Maybe it was fate or maybe it was nothing more than plain old bad luck that Heidi and Shaw kept meeting on planets so frozen they could easily be preserved for another ten thousand millenia. If Shili had been dangerously beautiful, then Akuria II was just dangerously dangerous. There were no sleepy little taverns tucked away in the side of the mountain with a welcoming light and a fire to warm yourself by. No warm meal to take comfort in. Hopefully no spooky witches hiding in caves either. Shaw shivered a little at the memory. There was only snow. Snow and ice and the bitter cold.
Shaw looked over at Heidi, the two padawans standing atop the shuttle's boarding ramp. Hundreds of thousands of miles of frozen tundra stretched out before them. "Next time let's meet up on some tropical paradise world, huh?" Not that either of them had had any say in the decision to come to the outer rim world. They were just padawans. It was Knight Nalina that was giving the orders, and give orders she did. She was the no nonsense type. The run a tight ship type, irregardless of if you were actually on a ship or not. Shaw imagined she spent way more time in the training room hitting things with her lightsaber than she did in the library meditating.
"What are you two waiting for?" she called from the cargo hold. "Start unloading stuff!" By stuff she meant the crates and supply packs aboard the shuttle. There was no shortage of either. "We've got a blizzard to beat." Their objective on Akuria II, to put it simply? Deliver these supplies to the natives who lived in a village up in the mountains before a devastating and incoming blizzard hit. This world bordered Jedi influenced borders, and the Jedi were looking to do a good deed and get a foot in the door with the locals.
"Remind me again why we can't just fly the ship up there?" Shaw asked. He was sure he had already asked her that question, but he really wasn't sure he remembered the answer.
"Because there would be nowhere to land," Knight Nalina explained with an unmistakable sigh. "Don't you listen? Those mountains are treacherous. The village is built into the side of them. Nowhere to land. Even an experienced pilot like me wouldn't stand a chance."
Made sense. Shaw rolled up his sleeves—figuratively because it was too cold to literally roll them up—and got to work. @LilyNion
Shaw looked over at Heidi, the two padawans standing atop the shuttle's boarding ramp. Hundreds of thousands of miles of frozen tundra stretched out before them. "Next time let's meet up on some tropical paradise world, huh?" Not that either of them had had any say in the decision to come to the outer rim world. They were just padawans. It was Knight Nalina that was giving the orders, and give orders she did. She was the no nonsense type. The run a tight ship type, irregardless of if you were actually on a ship or not. Shaw imagined she spent way more time in the training room hitting things with her lightsaber than she did in the library meditating.
"What are you two waiting for?" she called from the cargo hold. "Start unloading stuff!" By stuff she meant the crates and supply packs aboard the shuttle. There was no shortage of either. "We've got a blizzard to beat." Their objective on Akuria II, to put it simply? Deliver these supplies to the natives who lived in a village up in the mountains before a devastating and incoming blizzard hit. This world bordered Jedi influenced borders, and the Jedi were looking to do a good deed and get a foot in the door with the locals.
"Remind me again why we can't just fly the ship up there?" Shaw asked. He was sure he had already asked her that question, but he really wasn't sure he remembered the answer.
"Because there would be nowhere to land," Knight Nalina explained with an unmistakable sigh. "Don't you listen? Those mountains are treacherous. The village is built into the side of them. Nowhere to land. Even an experienced pilot like me wouldn't stand a chance."
Made sense. Shaw rolled up his sleeves—figuratively because it was too cold to literally roll them up—and got to work. @LilyNion