[IC] Appointments

[borntorebel]

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[thefinaljedi]

Thrawn, then. Should we start with Thrawn?

[A pause.]

Or Mara?

[notsosolo]

Thrawn leads to Mara, really. He was an Imperial Grand Admiral who managed to rally their forces about a year after we got married. Creepy good at finding planetary weaknesses.

[borntorebel]

A Grand Admiral, I'm impressed. And who's this Mara?

[thefinaljedi]

Complicated. But she's a friend. A smuggler, Ex-Imperial Agent who turned to our side in the end. I trust her, with my life if necessary. If that's indication.

[Seriously though, Luke you have an awful sense of self-preservation.]

[notsosolo]

Also wanted to kill him for a while in there.

[Because of course Luke trusts her]

But she helped us with taking Thrawn and his crazy pet Jedi clone down.

[borntorebel]

[Leia sighs, knowing all too well how Luke could be. Remembering Senator Gaeriel Captison of Bakura, it seems her brother's tastes in women hardly improves. Well, until Ami.]

Thrawn had a Jedi clone?

[She throws up a hand to stave off the headache that will be there later.]

Start at the beginning.

[thefinaljedi]

[Well in his defense Mara is just a friend...]

That...is something of a crazy story.

But that's not really the beginning, is it Han?

[notsosolo]

[What is the beginning?]

It was five years after Endor. We were making real progress on getting the government properly set up. Some shipping concerns, but I was working on those. But then we started getting reports of hit and run attacks. Brilliantly planned, taking advantage of tiny little vulnerabilities.

[borntorebel]

[Well, Leia would like to hope that Luke knew how to be friends with someone too. But, oh, that beginning explanation isn't exactly what she was expecting.]

Well, the Empire had to have someone competent in power somewhere. They couldn't all be like Tarkin or Nereus.

[thefinaljedi]

Well, Thrawn. He was stationed out on the Rim territories. We know that much. And the Empire did have plenty of competent people. They all died at Endor and Yavin.

[He'll give a few of them that much.]

Thrawn though, he was something else.

[notsosolo]

There was competent and there was him. It was like he was peering into a planet and finding its exact weak points.

We kept going to the planets that had been attacked and we would run into these little grey aliens. Noghri.

[They're important. They've become somewhat of a fixture in their lives.]

And it started to get pretty obvious that they were after the twins. Barely the size of apples and people already had plans to use them.

[Which still makes him angry. No one takes their babies.]

[borntorebel]

[She shudders at the mention of how thorough Thrawn sounds. It's one thing to deal with people like Nereus and even Vader, but this Admiral they're talking about makes her blood freeze for a moment.

Until Han mentions the children.]

They hadn't even been born yet and they'd already started the kidnapping plots.

[Her voice might be that special level of devoid of emotion, but everything inside her is a mass of indignation, rage, and fear. Things she has to master before they master her.]

No.