[Vima nods soberly. It all sounds too familiar, all things that the Sith and their admirers have committed in her lifetime.]
I was young when the Great Sith Wars ended, but... they did the same. They could easily wipe out one planet to conquer another.
The worst was when Jedi fell. The old rulers of Onderon, the Krath, they were all Dark Side followers. They killed thousands, oppressed millions. But they didn't... [She struggles to find the right word.] They only cared about what they could see in front of them.
A Jedi serves the Republic--all of it, everywhere. And a fallen one will destroy it all, everywhere.
[ There is little Rex can do with knowledge a little closer to the source. He is a clone, a soldier, not a Jedi - the likes of him has no chance against a Sith. But he has contacts and resources and knows that if he can deliver something, anything to his generals, they may not believe him, but they won't discount his words out of turn.
After all, this sort of magical hoodoo is what Jedi are good at, what with their talk of premonitions and visions and dreams and feelings. Rex doesn't operate based on how he feels. He likes cold, hard facts, and there's a distinct chance that Vima may be able to provide those for him. ]
[Vima looks away. It's a natural question for Rex to ask. For him, the Sith are the present tense, a threat for him to face down, a weapon to deactivate. But it hasn't been so long for her since Ulic's death.
And though it was ten years ago, Ossus doesn't seem that far away either. She pulls her knees up to her chest, trying to view the memories with dispassionate fact.]
One of the Jedi who turned. He... turned back. Led us to Exar Kun's last stronghold.
My mother led the Jedi. They purged Kun's jungle moon with the power of the light.
[ Jedi talk about light and dark an awful lot. Rex doesn't understand it beyond the general implication that the light is good and that the dark is bad and that they discuss it as though it's more than a metaphor. At the very least, he doesn't think it will ever apply to him. Clones are fine occupying their shades of grey. ]
If I were to say that to a Jedi, would they understand what you mean by that? You lot have your own language.
I don't know. [because she doesn't, really.] It was the last resort, and once they started it kept going on its own. The whole moon practically burned to the ground.
[Likely, that was because Yavin IV had been steeped in the dark side. But it was a good thing they didn't have to try it on Onderon or some other populated world.]
It wasn't commonly known. I don't know how well records were--will be kept into your time either. They should look for Thon or Odan-Urr or Ood Bnar if they want to know more about it.
A last resort for your time, perhaps. I suspect we're at that point by now.
[ Any unnecessary destruction is... unfortunate. But the entire galaxy's at war. A single moon burning to the ground would be well worth peace - it's not as though moons aren't already burning to the ground as it is. ]
I don't know anything about the records they keep, but I'll be sure to tell them. Thank you. [ His lips quirk. ] Perhaps that's why we were brought together in the first place.
Hm... it could be. [why it would be her, and not her mother, is a question. one of several, really. and she's not altogether eager to participate in something that will immolate a celestial body, however dire the need.] But if someone's got some kind of device they can use to pull a Jedi from four thousand years ago to your today, maybe they could just go and keep the war from starting in the first place.
You believe we're here because of some sort of advanced technology?
[ He's surprised - and he looks it. That hadn't occurred to him. Nobody wanting to save anything would put together a clone and some Jedi Padawan in hopes that they'd figure it out. It just doesn't make sense. ]
In all honesty, I figured it was the Force. That tends to be what's to blame whenever things get... [ Strange? Illogical? Ending with people going missing for a split second only to have them return with claims they've been gone for days? ]
I've never heard of the Force moving anyone through time. If Jedi or Sith could do it, one of my mom's teachers would have mentioned.
But who knows... maybe there is some kind of new Jedi technique for doing that? [in all honesty, she's not sure if what happened felt like the Force or not. It certainly can be mysterious, and definitely mystical. It could have been a Jedi, or it could have been a dark Jedi.
Not that Vima is presumptuous enough to think that pulling her out of history would topple the Republic, or anything. And it's true that if this was a deliberate act, it would be weird to leave her and Rex to their own devices.]
I don't suppose any of your generals talked about anything like this happening? You know... ever?
Not this specific case, no. But there was one mission in which they claimed that they had been missing for days when we had only lost contact with them for a moment. They blamed the disparity in time on the Force, and I saw no reason to dispute their claims. It's not quite moving backwards or forwards in time but time certainly hadn't been working properly for them.
[ Nor, he thinks, did it work in their favour. They returned to the ship looking harried and closed-off, having seen things that they did not wish to. Rex hadn't pushed the matter. It wasn't his place. ]
Does the Force have to be used by a Jedi or a Sith to make that sort of impact? Or can it do so on its own? You lot tend to refer to it as a living thing. Surely it can make its own calls.
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I was young when the Great Sith Wars ended, but... they did the same. They could easily wipe out one planet to conquer another.
The worst was when Jedi fell. The old rulers of Onderon, the Krath, they were all Dark Side followers. They killed thousands, oppressed millions. But they didn't... [She struggles to find the right word.] They only cared about what they could see in front of them.
A Jedi serves the Republic--all of it, everywhere. And a fallen one will destroy it all, everywhere.
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[ There is little Rex can do with knowledge a little closer to the source. He is a clone, a soldier, not a Jedi - the likes of him has no chance against a Sith. But he has contacts and resources and knows that if he can deliver something, anything to his generals, they may not believe him, but they won't discount his words out of turn.
After all, this sort of magical hoodoo is what Jedi are good at, what with their talk of premonitions and visions and dreams and feelings. Rex doesn't operate based on how he feels. He likes cold, hard facts, and there's a distinct chance that Vima may be able to provide those for him. ]
How?
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And though it was ten years ago, Ossus doesn't seem that far away either. She pulls her knees up to her chest, trying to view the memories with dispassionate fact.]
One of the Jedi who turned. He... turned back. Led us to Exar Kun's last stronghold.
My mother led the Jedi. They purged Kun's jungle moon with the power of the light.
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[ Jedi talk about light and dark an awful lot. Rex doesn't understand it beyond the general implication that the light is good and that the dark is bad and that they discuss it as though it's more than a metaphor. At the very least, he doesn't think it will ever apply to him. Clones are fine occupying their shades of grey. ]
If I were to say that to a Jedi, would they understand what you mean by that? You lot have your own language.
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[Likely, that was because Yavin IV had been steeped in the dark side. But it was a good thing they didn't have to try it on Onderon or some other populated world.]
It wasn't commonly known. I don't know how well records were--will be kept into your time either. They should look for Thon or Odan-Urr or Ood Bnar if they want to know more about it.
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[ Any unnecessary destruction is... unfortunate. But the entire galaxy's at war. A single moon burning to the ground would be well worth peace - it's not as though moons aren't already burning to the ground as it is. ]
I don't know anything about the records they keep, but I'll be sure to tell them. Thank you. [ His lips quirk. ] Perhaps that's why we were brought together in the first place.
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[ He's surprised - and he looks it. That hadn't occurred to him. Nobody wanting to save anything would put together a clone and some Jedi Padawan in hopes that they'd figure it out. It just doesn't make sense. ]
In all honesty, I figured it was the Force. That tends to be what's to blame whenever things get... [ Strange? Illogical? Ending with people going missing for a split second only to have them return with claims they've been gone for days? ]
Mystical.
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But who knows... maybe there is some kind of new Jedi technique for doing that? [in all honesty, she's not sure if what happened felt like the Force or not. It certainly can be mysterious, and definitely mystical. It could have been a Jedi, or it could have been a dark Jedi.
Not that Vima is presumptuous enough to think that pulling her out of history would topple the Republic, or anything. And it's true that if this was a deliberate act, it would be weird to leave her and Rex to their own devices.]
I don't suppose any of your generals talked about anything like this happening? You know... ever?
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[ Nor, he thinks, did it work in their favour. They returned to the ship looking harried and closed-off, having seen things that they did not wish to. Rex hadn't pushed the matter. It wasn't his place. ]
Does the Force have to be used by a Jedi or a Sith to make that sort of impact? Or can it do so on its own? You lot tend to refer to it as a living thing. Surely it can make its own calls.