[ The pilot catches the canteen easily – too well coordinated and speaking too coherently for Obi-Wan to blame the oddness of their conversation on a concussion.
The First Order?… A war with the Empire?… Had the ship been different? He thinks back to the wreckage he had seen little more than an hour ago, but his concern at the time had not been on discerning the finer details of its make through smoke and swarming scavengers. ]
Not so long to have missed a war.
[ And certainly not so long as to have missed the Emperor’s fall from power. News from the Core comes slowly to Tatooine, perhaps – but not that slowly.
A sound interrupts Obi-Wan’s next question before it can take form, distant at first, but building to a mechanical scream as a ship passes low overhead – too fast to be scanning the ground below, headed directly toward that line of smoke. His eopie gives a discomforted shift while the reverberations in the valley fade to familiar desert silence.
That had been an Empire ship – a TIE reaper, if he wasn’t mistaken. ]
What would you say to a trade? Rooh and I give you a lift a little closer to civilization [ he pats the eopie, settling her with just that touch ] and in turn you can catch us up with whatever news I have missed. The First Order, you said?
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The First Order?… A war with the Empire?… Had the ship been different? He thinks back to the wreckage he had seen little more than an hour ago, but his concern at the time had not been on discerning the finer details of its make through smoke and swarming scavengers. ]
Not so long to have missed a war.
[ And certainly not so long as to have missed the Emperor’s fall from power. News from the Core comes slowly to Tatooine, perhaps – but not that slowly.
A sound interrupts Obi-Wan’s next question before it can take form, distant at first, but building to a mechanical scream as a ship passes low overhead – too fast to be scanning the ground below, headed directly toward that line of smoke. His eopie gives a discomforted shift while the reverberations in the valley fade to familiar desert silence.
That had been an Empire ship – a TIE reaper, if he wasn’t mistaken. ]
What would you say to a trade? Rooh and I give you a lift a little closer to civilization [ he pats the eopie, settling her with just that touch ] and in turn you can catch us up with whatever news I have missed. The First Order, you said?