Video 001 | Week 78, Thursday

[sfoils]

[ The speaker looks positively average: brown hair, brown eyes, pale skin. His voice is composed despite the message. ] I am Commander Wedge Antilles of Rogue Squadron. [ He shifts closer into view, wincing in pain. But as quickly as it comes, it goes. He settles his expression back into neutrality. ] I've crash landed here and I'd appreciate help fishing out my snubfighter. Or at least getting my cargo and astromech out of it.

I don't have much in the way of payment, but there's three bottles of my world's best whiskey in there. [ And Kettch, Wedge remembers absentmindedly. ] Oh, and some food rations. [ Wryly. ] Unless you like cardboard, I wouldn't recommend them.

Antilles out. [ And the transmission ends. ]

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[nodavinci]

Congratulations, I think you're the first person who's managed to actually put down in the water.

[There's a faint, tinny edge to the wryly amused voice.]

We should be able to rig something up to haul you out. How far off shore did you go down?

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[sfoils]

I've had a lot of practice with rough landings. [ Oh, this thing functions as a commlink too? Wedge wishes he would've known that.

Then again, if he knew that then maybe Luke wouldn't have been so quick to rescue him. ] It'd say one or two klicks. [ A pause. ] That's kilometers.

[nodavinci]

What a strange unit of measurement.

[There's a moment's pause as Tony considers the topography.]

Shouldn't slip off the continental shelf, then. Good. Most of the really weird wildlife stays further out.

[sfoils]

[ Wedge supposes he could use himself as a unit of measurement. It'd be, what, a hundred or more Wedges from x-wing to coast?

Seems egotistical, though, naming a unit of measurement after himself. ] Well, that's good. I was worried large marine mammals might confuse her for one of their own.

[nodavinci]

Wouldn't be the first time a hydra's tried to mate with something it shouldn't.

[Serious, or really good deadpan? You be the judge.]

[sfoils]

[ Oh no, deadpan versus deadpan. ] I wouldn't be worried until the sea life develops ion cannons. I'll just give her a good clean-up before flying again.

[nodavinci]

I'm pretty sure they haven't managed to build anything more complex than cutting lasers, but you never know.