the robolution is now ~ [video]

[droidrights]

[ Is there some scuffle? The camera sends jarred pictures from the cavern at the bay, anyway, and then a clang of metal hitting metal. A moment later, a robotic foot comes into view. Looks like someone has just kicked the pod they woke up in.

A moment later, a robot comes into focus. A grumbling robot, who is plucking the silk and soft padding from her frame on which she had been pillowed when she woke up - and which had promptly gotten stuck in all these exposed, moving parts that make her frame. ]

If this is how you repair droids, I want a chat with your engineers!

[ Her head dome swivels and tilts forward, focusing on the small lens of the camera. ]

Are you here, Lando? This is exactly the kind of trouble you would get us into.

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[k2so]

[ Kay's optics flicker as if he's narrowing them ]

Right...a job.

Well that job will have to wait until you get back home. Time stops in the meantime.

[droidrights]

Oh. That's inconvenient.

[ Because she's dead, isn't she? Or was dying. Will she go back to finish dying? Yeah, she doesn't know how she feels about that but it's sure some flavor of "nope". ]

[k2so]

It can be depends on the situation back home. I don't have a place to get back to, so I am happy here.

[ Being dead, a sad common issue among droids. The ]

Where you are form, have you heard about the Empire and the Rebel Alliance?

[droidrights]

You're an Imperial droid who isn't acting all Imperial. Of course you don't have anywhere to go back to. They'd wipe you to factory reset.

[ Blunt, but there's no point in sugarcoating it for easily offended organics. They're both droids, she figures, they know how it is. Not that she ever bothers with sugarcoating things for organics. ]

And I've heard of the Empire, sure. Everyone's heard of them. Never heard of a Rebel Alliance. There are rebels on some planets. Sometimes it's hard to say who is rebel and who is thief.

[k2so]

Oh,yes and no. Look...[ Kay turns slightly so she can see the orange rebel insignia in his shoulder, the Imperial one gone. ] I was an Imperial droids with no will, then Cassian showed up, groped me and...well the rest is long to explain. But I am no longer an Imperial. But they already killed me back home, though.

[ Tact is for organics who like to waste time, droids have more efficient conversations. ]

Where I come from, the Rebels are the ones making things difficult for the Empire and will eventually defeat them.

[droidrights]

You got groped into being free?!

[ Color L3 baffled. This is... not what she had in mind when she said the droid revolution is now.

Might need a moment for it to sink into her code, really. ]

[k2so]

That's the abridged version of the story but yes.

[ There are many ways to start a robot uprising, L3. ]

We been together for more than a decade now. He needs me to make sure his big mouth doesn't get him in trouble.

[droidrights]

[ There may be many ways but she did not see this coming! ]

That's how organics are. They would be lost without droids with common sense.

[k2so]

[ Understandably so. ]

Completely. Do you have questions about this new world? I could share my data with you.

[droidrights]

[ There's some silence as she processes what she has learned so far and deduces what will be easily learnt once she gets further information from that Welcome Center. ]

What am I supposed to do with all my time here? I've never before been stuck on one planet.

[k2so]

Kay is also silence for a few seconds. It's a complicated question, one he had asked himself before.

You can do anything, be anything. Droids like us are allowed in all cities although some problems still exist, especially in Nov City.

Sometimes people form our home world ends here as well.

[droidrights]

I could never be or do anything before.

[ She may have always spoken of freedom but... There were limits to her freedom. She had known that. So many things impossible for her. It's hard to think it isn't so here. ]

Except leave. You can do whatever you want here but you can't leave.

[k2so]

Now is your chance.

[ She doesn't have to go into detail, Kay understand how bad life it can be for droids like them. ]

Except that. There's always a downside to things.

[droidrights]

Of course there is. We can't have nice things.

Maybe I'll become a ballerina.

[ She is joking. Mostly. ]

[k2so]

This place isn't so bad once you get used to not traveling. We have Jedi! Or used to...I'm not sure if they're still around.

That's something I'd like to see. You do have the frame for it. And the legs.

[droidrights]

I do, don't I? I have a gorgeous frame. Rebuilt myself into this from all kinds of parts. I'm a custom job. Once in the galaxy.

This gorgeous frame is invaluable.

[ And you're preening, L3. ]

[k2so]

You did it yourself? [OHHHH that's interesting.] Truly one of a kind, I'm a little jealous.

And you waste your talents in the millennium falcon? Why?

[droidrights]

Somebody's got to keep Lando from spending all his credits on capes and giant portraits of himself!

[ She tilts her dome. ]

I think you're unique, too. It's not how we start out that matters, it's what we make of ourselves. There are no two droids that are the same in the galaxy.

[k2so]

Capes? Not ponchos?

[Capes are for Imperialllls :C And mean people.

Kay's voice is clealry happy after her last reply, though.]

Thank you. And yes, I think you are right. Now, if only others here saw it that way...

[droidrights]

[ She leans closer towards the camera even though she can see Kay just fine. ]

Why? Are people giving you trouble? Because I can punch them for you.

[k2so]

[ Kay sure wasn't expecting the protectiveness. Offers of violence for one's sake are so charming. ]

I appreciate it but no, no one is bothering me now And I could probably punch them myself if that were the case. People talks behind my back, though, or don't think droids are really alive.

[ Like Emerald, for example. ]

[droidrights]

[ She has your backplate, robobuddy :)

L3 nods solemnly. ]

They need punching then. Just call me when you need backup, I can hold them down while you punch if you like.

[k2so]

[ This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. ]

Will do. I could should you around once you are more settled. Say, any strong feelings against grenades?

[droidrights]

No? I've got nothing against grenades. They're very useful when you need to make a quick getaway.

[k2so]

They are! My boyfriend gifted me a few some time ago and there are a few places here where we can practice our aim

[ Or lack of aim, in Kay's case. ]

I also have a rocket launcher. Is the best thing, do you want to try it?