Rain

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Who: The Jedi Exile (Meetra) and OPEN
Where: Around the Pisces district, mostly
Summary: A Jedi wanders rather suspiciously around this strange planet
Warnings: Shouldn't be any
The strange officials who'd briefed her on where she'd ended up - without being able to tell her how she got here, or what happened to T3 or the Ebon Hawk - had also said she had accommodations somewhere in the "Pisces District". It would almost have reminded her of Telos, but it was sadly lacking in sarcastic running commentary or jailtime.

Rather than head immediately to her assigned apartment or use the holocommunicator they'd given her, Meetra decided to take a wandering path through the city. Late at night, it seemed like most shops were closed, but there were still a few citizens about - and more importantly, she had been told there were other "visitors" here, who'd arrived just as abruptly and cluelessly as herself. It would be nice to meet a few face to face and gauge the situation first...

Thus, clad in the brown robes she'd arrived in - hood up against the scattered rain and keeping her quite dry - Meetra wandered the nighttime crowds, occasionally politely asking a local politely for their take on the situation. Some hurried past - expected in a city - others exposited enthusiastically about her as a guest, a few asked her if she was a sorcerer or priest or something. Clearly no Jedi or Sith tradition on this planet, or so she assumed - the robes were normally a dead giveaway.

At the same time, she kept her senses open to the strange feeling in this city...as desperate and noisy as Nar Shadaa, thick with what felt almost, but not quite exactly, like the Force she'd grown used to again. Maybe the difference had something to do with that man who'd appeared to her. Well, she'd just have to see some time when groundcars weren't splashing sheets of rain at her.

Comments

[greyerrant]

"My name is Cerberus." Somewhere between truth and a lie, which nicely encapsulates his present duties as a Knight-Errant of Malcador.

"And I watch over those here. All of them."

Though he leaves Surik to speculate on what purpose he has watching over them all.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"Good. I plan on doing the same once I figure out exactly what it is we're supposed to be fighting here. It'll make a nice break from blindly flailing around the Unknown Regions, at least until I get my bearings," she explained, deciding to assume the best of this...whatever species he was under that armor. Hell, at this point it was only his vague and indistinct impression on the Force and the fact that his voice inflected that had her convinced he wasn't a war droid.

[greyerrant]

"You come from the Halo Stars? INteresting."

He shifts, slightly, obviously intrigued by the idea. "What is it like, living at the edge of the reach of the Astronomican?"

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"I don't know either of those terms, but the Rim's an interesting place," she said. "Not quite a frontier, exactly, since there's so many settled worlds, but still chaotic. Life doesn't really have a direction out there so much as it's looking for one. Getting further out into the Unknown Regions like I have lately, though...it's very empty. I'm basically just playing around with decades-out-of-date hyperspace charts and looking for anything interesting."

[greyerrant]

"It was the duty of my brotherhood to bring the light of knowledge and truth to such outer reaches."

Well, that and compliance at bolter-point, but it only rarely got that ugly. Most of the time their mere appearance near one of the lost branches of humanity was a cause for rejoicing.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"So, since you're clearly not a priest, that would make you a well-armed teacher, then?" she asked, lightly.

[greyerrant]

"I'm not an iterator. We simply secure and ensure compliance, then we escort them to illuminate the populace. While Astartes require special selection, we can be made. An Iterator's intelligence and innate curiosity and tendency towards logic can only be born, and to some degree taught. They are the most important aspect of the Great Crusade.... or were."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

...I think I followed the jargon, there.

So you're a soldier who protected teachers. And colonization efforts in general, I guess?

[greyerrant]

"That is a close enough approximation of what I said, yes."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"You seem a little on the belligerent side," she commented, probably unnecessarily.