we_re_doomed: (They're Madmen!)
C-3PO ([personal profile] we_re_doomed) wrote in [community profile] re_alignment2013-08-05 05:55 pm

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[Well, hello there. Look who decided to catch up on everything belatedly.]

Do pardon my interruption, but what's all this about the Badlands? I thought it was a place we were not suppose to enter...

[Hesitation of the droid sort. It sits there for a few seconds. A change in the angle of the feed means Threepio is busy thinking.

Aloud.
]

I can't believe it. How did I miss all of this???
notyourblueangel: (You're Annoying)

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[personal profile] notyourblueangel 2013-08-10 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
How exactly would you have gone about learning more of a situation in a dangerous area? Assuming you had to and couldn't just choose not to.

[Partly a bit annoyed at being questioned for going, but mostly he's honestly curious.]
notyourblueangel: (Glance over shoulder dark)

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[personal profile] notyourblueangel 2013-08-12 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Which is why the protocol droid wasn't invited.

We have asked, See-Threepio. Multiple times. All we've really been told is, "they're bad, stay away from them", but also "they are a constant threat and its monsters will try to take us over." Having failed in merely asking, I don't see what else we could have done but prepare as best we could and then go out to learn for ourselves as much as possible. The only other alternative is to sit here on our afts and wait for the unknown threat to come to us and then hope we can scramble together enough of the right kinds of defenses to defend ourselves . . . and noncombatants like you. We've been taken unawares before and attacked in force.

It wasn't pretty. We managed to overcome the threat that time, after considerable effort. Without preparation, we might not next time.