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[The feed shows a man in his early thirties wearing a bright orange pilot suit, with some bruises in his forehead and cheekbones. Poe is not new to myriad sorts of alien creatures but beings living on a giant turtle and between reality planes is a whole new level of 'special'. That said, he had taken the news surprisingly well and now is giving the camera a smile.]

It's been a long time since I had vacations - over a decade, probably. Please, someone tell me this much cold is not the norm here. I'm having flashbacks of a mission I had in Hoth years ago and I actually would like to keep all my fingers intact.

I'm also looking for a friend, we seem to be losing each other a lot lately...It's an astromech droid, a white an orange BB unit. It's terribly cute and it knows it. If you happen to see it, I'd appreciate a call.

[The rest of the message is changed from video to text, and written specifically in Aurebesh.]

Hello. This is Poe Dameron, callsign: Black Leader.

I might as well find out if there’s someone else here from home. The Galaxy is not as much of a big place as it looks like.

If you can read this, please let me know.

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[To Poe droids are people too but it would be an understandable reaction.]

It's an useful skill to have and it saves you having to rely on protocol droids like Treepio. [Poe likes C3PO, but the gold droids can be a bit too much to handle on occasion.] How many languages do you know?

Yes, it's a spacecraft designed for combat and one of the fastest one out there. And you can do barrel rolls with them too.

Treepio?

[ She's curious. Never allow her to ask too many questions, or she finds more and more to ask. ]

I speak three, but write four. I'm hoping to learn the local language as well, while I'm here.

[ She chuckles. ]

I'll take your word for it. I hated flying.

He's a 3PO unit, an old friend and a protocol droid as I mentioned. He can be a bit dramatic at times but it's because he worries a lot about...well, everything.

[Treepio has also seen a lot of things, some good and some terrible, Poe can't blame him for worrying.]

Writing is always somewhat easier. I should learn that one one as well if I am going to stay here for long.

Ouch. [Poe gives her a (fake) hurt face, as if she just mentioned she murdered his puppy.] I couldn't live without it but It's not for everyone.

Can a droid worry about things? That seems an odd turn of phrase.

[ Of course, her world doesn't have things like protocol droids. So, she's speculating. ]

I would be willing to learn along with you and help you study, should you decide to learn.

[ She wants to get together a group of them to learn. Maybe even a "study group". ]

I only flew across the world, maybe flying in outer space is different?

[ She's amused. ]

Hah, yes they can. They can also get angry or show happiness, after all they have A.Is.

[Poe will tell her everything about them if she wants to know more.+

I'll definitely keep that in mind, thank you Brigid.

[Useful and fun, if she ever does it for real Poe will join in a heartbeat.]

The views are more spectacular.

My world doesn't have fully realized AIs like that. They're just beginning to realize them.

[ She likes hearing stories! ]

You're quite welcome.

[ she's going to put out the call soon. ]

Are they? We don't have public space travel where I'm from, either.

Give it some more time then. You don't have droids in this city either?

[Then she will be entertained for a while.]

Yes but I might be a biased party. I make a living out of flying around the Galaxy. Too bad then.

I haven't seen any droids, no.

[ GIVE HER ALL THE STORIES. ]

Isn't it odd flying around the stars like that? Or do you get used to all the dangers?

Oh. That means that BB-8 would stand out if it's here, I'll have to keep looking.

[A LOT OF THOSE ARE SILLY. I hope she's ready for the second hand embarrassment.]

From my experience, people is far more dangerous than the stars. I've learned to fly when I was six, it's up there where I feel more at home.

Yes, it most likely would. I take it he's your, what did you call them? Droid?

[ SHE DOES NOT CARE. ]

So young? Is that typical?

Droids, yes, more exaclty an astromech. Those are droids used to help us not to crash when piloting certain shuttles.

[THEN SHE WILL LAUGH.]

Not really, not. Both of my parents were part of the military back in the day, my mother was a fantastic pilot, and I guess it just seemed right for me to follow their steps.

That would be nice, to not crash.

[ She likes laughing! ]

Oh, your Mom was military? So was my Da.

It certainly a plus. And much easier to do when you don't have a dozen of TIE fighters on your tails

[That was fun (no, it wasn't).]

My mom was a pilot, my dad was in the infantry. Oh, yours too? Infantry too or...?

Da was infantry, eventual military police.

[ She's proud of her father. ]

He spent twenty years in before getting out and becoming a civilian policeman.

Not an easy job. Did he travel a lot?

[That's something Poe can understand very well.]

Not really? Maybe when I was younger. Mom and I stayed in Boston, then, when she died, he finished out his twenty years and came home to me.

[ she shrugs. She doesn't know a lot about her Da's service. He never wanted to talk about it. ]

Like my parents there. Until I was six I barely saw them but after that they retired.

[Poe's dad talked about all the great things his companions did. He rarely took credit for anything, even if he was the one in charge.]

My mother was always around. It was just Da that was military. Mom wanted to be a school teacher.

And what do you wanted to be? Maybe a writer? This is why you like to learn about languages?

No, absolutely not. I don't have the imagination for it.

[ She wrinkles her nose at him. ]

History professor, actually.

If it's of any consolation, I don't have the patient to sit down for a while and write, so that's probably worse.

Learning history is key so it's good to hear is still being taught out there. Where I come from learning what really happened can be tricky.

History is always written by the victors, so unless you can meet someone who was actually there, it's always a balancing act.

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