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[The communicator is set up in such a way that the main viewpoint is pointed at a clean countertop with what looks like... several glasses of milk, except the milk is various shades of blue. Some are more white than blue, and some are more blue than white. Overall, it's a little weird.

It's a little bit weirder, when behind the row of milk, is a seven-foot robot, and then a human woman.]

Hello. Because Tanith fails to acknowledge that I have perfect recollection of what milk it supposed to look like, we have to unfortunately ask you people.

[Jyn rolls her eyes, heavily, at Kay's comment, then glares up at him before deadpanning over to the camera again.]

He's malfunctioning, obviously, and doesn't know anything about anything.

I think that the perfect shade of bantha milk is this one.

[She holds up a glass somewhere in the middle of the blue spectrum.]

I drank a lot of it, fermented especially, growing up. I know it's the right color.

You know, I don't think they're going to really know what the proper color is, considering their milk is white, for some reason.

[So everyone- what do you think? The slightly more blue milk, or the slightly less blue milk? Both milks look equally gross unless you're, you know, used to that.]

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[couldbebeautiful]

[Somewhere in the background, there's a young girl's voice that calls:]

Can I go get real milk now? That doesn't look anything like milk!

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[Calls back, like he's not in the middle of talking to people on the Network as a whole:]

It is "real milk." We just dyed it. It's still consumable.

[DRINK THE BLUE MILK, VERONICA.]

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[kestreldawn]

What do you mean "go get real milk?" This is real milk.

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[prophesiedone]

Having problems? [He's always up to help a droid.]

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I'm not having any problems. Tanith fails to remember what color milk should be.

[To which he points to a more pale, pastel-colored blue milk.]

This one is correct.

[Yes? Yes? You agree, right, Anakin??]

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[dun_moch]

I must say, this is one of the most frivolous posts I have yet seen on this Network.

[Beat.]

That said, 'Tanith' is clearly correct.

[Dooku misses his blue milk as much as any other Star Warsian, ok.]

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But not the most.

That would be the anonymous post made six days ago.

[Fucking Adachi.]

No, she isn't. Her choice is too dark. I would advise an appointment with an optometrist for both of you.

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[snarkbot]

Is there a reason why the exact shade of blue is important?

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Technically, no.

For my benefit of being correct, yes.

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[therewillbeorder]

It's been too long since I've seen milk that's a proper color. White is unnatural.

[He's missed proper bantha milk, there isn't exactly a good supply in the middle of the Unknown Regions.]

I would have to agree to Tanith, that's the proper shade. But then again, we can't expect a droid to know the proper shade of blue milk.

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And why can't we expect that, exactly?

[lurk]

[kestreldawn]

[Jyn can't bring herself to respond directly, instead enjoying the banter between Kay and Hux instead. She isn't sure whether him agreeing with her makes her feel better or worse ..]

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[continuousgroaning]

Uhhhhh... does that have food coloring in it? Because milk is supposed to be white...

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The milk on this planet is white. The milk in the galaxy I am from is more commonly blue. Specifically, this shade-

[And he points towards one of the lighter shades of milk, not one in the middle. You know, contradictory to what Jyn said.]

So yes. We put food dye in Earth milk.

[forcereset]

[ Well that's a new kind of droid. ]

Where in the force did the dark blue one come from?

[reexamined]

You're new. Who are you?

[But if someone's saying "where in the force," he can guess that they're also from "the galaxy with the jedi," as he's been aptly calling it.]

These are all standard Earth milk, with various levels of food dye. Tanith tells me it doesn't change the taste, just the appearance. It also does not make it taste more like bantha milk.

[candor1]

I'm not taking sides. Just find a way to dispose of it responsibly after, right? Put it out for strays or something.

[Not going to touch with a four meter extender arm the fact that they're both right: even milk from the same bantha flock could alter in color depending on age of the milk, fresh vs fermented, whether it was frozen for transport and which method, season of collection re: diet of the animals, if anything was mixed with it, and that some planets would indeed alter its shade just as Kay and Jyn were doing regardless of it starting as either white or blue. The difference in their perception was that Jyn had seen the stuff local and Kay, imported.

…Which probably would default to Jyn winning in terms of natural state. But Kay's measurements from gathered data were also accurate.

And don't ask why the hell Cassian knows this. (Why the hell does he know any of what he knows.)

So yeah. Have fun, you two.

At least their arguing seems to have progressed into the comradely kind.]

[reexamined]

Actually, Tanith and Veronica were going to have a contest on who could drink the most.

[And he was going to watch.]

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[bespin]

No, no. Real milk is lighter than that. More like... Second from the left. That one.

[ Why is he joining this argument? Who knows. ]

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Yes, thank you.

[Finally someone with SENSE.]

That's the one I would have picked as well.

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[beastboi]

[Gar doesn't seem phased at all by the whole robot thing. Blue milk, though...]

Dude! That looks nasty! I don't think you're gonna get a lot of the answers you want.

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I only added food coloring to "regular" milk. It's still fine to drink.

[am_i_a_monster]

I don't know what a bantha is. Here, I think cow and goat milk are the most common and they're not supposed to be blue. There's also stuff like soy milk and rice milk. They're not supposed to be blue either.

[reexamined]

Bantha milk is the closest equivalent of "cow milk" in my galaxy. There is also "synthmilk" which would be an equivalent to... soy milk, I believe.

I would show you my collected data on what bantha milk looks like, but then Tanith would say I'm cheating.

[darted]

Why would you want blue milk? Milk is already gross enough, you don't really have to try to worsen it. [ BLUE milk?! Like, he has GOT to be kidding!! ]

[reexamined]

It's how it is in my galaxy. This-

[And he points, notably, to the LIGHTER shade of blue milk, the second one in and NOT the one in the middle, like Tanith had been indicating.]

-is what's normal.

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[aboveand]

...Okay you never told me panther milk was blue.

[He's trying so hard not to judge right now.]

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I don't see why this is apparently such a reason for disgust.

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[forcer]

[ He's spoken to the droid before, a conversation that ended rather quickly, but despite the poor first impression, he can't stop himself from replying when these two are arguing over something so simple. ]

What planet are you from that your milk looks like that? Milk should be lighter, roughly the color in the glass second from the left.

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Oh.

[He's a little surprised by this, and maybe his tone shows it.]

That's the same one I chose.