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ΜØŦĦ€Ř Đ€ΔŘ

ΜØŦĦ€Ř Đ€ΔŘ is a sims story in which the motherplant isn’t a captive in crater lab, but a crime boss residing in her own fortified lair. To achieve this end, I transplanted the Strangerville mystery into the Star Wars setting. One group of my sims is closely associated with mother, another group, led by George Cahill, opposes her. Given my setup, George cannot just wander into an abandoned lab and start spraying herbicide around, he’ll have be more resourceful.

Will he succeed in rooting out the crime queen and if so, at what cost?

Read on to find out!

FAQ

I don’t like Star Wars
Spoiler
In this case it’s a coin toss whether you’ll like this story or not. It depends on what exactly you dislike about the franchise. There will be no space battles, but definitely sim on sims violence, organized crime, a military hierarchy and reflections about the Force.
When I started writing the story, I didn’t own JtB yet, therefore my sims spent the first half of book one in Strangerville, San Myshuno and Sulani.


I don’t know Star Wars
Spoiler
If you never heard the first thing about Star Wars, then surprisingly you need only two informations to follow this story: A space faring evil empire is bent on world conquest and there is a mystical energy field that connects all living beings. Some sims can tap into it to gain occult powers.
That said, I’ll make sure to give a brief one or two sentence introduction when a Star Wars concept, official character or organization gets mentioned for the first time.


I don’t like Strangerville
Spoiler
The chance that you will enjoy this story is very small. The whole second book deals with the mystery and unlike Star Wars, that only donated the setting, the Strangerville plot will always be present even when the sims are in different worlds.


Your sims’ names sound familiar
Spoiler
You’re right, of course. In addition to the Strangerville premades I borrowed characters from Detroit: Become Human and Fire Emblem 7, with FE’s Brendan Reed and DBH’s Gavin Reed being the link between the two casts. If you played either game, you’ll have a good idea already how the sims will act in this story. Their looks aren’t correct, though, and this being a PG13 forum, I toned down their cussing.


Is this the same story you currently link to in your signature?
No, this is an older one. The two tales are not connected (other than using the Star Wars setting).

Table of contents:

Book 1: Journey to Batuu

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Book 2: Godmother strikes back

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Book 3: The rise of O’Malley - WIP

(no pic yet)


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    EnkiSchmidt
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    11 months ago
    Book 1: The journey to Batuu

    A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…

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    Tanglewood is a planet with a cough-inducing, spores filled atmosphere generated by a powerful being known only as The Godmother.

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    Godmother rules her vast crime empire by means of an army of possessed sims who have eaten her fruit. The craftiest of those agents operate even in the polar regions, where Godmother’s spores cannot survive. There is an official government in San Myshuno, but for all practical purposes Godmother owns the planet.

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    The space pirate Gavin Dree of the Black Fang is one of Godmother’s many minions, a favored retainer, but not possessed.
    Captain Dree has just returned from a successful raid and gotten granted the honor of getting received by Godmother herself in her underground lair, the Planter Pot.

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    Gavin coughs as he enters The Planterbox’s innermost chamber. The spores get sucked out through the now open door, to disperse through the many tunnels before eventually settling down. Only the strongest will reach the surface and contribute to saturating Tanglewood’s atmosphere, in effect turning the whole planet into an extension of Godmother’s body. It is said that she can sense everything that happens everywhere and send her vines to any place in a moment’s notice. (The actual extent of Godmother’s powers is unknown, of course, but it might not be that much smaller than what the legends make of it.)

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    It takes time until the spores concentration in the room is thin enough to breath, let alone speak, normally. Despite not being negatively affected herself, the plant creature waits for her human retainer to recover, before she opens the conversation:

    “ΔĦ, Μ¥ Đ€ΔŘ ĆΔƤŦΔƗŇ ĐŘ€€ Ř€ŦỮŘŇŞ! Ɨ ŦŘỮŞŦ ¥ØỮŘ ĴØỮŘŇ€¥ Ŵ€ŇŦ Ŵ€ŁŁ?”

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    “You already know this, don’t you? The goods have been delivered to your warehouse in full.”

    “Đ€ŁƗV€Ř€Đ, ƗŇŞƤ€ĆŦ€Đ, ΔŇĐ ƤΔƗĐ ₣ØŘ. ŦĦ€ βỮŁҜ ΔŞ ΔǤŘ€€Đ ỮƤØŇ ƗŇ ǤΔŁΔĆŦƗĆ ĆŘ€ĐƗŦŞ ŦØ ŦĦ€ Đ€ŞƗǤŇΔŦ€Đ ΔĆĆØỮŇŦ, ΔŇĐ Δ ₣ŘΔĆŦƗØŇ ƗŇ ŁØĆΔŁ ĆỮŘŘ€ŇĆ¥. ĦΔV€ ₣ỮŇ ŞƤ€ŇĐƗŇǤ ƗŦ!”

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    “Hehe, we will, mom, we will!”

    Gavin chuckles. His step-mother being a voluntary vessel of Godmother's, sometimes it is hard to tell the two apart. But the Captain counts himself lucky that both women, the human and the plant, harbor motherly affection for him. He and his crew may be reviled in parts of the galaxy, but here on Tanglewood everything is well. Life is good and keeps getting better.

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    “ΔŇĐ ŞƗŇĆ€ ¥ØỮ Ŵ€Ř€ ΔβŁ€ ŦØ ƤŘØĆỮŘ€ ŦĦ€ ǤØØĐŞ ŞØ ΩỮƗĆҜŁ¥…”

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    “ĦΔV€ Δ βØŇỮŞ!”

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    “Ah… ha… nah! With all due respect, but I must refuse. My brain is of more use to you when it’s controlled by myself. Besides, I have to pilot the Black Fang!”

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    “ŞØ ĆØŇ₣ƗĐ€ŇŦ? ΜĦΜ-ΜĦΜ…”

    “Huh? Whoa!”

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    “I strongly urge you to reconsider, Godmother! At least let me spend that money you just paid me in one of your entertainment palace’s before you take my body over!”

    That still is the plan, yes? Gavin wonders with increasing panic. Godmother hasn’t decided to just eat him? Is that the consequence of refusing to serve as a vessel? “One way or another you’ll be mine, and if it’s not the one, then the other”?

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    “¥ØỮ ΔŘ€ ƗŇĐ€€Đ ΜØŘ€ VΔŁỮΔβŁ€ ŴĦ€Ň ƗŇĐ€Ƥ€ŇĐ€ŇŦ. ŞĦΔŘƤ, ĆŘ€ΔŦƗV€, βỮŦ ₣ΔŘ ₣ŘØΜ ŦĦ€ Ǥ€ŇƗỮŞ ¥ØỮ β€ŁƗ€V€ ¥ØỮŘŞ€Ł₣ ŦØ β€.”

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    “ØŇ€ ĐΔ¥ ¥ØỮ ŴƗŁŁ ₣ΔƗŁ, ΔŇĐ ŦĦ€Ň Ɨ’ŁŁ ŞŦƗŁŁ β€ Ħ€Ř€, Ø₣₣€ŘƗŇǤ €ŇĐŁ€ŞŞ ₣ØŘǤƗV€Ň€ŞŞ ΔŇĐ ŦĦ€ Ř€ŁƗ€VƗŇǤ ØβŁƗVƗØŇ Ø₣ β€ĆØΜƗŇǤ ƤΔŘŦ Ø₣ ŦĦ€ Μ¥Ć€ŁƗỮΜ.”

    Come to think of it, Captain Dree's life might not be that good, after all. But it will go on, and that's the important part.
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    EnkiSchmidt
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    11 months ago
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    Outside the crater, but still within sight of it, the “Four Fangs”, have set up camp. This is what Gavin’s ragtag band of scoundrels calls themselves, after their spaceship, the Black Fang.

    There is young Shir, whom Gavin remembers running runny-nosed after him and his childhood buddy, Nita, begging to get included into their games and schemes. Well, now he is, and nobody in the region would call Shir’s choice of career anything other than smart. On Tanglewood, working for Godmother garners a person respect.

    While Nita doesn’t care about such technicalities, Shir and Gavin stress that they are not pirates, but officially licensed privateers of Godmother. On most of the planet their status gets the fangs into the best clubs, free drinks from admirers included, and in San Myshuno it allows them to at least move about freely without the law enforcement breathing down their neck at every step.

    Out of sight right now Hank can be heard tinkering, assisted by an R6 droid. The faithful little robot is a regular crew member, yet it doesn’t get included in the “Four Fangs” count.

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    First thing Gavin does after rejoining his comrades is kicking the droid.

    Gavin: “Stupid things!”

    Shir: “Why do you hate droids so much, Captain?”

    Spoiler


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    Nita: “Because they can easily do his job and ours, too.“

    While R6-TV returns to scanning the old car graveyard for still salvageable components, Gavin frowns at his friend.

    Gavin: “That’s not funny, Nita. It’s a very real possibility.”

    Nita: “Aw, don’t fret, friend! Droids are kinda expensive, plus, they don’t procreate. There’ll always be need for human slaves!”

    Shir: “Now THAT will ease the Captain’s mind, I’m sure!”

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    The trio approaches their fourth member. Hank Sonderan is the oldest and most experienced fang, but not the leader. Not a follower, either. Hank comes and goes, usually showing up three minutes before launch, his breath smelling of nectar, and is sobered up enough by the time the pirates have located prey to do his part during the raid.

    As of late Hank has taken a fancy to a vehicle graveyard he has discovered in the prairie. The remnants of a simpler time speak to the pirate, because he pictures it as a better one. Had Hank lived in the era where those motorbikes were in use, he’d probably dreamed himself back into horse carriage days.

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    Hank: “I’m off to meet our contact. The Twi’lek who wants to buy all those goodies from our haul that Godmother had no interest in.”

    Shir: “But didn’t we learn that she has ties to the Knights of Ren? We really shouldn’t have that intimate dealings with them or the First Order!”

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    Gavin: “Do you want to stay a filthy pirate forever or want your son to be proud of you, Shir? Me, I’ll go places, just you wait! There’s a Hutt whose crime empire has my name on it. But to secure it, we’ll need assistance.”

    Gavin’s ambitions transcend those of the average space pirate. Being Captain with his own ship, even if he could upgrade that to a small fleet, will never be enough for him. Trouble is, Godmother won’t help Gavin achieve his goal, as she’d lose a valuable pawn if the human became her same-ranked ally.

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    Gavin: “You sure you don’t want to ride a landspeeder to the capital?”

    Hank: “No way! I’ve been waiting to see what those bad babes are capable of ever since we started cobbling them together!”

    Gavin: “Just don’t crash it. First selling the vintage bike, then getting nectar’d!”

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    Hank: “Say… when you said “assistance”… You are not that big a fool to ponder allying with the Knights of Ren, are you?”

    Gavin: “Nope. Each of them is a force adept, plus, it’s an open secret that they receive much of their funding from Supreme Leader Snoke of the First Order. The knights are out of our league and will still be after we’ve settled down as the new lords of Mos Eir.”

    Hank: “That’s your only objection? That they make you feel small?”

    Gavin: “Yeah, yeah, I know, the world is bad, I’m the worst, and it’s nectar time again. Just make sure to…”

    Hank: “…sell the bike first, check. Take care out here, kids.”

    Gavin: “Same to you, old fossil. Godspeed!”

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    Shir: “Why are you calling Hank a fossil all the time? He’s not that old, you know. Just greyed early.”

    Gavin: “Yeah, I know. It’s not an age-thing at all, more like him belonging to another era. Hank used to be a big thing in the rebel alliance, a *beep*ing officer, highly decorated and respected.”

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    Shir: “I didn’t know that. What made him leave the do-gooders?”

    Gavin: “His little son died in, I dunno, an airstrike, I think, while Hank was fighting at some other front. That broke him and now what’s left of the man lives on the bottom of an empty nectar bottle. It’s a shame, really…”


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    11 months ago
    Thank you, @Sims4MagicalTales ! I enjoyed breathing life into the motherplant a lot.
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    11 months ago
    Tanglewood, despite being dominated by Godmother’s spores, isn’t exactly a one-biome planet. The north and south polar regions have a cold enough climate that doesn’t allow her spores to survive. Here a number of city-states can be found, the largest of them being San Myshuno, that also houses the planet’s only space port.

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    Because of its importance for commerce, San Myshuno is affectionally called “the capital” by the people of Tanglewood. In truth, the city state is rather isolationist and would drop everyone but their own settlements on a moment’s notice if it benefited from that.

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    When Hank arrives in town, he regrets not having donned a warm coat for several hours already. He severely needs a full meal, a schnaps and a warm bed. At least the first item on this list has to get satisfied before meeting the fence.

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    A junior officer of the First Order in casual uniform hogs the vendor stall, a reminder of their far-reaching influence.

    In a galaxy full of turmoil, the First Order has risen from the ashes of the old Empire, that in turn had succeeded the Old Republic. Gone for a mere two generations now, the republic already seems like a myth to the people. The First Order had deemed many a banner to flock to, until it had become apparent that the order they brought was a stifling one that suffocated individualism. Their idea of combating poverty was to pay a small sum for every toddler that was given to the military for lifelong indoctrination. The result was a more costly than normal, but scarily efficient army.

    Hank tries his best to ignore the officer when he approaches the stall.

    Vendor: “Hello and welcome to San Myshuno! What would you like? We have a great iceberg salad today!”

    Danilo: “Can recommend!”

    Hank: “You know what? I’ll buy one. The one this man here hasn’t paid for, to be precise. And a spicy soup for myself.”

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    Hank hasn’t completely finished his Hot & Sour soup, when he sees the fence pass by.

    The woman stops briefly, smiles and waves.

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    The gesture could be meant for any person on the square and Hank makes sure to not follow immediately after having seen it. Only after wiping the last bit of soup with a piece of bread and returning the empty bowl to the vendor, does he casually stroll into the same direction as the Twi’lek.

    In Hank’s back the Lieutenant takes out his comlink.

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    Hank had noticed in passing the marks that looked like scars on a casual glance. On closer inspection they would have turned out to be assembly joints. Except for half of an arm, this man’s limbs are robotic prostheses, and the same goes for his right eye. He is more machine than human.

    “PL-600 here, Sir Ren. Target approaching.”

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    After a few meters, the Twi’lek breaks into a dash. Hank gives chase, but isn’t a match for an at least twenty years younger scoundrel, especially not one who knows every nook and shortcut in San Myshuno’s space port district.

    “You want me to be out of breath for the haggling, don’t you?” the space pirate curses under his breath. “Congrats! You just raised the price of the goodies.”

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    “Alright, gal, here I am! Real talk n… No… No way… Not YOU!”

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    The Twi’lek is nowhere to be seen anymore. Having done her part, she has slinked into an alley. No one wants to be present when Roan Ren deals with a target, after all.

    Of all the Knighs of Ren, Roan is an oddity in that he is just as ruthless, albeit less emotional than the rest. His force sensitivity also leans greatly towards subtle mind powers. A supreme assassin, these two traits nonetheless impede Roan’s advancement to the point where he is seen as still a squire by Kylo Ren.

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    Hank, to the contrary, sees only one thing in Roan: The murderer of his son. This mask was the last thing six year old Cole Anderson had seen in his life.

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    Roan: “Captain Sonderan! You want to listen to me.”

    Hank: “I want to… Oh, pollination, stuff those party-tricks! I REALLY want to listen to you. Stepping into the open was such a mistake, “assassin”. Your first and last, so feel free to chatter away.”

    Spoiler

    Roan: “This isn’t “chatter”, this is about the truth. I take it Admiral Fowler never told you what happened to your son…”

    Hank: “He told me enough! He told me you killed him!”

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    Hank: “An innocent child… when you must have been not much older than a child yourself. You hybrid!”

    Roan involuntarily chuckles. Captain Sonderan’s choice of an insult betrays that he has spent a lot of time on Tanglewood, with its large Allium dirus population and the far less numerous, but incredibly cunning motherplants.

    Hank: “You killed Cole! You killed my son!”

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    Roan: “No. I AM your son.”

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    Hank: “You - my son? What psycho game are you trying to play here?”

    Roan: “Search your feelings and you’ll know it to be true!”

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    Hank: “Oh, come, what do you take me for? I don’t do Jedi-mumbo-jumbo.”

    Roan lets out a deep sigh. Once the Jedi Knights had been renowned as the guardians of peace in the galaxy, but then they had fallen at the same time as the equally weak Republic. Now there are the Knights of Ren instead, adepts who don't shy away from using the Force to the fullest of their capacity. The Jedi had been fools, but they had been real. For all his disdain for them, it irks Roan that people dismiss the tales of the Jedi Order as embellished at best and comforting fairy tales at worst.

    Hank Sonderan isn't such a denier, that much Roan knows. But his father apparently doesn't think the world of the Force.

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    Roan: “What did I expect! Should have anticipated the Sonderan-stubbornness… Alright, one moment. Let me take this off…”

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    Roan: “There. Do you see now? I was born Cole Sonderan, your son, who became Roan Ren. Stronger. More in tune with the force, now that I’m no longer held back by your narrow-minded idealism. I strive, where Cole could not. I suppose Admiral Fowler DID tell you the truth… from a certain point of view. I “killed” that silly, weak boy.”

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    Hank: “Oh my god… you ARE Cole… You were not ever to come into those powers! We wanted to protect you from those stirrings. Force-sensitive kids were in danger, so we decided to hide you from the First Order… never realizing we also took you away from yourself. What have I done… to you…”

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    Roan: “So you see that… Wait, what are you doing?!”

    Hank: “What I should have done fifteen years ago already!”

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    Hank: “You could have said something earlier! Could have joined me and together we’d have set this galaxy right as father and son! But here you little brat are, all edgy with your oh-so scary Force powers, leaving me to run with pirates and to talk to pretty potted flowers. Grow up, Cole!”

    Roan: “That not quite how I remember you… but you know what? I’ll take it.”

    Hank: “Just hold still! I have to make up for two decades of missed parenting!”

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    11 months ago
    Roan snaps his fingers…


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    Admittedly this would have looked more impressive with an all-out Force Lightening. But Roan favors the subtle approach, so his lightning power is very weak, especially since it is fueled by strong emotions, another shortcoming of Roan’s.

    But he gets the mission done, never a question! For the Knights of Ren, who took him in and helped him realize his full potential, and for the glory of the First Order, that young Roan admires, despite not fully understanding the exact relation between the political entity and the knights.

    Spoiler
    You probably guessed it – I didn’t own RoM either at this point.


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    EnkiSchmidt
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    11 months ago
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    If at any point I’m getting asks about cc or lots, my replies will go here.
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    EnkiSchmidt
    Hero
    11 months ago
    Hank hasn’t fully stopped twitching, when the First Order lieutenant he’s met earlier enters the alcove. He now sports an enhanced cybernetic arm in place of the more lifelike prosthesis.

    Despite the man’s obvious machine-likeness, Roan can still sense a strong potential for the force in him.

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    Spoiler

    Roan: “Lieutenant… something on your mind?”

    Danilo (casually): “I might consider joining your knightly order. Is patricide still a way to get in?”

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    Roan: “I didn’t kill Hank..! No, wait, this is about your father! The one who sold you to the First order when you were a toddler.”

    Danilo: “And ever since I was PL-600, loyal stormtrooper, expert marksman. But now that I’ve made officer, step-father remembers me and boasts my achievements as the results of his “parenting”.”

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    Roan: “Well, technically that’s true. In delegating the task to someone else, he allowed you to become what you are now. We… may have that in common.”

    Danilo: “Yes, Sir. Only while your father is a nectar-soaked scoundrel, mine is a major funder of the First Order. He probably paid for the entirety of my training and equipment and yet he was too cheap to send me away to a boarding school as a kid. I wonder, what exactly is the First Order to a Knight of Ren…?”

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    Roan: “Ah, I see. If you were no lo longer honor-bound to the First Order primarily, but a knight instead, you could easier act on your impulses regarding your step-father. Intriguing!“

    Danilo: “That about sums it up. The Ren just “is”, it doesn’t reconsider or answer to anybody, like a whirlwind, right? That’s what you taught me, anyway.”

    Roan: “We’ll see what can be done. But first we’ll have to transport Cpt. Sonderan to Batuu.”

    Danilo: “He’s a bit too heavy for force levitation. You grab him by the shoulders, I take the feet!”



    A little later Hank comes to again to an experience he could have done without:



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    Danilo: “Sir! This is silly! And embarrassing! I promise I’ll never again insinuate you cannot levitate something, if only you stop this right now and let us carry him normally!”

    Roan: “Just keep wailing. It’s the icing on my cake.”

    Danilo: “What if people start staring…?”

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    Hank: “Huh… What… what are you doing to me?!”

    Danilo: “Let’s call it “Assisted Force Levitation” and leave it at this, Sir.”

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    Danilo: “Okay, that went far enough. I won’t participate in this nonsense anymore.”

    Hank: “Hey! You can’t do that! HELP! Godmother! Aresix! Anybody!”

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    Danilo: “Wait… something’s not adding up here! There was no “thud”, so Captain Sonderan didn’t drop to the floor. But Roan isn’t strong enough to force levitate him without me easing the weight.”

    Roan: “You were a stormtrooper up until not long ago, PL-600, trained and indoctrinated from toddlerhood. You are incapable of NOT following orders, so despite you having walked away in an act of “deviance”, you’re still carrying the captive.”

    Danilo: “I’m positive I don’t.“

    Roan: “Well, yes, technically it’s the Force doing it. Through you.”

    Hank: “I can’t even… I’m too sober to be prisoner of not just one, but two of those Dark Jedi crapheads…”

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    Roan: “Concentrate on your target, Danilo!”

    Danilo: “Hrrrgh… It’s hard!”

    Roan: “Ah, wrong phrasing. Not the teeth-clenching, brows furrowing variety of concentration. I meant… focus! Yes, that’s it! Let yourself flow into the Force and feel how it connects everything, the living beings and the clumsy matter. Now look for your target in the Force. Focus on it - and then bring it down in one fell swoop! Or nicely upwards, in our case.”

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    Danilo: “I think I could get used to this!”

    Roan: “Okay, and now let’s carry him to his ship and be off this planet.”

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    Danilo: “Gladly! Never felt more honored to carry your luggage than today, Master Roan!”

    Hank: “How is that any less silly than how you carried me before, you morons?!”

    Danilo: “Before, only Master Roan got to do the cool stuff. Now there’s balance.”

    Hank (rocking from left to right): “Balance would be nice.”

    Spoiler
    The censored word starts with an m and means "of less inteliigence".


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