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Anakin Skywalker ([personal profile] sith_happened) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2008-02-13 10:52 pm
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Ethics [Thursday, February 14]

Today the class was meeting in the Danger Room.

It was Valentine's Day and Anakin couldn't leave for Connecticut until class was over. So it wasn't a coincidence that today's class could get most of the students fake killed in nasty ways.

"Welcome to your midterm," Anakin said, pacing across the flight deck of a ship. Behind him, thousands of pricks of lights showed that a space battle had been paused for him to talk. "Today, you will get to be Jedi."

His eyes went flat. "Or try, anyway. Your mission," he said, striding over to a three-dimensional schematic of the ship, "is to rescue the Chancellor of the Republic, who has been kidnapped by a General Grievous, the leader of a Separatist movement. There's also another fearsome warrior aboard, a Lord of the Sith named Count Dooku. He is not to be underestimated. He took my arm off when I was 20."

He shrugged it off.

"Regardless. You will be paired up and rescue the Chancellor. Alive, please. Your mission is to fight past the droids, and the Sith Lord, get back on a different ship and the hell off of this one as quickly as possible."

He waved his hand towards the control panel. The students would now find themselves in brown robes and holding unlit lightsaber hilts. They would work like the real things, but only in the Danger Room.

Their reflexes, regrettably, were what they had come in with.

"Try not to die," Anakin said, "and for the love of the Force, don't do stupid things with your lightsabers like try to skewer your classmates or write your name in the floor." He then listed off the pairings:

Harvelle, Jo & Hammond, Evey
Anemone & Wells, Andrew
Atkins, Amber & Sato, Hoshi
Austreben, Karal & Emmagan, Teyla
Dresden, Harry & Montague, Romeo
Fray, Melaka & Rikku
Lang, Lana & Halliwell, Wyatt
Levine, Eve & Levine, Savannah
Park, Adam & Roberts, Summer
Reno & Sparks, Jenny
Price, Adah & Skywalker, Anakin
wannabehunter: (bw - totally ellen's kid)

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[personal profile] wannabehunter 2008-02-14 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"This is an ethics class," Jo pointed out. "There's not exactly an ethical dilemma in blowing up machines that are programmed to kill you."

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[identity profile] remember5th.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sure there are. We didn't know if those were sentient machines or not," she pointed out.

Of course, Evey didn't really think so.
wannabehunter: (hands on hips)

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[personal profile] wannabehunter 2008-02-14 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Jo shook her head. "That was survival, not ethics," she argued. "Definitely not hard enough for mid-term material."

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[identity profile] remember5th.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Evey sighed. "Definitely not hard enough, no," she agreed, reluctantly.
wannabehunter: (hands on hips)

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[personal profile] wannabehunter 2008-02-14 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"So I guess we need to find this chancellor now."

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[identity profile] remember5th.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Though how that seems to be ethical escapes me, too," Evey replied, examining the walls for a clue as to where to find him.
wannabehunter: (feeling blue)

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[personal profile] wannabehunter 2008-02-14 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's what worries me," Jo muttered.