“ there is poetry in brutal efficiency. ”
“Sounds like someone’s been talking to Ordo,” Etain says as she looks down at the blackmarket mods scattered across the tool bench. She picks up a piece, examines it, and shows it to Kare for approval. “Though as someone who still has a Clone Wars Trandoshan LJ-50 in storage on Nar Shaddaa, maybe it would be too hypocritical of me to argue the point.”
Not that Kare likely has ever seen one of the massive Trandoshan concussion rifles, or has much idea of how it must have looked for a Jedi to carry one back then. To say nothing of the modified Cip-Quad Mereel had bought her after, its already considerable microrepulsor harness modified to suit her stature.
Still, back to the point at hand.
“There is still something to be said for finesse and caution though.” Reaching out, she takes Kare’s hand, rubbing the young pilot’s fingertips deliberately across the tiniest, most subtle of fissures. A hairline crack shot through the center of the module. “Ad’ika, where did your suppliers scrounge these up from again?”