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[shabby]

[ The video opens on a man's face, a little too close up for a few seconds. Then he pulls the arm with the communicator back, lengthening the shot and showing vegetation behind him. He's in the atrium, currently sitting on a low hanging tree branch. ]

Hello, alien-abducted internet peoples.

[ He says it cheerfully, with a smile and a wave. For a man who comes from a world without shit like this, he's unperturbed. Possibly because he thinks it's a drug-induced hallucination. ]

How are you today? [ He gestures off to the side. ] This is crazy, no? Outer space and shit. It's like a movie.

[ The image shakes a little as he starts digging through his pants pocket. Eventually, he pulls out a joint and, remembering that he's in the middle of talking to people, asks; ]

Hey, does anybody have a lighter?

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[shabby]

Is that where you come from? The Galactic Empire?

[ It's not aliens like E.T. or those things on that horror movie Vaas saw once, but it's better than nothing. ]

[taggingwomprats]

Sort of? They claimed the planet I grew up on, but they never really showed up until right before I left.

[ It's weird. No one really wants Tatooine, it's just sort of there. Or at least that's how Luke sees it. ]

I don't really consider myself an Imperial subject, if that's what you mean.

[shabby]

There were Imperialists and Colonialists that came to my island too. Nobody liked them. [ A beat. ] Mostly, we killed them.

[ This is a perfectly reasonable response to that kind of behavior on Rook. ]

Did you kill your Imperials?

[taggingwomprats]

Uh. Well, I've killed some of them.

[ It's not something he usually likes to talk about or think about too much, but he is fighting a war. People die. And he sort of fired the shot that blew up a space station with millions of people on it. ]

We're in the middle of a rebellion, so it's unavoidable.