Hoth: Blood and Ice

The droid looks at the Gree, nothing seems to happen but the droid then looked back and said, "Yes."

With droids words, the Chiss slams his fist against the table he was at, having a rare look of anger upon his face. His eyes closed as clenched his teeth and slammed it again.

I was wrong. I was wrong about everything.

He opened his eyes and looked around the room at everyone, to which he cleared his throat and regained his composure. "...Sorry. Continue, please."

"Well, that was pretty kriffin enlightening." Jo'ren had just about figured out 3/4 of Petey's code.

"I think I like you better when you just say yes Petey. Does this mean we can go fight the White Maw without Gree interference? Because they've got a lot to answer for."

"Yes," the droid verbalized.

"Is... everything all right, Captain?" Tethys shoots Nudi a concerned look.

"Nothing." He says, his voice returning to his neutral tone and his eyes relaxing. "Thought I saw a bug."

"Well at least that is one less complication. Nothing we can do about what has happened in the past." Remmington adds.

"Yes..." His red eyes shifted over to Remmington for a long moment. "...there is nothing to be done of our previous errors of judgement and our negligence over the details now other than to learn from them. " Nudimsu nodded his head, looking at Bellious for a moment before looking at C5-PT." The dead are gone now, their bodies frozen twice over by now, either by the coldness of space or from the planet itself. Regardless of the Gree's machinations, the Eternal Empire would have come for us all, and we would have had nothing to stop them."

Nudimsu nodded his head. "We should look at these tests done to us as a fortuitous event, then. Honor those that fell in the pursuit of this goal, and ensure that they did not die for nothing. Most importantly, ensure that those who did it pay for what they've done."

"As far as payment goes, I think the Gree could compensate us with power, intel, radars, jammers, battle droids, and various weaponry. It's verdant perpendicular to me, or whatever that verbal form truly means."

Darth Bellious wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:28 am

"As far as payment goes, I think the Gree could compensate us with power, intel, radars, jammers, battle droids, and various weaponry. It's verdant perpendicular to me, or whatever that verbal form truly means."

“‘Verdant perpendicular’ is ‘observation’. I think you are looking for ‘purple vertex,’ correct or intelligent. Perhaps ‘pink secant’—want or desire,” Tethys says aside to Bellious, somewhat absently.

“I think I’ve been under a misapprehension about ‘black.’ It’s final, often with an element of danger, but it’s not always negative, is it. ‘Black vertical’… victory? Perhaps?” she asks the others who have also been trying to communicate with C5-PT over the past weeks.

“This will all require some communication about what the Republic and the Sith Empire expect from potential allies. It is rather clear that our Gree neighbors have different ideas from us about the nature of cooperation and how to make friends.” She still doesn’t know whether to laugh or groan, but at least she’s getting used to the idea. As Nudimsu has already pointed out, the waste of lives and resources is a lot to stomach.

Moyr meant 'apparent', which seemed semantically close given the limitations of geometric linguistics, but the Jedi was apparently taking some comfort in appearing to be the smart one, so why not let her. The meeting with the droid was already turning away from the revelatory aspects, so Moyr thought about leaving. The debates on the details of arrangements with the Gree were best left to others. Nudimsu was handing it all very well anyway. She had other plans in the works, and they needed private discussions.

C5 just observed, it seemed it had nothing lese to reveal for now. It turned off the holo image of the Gree.

Seeing that, Bellious left.

/exit