voice • the 001st • accidental? ish.

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

[What seems to very distinctly be a young girl's voice comes out of the Vine's megaphone. Either she's been trying to get it to work for some time now, or she doesn't know she's being recorded––she cuts in mid-sentence. She sounds a little quiet, as if she's not very close to the megaphone.]

--Tano, with the 501st Legion of the Grand Army of the Republic. If you are receiving this transmission, this is a distress call. I am at an unknown location on a foreign planet, alone, and cannot reach command. I repeat, this is a distress call. This is Commander Tano, with the––

[Pause. Rustling.]

What's this? Hello? Is this plant some kind of communicator? Can anyone hear me?

[Maybe someone didn't bother to read the scrolls all that carefully, huh?]

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[thetrueblow.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Hi.

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

[She's taken aback by the speedy response, maybe, or the quick words.]

Can you tell me what's going on here?

[thetrueblow.livejournal.com]

Sort of. But sort of not.

None of us know much.

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

Us? Who is us?

[thetrueblow.livejournal.com]

All the other women here.

Except for the Queen of Hearts and that High Priestess woman, they seem to know all of it, but they're not telling.

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

Well, if there are more of us than there are of them, why don't we go make them tell us?

[A pause.]

With... uh, peaceful negotiations.

[thetrueblow.livejournal.com]

Because we'd need to be able to find them. If they made this place, and brought everyone here, they've got more than enough power to keep themselves out of hand.

What? I'm already pretty sure I'm going to have to at least kill the Queen. You don't need to play your words up nice.

[Seriously not getting everyone's aversion to solving straightforward problems with straightforward solutions.]

[aunomdedieu.livejournal.com]

[ The apparent youth in her voice catches Caprica's attention, but so do the words legion and army, and— God, she sounds too young to be in the military. ]

... I can hear you.

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

So this is a general broadcast, not just a direct line? Whose network is this?

[aunomdedieu.livejournal.com]

It's— I don't think anyone knows how it works.

This place is called the Gardens. All of us have been brought here, and no one knows why yet.

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

The Gardens? I've never heard of it. It doesn't sound much like any planet I've ever heard of. And other people have been "brought" here, like I was? [You can almost hear the air quotes.] Just randomly woke up in a forest? In someone else's clothes? So creepy.

But, uh, I'm Ahsoka Tano. Do you mind if I ask who you are? Where you're from?

[aunomdedieu.livejournal.com]

There seem to be quite a few. All women.

[ She pauses a moment, as if she's considering what she's being asked. But she doesn't let the silence hang overlong. ]

Call me Caprica. I— [ It's so bizarre for her to ask this, and it shows in her tone of voice, hesitating. ] Have you heard of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol?

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

Someone's kidnapping only girls? This is getting creepier and creepier!

And... Kobol? No, I don't think I've ever heard of that. It's not a Separatist system, is it? [A hint of suspicion has snuck into her voice, although she seems to be trying to control it.]

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

This isn't a secure line. ...And I'm curious to know why there's another soldier as young as myself here.

Major Anna Lin, from a planet and military I'm sure you've never heard of.

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

My communicator should have been a secure line to the nearest Jedi command, but it's... well, it's not.

I'm not… exactly a solider, I'm a Jedi Padawan Learner. But in wartime it's a lot the same. Most Padawans are about my age.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

...You're an apprentice JEDI.

I... with everything else I've seen here, I really shouldn't be surprised.

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

We aren't really all that rare. With the war on, there are Jedi Knights on most …

[Pause. Think.]

Wait. If I haven't heard of your planet, how have you heard of the Jedi Order?

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

It's a long story that I don't think you'd believe.

We've heard of the Republic and the Separatists, but, well, they're so far away from us it didn't matter.

['A galaxy far, far away in fact.']

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

Oh. Okay, that's… There are so many remote places in the Universe, after all. So where are you from?

[voice]

[border-phantasm.livejournal.com]

I presume a vine, hello, yes, and I can.

[Yes, she just answered all your questions in order]

[voice]

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

Do you know how it works? It is some kind of… biotechnology?

[voice]

[border-phantasm.livejournal.com]

Biotechnology?

I would say that is not impossible, but rather unlikely.

[voice]

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to obsess over it. If it works, it works. Wish I had a droid here to examine it, but it seems like Artoo didn't get kidnapped along with me.

It's just as well, my Master couldn't take care of himself without Artoo.

[voice]

[border-phantasm.livejournal.com]

If I may hazard a guess, you are from a space traveling civilization with robotics?

[voice]

[shien-reverse.livejournal.com]

Bingo! That was right on.

Where are you from?