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Poe Dameron ([personal profile] bb8_dad) wrote2021-08-16 09:43 pm

Exegol preplay

The ships exited hyperspace, and Poe's first thought upon seeing Exegol was that it looked dead. It was the the ugliest thing he'd seen in a long while, and he wondered if it had always been this way, or if building a colossal fleet of Star Destroyers here had killed the place.

And when the ships dived into the cloud cover, they nearly ran into the Sith fleet. It was massive. Their triangled hulls were enormous, but they grew even smaller as their numbers seemed to stretch into infinity.

"Great dark seas," Aftab Ackbar gasped across the comm. "Look at that!"

"No sign of the Falcon or allies," Tyce said from her ship.

"Help will get here," Poe assured them.
somethingwithturquoise: (pleased in ship)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] somethingwithturquoise 2022-08-21 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Just watch out for all the cat stuff back there," Summer warned them cheerfully. "Let me know when you're in and we'll get you guys out of here."
nothowtheforceworks: (Default)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] nothowtheforceworks 2022-08-21 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
A moment later she might hear, "...That is a lot of cat stuff," followed by a louder, "We're good! Go!"

As the Steadfast fell apart beneath them and started falling to the ground below.
somethingwithturquoise: (chillaxin')

Re: And then...

[personal profile] somethingwithturquoise 2022-08-21 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Pancakes was an incredibly spoiled feline, it was true.

And with a quick U-turn back into the portal she'd come from, Summer and the others returned back into space far, far away from the wreckage.

If a ship could preen, you'd better believe that was exactly what Summer's ship was doing just then.
nothowtheforceworks: (worried about you)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] nothowtheforceworks 2022-08-21 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Finn started making his way up by her with Jannah following close behind, and then it felt like he'd been punched in the chest so hard that he had to hold the wall for support.

"No," he breathed. "Rey..."

She was gone. He meant to tell her, and he hadn't. Now he'd never get to.
unusual_sith: (Default)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2022-08-26 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Now that is a lovely sight," Lana said, smiling.
solo_sword: (uh oh)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] solo_sword 2022-08-29 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Of course Jaina knew what the lightning was about. She'd seen it before, she'd used it before, but she'd never seen it used like this.

And for once she had absolutely no idea what to do about it.

"Kriff."
unusual_sith: (adult - plotting)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2022-08-29 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
"That sums it up nicely," Lana agreed. "Think we could siphon off enough to make a difference?" She had her doubts, but she'd be willing to try.
solo_sword: (and more serious)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] solo_sword 2022-08-29 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
"I really don't," Jaina admitted. "At least not without just making ourselves dead."

Which, as a crazy Jedi, would be a thing she would be all right doing, unless it got them dead and didn't help anyone.
unusual_sith: (Lana)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2022-08-29 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Lana nodded. As a non-crazy but practical Sith, she wasn't averse to death, either, but not if it wouldn't do any good. She hated not being able to do anything!

"Right. Whoever this Palpatine is, he is, to put it in Earth terms, a raging asshole. Steady the ships?"
Edited 2022-08-29 04:56 (UTC)
solo_sword: (fine)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] solo_sword 2022-08-29 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Jaina nodded. "Steady the ships," she agreed, reaching out with the Force to help who she could.
unusual_sith: (adult - headache)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2022-08-29 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Lana reached out herself, feeling what Jaina was doing so they wouldn't be overlapping, then helping to steady and slow the falling ships wherever she could.
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Re: And then...

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2022-08-29 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
Tahiri muttered a particularly colorful Yuuzhan Vong oath at the sight of the Force lightning.

When she was thirteen and half-trained she and Anakin had been able to control one ship with the Force, working together.

She had years of training under her belt now, and more experience working with Jaina than she'd gotten to have with Anakin. It wasn't hard at all to reach out in the Force to sense her -- and Lana, though that didn't quite have the same ease of familiarity -- and try to help some of the ships they hadn't yet covered.
sith_happened: (Default)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] sith_happened 2022-08-29 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome to the wonderful world of Huttese cursing, Poe, as Anakin let loose with a string of absolute doozies.

"Copy," he finally managed, one hand on the stick and the other reaching out into the Force to grab as much of the fleet as he could manage and giving them a way to fight against gravity until their systems stopped smoking. "That son of a bitch."

Rey?

He didn't really expect an answer from her, but if Palpatine was shooting lightning at the fleet he probably wasn't also shooting lightning at her.
Edited 2022-08-29 13:51 (UTC)

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