PSL: Naboo

[hisfathersimage]

Luke ignored Vader for the rest of the trip.

For a moment, he had almost forgotten who and what he was dealing with. A totally self centred, self absorbed creature of darkness, boiled in rage and suffering who wanted him to convert to his way of thinking and start up a second reign of terror and horror after killing Palpatine.

And in aid of doing that, they were going... to Naboo?

He wasn't really sure why they were on their way there. It was his mother's home world. It was Palpatine's home world. It was a paradise of water and greenery that had produced something so rotten and evil that the galaxy heaved to try and dislodge it from itself.

He stands in the cockpit's doorway, nursing his stump in his left hand and watching hyperspace, preparing for the shock of dropping back out again.

Comments

[hisfathersimage]

"When he dies, you said it would all fracture into warlords and infighting. And most empires sort of were. Or got there pretty quickly."

[nouskaiananki]

"Unless someone or a group of someone's takes control from the jump yes." Something he was trying to plan here son. "They just as often had a monarchy." A pause. "I need to bury you in history texts."

[hisfathersimage]

"... yeah, that's not happening. I wasn't a great student when I was a kid and actually had to study."

[nouskaiananki]

"What a privilege."

[hisfathersimage]

"I know. I studied. I speak multiple languages. I can do all the basics of maths. I know my sciences. I did it because it was my best hope of getting off world."

[nouskaiananki]

"It is." He missed the sarcasm clearly. "There is history you need to know as well."

[hisfathersimage]

Yeah, arguing is pointless. Luke is starting to recognise when it's worth the fight and when it's easier to just ignore Vader and wait for him to move to another topic.

"We're going to need supplies to make my hand. I can't make the neural interface pieces and the ones you have won't work." Too large, too specialised for Luke to use.

[nouskaiananki]

"Ideally some wild be gotten here, but they would take quite a while to be produced. However the quality would be unmatched." If Luke wanted to order them here on Naboo and retrieve them later, Vader understood.

Even if they had the same wrist size, his are implanted much further up his arm.

[hisfathersimage]

"Are you willing to stay on Naboo while they were produced?" He suspects that Vader will want to keep moving, keep him out of sight of the Emperor and the Rebellion alike. And minimise the likelihood of Luke taking off. It's much harder to run in space on a shuttle.

[nouskaiananki]

"I am. I am not willing to have you stay here that long. He has spies here." He's learned that, before Luke was born.

But it's something he wouldn't worry about for anyone else. Being willing to put himself in danger - he'd always been willing to do that. He often put his allies in danger.

He's not willing Luke in danger.

It's strange, and sits uncomfortably inside Vader.

[hisfathersimage]

"What if we could place the order and come back when they're done?" Could he get a message to the handmaiden he had seen, that they'd be back? Would there be an information network that might pick up on the order, let her put it together?

He took a deep, slow breath and let it out. "I would really like a hand sooner than later."

[nouskaiananki]

"Yes that would be easily accomplished." And would promise Luke the best quality as well, which Vader would like.

[hisfathersimage]

"I don't really want to live on your shuttle." Since they're mentioning some truths. "It might suit your needs, or wants, but I'll heal better and stay healthier with regular access to fresh food and a bed."

[nouskaiananki]

"My ship will suffice in those regards." Well - once he stocks up on food. His flagship would have all of that and did but his personal ship? It would have very little being rations, and even then, not much of that. "The shuttle is merely convenience."