Coruscant Catch-All

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WHO: Reeve Tuesti, Tommy Shepherd, Lauri-Ell, and Whoever Else
WHERE: Coruscant
WHAT: Adventures In Space Jedi-dom Catch-All
WHEN: Throughout Adventure
WARNINGS: Added As needed.

See below for Starters for each Character. If you have other ideas or things you want, message one of the accounts, hit me up on Discord at Churby#4290 or at churbooseanon

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[kree_soldieress]

"What does this word mean, padawan?" Lauri-Ell asked, looking up at him. No, hes still more educated in this place than she is. And she wishes to know more.

At least she can understand the Jedi/Force Sensitive thing.

"Ah! I understand. Not all shapeshifters are Skrull, but all Skrull are shapeshifters. I see. How interesting. Are they all the same species? I have seen many sorts here? Are some subjugated races?"

[ezra_of_lothal]

He makes a bit of a face at the 'subjugated races'. He grew up under the Empire, where plenty of non-human species were blatantly subjugated races, but he certainly believes the Republic was different.

"A padawan is the student of an individual Jedi Knight or Master, in training to become a Jedi Knight, themselves. I'm not a traditional student because of when I come from. My master, Kanan Jarrus, asked me to be his padawan when I was 14. I didn't have any training before then. But traditionally - and now - Force sensitive children come to the Temple very young. They can just aout lots of species, and they come from all over the galaxy. There may be species that can't be Force sensitives; that I don't know. But the general idea is the Jedi come from all, and they serve all."

[kree_soldieress]

"Serve all..."

Lauri-Ell nods sagely. She supposes she can understand that. It's a bit like being a Kree Accuser. She lives to serve all.

"Why is it different for you?"

[ezra_of_lothal]

He glances around, making sure there's no one in easy ear shot, before he leans in a little more.

"There's...not really an Order in my time. Just survivors. Centuries from now a power hungry man became Chancellor of the Republic. When he was ready to proclaim himself Emperor, he ordered the army to storm this temple and kill every one they could inside, even the little kids. My teacher was a padawan out on the field with his own master. She was killed. He lived."

[kree_soldieress]

When he leans in, she leans forward to. A secret? Does this have to do with the time discrepancy she's heard of? Intriguing.

"Why would someone kill children?"

[ezra_of_lothal]

Ezra sighs. It's good to know his shipmate isn't down with child murder, but how do you answer that?

"In the case of the that guy, you're blinded by hate, I think. I don't think he has a line that he won't cross."

[kree_soldieress]

Child murder is wrong. Murder is wrong. Violence is horrible.

"I do not understand how one can hate children. I do not even hate Skrull children, and never have. Children are children."

She pushes up from her seat. "We must tell someone. To warn them."

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Lauri-Ell," Ezra hisses, reaching up but stops a little shy of actually grabbing her arm. "We can't just-" Well, they can, but the question is whether they should.

"Master Kenobi was...not quite there, but he lived through these events. He sent out the warning that told survivors to not come back home. He knows more about how it happened then I do, and as a fellow Master, the High Council will listen to him more than anyone else, probably. He promised me he'd consider how best to warn them."

[kree_soldieress]

"Why can we not?" she demanded. They were lives, and they could be saved!

Yes, it is playing with time, but sometimes that was important. But at least someone was thinking of it.

"If this is the past, he is not a Master yet, will they listen?"

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Because foreknowledge doesn't necessarily fix things. Sometimes it just makes people more afraid or angry," he tries to explain. "There's a lot of time for that message to get garbled or...fixated on."

He takes a deep breath. "I...believe they will. And I trust that Master Kenobi will find the better way to tell them then I will."

[kree_soldieress]

"Alright," she says, but she definitely seems sad about this. "I just don't want children hurt. I am a protector."

And the idea of many children such as she has seen here hurt is... sad.

[ezra_of_lothal]

He gives a soft, sympathetic smile back.

"Against the...Skrull?" He thinks that's what she said, that she didn't even hate their children. "Tell a little about where you're from?" he asks.

[kree_soldieress]

"Once. I was once against the Skrull. We are united now. But I protect any who cannot protect themselves. That is what I wish."

To tell of where she's from. That's not easy.

"It is hard to explain. The Kree are from a planet called Hala, but we cannot go back there now, that home is lost."

[ezra_of_lothal]

Ezra nods to the first part, even as he grimaces in sympathy about the second. "I think when I really committed to being a Jedi was when I realized I wanted to protect everyone who needed it, not just my friends and family."

"I'm sorry about your home. You did grow up there?"

[kree_soldieress]

"That is a noble goal," she assures him. "Protection and conflict are not always hte same thing. I bid you remember this. My people long forgot it."

Or had they ever known? The Kree were inherently a warlike people.

"I did not. I was engineered on another settlement."

[ezra_of_lothal]

"That's an important lesson, and I've had trouble with it, too," Ezra agrees.

Then he blinks as her last sentence registers. "Engineered. Is it rude to ask if that how, um, most of your people come into existence?"

[kree_soldieress]

"No," she answered honestly. "Some of the soldiers, yes. Genetically designed and neurally trained to be a good soldier."

But most Kree were properly born. Just the warriors like her had the 'privilege' to be made. But there were plenty of soldiers who were not.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Designed and neurally trained sounds kinda ominous. Ezra's reminded of the clone troopers here in his galaxy.

"What if you decided you want to do something else?" he asked, quietly. "Not... bad things. Just something different. Like art, or medicine."

[kree_soldieress]

IT should seem ominous. Lauri-Ell is not a natural being and that is ominous.

"Art?" Lauri-Ell asked. She was not familiar with art. "What is art?"

Medicine is definitely a field of study, but not for her.

"I believe part of the confusion comes from the differences in our culture. My people have been extant and spacefaring for more than a million years. Our technology is often at the forefront of all, and much of what other races believe to be necessary, we do not. The fact that I was genetically engineered means I was made to be perfect for what I do, that I was as born to be military as the child of any Kree military officer. Though the fact that I did not 'grow up' with it as others do perhaps explains why I am less... enamored with violence."

She was made for war, and she was one of the best at it of all of her people. Something she had tried to find her way free of, only for the Universal Weapon to come into her hands.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Oh boy. There's a lot to unpack there, Ezra thinks.

"Art is...well, I'm not much of an artist, although one of the best warriors I know is," he says earnestly. What would Sabine say, here? "Lots of things can be art. Paintings. Sculpture. Music. Any design that isn't, um, the bare essentials to function can be art. Things that appeal to the senses, or mean things."

[kree_soldieress]

"Can flowers be art?"

They aren't functional to the Kree society. But they are pretty. And she liked flowers. Who didn't? And Kree didn't keep them much.

[ezra_of_lothal]

"I think so, yeah," he says after a beat of consideration. "Plant them in a pattern, or arrange the cut flowers. Or take a picture?"

[kree_soldieress]

"That would be lovely," Lauri-Ell smiles. "I would like art if it was flowers."

Because all other art is just strangely theoretical.

[ezra_of_lothal]

"I'm sure there's all kind of books on art here in the Archives," he offers, smiling back. "And have you seen the gardens here in the Temple?"

[kree_soldieress]

"Yes, but art will not solve our problems," she answered. So she did not intend to look. "I have been shown the gardens. They are lovely. I go and look when I need a break."