revivalproject | [01] - Network, Video [near the end of Energy Storm event]

Greetings.

[There's a man standing calmly, a black cape covering most of his body, staring into the camera with an expression of very open disdain.]

My name is Kylo Ren. I am the Supreme Leader of the First Order and to many of you, I suspect those words mean nothing. Don't worry. That won't last long. To those of you that do know who I am, I'm very glad to be the one to tell you personally that you've finally managed to run into a corner that you won't be escaping from.

I'll be quick about this. I've been here for some time now and in that time I've mostly done two things - The first is studying this network to learn more about my situation so that I could somehow contact my fleet to come and get me. If I had succeeded, this would have been a very different kind of message, [and been accompanied by orbital bombardment, probably] but I did learn that the phenomenon that pulled me here has also reeled in a number of criminals from my galaxy. They refer to themselves collectively as the Resistance. Whatever they've told you about themselves, they're thieves, murderers and terrorists, so I would be careful about how much time I spend with them if I were you.

The second thing I did was digging.

[He switches the camera over to a fairly respectable looking pile of supplies, mostly food and medicine. Apparently he's been busy following around those ghosts that have been popping up.]

I understand supplies can be scarce around here, so I went to the trouble of procuring some. I'm even feeling generous enough to share them, so let's make this simple.

Deliver every single member of the Resistance to me. Or the Resistance can simply surrender themselves, but I've learned to not underestimate their cowardice, so I won't be counting on that. Either way, do that and these supplies are yours.

[Somehow, this was by far the most personable version of this that he came up with.]

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'Back' implies that I took them from you.

I found these on my own. I'm extending some measure of an olive branch to you people and giving you an opportunity to do the galaxy a service by turning in a group of terrorists.

Frankly, I would've expected you to see this as mutually beneficial.

[Billy frowns, not looking especially convinced.]

...What did they do?
And what do you plan to do to them if we were to hand them over?

What can you think of? They've killed. Stolen. Destroyed. Lied to the galaxy. Any crime you can think of, I'm sure I can find a few examples.

When I get them, I'll do the only thing that can be done - execute them. [He sounds just a little too up for it, too.]

[Oh, yeah, way too eager. No way. He shakes his head.]

You're not Supreme Leader here. You don't get to just decide who dies.

I am the Supreme Leader everywhere. [He really pushes on that one. He very clearly isn't okay with the idea of giving up any of his pretensions to power, even completely removed from it.]

They committed their crimes in my galaxy. I have no intention of letting them escape their fate because of the Agrii's cosmic joke.

I don't remember voting for you.

And I have no intention of letting you kill anyone here, whatever they did.

That simplifies things considerably, then.

[Boy, that sounds ominous.]

[It really does. There's definitely a tinge of fear on Billy's face, as much as he tries not to show it.]

Does it?

Edited 2020-02-27 21:12 (UTC)

Throw yourself in with them and expect the same fate.

Consider this your one and only warning.

Well if you plan to kill people I have to try and stop you, so...it doesn't look like we're going to get along very well.

Geez, we BOTH had to roll our eyes at the guy that probably listens to emo death-metal who thinks he's super important, didn't we?

It's what we do.