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Class had been ~~handwavily~~ informed that they would be meeting each week at the junkyard instead of a classroom. You're...welcome?

When they got there, they'd find Hera and Kanan waiting, with the Ghost prepped and ready to go right behind them.

"Hey, guys," Kanan said, giving a casual little wave of one hand at the group assembled. "Welcome to a little class I like to think of as yet another shameless excuse to go on field trips every week. Only, these ones are probably going to involve less food than the last ones."

Sorry, guys. Hannibal wasn't in on this round.

"My name's Hera, and I'm the captain for these trips," she said. "This is my ship, the Ghost. I'm pretty new around here, so I'm still learning about the local area."

"The planet and the solar system both," Kanan added, grinning faintly. "For those of you who don't already know me, I'm Kanan. I have been around a while, but since my last ship was a big piece of scrap," seriously, nobody missed the Expedient, "I haven't gotten much farther than the moon here, myself. Cute moon, by the way. Bouncy."

"We don't have star maps of this galaxy, and the locals haven't gotten far off the planet," Hera said, "so that's what we'll be doing - checking out the local system. And taking some readings to figure out what's beyond it, but that'll be all the sensors, so no need to worry about that part."

"If there are any planets that are safe to get off the ship and explore, we'll try to do that whenever we can," Kanan added, grinning. "Which... might not be often, but the Ghost here will give us a great view all the same."

They wouldn't even have the great 'reality whipping by' effect that hyperspace offered, though. They weren't even leaving this system!

Earth: Still cute.

"There's just a few ground rules before we get going," Hera said. "I've locked off the personal areas of the ship, and I expect you to respect that. If I tell you to do something, you do it - I'm the captain, and I intend to keep us all safe. And whatever you do, don't bother the droid."

"No, really," Kanan added, "don't bother the droid. He takes his job seriously and he's got a stunner built-in and set to 'annoying.'"

That was just for you, Kanan. He kept that setting for you.

"Okay, so let's all get on board!" Hera said more cheerfully. "We can do introductions on our way to the first planet, which is named Mercury."

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In flight!

In a junkyard. As you do.

Your name, what you want to learn from this class, whatever you want to share with the class. And the teachers. And the little orange astromech who is sitting off to the side of the loading bay, brandishing a built-in electroshock prod.

Seriously, don't poke the droid.

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Hera brought them in low over the planet, giving them a good look as they took their readings.

"Oooookay," Kanan said, squinting at the readings before looking out at the gray, rocky planet below them. "Looks like this place is pretty firmly on the 'uninhabitable' end of the spectrum, at least in the long run, but since the days here are about fifty-eight and a half Earth days long, if we land somewhere between day and night, along the solar terminator, we probably won't boil or turn into chunks of ice immediately upon landing. The atmosphere is kind of useless, too. It's got hydrogen, helium, and oxygen, but not nearly enough."

He grinned faintly.

"Guess we're putting on the enviro-suits."

They were not flattering.

Being dead was less flattering.

"We'll go over how to get them on properly," Hera promised as she brought them in for a landing. "Keep them on." If you didn't, you would die, and your instructors would yell at you. A lot.

"Gravity'll be about two-thirds lower than you're used to," she continued, "so you'll want to move carefully. Chop, you're on spotter duty - anybody bounces too far away, grapple them back."

Chopper saluted with a series of serious-sounding beeps.

After a quick walk-through on how to don the suits, Kanan waved the group toward the ship's exit.

"Let's take a look around, shall we?"

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Once they ping in!

No world ending of any world!

Hera is here. Hera had better be here; this is her ship.

Kanan is also here.

He's less important.

Rufus Shinra

Listening to the teachers talk confirmed to Rufus that yes, yes this semester he'd made choices that led to an enjoyable morning.

If he had to be in class, he might as well do things that please him, right?

Rufus wasn't going to poke the droid. Though he'd be lying if he denied contemplating how to make someone else poke the droid.

... For science. Wait.

... maybe the teacher of his Sciencily class would go for it. Something to think about for later.

"Rufus Shinra," he said, lifting one hand slightly. "My home doesn't have space travel, though we do have a space program in it's rudimentary stages. Curiosity brought me here."

"Hey, Rufus," Kanan said, giving a casual little salute in lieu of a wave hello. "Welcome aboard. You know much about this solar system at all, or is that all part of the curiosity?"

"All part of the curiosity. I've looked up the names of the planets in this solar system," Rufus said easily, "but I don't know much else."

Well. He knew the one paragraph descriptions of each planet that pretty much any search brought up. But that hardly counted as real knowledge.

"Well, then you're in good company," Kanan replied easily. "Neither do we."

This was going to be a great semester.

Rufus didn't laugh, but he did smile a bit.

"Given a day or two, I'm sure I could direct you both to some books that might help, if you'd like," he said lightly.

Rufus was teasing. This was going to be a good semester.

"I'll keep that in mind," Kanan laughed, shaking his head. "If nothing else, it'll be good to know the names of the planets in order before we head to them."

"It might, yes," Rufus said, straight-faced. He was laughing on the inside. "I'm sure you know best, however."

No, no he wasn't and that was great.

Kanan figured it was kind of great, too. He grinned and shook his head again, because really, this whole thing was about exploring as much as it was about science, and then gave a little nod toward Hera.

"Oh no, for knowing best, we defer to the captain," he replied. "I'm just here to look good."

And to make sure nobody got themselves killed. And to actually be a functional teacher. But where was the fun in admitting it?

"He's good at that," Hera chimed in.

Rufus nodded at the Captain amiably.

"I'm sure you know best," he said. "I wouldn't know where to begin on that matter."

Rhys

Rhys gave the robot a wary little wave and kept a safe distance away. At least it wasn't annoying like a Claptrap.

"I'm Rhys," he said slowly. "I didn't really pick the class. So... yeah. Are we going to get personal shields and O2 kits for this?"

He pronounced that as 'oz' because it permeated Hyperion too.

Chopper was annoying in entirely different ways!

"We aren't going to throw you out an airlock just to see what you can see," Kanan replied, amused, as if that was somehow going to assuage Rhys' fears. "If we do walks on the surface, everybody will be kitted out so you don't boil or asphyxiate or freeze to death, that won't be an issue."

Because they cared.

Rhys let out a breath and gave that one a thumbs up. "Great. Awesome. Looking forward to the near death experiences on weird planets."

He was so sarcastic.

"These aren't inhabited, right?"

"As far as anyone on Earth is aware, there isn't life on any of the other planets in this solar system," Kanan replied. "We can do scans before we land just to be sure, but from what I've seen of this place so far, I'm inclined to actually believe them on that point."

One of the few.

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