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fandomhigh2010-02-15 11:40 pm
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Ethics [Tuesday, February 16]
For the last few semesters, Anakin had called on his experiences in the Clone Wars for the midterm subject matter. With Leia in the class, that would just leave him open to a lot of questions he wasn't ready to answer.
So he went further back into his history and completely reprogrammed the Danger Shop's look for this test.
"When I was thirteen years old," he began, "and had built my first lightsaber, my master and I were sent on an assignment to protect a diplomatic vessel from attack from a T'surr slaver named Krayn." As he gestured, the giant blue alien appeared in the center of the room, which had now shifted to resembled the non-too-clean interior of the slaver's transport vessel. "Our mission was simple: to disable Krayn's ship and return to our own."
He held up a hand: "However. Krayn was a slaver, and had been for almost a decade. He had ruined countless lives, had raided slaves from a multitude of systems--" including Tatooine, but Anakin wouldn't be mentioning that, "--and his slaves were used to process spice: itself an illegal, dangerous narcotic in our galaxy, which had made him very, very rich, not to mention extremely powerful. Your choice in the assignment today is simple: follow your master and disable the weapons systems of this ship and escape, or break off on your own and try to track down Krayn and free the slaves on this vessel."
With a gesture from Anakin, lightsaber hilts appeared in the air above each student. "Remember what you have learned about the dangers of anger and pride. Choose wisely. May the Force be with you. You may pair up with a fellow student if you'd like."
So he went further back into his history and completely reprogrammed the Danger Shop's look for this test.
"When I was thirteen years old," he began, "and had built my first lightsaber, my master and I were sent on an assignment to protect a diplomatic vessel from attack from a T'surr slaver named Krayn." As he gestured, the giant blue alien appeared in the center of the room, which had now shifted to resembled the non-too-clean interior of the slaver's transport vessel. "Our mission was simple: to disable Krayn's ship and return to our own."
He held up a hand: "However. Krayn was a slaver, and had been for almost a decade. He had ruined countless lives, had raided slaves from a multitude of systems--" including Tatooine, but Anakin wouldn't be mentioning that, "--and his slaves were used to process spice: itself an illegal, dangerous narcotic in our galaxy, which had made him very, very rich, not to mention extremely powerful. Your choice in the assignment today is simple: follow your master and disable the weapons systems of this ship and escape, or break off on your own and try to track down Krayn and free the slaves on this vessel."
With a gesture from Anakin, lightsaber hilts appeared in the air above each student. "Remember what you have learned about the dangers of anger and pride. Choose wisely. May the Force be with you. You may pair up with a fellow student if you'd like."
Re: Run for the weapons systems!
"Sounds good to me!" Really, there wasn't much that didn't sound good to him. Of course, curiosity did have a weird way of chewing at the back of his head. "And once we're out? I mean, we're taking out the weapons systems for a reason, right?"
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This was a very boring mission, Obi-Wan.
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Honor, duty, blah blah blah...
"Do I at least get to make sure that the weapons systems are really, really, really offline?"
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"Woo!"
See Zack. See Zack run toward the weapons room even faster. He just wanted to see exactly what this lightsaber was good for, okay?
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Zack did not seem too terribly worried about blaster fire. He was now a kid on a mission, and he'd been given his mission objective. There was nothing in the world that was going to keep him from making those aforementioned big, messy holes in things.
The near complete lack of weight in his hand as he took the lightsaber to what he assumed was the mainframe was, admittedly, a little weird. But he'd get over that, so long as there were some nifty sparks to show for it!
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... Right up until Obi-Wan mentioned flying. At which point, that tail was going to hide between his knees and he was going to look very sheepish, indeed.
"Actually, I can't. I've never really flown anything before in my life."
He was a very well-behaved passenger, though!
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Why yes, Anakin had programmed Obi-Wan to be slightly nicer about him than he'd been in life.
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"No better time to learn than the present, huh?"
This was too cool.