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"Okay, so we promised you we'd get to Pluto, and this is the last week," Hera said. She had to steer them around a few more bits of junk than usual this week on the way to the Ghost, but it was getting better. "Apparently this one's named after another god. Or possibly a cartoon dog? I'm not...really clear on that."

Google was a weird place.

"My credits are on the cartoon dog," Kanan said, mostly just because he was a shit-disturber. "In any case, what we're visiting today is a dwarf planet. Apparently it was demoted from planet status for not being big enough, but it's definitely really close competition with Earth for being the cutest thing in this solar system."

It had a heart on it. The dwarf planet had a heart on it.

So this was a downright romantic jaunt.

Hera grinned at Kanan as she piloted them there; a quick trip through hyperspace to make it in time. "Well, it's probably cuter from orbit, but yeah. It's further from the sun than any of the other planets we've visited. It's got one moon - no idea how cute it is - and it's mostly ice."

"The 'nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide' kind of ice," Kanan said, shrugging his shoulders. "Water ice isn't exactly easy to find on planets in this system, apparently. That's okay. Pluto's still cute even if you don't want to walk on it."

Alas, no jaunts planetside yet again. Though the surface was likely solid enough... Kanan looked thoughtfully at the readings on the console.

Hera helpfully pulled up the surface readings on solidity and air pressure. "What do you think?"

"Hey, that's only an average surface temperature of 44 Kelvin," Kanan said, impressed. "That's minus 229 Celsius, or minus 380 Fahrenheit for anybody who needs a conversion." He grinned over his shoulder. "The suits can totally handle that. Who wants to walk on the really cold cute not-planet?"

"Same rules as always," Hera cautioned. "Gravity's a little over half of Earth's; don't make one of us or Chopper have to grab you. Should we land in the heart?" she asked Kanan.

"You know we need to land in the heart," Kanan agreed.

So, there you had it, kids. Going to Pluto.

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With heart!

Wonder what a planet has to do to get demoted.

Bounce around, enjoy, just don't fly off.

Who are here in the heart of things.

Shannon: Just don't take off your helmets.

Llwy: (Seriously, WTF with that??)

Hera is sealing the cargo bay off from the rest of the ship and opening the doors, hoping to freeze out the last of the fish smell.

Kanan was pretty sure the fish smell would just come back once the back thawed out again, and figured the thing to do was probably to fly around somewhere with some significant amount of atmosphere to air things out a bit. But hey, he couldn't fault Hera for trying. That shark smell was everywhere.

Well, maybe it'd be easier to vacuum out frozen bits than try to scrub them? It was worth a shot.

It was starting to get a bit rank.

You think you had it bad, Hera? Kanan's ship had had sharks phased through the hull.

But he had much less ship to scrub down. Ask nicely enough and he'd probably lend a hand with cleaning the Ghost once he had the Escape smelling less... fresh.

Granted part of the issue was that Chopper had been slacking, insisting he'd been a hero to save Stance and so he shouldn't have to work as hard.

Yeah, Hera was already getting pretty sick of that.

Eric Bittle

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