The Observers and the Observed

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Who: Everyone interested in .~*STARS*~.
Where: Sagittarius labs; topmost floor.
Summary: The renamed Ophiuchus Observatory has been opened to the public, as well as volunteers willing to scan the heavens. Perhaps the answer to the Zodiac Effect truly does lie within the stars...?
Music: LAW
Warnings: Space, also science.
When the Visitors had first seen the Sagittarius Labs last September, the Anoli attacking made it difficult for many to truly get a grasp for the building itself. They were told that the fourth floor connected to the roof, which had been breached, and that they would have to defend the labs.

That was only mostly true.

The building had been constructed with demon-studying in mind, and was thus nearly impossible to navigate on one's own. Hallways went to nowhere, and space did not behave as one would have liked. The roof, for example, was truly connected to the fourth floor. But the fourth floor was not truly only one of four floors.

The deception could be easily noticed from the roof of the Sagittarius Labs, which now housed the renamed Ophiuchus Observatory. The building was much, much taller than it seemed on the outside- it seemed to tower over all the other buildings in the area. The observatory had been used exclusively for keeping an eye on the moon phases before, but with the increased threat of the Zodiac Effect, it had been upgraded to a much more proper catadioptric telescope. To aid citizens and visitors alike in getting to the observatory without having to undergo complex navigation, a service elevator had been installed to lead right to the domed roof. The machine was simple to use, and did not require any training to use- the only request the labs had was that people report any peculiarities they observed in the night sky.

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[echo_of_a_jedi]

Meetra moved up to the roof as silently as she could on an elevator, waiting for a turn at the telescope and not recognizing the guy she'd once talked to on the network. For the moment, she was just staring up at the stars. She was used to not recognizing the constellations on any given planet, but it was a little depressing knowing she'd been to none of these.

[nemophila]

Thankfully, the stars in the sky were Jun's specialty-- and they were certainly the kind he recognized, even if he could recognize the woman currently before him.

He was perfectly ready to leave (well... he probably would've stayed longer if he could, but he should probably get out of peoples' way), but he could resist seeing the look on her face.

"Something the matter?"

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"I was just remembering something," she said.

She paused and thought about it some more, bringing a hand to her head. "I used to stargaze when I was young," - she had, right? - "but that was on another planet."

[nemophila]

"Another planet..." Well, it was more than just a concept to Jun-- space travel was the final frontier, as everyone back home said. But to actually be able to go to other places... for him it was merely a pipe dream, and one he happily imagined at that.

"The configuration of the sky you've seen must be completely different from what we see here...!" Yes he's, excited about it. "What was it like from there?"

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"Well, the temple where I grew up was way out in the middle of the plains, so we got a good view," she said, moving over to the telescope here. "No light pollution, pretty low horizon. It was out in the Rim, so it was easy to pick out individual stars and not just the big messes of nebulae you have in the Core."

[nemophila]

He had no idea what the 'Rim,' or the 'Core' was, but he was pretty sure he could make a good guess from what she said... and er, he didn't really wanna ask and embarrass himself. And he made sure to step out of the way when she came to look through the telescope.

"Lucky... I've never been to a temple, but we lived in the city my whole life... it wasn't too bad, but for the best view, my father had to take me up to the mountains just outside town. Though the view from the park wasn't so bad."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

She nodded, bending down to look at the stars. Home was out there somewhere, just not visible from here. Although, given how much she wandered around over the course of her life, she could pick anything out in that blackness and call it 'home'.

"I don't remember my parents," she said, making conversation as best she could. "I was raised by the Jedi as far back as I could remember. I never asked who dropped me off at the Enclave; didn't seem important."

If she squinted, she could kind of pretend some of these stars had similar patterns to the ones she could see in the Outer Rim. Sort of. At least she could tell this planet was situated near the edge of its own galaxy.