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. ]

Comments

[thisisafact]

Then it is of the utmost importance that we retrieve both before they suffer irreparable damage. [ usually she wouldn't be the type to worry too much about a droid, but there's only so much time someone can spend around luke skywalker and r2-d2 before some sort of affection happens. ]

I could probably swim down to retrieve your cargo and droid, but I doubt I could manage a fighter using only the Force.

That should be 'but they were closed to minimize damage', thanks, phone!

[sfoils]

[ X-wing jockeys are fabled for their affection towards their snubfighters and Wedge Antilles, x-wing ace of aces, isn't an exception.

But an X-wing is replaceable. A person isn't.

The choice isn't easy, but it's the right one. ] Just the cargo and droid is fine. I'm not going to risk your life for what's quickly becoming rusty metal.

i got it anyway, no worries!

[thisisafact]

There may still be a way. [ it's her version of reassuring, even if it may not sound it. she'll need to see the situation first, how deep things are, if there are trees they can use. if the force is really with her today or not.

tenel ka finally stops, her video stabilizing. ]

If you can describe nearest which shore you crashed, I will go there immediately and do what I can.

[sfoils]

[ It is reassuring. Wedge wants to hold onto that. But he also doesn't want to get his hopes up. An x-wing isn't as valuable as a person, but he does feel like a part of himself just sunk into the sea. ] Near the port. I swam to the beach and was able to make my way into the town. I don't know exactly which shore it is. Sorry.

[thisisafact]

That is enough to go on.

[ it's probably not, and she might have to see if a quick favour can be called in, but so long as the possible area isn't too big, she's determined. and walking in a different direction now. ] Were you injured in the crash?

[sfoils]

[ No, it's not. Still, assuaging his conscience is a nice gesture. ] Yeah, but I'll be fine. My friends are on their way.

[thisisafact]

[ that's the first thing that makes her pause a moment, about to ask who his friends are, but realizing she probably already knows. ]

Master Skywalker and Major Janson?

[sfoils]

That's them. I guess they're famous here too. Well, infamous for Wes.

[thisisafact]

Not everyone here is from the same galaxy. I have taken care to know who hails from regions I have at least heard of.

[sfoils]

I figured as much. [ That with the massive interest in his snubfighter. ] You've heard of Corellia, Tatooine and Taanab then?

[thisisafact]

[ she nods curtly. ] My mother is from Dathomir, my father is Hapan. I was a student of Master Skywalker's on Yavin 4 before my... arrival here.

[sfoils]

[ Wedge knows little about Dathomir. Even less on Hapes. ] Luke turned Yavin into a Jedi Temple? When?

[thisisafact]

Eleven years after the Battle of Yavin. [ oh right, this again. ] Just as not everyone here is from the same galaxy, we have not all come from the same time. It is... a concept that may require some further explanation. Perhaps from one of your friends.