We were the most powerful and usually trained. We had the genetic potential to make us worthy to be his minions for committing genocide against anyone weaker. Sign me up! [The sarcasm is strong in this one.]
[ He looks away for a moment. Her sarcasm only makes this more awkward for him. It reminds him of the slave markets. All that's missing are the chips. ]
[She feels bad for making him feel bad at a dance of all things.] Hey, I was one of the lucky ones. I was in a team that fought back against them. I never actually ended up in the breeding pens myself. [She had a narrow escape and then a rescue, but she managed to stay out of there.]
[ It's ok, Kitty. He felt bad coming in to this dance.
He can understand how she might want to keep it light, as if the experience is something you can brush away. So he'll keep it that light too and avoids thinking about his mother in one of those. ]
Any chance your team is around? Maybe we can stage a rebellion here too.
Sure. There are a lot of X-Men running around. Only one of them is from my reality though. Kurt Darkholme—blue, fuzzy, prehensile tail, pointy ears, three digits on each appendage. Oh, and red mark over the eye and shorter hair than the other Kurt who is also one of the X-Men, just not from my reality.
Not entirely. My companions and I had trained a group to fight against their corrupt government, but we were not to involve ourselves directly in the fight.
[ With no small amount of bitterness ] It would have been an unwise political move to fight for them and against our war time policy.
We were not to act as relief to systems' on the opposing side. Even if the people of that system was suffering from a tyrant rule or something out of their control.
Any aid we give them would be seen as an open attack to that system. Then you'll be facing down Rendili Dreadnaughts before you can signal for evac.
[ He almost laughs. Because it would make sense wouldn't it. It's much easier for it to make sense when you aren't involved. Maybe that was the Jedi's downfall. Anakin sighs instead ]
The opposing side are the Separatists, short for the Confederacy of Independent Systems. They're a group of systems that thinks the Republic and the Senate are corrupt beyond repair.
Children from the future? That's got to be...[Weird? Hard? Kind of exciting?] something.
At least now you'll be able to do something about it maybe. [She doesn't have a lot of faith that anyone ever gets home once they've been taken from their reality, much less that you can go back to the same time with all your memories intact and make new choices. But it seems like the thing to say?]
It almost couldn't be worse in our case. Besides, we never really know if the things we're doing in our lives are going to make them better or worse. We just make the best choices we can. I wouldn't stop doing that.
That's ...fair. [ And it sucks. Wow, it really sucks ] Best choices now doesn't always mean best choice for the future. I thought knowing to someone from the future would- I don't know, put that into perspective.
I guess it has in the sense I know I couldn't break it worse than it breaks itself without me. And he knows what happened in some cases but not why. That can make changing it tricky. And we are terrible at dance conversation.
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I'm sorry. That sounds... awful.
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He can understand how she might want to keep it light, as if the experience is something you can brush away. So he'll keep it that light too and avoids thinking about his mother in one of those. ]
Any chance your team is around? Maybe we can stage a rebellion here too.
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But I can't say the rebellion went that well.
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Not every rebellion ends with victory. Not every one ends in failure either.
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[ With no small amount of bitterness ] It would have been an unwise political move to fight for them and against our war time policy.
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Any aid we give them would be seen as an open attack to that system. Then you'll be facing down Rendili Dreadnaughts before you can signal for evac.
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The opposing side are the Separatists, short for the Confederacy of Independent Systems. They're a group of systems that thinks the Republic and the Senate are corrupt beyond repair.
[ Here, he press his lips to a thin line. ]
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They... had a point.
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Have you met people from your world's future?
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[ At this point, why even hide it anymore; they're gone. ]
They told me that the Republic I served broke and then turned as evil and corrupt as the Separatists propaganda made it to be.
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At least now you'll be able to do something about it maybe. [She doesn't have a lot of faith that anyone ever gets home once they've been taken from their reality, much less that you can go back to the same time with all your memories intact and make new choices. But it seems like the thing to say?]
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What about you? I'm sure your teammate Kurt told you about the future, would you go and "do something about it", if you ever get back?
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Of course. If I have time and the memories I've collected here to change my fate I'd do whatever I can to make it better for everyone.
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