Mental action thing, huh? All right. Telepathy's a mental action, right? She wants to hear what Wiccan is thinking.

Is she okay that was probably really rude of me though I mean this isn't the worst thing I've ever done accidentally at least I didn't roll her back or summon a bear that was really weird and Loki was possibly lying about the thing there because I super don't think summoning random bears is actually a problem I had when we were finding the Scarlet Witch though maybe it started after that parasite thing hey she's thinking a long time I wonder if it'd be rude to make some food I'm hungry maybe pancakes oh wait pancake waffle song okay brain seriously noodles are better anyways at least there's no noodle song no stop thinking of the most annoying songs you can brain hey I wonder if this universe has any neat restaurants probably nothing as good as that stall in Osaka in 3714 haven't been there in forever since America got banned from ever coming back though did she actually explain why the person was so mad at her I think someone mentioned property damage -

And she wants to stop hearing that now.

"Well. I don't think I'll have any more trouble with SIS encryption."

"That's good! What's SIS?"

"Republic Strategic Intelligence. My current employer."

"Do you - want help getting away from them?"

"Without that damn override code, they can't stop me. But I can't leave yet. The job's not finished."

"What job?"

"This is extremely classified, but I expect you'll probably be extremely classified if you ever interact with a government, so. I'm not actually a defector. I'm a Cipher agent with Imperial Intelligence on undercover assignment. There are three layers to this assignment. First, to ordinary citizens of the Republic and the Empire, which includes military personnel and most of the rest of Imperial Intelligence and SIS, I'm still an Imperial agent. Second, to the SIS cell I'm embedded with, I'm a turncoat playing double agent for their side. Third, to the head of Imperial intelligence and the Watcher I liaise with, I'm a loyal double agent on their side."

"Spy stuff! My teacher probably would've been a better magic person for that but he's also an asshole. Uh. I guess I'd like to - figure out where we are and how to get home or have stuff to do until our friends find us, and maybe help out with like problems here while I'm at it? I usually don't get a chance to stay places to help out for long stretches... And you seem nice!"

"What do you define as a problem?"

"Hm. People being - unhappy? Like, deeply, in a way they don't want to be? I want to maximize the number of people who have what they want and are happy, and minimize unhappiness. I can't fix everything, but I'm pretty good for fixing like resource shortages and monster attack type stuff? And that's usually the - basic underlying problems a lot of places have. That and politics but fixing politics is hard without living somewhere."

"Well, there's a pretty big war going on now that I think most people would say is the root of the problems in the galaxy. The people in charge of the war would say that it's the fault of the other side for existing at all, so I don't know where that falls on the line between monster attacks and politics."

"...I'd probably call that politics? Um, I'm not powerful enough to pick people up and put them all so they don't have to be next to their enemies, though that'd be cool... I'm guessing there's not some obvious solution to get them to cut it out? Peacefully?"

"If there were, the galaxy wouldn't need people like me. Part of the problem too is that both sides have a sect of Force-users, Sith for the Empire and Jedi for the Republic, and they really don't like each other. Their religious disagreements are a major driver."

"Religious wars. Ugh. ...What's a Force user?"

"The Force is this sort of..." she waves a hand vaguely, "thing. I don't really understand it. But basically, people can use it can be superhuman, strength, speed, telekinesis, that sort of thing. They talk about stuff like clairvoyance and sensing emotions too, but I don't put much stock in that."

"We've got a lot of stuff I guess kind of like that? Powers come from lots of different places... Can all Force users do the same stuff?"

"More or less, it seems like. Some are stronger, some are weaker. Some are better at some parts than others."

"Huh. We're probably mutants, or at least used to be - mutants all have different powers, and are basically supers with a genetic link? And non-mutant supers mostly also do different things. Jet's a speedster, I'm a mage, one of our old teammates could change her size..."

"That's quite a varied catalog."

"Stuff gets way more ridiculously weird than that. So - you guys are a galactic civ? How do you get around?"

"Spaceships equipped with hyperdrive. You can cross the known galaxy in about two weeks, if you have a good ship and push it."

"Neat; that's better than a lot of stuff that isn't outright teleportation back home..."

"We don't have anything like teleportation."