Howdy. This here is the home base... the ship, and the home, the planning thread (to use an ugly Meta term) for a group of smugglers making their way in the 'Verse... a long time distant from us, and a pretty fair ways away from us, too. (see what I did there?) As I said in another thread somewhere, over there-ish (points to the interest check) the ship is ancient. The jobs aren't that lucrative. And what's more, I don't plan to accomplish them all without getting in some scrapes. But as someone wiser than meself once said, getting a ship, keeping her flying, staying one step ahead of them that would shut you down... it's not much, but it's enough. I subscribe to that way of thinking. But truth be told, if we was face-to-face, I'd likely not share my thoughts with you so easily. Kind of a man of few words.
Let me introduce myself. Name's Fel. (No, not that one.) This here ship and me have seen one side of the 'verse to t'other for as many years as you'd care to imagine. Carried just about every type of cargo there is, to just about every destination. Most of which you'd rather stay away from, if'n you had the smarts to know better. On the lookout for a crew. The jobs, I got. But it's easier to watch your back, when you got a second, or a third pair of eyes doing it for you.
**I know this is the OOC thread... but let's get way OOC. OOC of OOC. I wrote this character, or a version of him, for close to ten years on a site called Jedi Vs. Sith. Wrote a bunch of jobs, with a group of fantastic writers, for close to 2000 IC posts. But then life got in the way, and we let it go. I thought for a long while that maybe I had that out of my system. That maybe I had said everything I needed to say with Star Wars. Not so, it seems. This character is so much a part of me, it seems I just can't let it go.**
Something else I should mention. Y'all have seen 'the Mandalorian,' I assume. It would seem that Dave Filoni took some cues from our writing... (I'm not that vain, to think anything of the sort. But the parallels are important.) Everyone who's anyone knows, the bread & butter of the 'Verse is the average Joe. Not the Jedi. Or the Sith, for that matter. Average folk, going about their business, while the Jedi play with their laser swords and magic. I'm pretty serious about this. Force-users are supposed to be a fraction of a percent of the entire population of the Universe. Rare as hen's teeth. Yet almost every story in the Star Wars universe features them, strongly. Revolves around them.
Not this story. Jedi need not apply.
Don't get me wrong... I love a good myth / legend as much as the next guy. When I was small, my daddy certainly told me bedtime stories about creatures - both good and bad - that were out there, somewhere. That's what the movies are. They're the bedtime stories about legendary figures. This ain't that Star Wars. The average person would likely go their entire lives without ever seeing a Jedi. If they're lucky.
Get a ship. (Got one.) Get a crew. (Working on it.) Keep flying. (We'll see...)
-Dee / Fel
Let me introduce myself. Name's Fel. (No, not that one.) This here ship and me have seen one side of the 'verse to t'other for as many years as you'd care to imagine. Carried just about every type of cargo there is, to just about every destination. Most of which you'd rather stay away from, if'n you had the smarts to know better. On the lookout for a crew. The jobs, I got. But it's easier to watch your back, when you got a second, or a third pair of eyes doing it for you.
**I know this is the OOC thread... but let's get way OOC. OOC of OOC. I wrote this character, or a version of him, for close to ten years on a site called Jedi Vs. Sith. Wrote a bunch of jobs, with a group of fantastic writers, for close to 2000 IC posts. But then life got in the way, and we let it go. I thought for a long while that maybe I had that out of my system. That maybe I had said everything I needed to say with Star Wars. Not so, it seems. This character is so much a part of me, it seems I just can't let it go.**
Something else I should mention. Y'all have seen 'the Mandalorian,' I assume. It would seem that Dave Filoni took some cues from our writing... (I'm not that vain, to think anything of the sort. But the parallels are important.) Everyone who's anyone knows, the bread & butter of the 'Verse is the average Joe. Not the Jedi. Or the Sith, for that matter. Average folk, going about their business, while the Jedi play with their laser swords and magic. I'm pretty serious about this. Force-users are supposed to be a fraction of a percent of the entire population of the Universe. Rare as hen's teeth. Yet almost every story in the Star Wars universe features them, strongly. Revolves around them.
Not this story. Jedi need not apply.
Don't get me wrong... I love a good myth / legend as much as the next guy. When I was small, my daddy certainly told me bedtime stories about creatures - both good and bad - that were out there, somewhere. That's what the movies are. They're the bedtime stories about legendary figures. This ain't that Star Wars. The average person would likely go their entire lives without ever seeing a Jedi. If they're lucky.
Get a ship. (Got one.) Get a crew. (Working on it.) Keep flying. (We'll see...)
-Dee / Fel
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