vakarian. In my experience, people in charge don't change.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

That's an accident. The destroying planets thing. Didn't really get a full briefing. And if the people in charge don't change, then you change the people in charge.

[vinculis]

FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

In order to change the people in charge, the people doing the changing have to have power. Which they don't, because they've never been allowed to have any.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

It all comes down to how much a change is worth it to people. Eventually the downtrodden do get angry, and a lot of them die, but things change.

[vinculis]

FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

The downtrodden have to climb up a lot of corpses in order to buy that change and it can take a while to pile them.

FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

But we have more pressing matters at hand. I will see you in Medical.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org

You will.

[It's stressful to not be able to do much about this mess, to be positioned and mostly waiting, but at least he's where he can keep an eye on some people he gives a care about. Not enough of them, but some.

He'll be near the door when she arrives, keeping an eye on things and waiting for the next stage of hell to break through.]

[vinculis]

[ she shows up not much after he does, in full sith attire if only because she trusts it to keep her safe from any mysterious threats better than cdc gear alone can. this hardly feels like a force threat, but still, better to be prepared in what you know. usually the robes and countenance combine to make her look suitably larger than she actually is, but when she pauses a moment to look around before moving over to a turian, there's no denying her diminutive stature. ]

Vakarian?

[ kallig's guess, from his file. but if he has a doppleganger on board, she wouldn't trust herself to determine identifying turian markings at first glance. ]

[forgivetheinsubordination]

[He's in full armor, which is pretty common anyway for him, but it also means he's not at all surprised to see someone else in full gear. Garrus nods to her.]

Yeah. And you're Kallig?

[Because he was expecting her. Otherwise, he wouldn't be sure who was under all of that.]

[vinculis]

Yes. [ some part of her wants to correct, insist on the lord, but it seems nitpicky and, moreover, pointless here. a lord of the sith empire, willingly volunteering her time and her talents to people she doesn't know, doesn't even necessarily trust

yeah, this is her trying to make herself look a little taller as she looks up at garrus. (it's not working.) ]

I trust nothing new has developed in the last ten minutes?

[forgivetheinsubordination]

[He glances back at the patients, mandibles flickering in and out.]

Nothing we can do anything about. Or nothing I can at least. What does 'notable healer' mean?

[Might as well do some reading while waiting. This is a stressful position to stand guard in, and he'll take on what tasks he can.]

[vinculis]

[ there's a little pause, confusion until she realizes he's just done his homework. well, haven't they all. ]

It means that my allies do not succumb to their injures in combat because I am better than to allow that. The Force aids me in aiding them, so blaster wounds and burns and broken bones are easy to mend in a hurry.

[forgivetheinsubordination]

So you can... You can help? I don't know what the Force is, but...

[Again he looks at the patients, this time a white-haired one in particular, before looking back at her.]

Will it do something against what's making them sick? Your ability.

[vinculis]

Not directly. It's... not a Force-related sickness, so it's like I can't stop a blaster from firing, but I can heal the wounds it causes.

[ and after seeing that look of his, kallig is acutely aware that that is not really enough. not any better than anyone else can do, for all her efforts. her work with orange, with the airlock where rikki's body was found... none of this has given her what any of them need in order to stop the cause. ]

Is there someone I should be keeping a special eye on for you?

[forgivetheinsubordination]

Wounds,

[he echoes, gaze going down. It's not wounds that are the threats right now.]

I... There probably shouldn't be. Everyone probably needs the same amount of care and I should be fair.

[There's a beat, and then he's gesturing anyway toward one bed and one patient.]

But if you can help him, I'd... I'd really appreciate it. Name's Noh-Varr.

[vinculis]

Noh-Varr. [ a nod, she notes the hair, and looks back to garrus. ] I'll be sure to pay attention to him.

[ she has no idea how she'll be able to help at all. but if it turns out she can do something (and garrus can be sure she's going to try) she has no problems playing favourites. not to the point of neglecting someone, but he's worried about someone in particular, they get priority. she has her own biases, too. ]