'Meat' 'n Greet

[cityship]

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home.

Several people are set up near the doors to provide the new people with omnicoms and comm rings. New crew-mates might see a green-skinned alien and snake girl among their number. There are also several authoritative-looking figures ready to introduce themselves.

There's a lot to tell the new people. It's going to be a lot to take in.

[ooc: Only new characters and Command Staff can start new threads for introductions, to limit the number of threads. Everyone else, just tag in and have your guys greet the newbies.]

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[sithhavecooties.livejournal.com]

"Jaina!" Ben cried, bounding across the space between them. "Long time no..." He paused, taking her in. This wasn't the Jaina he'd said goodbye to on Coruscant. She looked more like she had in the war holos, from a time Ben remembered only fuzzily. "Really long time no see."

[jediwiseass.livejournal.com]

"Really really long time no see," she tried to scoop him up, a feat that proved far more difficult than with the infant Ben she had left behind, "Oof! When did you get so big, cuz?"

[sithhavecooties.livejournal.com]

"It took a while," he grinned. "I've been working on it for sixteen years."

[jediwiseass.livejournal.com]

"Sixteen?" that meant ten years. She'd missed a decade of his life, a decade of the adventures he must have had, being a Skywalker, "You slowpoke! Even Jacen had sprouted by then."

[sithhavecooties.livejournal.com]

"I know," he said, spreading his arms wide. "I have seen Aunt Leia's holos." But the smalltalk would have to wait. "Jaina, what's going on?"

[jediwiseass.livejournal.com]

"Sithspit," she exclaimed wearily, running a hand through unkempt hair, "You want the tediously long answer or the fatally long answer?"

[sithhavecooties.livejournal.com]

"I'll take my chances with fatally long."

[jediwiseass.livejournal.com]

Deep breath, "We've been brought here by Stacy - she's the ship itself, like one massive jabitha craft - on behalf of a species called the Daligig. They've brought people not just from galaxies outside our own but universes, wholly different dimensions. Nobody knows how she can do that or how she can traverse from one reality to the other, but it has something to do with the universe we're anchored to know. It's big and it's red and it's called the Bleed."

The next part came slower, more muted. Jaina debated continuing at all, but decided that if her family could trust her with revelations of its size when she was Ben's age, he deserved the same from her. He was a Skywalker, he was born for world-shattering revelations.

"The Daligig claim our galaxy, along with the universe and those of the other people here, has been destroyed by a second species called the Ohm. We don't know a whole lot about them either, or how true any of this is. We've had no real proof yet and all we really know is we're stuck here indefinitely."

Spiel finished, she puffed air from her nose and planted a hand on his shoulder, "Have you seen your dad yet? Uncle Luke's way better at this sort of thing."

[sithhavecooties.livejournal.com]

Ben nodded. "He caught up to me just as I got out of that pod room. But stang, Jaina, do you know how barvy that sounds?"

[jediwiseass.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, Ben. I do," her head bowed a little. Her parents didn't recognise her anymore. She and her mother were the same age, her mother perhaps younger. Barvy didn't even begin to describe what this was like, "But it's going to be okay. We've got family here, our family. They save galaxies for breakfast."

[sithhavecooties.livejournal.com]

"Then battle Aunt Leia's spiceloaf for lunch," he sighed. "But even if Stacy's right, what are we doing here?"

[jediwiseass.livejournal.com]

"Naturally. It'd take a lightsaber to cut through mum's cuisine," her face hardened slightly. Prophecy was one of the Jedi tenets that never did sit too well with her, "Stacy's a refugee ship, but it seems like she only has the power to rescue people whose lives resonate through the universe. Some are here because they know how to fight and some are here simply because they're famous somewhere. We're all here because people tell stories about us. That's how I understand it, anyway."

[sithhavecooties.livejournal.com]

Ben shook his head. "I don't buy it. Everyone buys into the refugee ship idea, but no one has a good reason why."

[jediwiseass.livejournal.com]

"Nobody's buying into much of anything, but right now we don't have much of a choice," she folded her arms and frowned, "We're in trouble, Ben. That's pretty much the only fact we've got to go on."

[sithhavecooties.livejournal.com]

"There has to be something else," he insisted. "Who's been here long enough to have useful information?"