Garrus Vakarian (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
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IC Contact - Consignment
vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
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FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
If I had an answer for that I'd tell you. Could be some sort of religious significance thing, church and death and coming back? Not really a student of religion, though.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Do know that I'm glad the graves weren't any deeper. We could've lost a few to panic if they were.
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me neither despite what some people might tell you. it had to be on purpose though it's too specific to be an accident. someone had to input these settings into the transporter
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Most important: you've got experience with transporters and coordinates? Because I'd like to hear more if you do.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Far less important: What might people tell me about you and religion? I'm curious, now.
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yes? coordinates anyway. we don't use teleportation technology in my home galaxy.
FROM: skywalker.luke@cdc.org
I'm a Jedi. some people say it's a religion but it's not really. at least I don't think of it that way. there's no worship just meditation
FROM: skywalker.luke@cdc.org
a lot of meditation
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Meant teleportation with coordinates. But home galaxy? That mean your people are spaceflight capable?
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Anything that boring is probably a religion.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Teasing about that last bit. Know that text doesn't always make that clear.
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of course we are!
[Momentarily offended on behalf of Tatooine, Luke takes a moment to realize Garrus isn't calling him a hick.]
FROM: skywalker.luke@cdc.org
before this I was a pilot Garrus
FROM: skywalker.luke@cdc.org
did that laser sword seem boring to you? it's a big part of being a Jedi
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FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Lot of people here have never been off their homeworld, have never heard of other species out there. Wasn't meant as an insult.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
And you didn't say the lightsaber was a part of being a Jedi. You should've started with that. Now it's interesting. Now it doesn't feel like too much sitting around.
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I know I guess. I'm from an outer rim world plenty of us don't EVER leave our homeworlds and we DO have spaceflight and we HAVE heard of other species
FROM: skywalker.luke@cdc.org
of course it's part of being a Jedi! lightsabers are very dangerous. only a Jedi can use them properly without being a danger to themselves and everyone else and part of learning how is through meditation
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Plenty of people back home don't have a reason to leave their worlds. But we all at least know that we're not the only species out there. We've got a dozen+ spaceflight capable species.
[And only two of them represented here. Sometimes this place gets a little lonely.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
What is it about the lightsaber that takes meditation to use? Seemed like your basic plasma blade from what I saw, but there's more to it?
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plenty of us have a reason to leave. it's money that's another matter
FROM: skywalker.luke@cdc.org
wait you mean to tell me you have only heard of a dozen other species??
[Now who's the hick.]
FROM: skywalker.luke@cdc.org
have you ever seen someone block blaster fire with a basic plasma blade?
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I know a lot more.
[Double question marks there? He's getting the feeling he's being judged.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
No. I haven't seen you block blaster fire with a light saber either, if that's what you're heading toward.
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well that's good to hear!
FROM: skywalker.luke@cdc.org
do you want to?
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Yes.
[Are you kidding?]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
By blaster I take it you're talking gun? Or is this some sort of specific gun we're gonna need?
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you call them guns too? it's such a strange name
FROM: skywalker.luke@cdc.org
any gun will do. or just projectiles. you can throw rocks if you want.
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Prefer it to blaster. That's like calling your homeworld dirt. Or Earth.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I'm a sniper. I'm not gonna throw rocks. Where'll I meet you?
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only if your homeworld's a blaster
FROM: skywalker.luke@cdc.org
I'm outside the boxing gym. if you're a sniper you can fire on me whenever you're ready
[Any other replies won't be answered, because Luke has put his blackglass away to prepare. Garrus will find Luke sitting on the hood of a landspeeder parked outside the gym. He's sitting cross-legged, and the unignited lightsaber is lying before him. His eyes are closed.]
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Garrus re-reads Luke's file as he heads over. Telekinesis, telepathy. That means Luke will know he's there, can stop the bullet with that, too, but he's still a little not sure about just taking a shot when he's ready. Yes, Luke said to. But just in case, once Garrus is in position, he calls out:]
In five!
[Maybe it's far more warning than Luke needs, but he's not going to risk it. Luke is no enemy. And then, five seconds later, Garrus takes the shot.]
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[While Luke appreciates the intention behind the warning-- he can certainly guess at it, and understand why someone wouldn't want to accidentally shoot him in the head-- it does dampen the intended effect a little. Isn't that a good thing, though? Jedi aren't supposed to show off.]
[With a sigh, Luke stands, feet firmly in place on the hood of the levitating landspeeder. He holds the lightsaber, still unignited, and faces the direction of Garrus' voice. He's half way through a 'can you blame me' shrug when he hears the Force whisper in his ear.]
[It's coming.]
[Luke lets himself relax, trusting the Force entirely. His mind rolls back, and he feels it linking his reflexes with the currents of the living Force, until everything is simple, fluid action. It lasts for about ten seconds, but probably looks much faster, while, in Luke's mind, it felt longer: In one fluid motion, he ignites the lightsaber, waves his arm, deflects the shot, and retracts the blade. Depending on what kind of shot Garrus used (energy-based, or metal slug), he either deflected the energy to a spot of now-scorched pavement, or he cut the bullet in half.]
[He looks up at Garrus with a wide, guileless grin.]
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[He's not sure Luke opened his eyes for that. Garrus considers the scorched pavement for a moment before shaking his head, impressed, and seeing the grin on the guy's face. Of course Luke's grinning. If Garrus had managed that, he'd be pretty smug too. Garrus drops down from the top of the truck he'd gotten onto for the shot and walks over to Luke while he puts the gun away.]
And that's... because of your religion?
[This would be the first time Garrus has ever seen something religious be actually useful. At all.]
Or not-religion. I wasn't quite clear on it.
[But if sitting around meditating could achieve that, Garrus might just be willing to accept that there's something else out there. Maybe. It depends on how much is ascribed to this other being or whatever it is Jedi believe in.]
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Being a Jedi means you can become one with the Force... if you practice enough. Meditation is a part of that. [Lots of meditation.]
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The force.
[If this is another Fade thing...]
What is it? Is it some sort of calmness?
[That would fit with meditation, at least. He comes over and leans against the speeder himself.]
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[He's explained this concept several times since he got here, and he's found it works best when it benefits from a demonstration.] It's sort of like luck, or fate. It let me know where the blast would land, and I let it move my hand... [The idea dawns on him just then, and he beams,] like I moved this pebble, and, well... you saw what happened.
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[Garrus had somewhat been with Luke until that. Sure, okay, everything has energy, why wouldn't someone figure out how to tap into it? But it moving Luke's hand suggests more. Suggests awareness. And he almost doesn't want to ask more questions because the look on Luke's face is so bright... But maybe if they find a way to make it make sense to Garrus then it'd be even brighter.]
Couple of questions, if you didn't mind. First, how's it work with a rock when a rock's not living? Second, how did plain energy know to move your hand?
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[In the past, Luke's seen explaining this sort of thing as an annoyance-- it's hard and involves a lot of metaphors and philosophical thinking. But now, after the constant repetition of the CDC, he thinks he's getting good at it. He sees answering questions as an opportunity. This is surely part of being a Jedi master-- it's something he'll have to do for his padawans, one day.]
[His padawans. He keeps grinning.]
Because I'm a living thing, that's how I was able to move it. [That's a simple answer, he thinks. Well, if he explained it correctly. Only time will tell, huh?] Another way to think of the Force is... luck. Or fate, or chance. There was a way to block your fire, and the Force let me see it. All I had to do was trust it, and be able to listen.
[There, Luke's not sure he explained it correctly. He kind of cringes, shrugging, and waits for Garrus' inevitable confused reply.]
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So luck... moves rocks.
[It's not accurate and he knows it. But he's not sure how to ask any questions that won't sound absolutely stupid. He shakes his head.]
I'm sorry. Not following you at all. I mean, yeah. Okay. Luck can come into how you block fire. So that's unfamiliar, but I'll take it. The other... I'm still stuck on the rock. I don't think, or I don't wanna think, that there's a chance gravity's just gonna stop working, and that's what luck implies with floating rocks. I think.
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