#galaxies plotting

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squinting suspiciously at my own story calendar & adding in off-screen events because there's no way plo koon is just going to go straight to the tanos', so i end up with:

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surprise yoda wandering the crèche at night because even grandfather likes to reassure himself. too bad he is going to run into the least-reassuring child ever.

ari: u ever have visions about being the only one left alive in the temple while there are bodies all around u? yoda: no? ari: u will. yoda: o.O ari: *BIIIIIIG stretch* *yawn* ari: thanks for the water & the book rec, i'm so sleepy again now. yoda: fall asleep on that cushion now, DARE TO, you would not! ari: (∪｡∪) honk-shuuuu~ yoda: *poke poke* explain yourself, u must.

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oh good now we're talking in water management metaphors.

yoda: like this faucet, you should be. let the force overrun you, you should not. ari: i'm gonna be a filter instead. catching HIDDEN things. before they can harm the water-holders. yoda: ... ari: you're the one who started this conversation.

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the problem with writing out of order while supremely adhd: i have the scene, i know i have to rewrite the scene because it's changed, but i DO HAVE a jocasta's office description AND ari gets academic testing, gets a question about droids, does a 'there's no word limit! muahahahaha', & all the way through to the aftermath of that essay being handed off to people who can actually grade it (not the senate district subadult schoolboard, that's for sure!), AND plo's return with ahsoka.

i just. don't know where they are. and keyword searching only helps so much. because i deliberately put in a giant, formerly-on-ossus wood table IN jocasta's office

— wait i FOUND it it's in one of the EARLIEST files, i can tell because the spellcheck is set to default us-american english.

where was it? in the quick refs file. because i started writing DIRECTLY into it, below an attempt at making a list of current force vergence planets.

this is why i need to continue putting bullet lists at the top of all of my docs, or actually use the little synopsis window scrivener gives me for each file.

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jocasta: yes it WOULD be nice to be able to loan the galactic museum tarre vizsla's lightsaber when he was such an influence on the formation of the army of light hologram of the darksaber: *rotates* ari: i don't think the current vizslas would agree to lend the darksaber to the exhibit jocasta: the WHAT. ari: ＼(º □ º l|l)/ I DIDN'T NAME IT THAT. THE BLADE IS BLACK. jocasta: the colour doesn't signify. ari: PLEASE DON'T EAT ME. sifo-dyas: jo you're doing the 'book dragon' face again ari: GO EAT THE GOVERNOR OF CONCORD DAWN. HE'S THE ONE WHO HAS IT. AND CALLS IT THAT. jocasta: ... jocasta: i'm going to include 'the legacy of the jedi lords on local governance' as a topic people may submit papers on for the conference accompanying the exhibition and list tarre vizsla SPECIFICALLY. jocasta: and we DO have tarre vizsla's schematics. we could make a copy. ari: cool. cool cool cool. madame nu is going to call out death watch in the middle of the galactic museum.

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picking up the mt juktas chasm, taking it with me, and putting it in the jedi temple sacred spire:

tho i'm going to have to make that one much deeper than the actual 12m of the juktas chasm because of the way scale works in the wars in our stars. *furious glare at timeline*

look. i can buy 10 000 years. but the 25 000 year thing comes from taking the comment about jedi knights protecting the republic for over 1000 generations as a solid number rather than the indefinite hyperbolic numeral it is. & if you're going to use it literally, the length of a jedi generation should be a decade, not 25 years.

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In my Galaxies story, compared to the average alien species out there, things humans have going for them:

They're rather small and yet completely self-contained, making transport easy.

They're fairly hardy and medical manipulation is pretty easy, though this is partially because a lot of research has been done on them.

They can stomach a wide variety of living (dead/cooked) carbon-based species, and some that aren't.

Their energy inputs are mostly water and oxygen and misc nutrients that aren't so hard to come by.

Can perceive many colors and have good visual accuracy, depth, and visual memory.

Fairly quick learners and good memories. Very curious.

Departments humans are lacking in:

They can only tolerate a very limited range of temperatures and environmental gases without external or internal modification.

Their hearing's not so good, and their smell is abysmal, so they can't perceive a lot of communication in intergalactic dialogues.

Very very social creatures, do not do well in isolation. Do limitedly well with only aliens and no other humans.

Apt to form cultures very quickly even if said culture is detrimental to some lifeforms, including other humans.

Capable of dying extremely rapidly, short lifespans in general, not very durable.

Reproduction is inconvenient and cannot reproduce asexually or remotely without assistance. Concept of gene pool can be problematic.