[Ben wouldn’t admit it out loud but he was secretly glad that the other man had been so willing to accept him into his circle of friends. Of course, that just seemed the kind of person Poe was naturally. The man radiated a friendly sort of charisma that people just seemed to react positively to the man no matter where he went.
A guilty, not very Jedi, part of Ben envied him that ability. But then, he'd never been a particularly good Jedi as his travesty of a time at Luke Skywalker's academy had proven. He had plenty of potential his uncle had repeated more times than he cared to remember but it was finding a way of harnessing that potential towards the Light that he'd always struggled with. Ben had never been good at suppressing his emotions and even from a young age, he'd sensed his parents' passing sense of wariness and uncertainty every time little Ben Solo had thrown a tantrum. It hadn't been until he was old enough to learn the tale of Anakin Skywalker and what he became that those uncertainties made more sense.
But the problem was, if people around you held their breath waiting to see if you would fail then really in the end, it just became a self-fulfilling prophesy. That was why he'd finally fled Skywalker's Academy and why he'd dropped off the radar for years before one of Leia's agents managed to stumble upon her wayward son embroiled in a bloody dispute with the Kanjiklub.
Being dragged back to his mother by his proverbial ear hadn't exactly left Ben in the most receptive of moves but Leia had managed to browbeat him into agreeing to at least give the Resistance a fair try. Ben didn't have his mother's idealism but even he could see that the First Order was bad news. There were apparently enough his mother's rebellious tendencies in the man that he'd stuck around thus far but he always seemed to be keeping a weather eye on the horizon in search of something better coming along.]
Yeah, sure, I'll check it out. [Ben accepted the datapad with a smile and started to read over the diagnostic read outs from Black One. Some of Ben's earliest—and happiest—memories were of hanging around with his Uncle Chewie helping him work on the Millennium Falcon. He’d teethed quite literally on hydrospanners much to Leia’s exasperated dismay and Han’s quiet amusement. Bots, machines, they all just made sense to him and despite the fact that he hadn’t been with the Resistance for too long, he’d already found a place for himself with the repair crews. Ben would have preferred being allowed to fly but his mother wasn’t completely convinced he wasn’t a flight risk still so that had been firmly shelved.]
They recently upgraded your engines with those parts we got in from the New Republic, right? The parts between the T-70 and T-85 are pretty compatible but if the chipset for the T-85s require more power. It could be drawing too much power from your system and it’s not able to keep up with the draw which would make things run sluggish and seem a little glitchy.
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Date: 2018-01-15 04:04 am (UTC)A guilty, not very Jedi, part of Ben envied him that ability. But then, he'd never been a particularly good Jedi as his travesty of a time at Luke Skywalker's academy had proven. He had plenty of potential his uncle had repeated more times than he cared to remember but it was finding a way of harnessing that potential towards the Light that he'd always struggled with. Ben had never been good at suppressing his emotions and even from a young age, he'd sensed his parents' passing sense of wariness and uncertainty every time little Ben Solo had thrown a tantrum. It hadn't been until he was old enough to learn the tale of Anakin Skywalker and what he became that those uncertainties made more sense.
But the problem was, if people around you held their breath waiting to see if you would fail then really in the end, it just became a self-fulfilling prophesy. That was why he'd finally fled Skywalker's Academy and why he'd dropped off the radar for years before one of Leia's agents managed to stumble upon her wayward son embroiled in a bloody dispute with the Kanjiklub.
Being dragged back to his mother by his proverbial ear hadn't exactly left Ben in the most receptive of moves but Leia had managed to browbeat him into agreeing to at least give the Resistance a fair try. Ben didn't have his mother's idealism but even he could see that the First Order was bad news. There were apparently enough his mother's rebellious tendencies in the man that he'd stuck around thus far but he always seemed to be keeping a weather eye on the horizon in search of something better coming along.]
Yeah, sure, I'll check it out. [Ben accepted the datapad with a smile and started to read over the diagnostic read outs from Black One. Some of Ben's earliest—and happiest—memories were of hanging around with his Uncle Chewie helping him work on the Millennium Falcon. He’d teethed quite literally on hydrospanners much to Leia’s exasperated dismay and Han’s quiet amusement. Bots, machines, they all just made sense to him and despite the fact that he hadn’t been with the Resistance for too long, he’d already found a place for himself with the repair crews. Ben would have preferred being allowed to fly but his mother wasn’t completely convinced he wasn’t a flight risk still so that had been firmly shelved.]
They recently upgraded your engines with those parts we got in from the New Republic, right? The parts between the T-70 and T-85 are pretty compatible but if the chipset for the T-85s require more power. It could be drawing too much power from your system and it’s not able to keep up with the draw which would make things run sluggish and seem a little glitchy.