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[And to aid your reading: Count Dooku, a great sinner of greed. Your obsession with power and influence has led to the corruption of genuine calls for change & innocents that believe in those ideals. That corruption cannot stand and so we will steal the heart of your aspirations and make you confess your crimes with your own mouth. --The Phantom Thieves]

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[voice]

[carbonfrozen]

Again?

[why this]

[voice]

[vanto]

Again.

It's lucky we're not, uh, Force involved.

[carbonfrozen]

You'd think they'd be sick of it by now.

[Han definitely is. Han just wants to enjoy his vacation from fighting the Empire, damn it, this is the exact opposite of a vacation.]

Kriff, can't imagine how well that's gonna go over with the rest of them.

[vanto]

Can't be helped, maybe it's a Force thing.

[Eli sounds amused, he's less worried now that he knows one is actually dying.]

Well, Siths are bad, so it might go over well.

[carbonfrozen]

I meant with the whole—Force, thing. How "stealing the heart of your aspirations" might feel to them. All I know is that whenever something big happens someone is bound to feel it.

[For example: Alderaan. Kenobi's death here.]

And how're they gonna do that, anyway? Especially now that they've declared they're going to. [A snort.] Amateurs.

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[vanto]

[Eli has spent a lot of time with Kylo. Had seen his face when Eli's void had effectively muted the Force for him. He'd looked almost ... relieved? It might be a huge assumption to make but being a Force user seemed unpleasant.]

Yeah, I can't see this ending well for anyone involved. Almost feel bad for the Count.

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[carbonfrozen]

Hate to admit it, but me too. This whole business about stealing his heart or whatever doesn't sound pleasant, and that's if they succeed.

If they don't, well. [He shrugs, before remembering they're communicating over audio and Eli can't hear him.] Something worse than that mess in De Chima's bound to go down.

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[vanto]

At least they don't mean murder, that's good. It doesn't mean there won't be murder after by angry Sith lords.

De Chima seems to be very popular for trouble. [Eli sounds wryly amused.]

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[carbonfrozen]

That's what I meant. I'm taking bets, how long's it gonna be until they turn up murdered with a lightsaber?

[Joke's on you, Han, it's the lightsaber they'll be stealing.]

I noticed. The swear-in got set on fire twice there, last year. [welp.] At least I live in Heropa. [Han, most of your stuff is at Leia's. In fact all your shirts are at Leia's.]

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[vanto]

If they do, I imagine some of the Jedi might want to have words with the other side. This is not a bet I want to take or win.

Even so, I quite like De Chima. It is lively. [And where Thrawn is. And Hux. And Kylo.]

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[carbonfrozen]

Suit yourself.

[A beat. Dryly:] Lively is putting it nicely. I'd call it "disaster-prone" myself. [So are the other Porter cities, honestly.]

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[vanto]

Just playing it safe with my credits.

Can't it be both? Lively disasters-prone?

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[carbonfrozen]

Lively's nice. Lively implies it's got a good nightlife going on, among other things. [It does, though, that much he's noticed.] Lively doesn't even begin to cover all the karked-up banthashit that happens there.

Now, disaster-prone's more accurate.

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[vanto]

[Eli laughs a little] Huh, I forgot that smugglers have some really colourful language.

Lively-disasters-prone?

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[carbonfrozen]

You ain't seen colorful yet.

[A beat, before Han shrugs.] Yeah, that's a lot closer too. It's lively, and it's disaster-prone. I'd say it's 'cause it's got a lot of us living there, but somehow I kinda doubt that.

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[vanto]

I'm waiting to be impressed then.

[A thoughtful 'hm'.]

Well, you might not be entirely wrong. Maybe it has to do with the Force and the higher concentration of us living here — like we're drawing disaster in.