Video Broadcast - OTA (Post Storm)

[doubled_speed]

[Hey guys, look who it is. The bright and cheerful and constantly snarky kid. Who is smiling wide, though it looks a bit strained. Good news, his arm has healed since getting back. Bad news, Tommy looks nervous and maybe a hint of stressed as the video starts. But hey, he's in the greenhouse, which is obvious from the greenery around him. And his communication device is propped up against something, because his hands are in the shot, working at the soil around a lush Cyanana plant, clearly working fertilizer into the soil with care.]

So, like... Just because we've got the ships and stuff doesn't mean it's not important for us to maintain the greenhouse, right? We were gone for a while and not all the places in here did well while we were gone. And then I was walking around and realized that we're sorta scattered, the people working here. So maybe people with the skill should, like, coordinate? Because fresh food on the ships is good too. We can preserve shit and put it on the ships for variation.

I also wanna do, like, hydroponics on some of the ships. So if we gets spaced again for a while, we can have fresh stuff.

Guess...

[He sighs and his hand cards through his hair. Which means some dirt is now there in the perfect white strands.]

Guess I mean I'm willing to help organize. Map out the greenhouse, help us figure out schedules and when to work on different plants and that shit. Or not. Someone else can take that charge. I don't much care. It just needs done. Might also need an engineer to help with the ship part. And maybe people to okay adding it to other ships and to take care of the plants.

Anyway uh...

[Let him be useful. He failed as a hero in the storm. Disappointment and frustration flash across his face in the video and then it's gone.]

Thoughts?

Comments

[kallig]

... Why don't we talk about something more pleasant?

[Altair is relatively okay with his own slavery. He's also good with being an alien, since it forced him to adapt very quickly.

But he gets it.]

When I come by the greenhouse you can meet RE-1 in person.

[doubled_speed]

[Well, his life isn't even REMOTELY happy right now so yeah, pleasant isn't happening.]

Okay. That might be nice.

[kallig]

[RE-1 gives a pleasant warble- seems he's looking forward to it, too.]

He can help us get a lay of the land, too. He is a scout, after all. So when it comes to exploring, he's the best.

[doubled_speed]

Well, this whole place could DEFINITELY stand to get sorted out.

[kallig]

That it could.

[No question about that.] First priority has to be anywhere that will actually help us survive, though.

[doubled_speed]

Which probably includes flipping off that 'Kylo' idiot.

[kallig]

[Look at this deadpan expression, Tommy. Look at it. Altair looks so tired and so annoyed.]

Ah yes, that scum. We'll have to deal with him eventually...

[doubled_speed]

[He can probably punch the guy fast enough to turn him to mush. Is that okay?]

I feel like 'eventually' is wrong.

[kallig]

I'd like to give him the chance to prove he's got a brain rattling about in his skull before resorting to murder and mayhem, but...

[Sigh.]

[doubled_speed]

He doesn't seem to think before talking, right?

[kallig]

I do believe something needs to be done- destroying supplies when we're already worried about getting by is unforgivable.

[Sigh. He wishes he could find murder as easy as he used to.]

Perhaps a mere communal beating would be better.

[doubled_speed]

Seems fair. But someone says he's got powers.

[kallig]

And so do most of the rest of us. I am Sith too, similar to what he is- though I don't think he self-identifies as Sith the way I do.

[To Altair, being Sith is special. Not so much to Kylo, even if Kylo seems strong in the Dark side.]

I don't think he could hold his own against all of us.

[doubled_speed]

[Sith? Like he even knows what that is and why it's important.]

And if he does? My brother and my mom are here. Well, sorta my mom. I don't want them hurt.

[kallig]

I know the feeling. I have people here I don't want to see harmed. Not to mention there are also children around- and a pregnant woman, as well.

[He's only spoken to the children and the woman once or twice, but he's still worried for them and concerned about the threat that Kylo represents.]

I don't think he's too much for all of us to handle though, truly. He is strong in the Force, but so am I. And many have abilities beyond those of Sith and Jedi, abilities he won't be prepared to face.

[doubled_speed]

[Pregnant woman? Children? News to him. One that definitely has him concerned. They definitely need protected.]

So you've got magic powers? Interesting. I'm just, you know, fast. Can't do my explosions stuff.

[kallig]

I've not spoken to them much, but they are here.

[However cruel it is to put pregnant women and literal children in danger. He's sort of extra angry with the Agrii for bringing them here.]

And yes, I have "magic powers" as you put it.

[doubled_speed]

Weird. Guess I wasn't expecting that of you, Party-Man.

[kallig]

What, you thought I was a helpless civilian of some sort?

[doubled_speed]

Woulda been racist to assume you COULD do something just because you don't look human.

[kallig]

Technically speaking, my species does have traits some would consider a power of a sort- at the very least something I think is unique to my species.

[He looks thoughtful.] My eyesight goes slightly into the infrared range, for example. And I'm quite good with lower temperatures, though I don't necessarily enjoy them.

If there's anything else though, I don't know. I know very little about my kind.

[doubled_speed]

Yeah, my speed has to do with my species too. But infrared vision is SUPER cool. Does that mean you could see plants in the greenhouse differently?

[He's heard some flowers have infrared patterns on them so bees will come at them better.]

But it's okay, not knowing much. Your life wasn't the greatest. I get what that's like.

[kallig]

I've... Never thought about that, actually. But then, I haven't been looking at a lot of flowers, either.

[Since his eyes are nearly always covered, anyway.]

Technically speaking, I was actually one of the lucky ones, being born outside the Chiss Ascendancy. But I won't get into that any more than I have.

[doubled_speed]

You can't see through your veil thing?

[kallig]

I can see the ground if I look down. But I can't see through it, no.