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"Right. Hello," Lana said from the Danger Shop console. "Lady Ghanima couldn't make it, so she asked if I would see to the class instead. I don't know a lot of different terrains, so we're getting the one I probably know the best - Korriban."

She pressed one last button, and the walls faded away, replaced by a desert planet with red skies and high-tech platforms and encampments around ancient ruins.

"That pyramid there is my last school, the Sith Academy. First, though, we're going here." She pointed at a dark entrance. "This is the tomb of Ajunta Pall. He was a fierce Sith Lord millennia ago. His spirit used to reside here, but he hasn't been seen for some time now, and most useful artifacts have been recovered already. Now, it's mostly a place for acolytes to be sent to prove themselves. There are known to be several nests of k'lor'slugs, as well as quite a few shyrack and some tuk'ata - Sith hounds - descended from the tomb's original guardians. Possibly also a few ancient guard droids, and maybe some looters. So, make your way through the tomb from this end to the other, and we can all go into the Temple and have a drink. The actual Temple is off-limits to non-Sith, so I've just programmed the inside of this one to be a cantina," she explained. It might be a little sacrilegious, but it was the lesser evil, she felt.

"Oh, right - so, generally everybody would get vibroblades, so I've programmed those, but you can choose other weapons if you like. Blasters, or your own. I'm not actually trying to kill anybody, even if it isn't real."

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Sabine actually kind of had wondered! This... actually pretty much fit with what she'd figured based on things Lana had said.

"Home sweet home," Lana murmured wryly.

"Is this weird for you?" Sabine wondered.

"A little," Lana admitted. "The geography is spot-on, but the Force just feels like the island, still. It's jarring."

"Oh. That does have to feel... off," Sabine realized. "Not that I can get it, but..."

"I imagine it's the same as if all the colours were wrong," Lana said. "Just...weird on a fundamental level." She shrugged. "Anyway, the rest of it is accurate, it's just that Korriban never felt so...nice."

"This is the place with the school you talked about?"

The one that always seemed to be trying to kill its students.

Lana nodded. "The pyramid, there. The Academy's in the lower levels - underground as well as the visible ones - and the Dark Council meets in the upper."

"I think I expected something more along the lines of what I'm used to," Sabine admitted. She'd pictured something more Imperial in her time. "Now that I see it, it looks about right."

"Now I'm curious," Lana said. "What were you picturing?"

"My academy was metal, militaristic. Cold and impersonal," she said. "I think I was picturing that."

"I suppose there are parts that can be like that," Lana said. "But most of it's not. Militaristic, yes; metal, occasionally; but also embracing our heritage and studying it. And Korriban is anything but cold," she added wryly.

"I'm getting that impression, yeah," Sabine said.

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