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sticksofthejedi) wrote2013-02-23 06:07 pm
sticksofthejedi) wrote2013-02-23 06:07 pm
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Memory 57
Memory: Han teaches the young Solo kids about the Corellian system.
Received: Day 222, night
Form: Comes in the form of a HI, MY NAME IS _______ sticker. Shareable, but it eventually starts to lose its stickiness . . .
Summary: The Solo kids learn about the Corellian side of their heritage. Oh no the kids are an excuse for an exposition dump.
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The Solo family is going to the Corellian sector! They've been cooped up on the Falcon for one day, and will be traveling another two; apparently Leia insisted Han not be stupid about attempting to set speed records. Because Han is all about speed recordsbut Han parsecs is not a unit of time. They just finished cleaning up dinner; Chewbacca is tinkering and tiny Anakin is watching raptly and quietly attempting to give advice.The young twins are plopped on the deck and reading until Jaina gets it in her mind to ask what Corellia is like, anyway. Young as the kids are, Han calls her Princess as they talk. It seems Han's never really talked about his home planet with them; she just knows they're supposed to be excited and he lived there as a kid.
Han: That's right, I lived there. And it's a beautiful place. The only trouble with it is that a lot of the names sound the same, so that sometimes outsiders get a little confused by them. Corellians never do. And if I'm a Corellian, and you're my children, that makes you Corellians. So listen very carefully, and don't make any mistakes, or you'll make me look bad. All right?
No pressure, dad.
He explains the sectors includes a couple dozen star systems, with the Corellian star system the most important; and the most important planet in that system is the planet Corellia, with the capital city Coronet. The star there is Corell but of course when you're there it's just "the sun" just like any home planet. He goes on a tangent about how it's rare for a star to have even one life-sustaining planet but the Corellian star system has a lot of them -- five. He claims they have been so close over the generations they don't consider the different planets the same place, just as the Solo kids are bonded. Corellia has the biggest population and cities, so is dubbed the Elder Brother. Jacen asks how there's so many habitable planets, and Han says no one knows; the orbits are strangely close. Some scientists think the star system is artificial. Jacen's impressed.
Han adds that a lot of people think that's crazy and came up with a theory on how it could be natural. Whatever happened, the Five Brothers ended up in their orbits long before the Old Republic was formed, "more than a thousand generations ago." He moves on; humans have the largest population in the sector, followed by the Selonians and the Drall. Or at least that used to be the order of things. They're not sure anymore.
Jaina wants to know why they don't know. Leia interjects; they have a lot of general knowledge of Corellia's state of affairs, but they don't have solid details. She compares it to how someone might know Jacen and Jaina are twins, but that's it; imagine if that person saw the twins fighting, then playing with each other again shortly. They don't know anything about how this is working. The twins are really young so okay that's good logic to them.
Han adds even in the old days it was like that. Corellia's inward looking, not outward. And now half the galaxy is recovering from the "Imperial-Alliance war." So they might get there and it'll be beautiful, or it'll be terrible. Jacen says he doesn't want to go to a place that's "all crummy." Han says it'll be good for him to see how others live. Han used to be poor you know, and Leia lost, well, everything in the war. He explains about the Drall and the Selonians (Drall: short with two legs and two short arms; brown, black, gray or red fur, big eyes. Dignified, sensible and intelligent. Seloians are big and strong, but refined-looking with pointed faces and whiskers. Most Selonian females they'll see are sterile and in charge of things; the ones that aren't are engaged in other things. Jaina calls that out on not being fair, but Han says humans can't make them change that; why not? ...Ask him in ten years or so.) Over years of galactic warfare the Empire took more and more space navy away from the system, making it easier for pirates to hit traders going to the area, and essentially completely isolating the sector. So the government became isolationist.
The local Imperial Diktat never resigned per se; once the rebellion was over, people stopped being afraid and just started doing more and more of what they wanted. The New Republic, Leia says, couldn't arrest him either since he was the legal head of government there and that would've angered loyalists. The New Republic installed a new sector governor-general -- a Frozian named Micamberlecto - but whenever elections come around a lot of offices end up with old Imperial types again.
Jaina: So how are you and Dad planning to fix it all?
Leia is surprised; she explains that even if they don't like how the Imperials go about things, they were honestly elected in this system, so they aren't "fixing" anything. Though she does say she hopes to improve the galactic trade situation so the sector isn't so isolated and maybe won't have so many troubles to get exploited by Imperial loyalists in elections.
Han starts describing some of the landmarks on Corellia, contrasting it with the planet-spanning city the kids know from Coruscant. Corellia is big on smuggling so he has to leave out all the seedy bars and other establishments because he's talking to the kids. He says he'll be trying to take them to Centerpoint Station, which he says is just a station that happens to be in the center point of a pair or equally-sized planets orbiting each other. (At the time, no one knows it's anything other than a handy place.)
He rattles off a few planet side landmarks he wants to take them to -- dunes, seas, etc. Anakin's worried about sea monsters, and Han promises they'll swim in the sea on Corellia, which is safe because all sea monsters stay on a different planet. Somewhere along the line, Jaina's climbed into his lap; he nudges her off and says it's time now for all the little land monsters to go to bed. They groan, but get ready for bed, get tucked in and fall asleep easily.
Received: Day 222, night
Form: Comes in the form of a HI, MY NAME IS _______ sticker. Shareable, but it eventually starts to lose its stickiness . . .
Summary: The Solo kids learn about the Corellian side of their heritage. Oh no the kids are an excuse for an exposition dump.
--
The Solo family is going to the Corellian sector! They've been cooped up on the Falcon for one day, and will be traveling another two; apparently Leia insisted Han not be stupid about attempting to set speed records. Because Han is all about speed records
Han: That's right, I lived there. And it's a beautiful place. The only trouble with it is that a lot of the names sound the same, so that sometimes outsiders get a little confused by them. Corellians never do. And if I'm a Corellian, and you're my children, that makes you Corellians. So listen very carefully, and don't make any mistakes, or you'll make me look bad. All right?
No pressure, dad.
He explains the sectors includes a couple dozen star systems, with the Corellian star system the most important; and the most important planet in that system is the planet Corellia, with the capital city Coronet. The star there is Corell but of course when you're there it's just "the sun" just like any home planet. He goes on a tangent about how it's rare for a star to have even one life-sustaining planet but the Corellian star system has a lot of them -- five. He claims they have been so close over the generations they don't consider the different planets the same place, just as the Solo kids are bonded. Corellia has the biggest population and cities, so is dubbed the Elder Brother. Jacen asks how there's so many habitable planets, and Han says no one knows; the orbits are strangely close. Some scientists think the star system is artificial. Jacen's impressed.
Han adds that a lot of people think that's crazy and came up with a theory on how it could be natural. Whatever happened, the Five Brothers ended up in their orbits long before the Old Republic was formed, "more than a thousand generations ago." He moves on; humans have the largest population in the sector, followed by the Selonians and the Drall. Or at least that used to be the order of things. They're not sure anymore.
Jaina wants to know why they don't know. Leia interjects; they have a lot of general knowledge of Corellia's state of affairs, but they don't have solid details. She compares it to how someone might know Jacen and Jaina are twins, but that's it; imagine if that person saw the twins fighting, then playing with each other again shortly. They don't know anything about how this is working. The twins are really young so okay that's good logic to them.
Han adds even in the old days it was like that. Corellia's inward looking, not outward. And now half the galaxy is recovering from the "Imperial-Alliance war." So they might get there and it'll be beautiful, or it'll be terrible. Jacen says he doesn't want to go to a place that's "all crummy." Han says it'll be good for him to see how others live. Han used to be poor you know, and Leia lost, well, everything in the war. He explains about the Drall and the Selonians (Drall: short with two legs and two short arms; brown, black, gray or red fur, big eyes. Dignified, sensible and intelligent. Seloians are big and strong, but refined-looking with pointed faces and whiskers. Most Selonian females they'll see are sterile and in charge of things; the ones that aren't are engaged in other things. Jaina calls that out on not being fair, but Han says humans can't make them change that; why not? ...Ask him in ten years or so.) Over years of galactic warfare the Empire took more and more space navy away from the system, making it easier for pirates to hit traders going to the area, and essentially completely isolating the sector. So the government became isolationist.
The local Imperial Diktat never resigned per se; once the rebellion was over, people stopped being afraid and just started doing more and more of what they wanted. The New Republic, Leia says, couldn't arrest him either since he was the legal head of government there and that would've angered loyalists. The New Republic installed a new sector governor-general -- a Frozian named Micamberlecto - but whenever elections come around a lot of offices end up with old Imperial types again.
Jaina: So how are you and Dad planning to fix it all?
Leia is surprised; she explains that even if they don't like how the Imperials go about things, they were honestly elected in this system, so they aren't "fixing" anything. Though she does say she hopes to improve the galactic trade situation so the sector isn't so isolated and maybe won't have so many troubles to get exploited by Imperial loyalists in elections.
Han starts describing some of the landmarks on Corellia, contrasting it with the planet-spanning city the kids know from Coruscant. Corellia is big on smuggling so he has to leave out all the seedy bars and other establishments because he's talking to the kids. He says he'll be trying to take them to Centerpoint Station, which he says is just a station that happens to be in the center point of a pair or equally-sized planets orbiting each other. (At the time, no one knows it's anything other than a handy place.)
He rattles off a few planet side landmarks he wants to take them to -- dunes, seas, etc. Anakin's worried about sea monsters, and Han promises they'll swim in the sea on Corellia, which is safe because all sea monsters stay on a different planet. Somewhere along the line, Jaina's climbed into his lap; he nudges her off and says it's time now for all the little land monsters to go to bed. They groan, but get ready for bed, get tucked in and fall asleep easily.