Ray's room

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From here...

The door opens to a room decorated in blue and brown and the occasional bit of silver. The carpet is dark blue, the bedspread a lighter one (it's a bed for two people, clearly); the desk is wooden and brown and stacked with papers. And there are the bookshelves- wire things, silver wire, stacked with reference volumes and the occasional novel and quite a few slim, very neat cases-

"DVDs," Ray says, nodding that way. "Digital video discs. We store our films on those for private playback. I've got a player around here somewhere..."

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"So that's what a Jedi is," Mary murmurs, head tilted almost all the way over.

"Clones? That's ... new."

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Ray nods. "Yeah, there's a whole movie later in the series just about the clones-"

I wish I'd known him.
He was the best star-pilot in the galaxy, and a cunning warrior. I understand you've become quite a good pilot yourself. And he was a good friend. Which reminds me...

And now Ray's grinning, a bug damn fool smile as Ben digs out a short handle- silvery- with a number of gadgets and sections attached to it.

I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damned-fool idealistic crusade like your father did.
What is it?
Your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not
as clumsy or as random as a blaster.

Luke pushes a button on the handle. A long beam of blue-white light shoots out about four feet and flickers there. The light plays across the ceiling.

An elegant weapon for a more civilized time. For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire...

Ray detaches a similar device from his belt and holds it up for Mary to see. It's not turned on at the moment.

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Blink.

Yeah. Blink again.

Headtilt.

"Does yours -- does it do that?"

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For answer- since the movie's still paused- Ray gets up and backs away a few steps, then flicks the switch on. Same noise, same flickering blade of light, but this one's cast with green where Luke's is blue.

"I made this one. Had to figure out how to work the power cells- that's almost impossible by standard Terran chemistry rules, but I got the hang of it- focus the light down, collimate all the lesser crystalline units, persuade the thing to terminate itself instead of assuming laser length, grow the main focusing crystal in solution... but yeah."

He's smiling like a small child with a big toy.

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As is she, looking absolutely delighted, rather like a librarian whose stories have just come to life before her very eyes.

Picture the Pagemaster, with double the excitement.

"That's amazing."