TEST DRIVE #002

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TEST DRIVE #002

( 0 0 1 ) » WAKE UP

Were you asleep or were you unconscious? It doesn't matter: when you come to, there's an odd taste in your mouth and there's a low-level mechanical hum in the air. Your head hurts and you feel nauseous. You aren't anywhere you know: everything around you is metal, from the floor you lie on all the way to the ceiling. You are dressed in a jumpsuit you definitely weren't wearing before.

"We tried to save the world. I think— I think we did the opposite."

The message repeats on a loop. If you look for its source, you find a comms device on the floor next to you. The logo on its wallpaper says REVERIE TERMINAL. Upon closer inspection, you find the same logo on your jumpsuit.

Welcome to your new home. What choice do you have but to explore your surroundings?

( 0 0 1 . 1 ) » WAKE UP WHERE?

When you wake up, you find that you're not alone. But more importantly, you find that you're in a closet. An empty closet, bar you and your new companion. It's small, cramped, and there is no door that you can see. The ceiling is low, there is barely any lights, only some coming from the tiny flashlight clipped to your suit's shoulder. You cannot be sure that there is any air coming in to the room.

Are these grooves in the wall supposed to mean something?

( 0 0 2 ) » OBSERVATION DECK

There were no windows in the corridor you woke up in and no windows in any of the crew quarters you might have checked for occupants — but there are plenty of windows on the uppermost level of the station, deck 1. In fact, there are windows from floor to ceiling all along the circumference of the station's circular deck, and it's possible to walk along it all. What it shows is a strange solar system you've never seen before and a planet that might resemble one you know, but certainly isn't the same.

You're in space. You don't know where you are. Neither does anyone else.

( 0 0 3 ) » BAR

On deck 3, you find the bar. Tucked away from the crew quarters, it's dimly lit, there are bar stools thrown down on the floor and what looks like some very old drink spills, crusty and dark against the bar top. But there is alcohol here, or at least, what you think is alcohol, in bottles with faded labels, most of them indecipherable. Take a drink, get drunk, start a fight, or start a party? You're stuck on this station, might as well make the most of it, right?

( 0 0 4 ) » SPACEQUAKES

One second, you are is walking. Magnetic boots are on, the ground feels solid enough, for a metal deck in a space station. Everything is perfectly fine, or at least as fine as it can be, given that you still don't know where you are or how you came to be here.

The next moment, it's like everything explodes around you. You're thrown against the wall as sparks erupts from electrical panels, as the whole station rumbles and shakes around you. You fall to the deck, earning yourself scratches from the grating. When you look up, it's like nothing has happened. No wires hanging from open panels, no flickering lights, no more shaking. Like an earthquake in space.

( 0 0 5 ) » NETWORK

The comms device you found next to you when waking up connects to a station-wide network, REVERIE NET. You have the option to post video, voice or text messages.

What will you share?

( 0 0 6 ) » WILDCARD

The station features a variety of locations, from sleeping quarters free for the claiming to a dirty swimming pool and a bar that still holds alcohol (though some of the bottles seem to have been opened a while ago).

Go wild, but don't wreck the place. It's your home for the foreseeable future, after all.

Comments

kanan jarrus | star wars rebels

[kanyounot]

[ 002; observation deck; ]

[ It's hard to say why this man is standing in front of the huge windows, given the mask that's obviously covering his eyes. And yet, here he is, after making his careful way from the place he woke up. He never stumbles as he traverses the observation deck, though his movements are somewhat cautious. There's a frown on his face, as well, and despite the fact that he can't see anything - it's obvious he's aware that he's far from home. ]

This... isn't right. At all.

[ 004; Spacequakes; ]

[ Kanan has only just managed to get his bearings (he thinks), when the whole place jostles and wobbles and topples him the hell over with an uncharacteristic curse. ]

Kriffing hell!

[ Slammed to the floor, feeling the bruises forming, he tries to right himself as things calm down. Someone ought to help the blind guy get up. Right? ]

What was that?

[ network; voice; un: spectre-1; ]

Okay, I've just got one question. Anyone here heard of Phoenix Squadron? Let me know.

[ Wildcard; ]

[ Hit me with anything! ]

un: rocipilot

[donkeyballs]

Well I can't rightly say I've heard of Phoenix squadron, but if you tell me what planet you're from, I can help narrow it down.

We've got a lot of different origin worlds on this bucket.

Some from different versions of Earth and some not. Pretty sure you ain't Martian, by that question, or I'd recognize the call sign.

[kanyounot]

[ Kanan has, by this point, discovered speech-to-text and text-to-speech options on his device. Hooray. ]

I'm from a lot of places, but never heard of "Martian", or "Earth".

[donkeyballs]

Then you're one of the lucky outliers.

There's a few of you, but not as many as the Earthers. Think I can count 'em on one hand, especially after Kat disappeared.

[kanyounot]

You're saying that most people on this station claim to be from a planet called "Earth"?

Kind of an obvious name for a planet. Might as well call a planet "Rock ball".

2

[merging]

[Ezra isn't really sure what's going on. Right now, in general, ever. When he checked the holonet, there were suddenly a million messages and people talking about things he didn't know about and- Honestly, he thought he had mostly gotten used to the stuff around here. But whatever.

Trying to figure out what's happened to the station or to him, he heads to the observation deck. Even before he sees him, Ezra feels that same sort of shudder he felt back on Lothal years ago. When he does see him, though, his stomach is a swirl of emotions that all probably end in throwing up or something like that.

Okay. He knows people can be brought from all different times, but this is still....]

Kanan?

[He calls out hesitantly.]

[kanyounot]

[ Well, there's a familiar voice, at least. Kanan doesn't relax, per se, but there's certainly a kind of relief that washes through him when he hears his Padawan. ]

Ezra. Are you all right? Have you seen the others?

[ He's tried to reach out, sense them through the Force, but for some reason he can't. ]

[merging]

I'm- I'm fine.

[Ezra approaches the window, so that he can look out with Kanan. Or actually, to get a better look at him and convince himself this is real and not a vision or something.]

The others aren't here. This place, whatever it is, it's pretty far from our galaxy. Or maybe it's completely outside of it? But how are you? And uh, what do you remember before this? Sorry, that.. probably sounds weird, right?

[kanyounot]

It's not the weirdest thing I've heard so far today. And explains why I can't sense the others at all, I suppose.

[ He frowns slightly in thought, as if trying to recall a dream. ]

We'd escaped Atollon. We were going to split up - Hera on her way to some base on Yavin, and I was heading to Mandalore.

[merging]

Yeaaah, I'm from a little after that.

[To say the least. Which is what he'd rather do right now.]

And I've been here a few weeks or so? I think. It sorta seems like time passed here without me realizing it. Or something weird like that.

But before, there were three other Force users here. And there was someone else, uh, I didn't recognize his squadron, but he was with the Rebellion too. We were all from different times too.

[kanyounot]

Different times? Okay, that's definitely weird. Never heard of that before.

[ The Force can do a lot of things, but Kanan has never heard of time travel being real. Seeing the future? Sure, that's possible sometimes. But people from different points in time actually meeting, talking? Nada. ]

Whoever or whatever did this must be incredibly powerful.

[merging]

It's possible through the Force.

[The way he says it makes it clear it's not just one of those everything is possible through the Force things.]

But I don't think the person behind this used the Force to accomplish it. Other than that, I probably have about as much of a clue as you.

Still, you're the first person to be from a time before me which well- [Makes sense, he stops himself from saying.] Actually, there was Revan, but that's kinda different? Like that's way, way, wayyy back.

004

[spd_green]

[ The quake hits Bridge hard too. He crashes into a wall and then slides down onto his butt, wincing with each hit. Once everything's settled down, he gets onto his knees, wincing and rubbing his lower back.

He stops though to raise a hand. Like a kid in school when the teacher's asked a question. ]

Oh, uh, the whole station shook. That's what.

[ No sarcasm here, he's answering your question, sir. ]

[kanyounot]

[ Yeah, that's super helpful. Meanwhile, Kanan is trying to find something to grab onto to pull himself up. Hello, blind guy? Any assistance? ]

Thanks for the rundown, I got that much. I was asking if we got hit by something, or what.

[spd_green]

[ Deciding that he's okay and capable of helping others, Bridge springs to his feet to do just that. He takes the other man's hand and helps pull him up. ]

I figure if we hit something -- and I don't know for certain, maybe this is just me, but if I were in charge of things -- If we hit something there'd be a lot more in the way of sirens and clanging and Emergency, Emergency and red lights and things.

[kanyounot]

[ Kanan frowns, but nods in acknowledgment of the assistance. ]

Thanks. I mean, if this were any other place, I would assume you're correct about that, but this station doesn't seem to be fully functional in the first place. There aren't even any maintenance droids that I've come across.

[spd_green]

Maintenance droids? [ Anything mechanical automatically gets his interest. More so than the spacequake that just happened. ]

We don't have those where I'm from. And Newtech City is pretty into new tech. Maybe we're not supposed to have maintenance droids. Manual labor builds character.

[kanyounot]

There are things droids can do better than any organic person.

[ Kanan shrugs. ]

And space station operations are usually automated - something is very wrong here.

[spd_green]

Oh, absolutely. [ That's the last thing Bridge is going to argue about. ]

Sophie, she's an android from home, or Earth, or Newtech City. D Squad. She's the best. Maybe not the best enough for A Squad, or even B Squad, but she'll get there.

[ He cocks his head to the side, suddenly latching onto the man's second statement. ]

You're from the future, aren't you?

[onlydoubts]

[ Kanan isn't alone at the observation deck, Bodhi is standing a few feet away from the solitary figure. He doesn't give him a second look, until the other man speaks and then he notices the mask covering his eyes.

it's not like Kanan can see the look of confusion that passes over his own face when he asks - ]

What do you mean by that?

[ though it's not like he's wrong about that, or anything. ]

[kanyounot]

[ Kanan turns his head in the direction of the stranger's voice - more to show the man that he's listening than anything else. ]

I don't feel any of the things that I should be feeling. I can't sense the people I should sense. It's wrong. Hard to explain.

[onlydoubts]

[ it's also hard to understand, and Bodhi wants to question it further. instead, he goes for he simpler of remarks, among that statement. ]

Who are you trying to sense?

[ he doesn't know everyone on the station, and some have left already, but. ]

[kanyounot]

My crew. Phoenix Squadron.

[ He doesn't expect this stranger to know who or what Phoenix Squadron is, he just needs to say it aloud. ]

Even when we're apart, I can always find them. Except here.

[onlydoubts]

[ it takes a second, but - he does recall the name. unfortunately, the news isn't really great. ]

Phoenix Squadron? You wouldn't happen to know an Ezra Bridger, would you? He was here. I met him - before he disappeared, a few months ago.

[kanyounot]

Ezra was here?

[ That - that secures Kanan's interest fully. He raises his eyebrows. ]

So people are here and then disappear?