Conditioning and Jedi are totally unrelated what are you talking about

[forcechanic]

I guess sometimes abilities stick from the Jaunts, and I definitely remember teaching people about Conditioning when I was Jey. So I figure I should probably let you know that I actually am part of an order that does a lot of meditating. A slightly ridiculous amount of meditating.

[Some of it involves handstands but she's not going to pull that one out on random people]

What I'm used to is a little different and it doesn't all translate, but it's close enough that if anyone wants help meditating, I can provide it.

Oh, and it's actually Jaina.

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[forcechanic]

Especially in some accents.

Have humans not explored much of your galaxy then?

[That would make more sense than not finding any aliens ever to her]

[flumine]

We've explored some. Settled a whole new cluster. But the costs of deep space expeditions are prohibitive without the impetus of a dying planet behind us. There might be other sapient species out there. We probably won't meet them.

[forcechanic]

No hyperdrive, then?

[That's the only way it makes sense]

There's old legends about people doing that. Millenia old.

[flumine]

No. We haven't cracked light speed yet. There's no fuel that produces the requisite energy.

[There's a brief pause.]

We might be from your past. Or a past. Long enough ago that everything's lost in story.

[forcechanic]

That's possible. Humans have been in space for millenia at home. No one's even sure which planet was the human homeworld. So maybe it was the one you left behind.

[It makes sense to her, anyway. Everyone tells stories, but no one knows for sure.]

[flumine]

Ours was Earth. Our ancestors left her behind nearly half a millennium ago. There's no going back.

[forcechanic]

Earth... a lot of people here seem to be from there. I'd never even heard of it before so I guess it could be the homeworld we forgot about.

I'm from Coruscant. If Earth really is our past, that would explain why no one has heard of it.

[There's no way to prove it, but it's an interesting thought]

[flumine]

Coruscant.

[Even though her telepathic voice carries no particular intonation, she manages to give off the impression of curiosity.]

I was born on Osiris. We named our worlds for myths we left behind.

[forcechanic]

And if it's so old the original world slipped into legend...

[That would explain why Osiris doesn't mean anything to her]

Coruscant's been the capital of every galactic government for millenia. The entire planet's one big city... Mom kinda hates that, but she needs to be there.

[flumine]

Core world. The spokes radiate outward, keep everything spinning to one tune.

...Importing food must be logistically complicated.

[forcechanic]

That's how it is, yeah.

There are a lot of hydroponic farms, but they still basically have constant food transports hauling in enough to sustain the population.

[flumine]

The system's fragile. Subject to external control. Why cover the entire planet?

[forcechanic]

I'm not sure there was ever really a plan. I think people just kept building and it got out of control.