Exegol preplay

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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.

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Re: And then...

[solo_sword]

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."

Re: And then...

[unusual_sith]

"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.

Re: And then...

[solo_sword]

"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.

Re: And then...

[unusual_sith]

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?"

Re: And then...

[solo_sword]

Jaina nodded. "Steady the ships," she agreed, reaching out with the Force to help who she could.

Re: And then...

[unusual_sith]

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.

Re: And then...

[weetuskenraider]

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.