Exegol preplay

[bb8_dad]

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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[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri huffed briefly in amusement, then flung a hand out and knocked three troopers over like dominoes.

"Yeah, I bet. You know, I thought I was about as used to the timeline oddities as I could get after all these years, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around, well, all of this one."

[solo_sword]

"Oh, there's parts I don't think you know, either," Jaina said, whipping around to lightsaber a trooper's blaster right out of his hand. She wasn't trying to show off, she was just really used to doing this.

[weetuskenraider]

And Tahiri didn't even double-take at that, she was so used to Jaina doing this.

"Sithspit," she said wryly, batting one trooper's blaster bolt square into another one's chest. "I don't want to know, at least not right now. I need my brain functional for this."

[solo_sword]

"Later," she said, casually, "the fight'll be over before I finish it all anyway."

Said like a Jaina doing Jaina things.

[weetuskenraider]

"Classic Jaina," Tahiri said fondly. "I've missed doing this with you."

Now was not the time to remember that the last thing they'd done together was get randomly married for the weekend.

[solo_sword]

"We should do it again sometime," Jaina agreed. "Maybe not like this."

When a jet trooper lifted off to shoot at them, Jaina pulled him out of the sky with the Force and slammed him into the hull.

[weetuskenraider]

"Good one," Tahiri said, and Force-yanked another trooper's blaster out of his hand instead of using her lightsaber to do it. Look, she wasn't as cool as Jaina.