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for_everyone) wrote2017-10-27 09:38 pm
for_everyone) wrote2017-10-27 09:38 pm
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They always go into these missions with a plan. A clear objective, a clear series of actions, as little risk as they can anticipate, and --
And almost every time it turns into this, a last-minute scramble with the pressure on, Kanan way outside his position and requiring a quick extraction, weapons blazing.
Just . . . usually it's a pretty simple maneuver to break atmo and run into hyperspace. This time, not so much. The planet's surface is covered with elaborate stone structures, most of which function like a forest canopy, just made of stone. And of course the cities are all built under this multi-shelled stone forest.
So now there's a maze to thread, at high speed, with TIEs firing at them and someone taking his time actually getting inside the damn ship.
"If you don't get inside in the next two minutes, Spectre-1, I'm going to send Chop out to get you. With his stim-prod."
And almost every time it turns into this, a last-minute scramble with the pressure on, Kanan way outside his position and requiring a quick extraction, weapons blazing.
Just . . . usually it's a pretty simple maneuver to break atmo and run into hyperspace. This time, not so much. The planet's surface is covered with elaborate stone structures, most of which function like a forest canopy, just made of stone. And of course the cities are all built under this multi-shelled stone forest.
So now there's a maze to thread, at high speed, with TIEs firing at them and someone taking his time actually getting inside the damn ship.
"If you don't get inside in the next two minutes, Spectre-1, I'm going to send Chop out to get you. With his stim-prod."
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"We can try it."
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She's still thinking.
"It depends on what's more likely to get you in trouble with your pirate friend. Or their friends."
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He looks back to Hera, with a half-smile. "Chop's more likely to cause a scene."
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"Understood. So . . . where are we going? I can get started on plotting a course while we're in hyperspace. And there'll be plenty of time left over for slipshod cannon repairs."
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"Have you been to Vuchelle?"
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"No. Anything in particular I should know about it?"
It's easy enough to look things up on her datapad, but those aren't the kind of 'things' Hera means when she asks that question. Not of Kanan.
Not now.
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But he knows that's not what Hera's asking. Kanan looks down, thinking over his answer. "A few decades ago, the Jedi used it as a base when they were fighting a group of ... notoriously brutal pirates. The Jedi dispersed them, but the Republic and then the Empire were too busy to do much there since.
"The pirates that replaced them are..."
He glances back up at her, and shrugs. "... mellower."
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She takes a deep breath, stretching the kinks out of her neck and shoulder. There probably won't be any time to loosen up tension later, if they're going to be dealing with pirates.
"Right. The Braxant Run it is. We go in with our signal scrambled?"
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Kanan nods, lifting his hand and rubbing the back of his neck, before he rises from his chair.
"I'll go see what Chopper can do with it in the meantime."
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"If it'll help, tell Chop I said to keep his complaining to a minimum until we actually get where we're going."
(It won't help. Much.)
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"I'm sure it will," he calls.