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Private Dust and Wind

Elom was a cold, desert world, found in the remote regions of Wild Space, in an independent sector between Mandalorian and Sith territories.

It was also a major interest to the Hydian-Wyl Mining Company, which effectively ruled this area of space without much in the way of opposition. The proud yet pragmatic ruling council of the Elomin people had cut deals with the mining company, whose efforts largely oppress the subterranean eponymous species, and all in exchange for some trade. Politics as usual, and nothing Anet came to this world for.

No, she made a deal of her own with the company. Somewhere, out here among these worlds, was the potential to find lost relics and knowledge of the old Sith Empire. Things may have been hidden for thousands upon thousands of years, since the earliest days of the Republic.

She was at the world's only spaceport. A facility located on land, sold and chartered by Hydian-Wyl, just outside the indigenous surface dwellers' capital. It was about what one would expect from a backwater port. Most of the facilities were dedicated to processing and shipping, with worker housing after that, and then a few amenities. You had your cantina, your general store, your vehicle and droid shops, and some other local markets.

The scholar wandered the stalls, in the mood to benefit from what little agriculture made its way into the spaceport, as she gathered fixings for lunch. Around her shoulder was a strap that held a heavy bag aloft, with visible surveying equipment sticking out. As she inspected some native fruit, a Devaronian youth sprinted past and swiped a piece of equipment from her bag. He turned a corner just as quickly as it all happened.

Anet, frustrated, shouted for him to wait and tried to hurry after. Difficult considering the remaining equipment that weighed heavily.

"Wait, stop! I need that!"

Colette Colette
 
Anet Raine Anet Raine

This place reminded her of home, except the day was as frigid as the night. The singular spaceport was like home. The interstellar remoteness made it almost eerily similar, although the presence of the galactic credit undid most of it in the end.

Colette wasn't one to miss home but she supposed nobody was really immune to the effects reminiscing had on the mind. Wanting to draw connections, see the unseen through cross-referenced experiences, it was all pretty human for the lack of a better word. She saw the people hustle and bustle through life in this place just like they did anywhere else.

The hollering merchants.

The tired workers.

The lowly thieves.

It would seem the children weren't safe from a life of crime even in this place. Colette sucked in a slow breath and gently exhaled it in disappointment, arms crossed to conceal the slight wave of her hand as she watched a child dart away with a prize that it had tried claim off of someone else.

The maneuver was subtle, a gentle imposition upon the very earth that sought to stabilize the kid for their next leap in their sprint. To the perceptive it would look like the kid missed a small hole in the ground, to everyone else it would seem like the kid simply tripped over and fell.

The tool, unfamiliar as it was to Colette slid across the ground and the Jedi knelt down to pick it up.

"Don't do that." She whispered to the kid and shook her head. "You're lucky it was me and not someone else."

The kid stared at her in horror for a moment before they scrambled back on their feet and high-tailed it out of there without a trace. She doubted they'd learned anything from this, but at least the kid wasn't put in harm's way. Nothing worse than a scraped knee at least.

"I believe this was yours." Colette said and held out the whatever-it-was tool to its rightful owner.
 
Anet was already out of breath by the time Colette Colette had intervened. The kid had already bailed from the scene, and understandably so.

She approached the stranger and accepted the returned item.

"It is, thanks."


When the half-pantoran looked at it, she realized the delicate instrument had been damaged in its fall.

"Chaos!" She exclaimed. "This is useless... do you know how hard it is to requisition sonic mapping equipment?

"Sorry... It's been like this all week. If it isn't one thing, then... well. Anyway,"
she stuffed the item into her bag and extended a hand in greeting.

"Are you an everyday hero, or did you want a reward?"
Her tone was skeptical.
 
Anet Raine Anet Raine

Colette recoiled, even if just a little, at the sudden outburst of CHAOS before her lips cracked into a grin that quickly faded. Her head shook, she had absolutely no idea how hard it was to requisition a map tool thing and she moreover had no clue what that particular combination of words even meant.

"No reward necessary, no." She smiled and let the pale blue lady pocket the broken wand-thing in peace. "Besides, it was just a little kid. Pretty sure being dumb, acting on stupid impulses is just… Part of being a kid."

The impulses might have been especially stupid in this case, but even so there was no real foul other than some apparently-not-too-easily-acquired piece of hardware. As far as Colette was concerned, that was a perfectly fine trade of value. One important lesson, for one sonic wand mapper or whatever.

"What was that thing anyway?" Colette asked, her curiosity piqued. "The scanner spanner… Thing."
 
"Then you are an everyday hero," she teased half-seriously.

Anet noted the woman's concern for the thief, particularly towards his youthful innocence as it were. It was a protective attitude she hadn't expected this far out, especially since Anet knew this one wasn't a local or Hydian-Wyl employee. A spacer, perhaps? She wondered.

"What was that thing anyway?" Colette asked, her curiosity piqued. "The scanner spanner… Thing."

She smirked. "It's a sonic emitter... or was, anyway."

Anet tucked a loose strand of white hair behind her ear and continued.

"It sends energy - in the form of soundwaves - into the ground. Another device 'listens' for the echoes, and that data gets recorded by a small computer as visual information. Lets one see underground, as it were.

"And if you have a geological understanding of the area, you can find peculiarities. Things that don't belong but might not otherwise be noticed."


The scholar tilted her head as if inspecting the woman like one of her artifacts.

"I haven't seen you around here. I'd suspect 'spacer' but you're too polite." She stated matter-of-factly.
 
Anet Raine Anet Raine

Right, a sonic emitter. The woman tucked her hair behind her ear and Colette felt the rest of the speech go in one ear and out the other. Technical jargon always made her gloss over, but even so there were other reasons to be distracted. Colette tucked loose strands of her own admittedly short hair behind her ear.

"Yeah, thanks." Colette chuckled and smiled at the stranger. She gave her a slight bow. "I'm Colette. Jedi Knight."

"Nice to meet you."
 
Jedi?

This would be the first time since she was a little girl, at least to her awareness.

"So not an everyday hero then... just a Jedi Knight," she half-teased. "Surprised to see someone like you out this far."

The half-pantoran had a wariness to her now. "Fleeing the war, or is there something here that draws your interest?"

Anet had never run into any Jedi or authorities of any kind while excavating her ruins, but if the Order was aware of the cache - if Collete here was sent to find it - then that spelled trouble for the archaeologist and her many years of work.

She maintained a friendly smile, all the while the Force swirled anxiously around the untrained acolyte, like one creature wary of another.

"Anet." Her name given without flair or explanation.

Colette Colette
 

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