001 ✪ parallel space and time

[immunetolight]

WHO: Kylo Ren & You
WHERE: Town Center & Pink Sector
WHAT: adjusting to the new normal
WHEN: 30 May - 3 June
WARNINGS: this idiot is his own warning.

The comm he'd been given and the network he'd tapped into had absolutely useless. Ren doesn't know what system he's in and while he's found Force sensitives and Poe Dameron he's not ingratiated himself with the Sith or Poe. The latter isn't relevant - he's just a pilot - but the former should be allies. He's Sith too, is he not? Rule of two means he's the only Sith until he finds an apprentice.

It's this frustration that drives him to explore useless libraries, useless greenhouses, a useless comm tower. Does this backwater planet have anything worth a damn?

It seems it doesn't and when he gets to what seems like some sort of pathetic attempt at a hotel, he slams the palm of his hand against the exterior wall. The Force means it does chip at the plaster but even the crumble of plaster beneath his hand isn't satisfying.

"This has to be her fault. I can't even feel her anymore, she's banished me so far."

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[immunetolight]

"They have some sort of power that I've never heard of before, then. It's something we should try to harness ourselves. Find our galaxy, turn us back. Probably more complicated, though."

The engineers had taken ages to develop the power system in Starkiller so Ren doesn't expect answers soon, not in a place that seems devoid of any great technology or society.

"Has anyone tried going home or have they not bothered?"

[stabgremlin]

Something about that kind of power in this man's hands made Aden's skin crawl. But then, maybe it was just because he was a Force-user of some sort, and Aden couldn't stand his kind.

"Probably more complicated, yes," He agreed, with a slight shrug of a shoulder.

"When people here go home, it seems less... Voluntary. They can be here one day, gone the next. So far as trying to go home goes, I honestly don't know. Wouldn't know where to start searching for a way, either."

Not like he has any special powers, after all.

[immunetolight]

"So what do you do? Just live here as if it's what we're going to do? Keep going like it's our lives for perpetuity?"

The idea of it rankles. His uncle had sought out that life when he'd failed and while Ren feels as if he's slipping from the Dark Side more and more each day, he's never thought about isolating himself from everyone to nurse his failures and pretend he no longer exists. It's weak. It's weak of Luke and while he hates his father, his father never gave up.

"Or is there anyone that has been working on it? If not, someone ought to start."

[stabgremlin]

"It's something I'll leave to someone with actual powers, at any rate," Aden said, understanding where the other man was coming from, but also thinking there wasn't much he personally could do.

After all, he didn't understand how the Agrii could pluck them from their worlds, he didn't understand how time or dimension wasn't an issue for them, and he didn't even know where they were so he could punch their faces in.

Ordinary men like himself were the worst off here.

"You could probably ask around on the network though. Might be more useful answers there."

[immunetolight]

"I tried the network," Ren admits. "Much of the same there. No one seems to know how to voluntarily leave this place or challenge these Agrii. They seem to be content in their captivity and I've never been one to do that."

When he was younger, yes. He'd been brainwashed by talk of the glorious rebellion and the notion of a new Jedi Order but Luke had ruined that. He'd decided that Ren was tainted by sins of the past, sins of his own grandfather, and sought to attack him for something he hadn't even done. The Jedi Order was useless and cared nothing for individual talent, only that of the whole. Ren had always sought to be exceptional in himself alone.

"I'll end up frustrated but I have to try."