So who talks first? | Calibrations

[happybeeps]

WHO: Poe Dameron, OPEN
WHERE: Poe's Calibration room
WHAT: Calibrations
WHEN: 3 June - 10 June
WARNINGS: Torture, War, Weapons of Mass Destruction



You step out into a hangar, half sheltered, but open to the air along one side. The sky is blue, and in the distance there's scattered chatter from resistance members passing by as Poe and BB-8 work. Poe's perched atop the broken wing of his X-wing, scorch marks on her belly suggesting they'd recently come out of a tough scrape.

Poe's still half in his flight suit, the upper half tied round his waist, his old jacket sitting off to the side, draped over a ladder rung with care. There's scattered tools and wires to navigate, a makeshift workbench set up with his helmet and blaster abandoned there, next to his data pad which flashes at him with some unread message, though Poe seems to be pointedly ignoring it. Looking quite out of place, there's a tooka doll, not the sort of sentiment one might associate with Poe, and beside it, and old model of an A-Wing.

Comments

[immunetolight]

"It's not the real war, that's what I'm telling you," Ren says, bristling at that. Maybe the First Order is responsible for the deaths of millions but they aren't the true power in the galaxy. They never have been. They're just a tool to be used by other powers at work and he thinks Poe ought to know that.

"The real war is between Jedi and Sith. The Republic and First Order are just the means. You won't be able to do anything from here but...you have to destroy the Sith to destroy the Order."

[happybeeps]

"Like you destroyed the Jedi?" he challenges. Poe's long admired the Force, but this war, their parent's war, and every war before it, it's been them at the heart of it. "What do you think we've been trying to do all this time? Snoke leads the First Order. We're all ready trying to take him out. And you."

[immunetolight]

"It's not that," Ren says sharply. "Snoke isn't even an issue anymore, he's dead. It's the Emperor. He's alive, Poe, and he's the one pulling all of these strings. He's the one you should fight. He's the one you should be going after, not this...not the distraction of the First Order. Cut off the head and the rest will fall."

[happybeeps]

"..." Poe pales, unblinking a moment before he shakes his head. That can't be true. It's some kind of trick.

"If that was true why would you tell me?"

[immunetolight]

"Because...well, you'll know why eventually. Just take the information as good," Ren says. "I wouldn't give such a thing if I hadn't turned my coat and I don't think...I'll never come back but I can give her this."