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@ 2017-03-12 17:44:00

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Deck Five Lounge

Welcome to the Deck 5 Lounge

Each Saturday, join the Enterprise crew and your fellow travelers in the Deck Five Lounge to meet new arrivals, catch up with those you haven't seen in a few days, try a new drink, or just enjoy the spectacular view.

OOC Information

These weekly posts are IC third-person threading opportunities. Threads that extend to 10 total good-sized comments can be counted as a log for activity check. If you have any questions, please let me know. The hope is that you will use this opportunity for random character interactions and development.

Apologies for the lateness! We will be back on track this week.

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Leia and Imperius

mirrorbright
2017-03-13 06:57 pm UTC (link)

Her eyes narrowed. "You're a Sith," Leia said flatly. She didn't flinch and didn't wrench herself away, even though she felt like it. Her heart pounded. Did Luke know that a Sith was here, on board this ship? Even a Sith she wasn't familiar with. From ancient history. Her hand held the glass even more firmly, in danger of breaking it if she didn't ease up, force herself to relax.

"That's quite a resume you've got there," she continued on dryly. She supposed she ought to give hers out as well, and considered it for a moment. Then she arched her eyebrow. "Since we're sharing titles, I suppose I could give you mind. Leia Organa, last princess of Alderaan, former Senator for the Galactic Senate, Hutt-Slayer, if you're one of those who enjoy that moniker, and current General and founder of the Resistance." She couldn't add Jedi Knight to that list; she refused the training Luke continued to offer her.

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Leia and Imperius

darth_imperius
2017-03-13 07:25 pm UTC (link)

"Organa." Lomea actually exhibited surprise. It was a name she knew. And even better, she'd never liked the Hutts. "Princess. General. And Huttslayer? Impressive."

She suddenly found this woman even more interesting and extraordinary. "I'm familiar with the Organas. I was on Alderaan during it's Civil War, before the Republic helped seat that house as the rulers. It had been, as they say, a proxy war. Though the House the Empire backed acted...distastefully, so I did not particularly mind watching them go down in flames."

Was Leia angry? Fearful? Lomea found it hard to tell. Almost like she was very good at shielding herself from the Force. Either way she didn't like the Sith. "And yes, I am Sith. And you will find that we are as varied as the citizens of the Republic. Rarely is life as black and white as the Jedi would believe."

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Leia and Imperius

mirrorbright
2017-03-13 07:34 pm UTC (link)

Leia arched an eyebrow. She knew she was formidable and impressive. That history was more along the line of what she knew. How many days, years had she spent studying the history of House Organa, of Alderaan, in preparation for the day when she'd eventually assume the throne over her mother. Not that that ever happened. The reign of House Organa, and Leia's assumption as queen, disappeared the moment Alderaan did. The thought made her heart hurt all over again. Some things just never left you.

"You're from very many years before I was born," Leia said. "Long before the end of the Jedi and the Sith entirely, I imagine."

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Leia and Imperius

darth_imperius
2017-03-13 07:51 pm UTC (link)

"So it would seem." Long enough for her Empire to pass into legend. All the petty squabbles and bickering, the power plays and egos had amounted to nothing. "I suppose my efforts to save my people from ourselves were for naught."

At least the Jedi had ended too. She didn't really hate the Jedi. They were mostly annoying, self-righteous and meddled in things that did not concern them. Like thorns. Irritating thorns.

She'd rescued one once. Freed him from captivity when she was being considered for apprenticeship. As she'd hoped he proved to be useful later on, when she needed someone to vouch for her to the Republic.

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Leia and Imperius

mirrorbright
2017-03-13 08:00 pm UTC (link)

"People always fall into needing someone to save them from themselves," Leia said a little cynically. Even after they had defeated the Emperor and ended the reign of the Empire, the First Order grew from its ashes. All the work they had done, all of the lives lost, fights fought, and yet they found themselves right back into the thick of things.

"Sadly, I don't think that will ever change," she murmured. She glanced over at the other woman. Perhaps a Sith from some time ago in her own ancient history wasn't a threat. She didn't feel like the woman was a threat, though she did wonder what Luke would think about it.

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Leia and Imperius

darth_imperius
2017-03-13 08:20 pm UTC (link)

Lomea snorted, but she couldn't disagree. "In my studies of history, I've found that civilization, if you wish to call it that, often falls into the same traps. The Hyperspace War, Mandalorian Wars, Jedi Civil War, Great Galactic War, Galactic War, whatever finally felled your Republic...History repeats itself, because we fail to learn from it. This sin is particularly common among the Sith, but I've known enough of the Republic to see it there, too."

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Leia and Imperius

mirrorbright
2017-03-13 08:39 pm UTC (link)

She nodded. It was completely true, even if she didn't want to believe it. "A vicious cycle," Leia agreed. She paused for a moment to take a slow sip of the whiskey. It had a bite, but it wasn't Corellian whiskey, and it didn't feel like home. But it was enough that it might take the edge off, a little bit. She glanced out the window for a moment and then back at Lomea. "It's different here, though. As far as I can tell. Almost like a breath of fresh air."

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	Leia and Imperius darth_imperius 2017-03-13 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	"It is. But they're still human. Or sentient, as the case may be. I read Terran history." Lomea studied Leia as she spoke. She reminded her of Grand Master Satele Shan in several ways. "They were barbaric, even by Sith standards, and yet they've survived into this... golden age. I suppose only time will tell if the cycle resumes." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Leia and Imperius mirrorbright 2017-03-13 09:15 pm UTC (link)
	"Terran," she said. "That's one of the planets in this part of the universe, am I correct? Earth?" Leia shook her head. "I have a note to read through the history. But I've been taking the time not to think about history or politics for once in my life." Besides, she had other things on her mind. Luke. What she learned about Ben and the future. Family stuff. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Leia and Imperius

darth_imperius
2017-03-13 09:29 pm UTC (link)

"Earth, or Terra. The human homeworld, I believe." It was strange, that there were humans here. That they'd have a planet, and a history on that planet. No one knew where humans had come from in her time period. Only that they'd always been there. Had they come from here, some how? Lost voyagers far from where they'd started?

"I'll admit I've enjoyed not having to watch my back constantly."

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	Leia and Imperius mirrorbright 2017-03-13 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	The human homeworld. That was odd for her to hear. Humans in her time tended to congregate everywhere, pop up, claim various planets as their home. But no one knew from where exactly they originated. She looked in surprise at Lomea. "It is nice not to have to look over your shoulder every day," she agreed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Leia and Imperius darth_imperius 2017-03-13 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	"I suppose a princess general resistance leader would have enemies." In her day, someone like Leia could have easily ended up one of those rivals that one had an uneasy alliance with sometimes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Leia and Imperius mirrorbright 2017-03-13 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	Her enemies were wide and varied, and she nodded. "It's hard not to have enemies, in my line of work." Leia turned and met her eyes. "I hope I don't have any here," she continued in a serious tone. The only things she knew of the Sith tended toward her being wary of the one in front of her, even if she wasn't acting like the Emperor or ... or her father. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Leia and Imperius darth_imperius 2017-03-13 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	"Unlike many of my peers, you have nothing to worry about from me." Not in the strictest sense, anyway. "Though you're intriguing." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Leia and Imperius

mirrorbright
2017-03-13 10:03 pm UTC (link)

Leia felt that she was telling the truth, even as limited with her sensitivities as she was. Or rather, she knew inherently that she didn't have any need to fear Lomea in the same way she had feared her father and the Emperor. She paused to sip her whiskey and then half laughed. "Intriguing? Why?" It wasn't that she wasn't used to being referred to as intriguing; she simply wanted to know why this woman thought it of her.

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	Re: Leia and Imperius darth_imperius 2017-03-13 11:04 pm UTC (link)
	"You've a relationship with the Force, but I can't place just how. You're a princess, who is also general. Something tells me you've seen combat." Lomea tilted her head. "As I said. Intriguing." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Leia and Imperius

mirrorbright
2017-03-14 06:54 pm UTC (link)

"The princess title is in name only," she said shortly. "I haven't been officially a princess since Alderaan's destruction." She never took on the title of queen. Her mother, Breha, would be remembered forever as the last queen of Alderaan, and Leia wouldn't have it any other way. She sipped her whiskey again. "I've been fighting since I was nineteen. It never stops." Even in the peaceful years before the First Order showed up, she was fighting on the Senate floor. A different kind of fighting, perhaps, but fighting nonetheless.

She didn't comment on the Force.

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Leia and Imperius

darth_imperius
2017-03-14 08:00 pm UTC (link)

"I see." She absorbed the news about Alderaan, frowning slightly. She'd once stepped foot a planet forcibly stripped of all life, a void in the Force that had felt like suffocation. But it hadn't been a highly populated one like Alderaan. "War never really changes. The sides might. The weapons might. But the act itself remains the same."

She added, after another moment. "The loss of Alderaan is regrettable. It was a beautiful planet. Despite my purpose there, I rather enjoyed my time there."

The Republic had fought dearly to retake it during the war. Though it had been a year before she'd been born, Lomea knew of that battle because it had been part of the stage that set up Darth Malgus's coup. But that coup was a story Lomea would keep to herself, for now.

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Leia and Imperius

mirrorbright
2017-03-14 08:08 pm UTC (link)

Leia missed Alderaan every day. Some people might have assumed that the more time that passed, the easier it would be to belay the yearning for going back to her home, but that wasn't the case with Leia. Her heart ached for her home planet. "It was like no other place in the galaxy," she said, slightly hollowly, though she opened her mind to a memory of a trip to a mountain lake she had taken as a child with her parents. Just for a moment, she could smell the fresh air and the scent of the flowers that grew only there.

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	Leia and Imperius darth_imperius 2017-03-14 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	There were many places like that. Lomea opened her mouth to say so, then changed her mind. She let Leia have her heartache and yearning and homesickness. There was no gain in twisting the knife. "It does exist. We both remember it." Perhaps that would have to do. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Leia and Imperius mirrorbright 2017-03-14 08:49 pm UTC (link)
	"If only it were that simple," she said as she finished her whiskey, enjoying the burn as it moved down her throat and settled hotly into her stomach. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Leia and Imperius darth_imperius 2017-03-14 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	Lomea simply nodded and turned back to the view. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Leia and Imperius mirrorbright 2017-03-15 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	[ooc: and wrap?] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Leia and Imperius darth_imperius 2017-03-15 08:46 pm UTC (link)
	[ooc: wrap!] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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