Exegol preplay
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bb8_dadThe 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.
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.
Re: And then...
Date: 2022-08-29 04:55 am (UTC)"Right. Whoever this Palpatine is, he is, to put it in Earth terms, a raging asshole. Steady the ships?"
Re: And then...
Date: 2022-08-29 05:08 am (UTC)Re: And then...
Date: 2022-08-29 05:12 am (UTC)Re: And then...
Date: 2022-08-29 06:45 am (UTC)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.