Luke Skywalker and Callida in Milliways
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Yes, she knows, at least she's not crushing on some rival Sith Lord, at least? Or a Jedi that's an idiot. She could be crushing on a Jedi that's an idiot. This could be so much worse, really!

"This is Luke Skywalker," she provides to Occlus, along with the datapad on Milliways. "From approximately three thousand years in the future. He's already given me a datacard on advanced technology, I have Gelrath looking over some of the medical advances right now."

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She takes the Milliways information and begins skimming.

"Does anything excessively interesting happen in the next three thousand years?"

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She considers.

"Not really. Luke is the last living Jedi in his time, and the Sith seem to be extinct, but otherwise - it sounds very much like our time but with a different social structure. They have the technology to reduce a planet to an asteroid field, but are not post-scarcity."

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"That's disappointing. What happened to them?"

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"There were only two Sith; so far as I knew, there had always been just two at a time. I- killed both of them."

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"Not the Sith, boy, the Jedi."

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"...The Sith had them killed."

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Occlus snorts and shakes her head dismissively.

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Callida does not wince, but that is really only because she's a Sith Lord's composure.

"You could acquire historical records of the interim from Bar, if you'd like specifics" wheedles Callida, "along with anything else there's been any kind of public record of. I haven't asked after Jedi archives but I suspect much of Ossus's library counted as public. Sith archives are likely to be trickier."

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"We already have a Sith archive. I will go ask about Ossus." She walks past the two at the door and goes to the bar.

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Callida gives Luke an apologetic look.

"You might like Ossus's archives, too, actually. If Bar has them," she offers.

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"I, uh, I think I'll wait."

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".... Yeah, that's fair," she agrees. She is so not prepared for this kind of situation. Where was a trial for this on Korriban? She thinks she might want to see a death trap based around introducing a cute Jedi to one's mentor, or maybe also never see that ever. One of those two.

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"Is she always so... intense?"

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"She's usually a bit intense, but no, she was, ah. Playing it up a bit, there. Trying to get a good idea of you by personally testing you, in a way. I - should have realized she would, I apologize."

Because it was almost certainly on account of Callida liking him. She hasn't had Occlus stress test people because she likes them, she didn't know to expect it. But then, she hasn't really been in the habit of letting herself feel things about people in that direction. So.

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"Um," says Luke, eloquently. "Do you think I passed?"

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Callida makes a complicated expression.

"Nnnnno, but I don't think you precisely failed, either. She's unimpressed because you're a Jedi, but she'll give you the - Occlus equivalent of the benefit of the doubt, I think."

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"That's comforting."

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Smile.

"It's - basically giving you a chance to prove yourself."

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"Does she do that to everyone she meets?"

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"Um. You're sort of a special case? She usually adopts more of a wait-and-see approach with people. This is - still that, but less so."

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"Is it because of proximity to Milliways or...?"

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"Proximinity to Milliways, your profession, my opinion of you. It's a number of factors. She wants to know if she should be disappointed in me for my judgement or not."

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"Doesn't she normally trust your judgement?"

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"On most subjects, yes, but she has not yet seen how my judgement fairs with interdimensional bars containing Jedi from the future," she says, dryly.

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