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[t65]

[Hey, it's Luke Skywalker, sitting at his pastel desk. There's plenty of junk littered on it, mostly scraps of droid parts and tools, but the inquisitive observer will notice a few mystery vials of colorful chemicals, and a hypo of fast-penta scattered among the rubble.]

I noticed there aren't any service droids on the ship-- when I mentioned that to the captains, they said I should... make some? [Luke has a distinct look of 'what have I gotten myself into' on his face.] We definitely need some mouse droids and basic repair droids-- we already have good engineers, but this would help them out in a pinch. Do you think we need gonk droids?

[Well? Do you?]

Have you noticed any droids we could use? A 1B prototype couldn't hurt...

[That's right, request a droid, Luke might be able to make it for you eventually. He's serious. Though they probably won't have much in the way of lively personalities, who doesn't want a robot?]

Oh- and Doctor Yewll? Mr Banner? Ed? I know we discussed some kind of prosthetic... if I'm going to be making droids, I might need that sooner than later. [He kind of cringe smiles before cutting the feed.]

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[t65]

Oh, you need a mouse droid. They're about- [With his good hand, he draws a square roughly the size of a toaster.] This whole place needs a few MSEs. I should be able to make a couple of those... [He never. Has. But he knows how to in theory!]

Anything else you can think of?

[keelahselai]

Not right now... The power sources and...mouse droids? Should do. I could help out if you needed, I've made drones before. [OK, Tali, it's not like you don't have enough to do or anything. ...A second's pause, though, before:] I mean, they've all been combat drones, but I'm sure I can get the hang of not arming them.

[Totally.]

[t65]

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Combat droids? No one's used stuff like that since- [History lessons on Tatooine: not a huge priority.] I don't know how long. Why were you making them?

[keelahselai]

[That gets a tilt of the head from her. Wow, sir, are you implying she's backwards?] They're useful decoys. The ones I use have a core about...this big... [She holds her finger and thumb a few centimetres apart so he can see on the MID.]...and the core generates a holographic form maybe half a metre tall. It's bright, it floats around the field and it generates enough electricity to...hurt. A lot.

There are mechs that can use guns, but I've never worked on one.

[t65]

[Luke frowns.] What were you using them against? [Suddenly, that seems like a better question.]

[keelahselai]

Oh. [Then she tilts her head, because that's...a weird question.] Up until a few years ago - defence against mercs and pirates, mostly. Some gangs.

Nowadays... Terrorists, AI platforms, husks, sentient plantlife, clones, giant insects... [That really is one hell of a list, now she thinks about it.] The galaxy's not exactly safe where I come from.

[t65]

No, it's just... that's the kind of problems we have on the outer rim. [He says it with a sigh.] But we don't really have the resources to use droids on them. What- what system are you on?

[Welcome to the Insatiable Curiosity Skywalker Hour.]

[keelahselai]

[This is something she didn't know about Luke before - or maybe forgot in the mess of other things going on.] Actually, my people's homeworld and a couple of old colonies are out on the Far Rim. I think we might be from different galaxies...?

[But to answer the question:] My people live on a mobile flotilla now, though. We haven't stopped for long in around three hundred years.

[t65]

It's possible. But I'll be the first to admit I don't know every species and system in the galaxy.

Oh, I'm sorry; that must be hard. Your planet became uninhabitable?

[keelahselai]

We've charted most of the Milky Way, and there definitely aren't any human colonies out in the Far Rim. Most of it's geth space, it's off limits.

[The slightest pause, and then:] Rannoch, my homeworld - it's in geth space too. We created them by accident, and they drove us out. That was three hundred years ago.