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Leia Organa Solo (yourhighnessnes) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-05-12 12:59:00

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leia organa, tony stark (avac)

WHO: Leia Organa & You!
WHAT: Leia is exploring different Star Wars worlds, doing some stealing, and getting the big time feels on Alderaan
WHERE: Different Star Wars related locations
WHEN: Anytime during Star Wars door time (May 4th - 11th)
RATING: Will be dependant on thread.

At first, when Leia had caught wind of he the doors leading to lands that were from her galaxy her heart had leapt. Her immediate thought was that she now had a way home - back to her friends, her family and the fight she needed so desperately to see through.

Whilst it had been true her galaxy was now in within her reach, the disappointment had settled in quickly when Leia had investigated several of the doors and found she had no control over the location, or the timeline in which she arrived. Dagobah? She couldn't have made her way home from there, it was a remote swamp planet with close to no civilization.

Another door. Coruscant. The highly populated, thriving, bustling city - in the years of the Galactic War between the Republic and the Sith Empire - thousands of years before her birth.

Whilst a way to find her home, and her time appeared to be an impossibility, Leia had immediately decided she wouldn’t let the opportunity go to waste and out to make some use of what she had. The technology of her galaxy could still prove useful. Couldn’t it? Whether it was one corrupt, tyrannical Empire or the other was threatening peace, she had no qualms about stealing from them.

[OOC: Hey folks! Here’s just a catch-all for Leia’s Star Wars adventures, everyone and anyone is welcome to tag and though I’m accepting multiple tags, maybe three/four all up including the one reserved for Lena is where I’d limit it - if you’re not sure feel free to hit me up on discord or my journal!]

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Tatooine - Leia | Tony

yourhighnessnes
2019-05-17 02:48 pm UTC (link)

Leia breathed a small huff of a laugh at his assurance, glad he’d seen things her way even knowing that this ‘scavenging’ mission wasn’t really particularly legal. Sure, she would have fought to find a way in alone, had it come down to that, but it was clear she was very pleased to have someone by her side, and with a gauntlet that cut through the gate, with nothing close to the noise and cumbersome nature shooting it with her blaster would have achieved.

“What is that thing?” She couldn’t help but ask, brows arched with a look that was suitably impressed as he proudly announced his work was done and they started to move forward. "That thing's pretty incredible-" Leia’s never quite seen anything like that in her world, anyway - the gauntlet appeared to be a personal tool, made to fit so less common she guessed?

The place they walked into didn’t exactly look like an organised affair; a mixture of partially gutted ships with exposed interiors, entire engines, dead hyperdrives and their various components, to individual parts piled up, hundreds of them. "I’m no engineer- I was kind of just planning to go with anything that looked useful?" Sure their worlds might not be the same, but she’s starting to wonder if she lucked out in meeting this guy.

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Tatooine - Leia | Tony

campusking
2019-05-17 07:47 pm UTC (link)

"Like it?" Tony asked, grinning as they walked into the junk yard together. She was definitely impressed and he was feeling great about it. "I made it myself," He told her, "It's a gauntlet, normally I've got a whole suit." He explained waving a hand over the whole of himself to kind of maybe indicate that normally his entire body would be covered by the same materials. "But it's kind of conspicuous. This is something I can kind of hide if I want, but extremely useful for when I need a little bit of extra help." Whether that was a weapon or a localized laser to break into a junk yard.

"Sure, sure - that's probably a good way to start, it looks like there are probably going to be some things more useful than others." Tony already had stars in his eyes looking over the scraps and pieces they had to choose from here, it was going to be great.

"I see two ways we can go about doing this, we go at it together." He said as his first option, "You can show me what you're kind of interested in and we can pick through it and see what's most useful, or we can split up." He offered for the second, "We'll gather up anything that catches our eye and then bring it back together and toss out anything that's just junk and consolidate as necessary. And then maybe do another pass to see if we missed anything." Tony wasn't sure how much time they'd have here, but he wanted to get as much out of this place as they could.

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Tatooine - Leia | Tony

yourhighnessnes
2019-05-21 03:17 am UTC (link)

“You construct this sort of stuff for a living?” She wondered, and when he said a full suit, her mind pictured something not unlike Mandalorian armour, something that was striking even amongst the speeders, droids and tech of this galaxy; common and culturally significant on Mandalor. As an afterthought she added. “Hopefully the gauntlet is all we need.” Whilst she’s prepared for trouble, as best she can be, Leia’s really hoping this all can go as smoothly as possible.

“How about we split up?” Leia considered after a moment or two of thought on his reasoning, the latter just made sense. Plus, he ought to have the chance to scavenge for himself too, and when it came down to it, her efforts of finding anything really that suitable for Ben’s mess of a ship were all based on hope. He’d mentioned taking a last pass over the place before they leave, so that ought to do it. “I guess soon as we’ve near lost our light, or we've got as much as we can carry, we can reconvene?” She could suppose they had a good chunk of time to scavenge still - after all, Tatooine had twin suns. “Sooner if something unexpected happens?” It truly seemed deserted as she took another slow look across the piles of junk, still Leia’s hand was close by the blaster at her hip.

Having spotted a mess of large netted bags hanging on a rusty old hook attached to a post by the entrance; presumably for patrons to throw their hall in, she went over. As short as she was Leia started making an effort to attempt to get at least one down.

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Tatooine - Leia | Tony

campusking
2019-05-21 08:02 pm UTC (link)

"Mostly for fun, actually." Tony explained as she asked about the gauntlet and his suit. He didn't actually have to work for a living, the company sort of ran itself these days, and for the things that didn't he had Pepper. So Iron Man was sort of a hobby? That didn't sound right, more like a calling he supposed, but yeah. He didn't think they'd need more than the gauntlet, it was pretty useful, but he wasn't about to stand there and explain to her all the reasons it was, he wasn't that much of an idiot.

When she decided that splitting up would be the best idea he nodded, "Sounds good." And it'd give him a chance to kind of get an idea of part of the yard and pick up some of the things he saw that could be helpful. "Yes, definitely, if something happens just shout or something I'll come find you," The lat thing he wanted was her getting hurt or caught or something - after all he'd been the one to let them in, so it was all on him in the end.

He noticed the bags after she did, and saw her struggling to try and reach them where they hung overhead. And admittedly Tony wasn't a great deal taller than she was, but it was enough that when he went over to help he managed to get a couple off the hook. "Okay, so we'll meet back here in like fifteen minutes?" He said taking one of the bags for himself too - he'd been worried for a second about how they were going to haul whatever they found but these would be great. "And then make another pass after we've gone through things."

And with that, Tony was heading out to one side of the yard, picking through pieces of machinery that he'd never seen before and trying to guess what were the most important parts and what would be the most valuable to them going back. Lucky for Tony he was an engineer, so he felt like he had a sort of basic understanding of most tech, even tech from an alien world so he grabbed several pieces along the way, things that looked like power cells and energy generators, as well as wiring that he could use on other projects. And basically anything that looked interesting. She seemed familiar with this place, that Tony felt like he could get a little bit of help from her when it came to sussing out what they'd managed to pick up throughout the yard when they made it back safely through the doors with their haul.

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Tatooine - Leia | Tony

yourhighnessnes
2019-05-27 01:26 pm UTC (link)

“Fifteen minutes sounds good to me.” Leia agreed quickly with a grin, as she moved on, not entirely certain of what she was doing, but meaning to stay positive all the same - anything could be potentially useful, and she thought coming away with anything was better than they state things were currently in.

Leia had whiled away a good chunk of time helping Han repair the Falcon, first it might’ve been a little grudgingly, but- now? It had started to become the closest thing she had to a ‘home’ of sorts. Being around a bunch of junk did make her miss it. Still silently, she told herself to focus and the reason she ought to be thinking of the Falcon, was an attempt to remember the names some of the more vital parts Han’d mentioned during their work to make repairs or replacements.

Inspecting one of the half-gutted wrecks, she looked for anything that could be displaced without tools, near diving into the thing to yank what she thought looked like a binary motivator out, throwing it in the bag. She continued her way along slowly, snagging a battery even if it was from a droid ..it might prove useful. She threw in a few more parts, even a couple of panels, ones light and small enough to take with her that could possibly be beaten, used to repair the x-wing.

While she’d kept a track of the time, and the fifteen minutes weren’t quite upm the fact they’d not been disturbed so far had made her confident to simply wander over to where she spotted Tony; her own bag slung over her shoulder, a stabilising coil, small enough to fit in her hand and a already a fair amount of grease smudges. "How’re you getting along? Need a hand with anything?" Already she'd near reached what she could carry, anyway.

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Tatooine - Leia | Tony

campusking
2019-05-28 06:52 am UTC (link)

Tony was elbows deep in a control panel when Leia called out to him again as she found her way toward him with her bag of things, he managed to rip out what he wanted soon enough tucking the things that looked like some sort of batteries into his bag. "Oh hey." He huffed, shaking his head just enough to flick his hair back out of his eyes as he grinned at her before he started picking his way back out toward where she stood.

"I think I've found a lot of good stuff, I'll be honest though - I don't know what a lot of this stuff is or how it's used so I'm mostly just making my best guess on how it looks like it's all come together." He explained, this was tech that they didn't have where he was from, but tech was tech at the end of the day and Tony knew tech. So he thought he had a fairly good idea of what he was picking and what he was leaving behind.

He saw her bag was looking fairly full too and nodded toward it. "It looks like you've found some interesting things." He pointed out, "How are you feeling about all this so far?" He asked, just to get an idea of what she thought they should do. They'd managed so far to just rummage around through the yard without being bothered so that was probably a good thing but Tony didn't know how much longer they were going to be able to do that.

"Should we do another pass or ..." Or take the second pass through all of it or not, Tony felt just a tiny bit like they were pressing their luck, but then again this place definitely deserved to have them raiding their stock, but the last thing Tony wanted was to be caught doing it.

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Tatooine - Leia | Tony

yourhighnessnes
2019-06-07 02:50 pm UTC (link)

It was quiet, and really for a place this loaded with scrap and parts that were proving to be in a usable shape as far as she’d seen, it was a surprise they hadn’t been ambushed by savage Akk Dogs, and Leia had rather eagerly let her guard down to scavenge as quickly as possible - perhaps the fact they’d not been disturbed as of yet was ..more ominous than in ought to be.

“I think we can push it a little longer.” She offered, despite looking warily around as if her words were about to cause their luck to run out immediately, the hint of nerves in her expression made it clear she knew it to be a risk, their good fortune so far had come far too easily. Plus, the more they collected, the slower they’d be should they need to run for it. "Maybe it’s just the leaving that’s going to prove the problem?" Leia gave a small sigh, it was all a gamble, but she wasn’t quite ready to go.

"I’m pretty sure I saw some repulsor-lifts inside that chassis." She nodded a bit further up ahead. "Anti-grav type tech, if you’re interested? We could divide up what's in there?"

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Tatooine - Leia | Tony

campusking
2019-06-08 03:53 am UTC (link)

Tony really was interested in sticking around longer so all he needed was the suggestion that Leia thought they could probably stick around a bit longer to agree to it. Sure they couldn't stick around for hours and hours, but a little while longer maybe they could handle that.

"I hope not." The getting in had been fairly easy, getting out should hopefully go the same, they were much more loaded down now than they had been before they'd come through the gate, so if there was something waiting for them as they tried to leave he wasn't eager to find out whatever that might be.

His eyes went wide when she told him taht she'd seen some sort of anti-gravity tech, and yeah, if there was something that Tony knew he needed to check out he was positive that as it. "Oh man yeah, yes, definitely. We've gotta check that out. Maybe we'll make our way in and grab anything good we see along the way then get the lifts and get out?" He suggested as a sort of plan.

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Tatooine - Leia | Tony

yourhighnessnes
2019-06-08 02:11 pm UTC (link)

“We’ll-- just have to be ready. I guess.” Sort of ready. As ready as one can been for an ambush. Whether or not she wanted to think about, but she couldn’t help but think between her blaster, and his ..gauntlet thing, they’d at least have some chance of a get away. She gave a tug on the netting bag though, the weight of it would be a problem, she’d gotten a little over eager.

Leia grinned with ease to his response, glad she’d been able to help. “Sure- that’s almost a plan?” One she seemed happy enough to follow.

She wandered slowly down, so he could follow at his own pace, sorting through the pile nearest. “Starships from my world generally rely on repulsor lifts for take off.” Leia wasn’t certain if he even wanted the information, but she’d more or less thrown him in the deep end of a world of technology he wasn’t even from. “And they keep speeders off the ground. I think it’s usually identical stuff between the smaller vessels, just- you know, the heavier the machine, the more you’ll need.” At least so she’d been taught or gleaned from Han, or Luke. “I’ve never had to install them, of course- but as long as they’re connected to some sort of power source?” she’s got no reason to believe they wouldn’t work.

She examined what looked like a light of some sort, before setting it aside. “Is there anything in mind you’re looking to build?” She asked, digging through stuff alongside him as they moved toward the chassis she'd pointed out.

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Tatooine - Leia | Tony

campusking
2019-06-09 07:54 am UTC (link)

"That's what I do," Tony said with a laugh, "Come up with sort of plans." Steve was usually around to help round things out and make it a true honest to god plan. But Tony had always been much more of a fly by the seat of his pants kind of guy when it came to things like this, he'd figure things out on the fly, take them as they came as long as he had an idea of what he was doing it was fine.

And right then he had an idea of what they were doing and that was finding that anti-gravity tech and then getting the heck out of there. He listened while she explained a little bit about the repulsor lifts. It didn't sound like she was an expert but someone who had at least a basic knowledge was better than no knowledge at all. "Well I think that's something we can try and figure out a bit more once we've got time to really look at what we're dealing with."

When she asked about his plans for building he shrugged. "I don't have anything in particular in mind right now, I'm working on building up the net a little bit back home." He explained, so he didn't need parts for that. "I just like having options, you know?" He shrugged, you never knew when you might want to start building something, and having spare parts and scrap from a space world seemed like a great idea.

They moved slowly but with purpose bit by bit until they reached the chassis she'd pointed out for them. "Okay, do you know where we should look? Or are we just going to wander around a bit more until we find what we're after?"

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Tatooine - Leia | Tony

yourhighnessnes
2019-06-14 04:20 am UTC (link)

"That sounds familiar." Leia agreed with a small grin, whilst she had been part of precisely planned strikes, and tried to plan against the Empire, a lot of it came down to throwing together something close to a plan, as quickly as possible.

"Absolutely- there’s plenty of people who build with whole mix of spare parts- planets like this one where the only chance you might have at a vehicle is to throw together what you can find and hope it doesn’t explode." She imagined it was the same between worlds, there were just people who liked to tinker with machinery. It was used a lot in sport too. Pod Racing. "Though, I get the feeling that’s not entirely how you work?" She assumed with a widening smile, the gauntlet she’d seen looked to be put together, more than simply functional, impressive and pretty professional.

As they found the spot she’d indicated she nodded, leaning into the metal hull of the starship, the cockpit was gone completely, the metal twisted and warped, a few clinging shards of glass grimy. It could’ve been something similar to an x-wing, a one person ship with just the long nose left, Leia leaned into be able to point them out. "So ..along the left and right here- eight of them as far as I can see." she pointed out, they were round, small enough to grab and nestled around what looked to be a partially torn apart flight computer, bits already salvaged from it. "I’m not sure I recognise much else, but you’re welcome to it- then I guess we should get the kriff out of here."

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