thisavrou_log | ( august event log )

( august event log )

Who: Everyone
When: August 16th and on
Where: The Moira + the Luminous Sea
What: The original Captain and the First Mate try to find the closest Ingress for help. The crew ventures into the Luminous Sea.
Warnings: None for now. Please label your content!

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"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

With the Moira in a sort of low maintenance state, Captain Ira and First Mate Egan have been forthright with information at their disposal, and as the weeks have progressed, not much has been answered in terms of what has happened with the ship itself or why some of the crew are informing the Captain and First Mate of Ingresses all across the universes being broken. Early on the 16th, Captain Ira decides that Manasseh has been in cryo long enough to warrant waking her. With that decision comes the restoration of all ship functions—including normal water and power usage. Rationing continues, but it isn’t as strict (or enforced) as it has been the last few weeks. However, the Navigator appears and acts no differently than before, which troubles the Captain, and rather than shut down the Moira’s functions once more, he decides to redouble efforts to contact someone at the Midway Hub.

As before, when he first tried, no one answers.

Not completely discouraged, Captain Ira orders First Mate Egan and those in both Navigation and the Tower to put out a transmission to anyone with an Ingress in hopes of finding a technician or someone with enough information pertaining to the machinery to perhaps fix the one aboard the Moira long enough to get them to the Midway Hub without having to travel the length of the Runoff. Within the hour, they receive a peculiar return transmission that’s worth investigating since it’s considerably close. During this time, Captain Thán sends the following MID message to all Moirans:
Crew,

The last few weeks have been hectic, and I'm sure everyone has questions that they need answered. When Captain Ira and First Mate Egan approached us, we asked for evidence of their legitimacy and were given it through credentials, logs, and the private access codes that they had in their possession. It allowed us to see that they were, in fact, the previous leadership of the Moira.

Explaining why we took a knee is rather simple. They know what they're doing, and it is clear now, more than ever, that we do not. Every bump in the road that we've met, you have survived because of your own tenacity, and many of the deaths and hardships were our fault in some way. We found this ship unmanned and took it without any skill. It worked, at first, but then, you were all here, and it changed everything. We needed to grow to accommodate, and we weren't fast enough. As captains, we've failed you, but we do believe that Ira and Egan can do so much better. We'll be working with them to make the end of this trip as short as possible. You deserve to go home, and they can make that happen.

You also deserve honesty. The blame for the events on Caducus Primary are our burden to carry, not yours. The statues that their people believed had been stolen were on this ship, and we were responsible for them being here. Not long after boarding the Moira, we stopped there and were approached by a person offering us the items at a lower trade rate. We knew that it wasn't strictly by the books, but we did the deal anyway. When those actions came back around, we attempted to remedy them but were not fast enough and many lives were lost.

This is one of the reasons we have given leadership rights over. We've done enough damage, and you don't deserve anymore by our hands. For what it's worth, we do apologize for everything, and we'll be staying on the ship until we reach the Midway Hub.

-Thán
Whether believed or not, the previous Captains can still be found around the ship in their usual places of work. Onward, the Moira goes—

WELCOME TO THE LUMINOUS SEA

Unlike most places the Moira has come across or visited, the Luminous Sea is thus called due to its soft turquoise glow. While other parts of the Runoff consist of stars and planets, there is no life or anything remotely sentient found within this part of the universe. Yet, the most fascinating thing about the Luminous Sea is not the fact that it appears empty but for the sole reason of why the Captain and First Mate first approached it in the first place: it’s very reminiscent of Ingress energy. The ship is slow to move through the Luminous Sea, all those stationed in the Tower asked to observe and collect data to be sent to Navigation as well as those who have been reassigned to the Ingress. However, even stranger things are afoot the longer the Moira lingers within the ocean of blue-green space...

☄ IN, OUT, AND ALL AROUND

Needless to say, things are now a little… different on board thanks to the anomalies caused by the energy of the Luminous Sea. What once had been a simple journey using MPS to navigate your way around the ship has now become a risk in Location Roulette. Perhaps you’re simply planning to head to the library, but when you walk through the door, you’ve somehow ended up in the middle of the Mess Hall. Or you’re fresh from a nice, long shower only to find yourself in the middle of the Cargo Bay wearing nothing but your towel! It seems that the space inside the Moira has rearranged itself to make life interesting for the crew. The changes happen at random and aren’t guaranteed to work the same in reverse. Sometimes, a doorway will work to take you back the correct way, and other times, it might deposit you in yet another part of the ship you hadn’t intended to visit. Also, be wary of those areas of the ship that have been sealed for the protection of the crew and never go anywhere alone. Because nothing good ever came of walking through a door to suddenly end up outside the Moira or within the room that holds Ploiatos.

☄ 50 SHADES OF AGE

While in the Luminous Sea, some members of the crew are likely to wake up and find themselves a changed person. Literally. The unstable nature of the energy that encompasses the Sea and its ability to bend both time and space means that those affected by it might find themselves suddenly years younger. Or even older. What’s more, some crew members who do become younger might possess no memories of have ever been on the ship and will see the Moira through brand new eyes. Those who find themselves jumping to a point further down their timeline won’t be affected as harshly, though they will be tarnished with age as time tends to do. What’s best for the new and old alike is to remain calm and continue on their daily routines until otherwise instructed by the Captain and First Mate. Hopefully leaving the Luminous Sea will wear away this reversal in time and return you to the person you once were.

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Time, Leia. It passes here, but they will not know you are gone.

[She was never aware of Anakin having left, or Obi-Wan although she had less communication with him. Even when Anakin was fighting, he was still in their galaxy.]

An escape pod might get you off the ship, but what then? It... is like Wild Space. The stars are unfamiliar.

That doesn't make any sense. We're in a time warp and Wild Space and there are dead people here?

[This has all the nonsense logic of a dream, but it doesn't feel like a dream otherwise. She folds her arms, wondering how a ship this big can feel like it's closing in around her.]

So what are we supposed to do? Just wait around for them to send us home?

I'm sorry. I wish I did have a better answer for you Leia.

[And Padmé does. She wishes that she could give her the answers that she wants and that she desires, the answers that will make her happy.

Would they make children work though? Padmé hopes not and would make a stand to that. School, yes, but work? No.]

You can, although it seems to me that would be very boring.

Well, we're stuck on a ship in Wild Space.

[What else can she do except wait? It's not fair--even if time is stopped, she's going to be completely out of shape by the time she goes home and gets to her race.

After a moment, she realizes she's pouting, even if she hasn't stuck out her lower lip. Mother and Father would be so disappointed in her if they knew she was squandering her one chance to meet her birth mother. With a little sigh, she tries to straighten her shoulders and move on.]

What have you been doing?

[There are certainly other things that she could be, but Padmé isn't going to suggest them. While Padmé has been one to go and do what needs to be done in the past, she is aware that the situation here is different. This isn't taking her ship to Tatooine for Anakin, or even to Geonosis for Obi-Wan. No, whatever is going on here is bigger than those.]

I was given employment, so I have been associating myself with those duties. There is, as you've noticed, a library. There's also a rec room and an observation deck.

[Spending time with Anakin doesn't even cross her mind as something to be said. No, Padmé is intelligent enough to know that it likely would cause further confusion if she does.]

Familiarizing myself with this ship and this place as well.

What job did they give you?

[This, at least, is something she can do for the moment: talk to her birth mother and learn more about her. It occurs to Leia--belatedly--that if it means she can spend this time with her mother, it doesn't matter how long they spend on this ship.

Of course she'd have to figure this out after she complained like a child. She sets the book she was holding aside and folds her hands before her, the way she stands when she's at a public function.]

I'm a counselor.

[Which is not something in politics but there isn't a Senate here anyway. In truth, Padmé has always liked helping people and with this job, she would still be doing that. Just in a different way and perhaps on a lesser scale but even one person can make a different.]

So if there is anyone who would like to talk to someone, they can come to me.

Is that what you did at home? Counseling?

[Besides her mother's face, Leia knows so little of her--and she wants to fix that. Counseling sounds important, if not something she has much knowledge of.]

What I did involved some of that, but no, that isn't what I did.

[She isn't certain how much Bail has told her at this point in her life about before the Empire. About his role in the Senator which was now nothing more than a mummer's farce from the sounds of it. A body with no limbs, no true power.]

I was the Senator for Naboo, my home planet, within the Galactic Republic.

[Leia's eyes light up. She can imagine it: Her mother, a senator for the old Republic, defending the rights of citizens everywhere.

No wonder Mother and Father adopted me, she thinks. Maybe they were friends.]

I want to be a senator someday. What was it like?

Mm. [Thinking about how to describe it. Yet this isn't Anakin whose eyes would glaze over at the mention of political things. Padmé already knows that Leia follows in Bail's footsteps, in more ways than one.]

It is a lot of hard work, and you need to have plenty of patience. There are trying days, days when nothing seems to go as you desire, days when you need to push to persevere. But it is worth it.

Patience. [In the sort of voice one might use for snails or boiled ruica.] I'll have to work on that.

[She wants all the details--she'd happily sit and listen to descriptions of policymaking all day--but they're in public, and it might not be right to ask here. Maybe if they can go somewhere else, her mother will tell her about the secret parts of being a senator. The things that you have to keep quiet about.

And another question occurs to her, anyway.]

What did my father do? My birth father.

[She does keep herself from giving a laugh, although there is a smile on her lips. Reaching forward, her hand touches Leia's softly.]

Just always remain true to yourself, and listen to your heart. If you can do that, then you are already on the right path. Channel your passion.

[By doing so, Padmé has become a force to be reckoned with. While there have been those who doubted her, she has showed them the error. Let them underestimate her, as they would find themselves regretting that choice.

The question does catch her completely off-guard though, given that they had been speaking about politically minded things. It never crosses her mind to lie, but why would it? Yet, she does take a moment to ponder about how to explain, and will she carry any of that knowledge back home? Yet as Bail's daughter, she must know the importance of discretion.]

He- he was a very great man. A hero of the Republic, but in a different way. He fought for it just as I did, but not as a Senator. No, he was a fighter. A Jedi.

I already do that. [She smiles a little, hopeful that her mother will know it's true.] No matter what.

[That's part of true politics, Mother and Father say: knowing what you stand for and holding onto your principles. Father risks his career doing that all the time.

Leia's never thought much about her father before now; holding onto a vague, gentle impression of her mother was enough. But now that she can talk to her mother, the galaxy seems to open up. What's Naboo like? Did you have any pets? Did you like my other parents? And suddenly, certainly: I must have had a birth father. Who was he?

Someone else from Naboo, she'd assume, maybe even another senator. Her mouth drops open when she actually hears.]

Not a Jedi! [Leia Organa, daughter of a Jedi. It seems impossible.] Really?

I don't doubt that for one minute. [And she means those words. Although Padmé has not known Leia that long, she can tell that she is a force to be reckoned with. Both Bail and Breha had been strong and independent individuals, strengthened by their relationship. She knows they would have instilled the same upon Leia. And, perhaps, even some of Padmé and Anakin is simply inherited.

Padmé could talk about Rush Clovis, and how dating another politician really hadn't worked, but he's not important in the story of her life. A friend once, until he sold himself, and his death... Not that Padmé had spent much time dating. Barely any, truthfully. Duty had always come first, until Anakin.]

Really and truly. Although I met him first when he was a young boy on Tatooine.

[Padmé's reward for her confidence is a big grin, not the slightest bit abashed. There's something warm about the way she says it to Leia--she sounds like she thinks it's a great thing, and frankly, Leia does, too. If people don't dig in their heels to make the galaxy better, then what's the point of living in the galaxy in the first place?]

I know all about the Jedi. Father used to tell me stories. [About the Clone Wars, about his friend, Obi-Wan Kenobi--all the best tales. She's so delighted by the idea that she doesn't take care to differentiate between the father she knows and the Jedi her birth mother speaks of.] Tatooine's in the Outer Rim, isn't it? What were you doing there?

[It's nowhere near Naboo, and it's not exactly a vacation spot if it's way out at the edge of the galaxy.]

[It has been something that Padmé stood for her whole entire life. It is something that she truly believed in, although she knows that the Republic let its people down in the end. It doesn't change her stance that everyone deserves a say, deserves to be heard. And yes, even if she isn't alive to see it, she is glad that there are those that will not give up the hope either.]

He did, did he? [And there is something to very endearing about that... So long as the memory lives, so long as the mistakes of the past are not forgotten, then Padmé knows the future will be brighter one day.] We did have quite a few dealings with the Jedi.

[In response to her question, Padmé does nod.]

It is. The ship I was on was forced to land because it was in need of repairs. The Trade Federation had tried to invade Naboo, but with the help of two Jedi, Master Jinn and his padawan, Obi-Wan, we were able to escape from Naboo.

Well, you must have, if you married one.

[Which might not be the most politic thing to say at the moment--whoops. She bites down on the inside of her cheek, hoping it doesn't sound as impertinent as she suspects.

And then there's a name she knows. Leia's face lights up. Obi-Wan serves as a familiar star at the edge of an unfamiliar constellation, full of people she's never heard of.]

I know about Obi-Wan Kenobi. [See, she even knows his surname.] He and Father went to Wild Space for the old Republic.

[There's a little pause. She's trying to put together the scant pieces she has of this puzzle: senators, Jedi, relationships that neither of the parents she's known have ever hinted at.] Were you all friends?

[There is nothing that Leia can do that will make it seem that way. Here and now in this moment, everything is fresh and new for Padmé. A marvel, really, for the daughter that she has not gotten to see grow up.

Her own smile is slightly cheeky, acknowledging the tone that Leia has used, but not being offended by it.]

We did, yes. Both the Jedi and Anakin made that possible.

[Lost in that moment, although her focus perks back. Obi-Wan had been a dear friend to her, and to Anakin. More than dear, truly. But she knows of the story, having sent Bail to Obi-Wan after Bail had approached her. And it had been her ship that had gone to rescue them, although she hadn't been alone.]

We were, yes. They were both very dear to me, Bail and Obi-Wan. Even Breha.

The Jedi were one of the most important parts of the Clone Wars. At school, they tell you the Jedi did evil things, but it's propaganda. [Princess Leia Organa, attendee of secret history classes.] Isn't it?

[She's sure it is--Father wouldn't lie to her, and especially not about something as important as history--but standing in front of someone who actually worked with them, even the truths she's sure of seem thin. They're all secondhand stories of a time that ended when she was born.] I wish I could meet a Jedi.

They never told me about you. Not just that you were my mother--they never told me about you at all.

[Oh, she is precious. So very precious. Padmé already knows that it has started. Saying that the Jedi had betrayed the Republic had been that first step, and knowing now what she does, she understands the move. She doesn't agree with it at all, but they had been the peacekeepers of the galaxy for years upon years, and now are no more.]

It is. They fought on the side of the Republic. [And died for it. How they had died... Oh, Anakin.]

Perhaps you will meet one here.

[Her mind does turn towards Obi-Wan. She isn't too certain where the Jedi is, and wouldn't want to get Leia's hopes up. Yet it may happen.]

It might have been safer to never mention me. You look a lot like you, you know. I don't know what happens after- once you are born, but I don't doubt that there was a reason for everything.

Father says-- [Don't call him Father in front of her! Too late, though--it's out, and she makes herself go on.] He says we could always depend on them, no matter what else was going wrong.

[Of course, the way he says it--mostly, the way his eyes crinkle at the corners and he looks up towards the ceiling--she thinks there are shades of meaning he won't share with her. But the point is still true. The Jedi are one of the greatest losses since the Empire started.]

I wish he would have. I know what to do if I'm interrogated. I wouldn't tell anyone about you.

[She mostly knows in theory, but she's still certain she could hold her own. Against the Empire, against anyone.]

[There is nothing across her face that shows displeasure at that, knowing that Bail would love her as his own. What more could a mother ask for, especially one who could not be there? She held them both in high regard, and Bail had been a trusted friend of hers.]

They were the keepers of the peace for years upon years. I owed them my life, several times over. Not that they could collect or keep count.

[But Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, Anakin, and even all the Jedi that had come to the arena, all the Jedi that had helped during the Clone Wars.

There is that troubled look, as the possible threat of interrogation is enough to trouble Padmé. Dark times indeed. She reached though, to give Leia's hand a little squeeze.]

I know you wouldn't. He might have simply been waiting for the right time to do so, or had his own reasons for not doing so.

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