Nod. "Thank you, for, uh, the sacrifice. It's not an easy thing for me to do, but I understand the math. The dreamshard absolutely must not get in the wrong hands. We knew this to be true even back home where there were no Sith."

She nods. "Trevor mentioned what happened to you, yeah. That'd be the nicer end of things, with Sith involved."

Nod. "On the less nice end of things they would... fight over it and then you have a war with literal nightmares fighting around?"

"Or coordinate. Sith generally come in master-and-apprentice setups, and some masters have several apprentices at once; something like that could be pretty stable and then just start eating everything around it."

He shivers. "Yeah. Neither option is particularly good. It... risking everyone on the planet might be a kindness."

"Hmm?"

"Sorry. I meant using as much destructive power we can in case the Sith get a hold of the dreamshard. Which is likely to be a lot of destructive power. But not as terrible as the dreamshard in the wrong hands."

"Ah. I can probably be more precise than that, but yes, if it came to it." She considers. "I don't have planetbuster plans on hand, but I should be able to work something up pretty easily with no material constraints to worry about."

Slow nod.

"- I was a weapon design researcher, before I came here; most Sith couldn't work something like that up quite that easily. And the material constraints are significant."

"Ah, I understand. I'm still limited by volume of about three or four cubic kilometers per hour, but that still should help a lot and I don't mind staying asleep for however long to set up our defenses and means of escape."

She nods. "I'll mostly need a really big crystal - something half the size of the house should be more than enough - and a power source, and time to set it up and attune it; I'll let you know when I have more detail than that."

Nod. "Thank you. Meanwhile, I should pick up droids?"

"Mmhmm. Daisy will be doing the actual purchasing, unless you especially want to for some reason."

Nod nod. "Uh... is the crystal that big because the dreamshard is that loud or I shouldn't interpret anything from it's size?"

"The crystal is that big because it takes a lot to crack a planet, I'll need something big enough to handle that much energy."

"Ah, understood."

"Could be worse. Sayter's only got a few million people on it."

"Yeah, do you think I shouldn't... improve things here because then it attracts more people?"

"Mm - there's a threshold you'd have to go over before you'd start attracting immigrants, but I'm not sure what it is; depends on the situation in the rest of the galaxy, and I haven't been paying that much attention. I know what to check, though -" she names some periodicals for him to make; mostly newspapers and a few magazines, but some internal Sith reports, too.

He dutifully writes these down. "I probably should figure out a way to operate discreetly enough that I  will be able to operate remotely on other planets by then, even if not... I can wait."

Nod.

"How are you adapting to being a dreamshaper? Do you have good control over your dimension?"

She nods again. "Good enough. We haven't tested the lightning effect while I'm awake, yet."

"Reasonable."