#caw2020

Smoke Squad:

It's an open secret that Smokies have holodrama nights. They all know the plotlines are stupid and ridiculous and tangled, but they are a fun distraction and they help everyone relax. They never really discuss it outside of their ship, because it is a Special Them Thing, but Dogma, Shrapnel, and later Tup get essentially inducted and Max gives them the high-speed rundown on where the drama is currently at so they're caught up enough. If you miss Holo Night for whatever reason, you will be excitedly caught up on what happened the next day by whichever vod catches you first.

Individually, they all have different hobbies. The most notable ones are ARC trooper Qet, who cooks and starts learning to draw and gets quite good at it, and Sie, who learns tailoring and embroidery and is very excited in his way when Ilar, Qet's son, shows interest, and he teaches the little Twi'lek a lot. He's very proud of Ilar's tailoring skills, and helps him embroider his first big project (a lightweight jacket for his mother).

Panther Squad:

Most of Panther Squad have interesting hobbies. Bard, as his name suggests, writes music and poetry and practices with his bes'bev, and collects tea. Careen claims that curating caf varieties counts as a hobby, while his best friend, Xhona, says it's simply the physical manifestation of his caffeine addiction, but she'll still bring him new ones if she finds them. Recoil wrestles with anyone willing including Allesh the giant gal-panther, and when he isn't, he actually really enjoys reading plays and trying out the parts in his room (if he wasn't a soldier, he'd be an actor). Nuhur likes to paint, usually with acrylics or tempera, but sometimes watercolour. No one is quite sure what Blink does for a while when he disappears, until someone (who shouldn't have been there either) finds him lying in a ceiling vent with a datapad and disecting the phonetic structure of Gree: he does online university courses on linguistics and xenoanthropology. He finds it difficult to study in his room. Jaig keeps to himself for a while, and it's Fives who finally finds out that he likes to tinker with things. He got good with figuring out where things go with the Force, and he did build his own lightsaber and a number of different types of non-lethal explosives (specifically miniature smoke bombs which could be used for a quick getaway).

Pel'verd Company:

Cody would insist that Feedback's favourite hobby is annoying him. (It isn't, that's just because Cody is his older brother and he can.) Actually, it's writing. Pulse, Rahn, and Blackout have a habit of getting into mischief, which most people wouldn't expect from Blackout until they remember he is both a tactician and Pulse's best friend. Pyr's is biochemistry, especially trying to figure out ways of making things more efficient or effective, and keeping track of his brother to make sure Ink doesn't do anything stupid (he's a bit harsh, but Ink did also forget to eat for four days once so...). Kohs likes cooking when he can. Ink does... Whatever his current hyperfixation is. Dawnwatch likes nature documentaries, and Milo will watch them with him when he gets the chance. Totem practices swordwork, often with Feedback, Tak, or Rahn. He finds the repetition soothing. Morpheus is... Well, it seems to be people watching, which is fair, but even Dawnwatch, who becomes closest to him, doesn't quite know.

Wolfpack boys:

Fett Club time! All of them get together for The Gathering once a year, wherein several hundred Fetts descend on a farm in New Zealand for a week. You only miss it for damn good reason (e.g. filming for a movie or you have a court date), so all the cousins see each other at least once a year. The ones on islands tend to visit each other more often because they can. Not all of them still have the Fett surname, obviously, but they're all family and love each other. All of them speak both Mando'a and Te Reo Maōri as well as English, and several speak others as well, whatever their country's official languages are.

Smoke Squad:

Fett Club is the only verse in which not all of them are brothers. Qet is the son of old family friends and grew up on the farm next door (as much as you can qualify farms that way) from Dogma and Shrapnel's family's farm. Levi is the oldest of the rest of the Smokies, of which Peak & Punk and Max & Trig are sets of twins. He, Shrari, and Qet all went to the same Maōri heritage school in New Zealand (she isn't full Kiwi and is half Persian but her parents didn't what her to feel like she had to choose a 'side' to her heritage), where the three of them became close friends. Shrari and Qet are childhood friends to lovers years later, it's really sweet.

When they grow up, Peak joins Doctors Without Borders, though I'm not sure what the rest do.

Panther Squad:

This lot are somewhat scattered across the Pacific Islands. Blink was meant to be the youngest of four, but his mother had three miscarriages before him and was told it was too dangerous for her to try being pregnant again. After their parents die in a car crash, Blink's parents take in his cousins, Recoil, Jaig, and Nuhur (who is still a baby) and raise them as Blink's younger siblings. Careen is their cousin, and grows up with his siblings in the house next door (his parent and Blink's parent are twins and wanted to stay close as adults). The two families have basically an open door policy, so you never quite know which kids you'll be coming home to. Bard grows up on a neighbouring island. He is one of sextuplets, and his mother is never doing that again. It's fun having five siblings all the same age as you, and there are a LOT of inside jokes. Fives grows up with 9 siblings in Coruscant City, but hangs out with this lot at family gatherings, and Blink moves to Coruscant City after university along with Cain and Xhona and several of their friends. When they grow up, Blink becomes an anthropologist and sociolinguist, Recoil is an actor, Nuhur is a GP, Fives is SWAT, Careen does some kind of stunt work, and Jaig does Tech and IT repair.

Pel'verd Company:

Almost the entirety of Pel'verd is made up of two families on Wahlis and Futuna (Totem is a cousin on nearby Tuvalu). In one, Kohs is the eldest, with triplets Feedback & Pyr & Ink. The other is Morpheus, Dawnwatch, Rahn, Pulse & Blackout, and Milo. This is another case of neighbouring siblings and their open door policy.

Feedback becomes a script/screenwriter who works with the acting Fetts fairly often. Pyr is, appropriately, an on-set medic who tends to work the same jobs. Ink also does something in this industry, I'm not sure what yet. The rest haven't told me what they do.

Wolfpack boys:

Smoke Squad:

It's a rough and rocky start. He still reads Jedi, reads danger, in Kashk, in the saber at her side. It will take time, and practice, before he is finally comfortable being alone in a room with her. After Krell he won't risk that. He knows what Jedi are capable of when they don't think anyone's observing. She seems to understand this. She will give him however much space he needs.

Shrapnel doesn't trust her immediately either, after what his general ordered, but he trusts the vode around her. Levi especially, he's solid and reliable. A good captain, and a good brother. His unshakable trust in Kashk helps ease Dogma's concerns, but it is going to take a while. When he sees her save a set of clones not from her own unit, whom he isn't really sure she knows aside from their names, that is the moment he really starts to realise that he can relax properly. When he sees her sitting with the paranoid Mandalorian and sees that he is asleep beside her, Dogma begins to understand. Kashk, the other jetiise, they aren't like Krell, who attacked them, or Skywalker, who left them. She deserves every ounce of the unswerving loyalty she gets, and she gives that loyalty to the clones in turn. Slowly, he starts to trust her too.

Pel'verd Company:

Feedback isn't sure how to handle having a Co-Commander at first. He was expecting the usual arrangement: Jedi general, himself, the rest of the chain of command, the lot of them answering to the marshal Commander and the marshal Commander answering to the senior general.

Instead he gets a quiet, young knight his equivalent age who looks like he's just barely got the braid out of his mouse-brown hair, black tattoos and horns much more intimidating than the man himself, who seems very uncomfortable being called "Commander Duro," but winces when the men mistakenly call him "general" instead. Feedback, unsure how to handle having an equal footing with a Jedi, decides to get used to working with him by sparring, both of them using wooden swords that clack against each other in rhythm, learning each other. It's during one of these sparring sessions that Feedback asks if he should use his co's first name, since Duro seems more comfortable using 'Feedback' than Commander, but the man visibly grimaces at the idea. "No thank you. I hate my given name, but... Duro is all right, I suppose. My friends call me Mouse, but I don't think that's a very good name for someone who is meant to lead people into battle."

"You don't like your name?" Feedback asks, and Duro shakes his head.

"It doesn't feel like it's mine, like it suits. No one ever thinks it fits me when they hear it. If I had one that did, I'd ask you to use it, but Duro is the best option for now."

Feedback considers this information, though he says no more on the matter, but he confers with his brothers after Duro has left. He tells them that the Commander doesn't have a name, or at least, doesn't have a name that he likes or feels is his own. Clones gift each other names, sometimes deliberately, other times on accident, as often as they choose their own names, but this is a clone name gifted to a Jedi. It must be done well. Feedback sits with the officers that night in the mess hall, himself, his captain, his lieutenant, and his sergeant. It is the lieutenant, Totem, who finally comes up with the winning one, and after some discussion of meaning and practice, they agree. It is entirely up to the jetii if he wants to keep it, but they can offer, and he will know they want him to be comfortable and that they care even if he doesn't want to use the name.

Feedback presents it to him, the officers standing by to show their support.

"You said you didn't like your name," he tells Duro, "so we worked together and came up with a clone one, in case you might like to try something new. It's all right if you don't, names are very personal, of course, and it's your decision."

"You... Got me a name?" Duro asks it like he isn't sure if hope is the right response, or if he should be concerned that his officers are doing this, or if he should be embarrassed to be party to something as intrinsically theirs as a name-gifting. But they nod, some stoically, some enthusiastically. "What is it?"

"Tak."

"The sound made when two wooden swords meet," Totem says quietly.

"The sound of quiet intention, of power and control and ingrained knowledge, that belies danger wrapped in the comfortable and familiar until it is needed." Feedback's every word is earnest and sincere. "A sound that suits you."

"Tak," Duro repeats, as if he's tasting it, rolling it around in his mind. "Tak Duro," and then, remembering he has a full title now, "Commander Tak Duro. " He smiles, slow at first, but broadening to a grin which is too wide to be sheepish. "I have a name," and the wonder of it was achingly familiar to all of them, the sound of a shiny finding his way. Feedback grins, and the others do too, and he holds out an arm to the Jedi.

"Nice to meet you, Commander Tak."

"And you, Commander Feedback." He's still smiling as he says it. It is the start of more than a name. It is the start of a brotherhood, when Tak becomes vod and friend, as well as Commander.

It's my AU and I can save whoever I want

Smoke Squad:

This lot cut and run to the outer rim after their jetii finds out about the chips and is ready to leave, and they aren't about to let her go off on her own, that's their person. Also Levi would feel very irresponsible as a Captain if he let the Commander go off on her own, and they weren't about to be assigned to someone new, either. They take to attacking slaver compounds and freeing the slaves, which is how they run into a much larger crew of deserters and slaver-hunters and join up. They pick up a couple more members along the way: Dogma and Shrapnel (their transport to Kamino was attacked by separatists and they were in a cell together for 6 weeks), and Tup (picked up from Mandalore with a few others after a frantic call from Rex). After 66, they keep at it, also hitting Imperial targets, but they start to focus closer to home when kids start to happen. After Qetryscelyon and Shrari get together and adopt children, the group starts to change their MO, with some of the crew going with some of the larger lot instead of the whole Squad going together. That way there's always someone home with the kids.

Panther Squad:

Panther is made up of a ragtag group of rescues and deserters

A former commando (dead, according to his file) who ran assassination missions before this crew came together (Blink)

A heavy gunner who was sent back to Kamino for punching a General who didn't care about casualty count and escaped the transport (Recoil)

An ARC trooper from an aberration batch of 6 who they pulled from a reconditioning transport along with his brothers (Bard)

A pilot who crashed and was presumed dead, nursed back to health by his now-best friend, an anti-establishment slicer (Careen)

An ARC trooper who lost everything and who was given the chance to leave with his Captain's goodwill and comm number (Fives)

An ordinance specialist who was found to be Force-sensitive, trained in secret by his Padawan Commander, and left when it got too dangerous (Jaig)

A medic who, by design or mistake, was sent out far too early (~15) and was going to be reconditioned for refusing to shoot (Nuhur)

They join the same crew Smoke Squad does (the small Twi'lek they grow attached to, Cain, has a brother there). Blink has a son with his close friend as the surrogate, who is a couple of years younger than Cain's children. Several years down the line, Bard meets Sarya, his future wife, and they have three children.

Pel'verd Company:

The day of 66, the two Force-sensitives attached to this crew, Jedi Commander Tak and Sergeant Kohs, sense that something is going to happen and they have to get out now. Dechipped in secret thanks to a tip-off from an escaped medic, they have two hours to get everything loaded into ships. Feedback manages to get Boil down to the hangar, and uses an emergency code to get Cody down as well. He snags his brother and they take off before Cody can react. They've been in hyperspace less than a minute when the order is given, and Cody realises this wasn't an abduction, this was the narrowest of escapes.

They wind up on a deserted moon on the edge of outer rim space. Tak had been having nightmares for weeks, so they had an evac plan, but it takes a whole week for them to settle, and they maintain radio silence for two solid weeks before reaching out to trusted sources. They establish a settlement, and Feedback's partner, Qadla, uses her status as a trader to disguise her movements and bring them supplies. Cody, Totem, and Boil establish a quiet farm a little way off from the main settlement, both to help provide food and to have a little privacy and space. They love their vode, but they're very quiet people who need to not be super involved. Cody finds he rather likes animals, and Totem starts a fruit orchard. Boil is the most outgoing of them, and is usually the one who makes deliveries to the main settlement. They don't completely isolate and they do visit but they all appreciate having their own space.

Tak finds Morpheus on a trip off-world and brings back this scared and lonely clone whom Qadla immediately welcomes into the fold. A few years after they settle there, Qadla and Feedback get married, and have two kids whom everyone adores, including the trio of hermits. Ink also finds a partner in a notorious galactic troublemaker, which surprises absolutely no one.

Wolfpack boys:

Smoke Squad:

Facial hair: Shrapnel

Tattoos: Shrapnel (black, facial, traditional)

Alternative colours: Punk (variable hair), Shrapnel (Golden hair section, golden eyes)

Scars: Punk (various)

Panther Squad:

Facial hair: Nuhur

Tattoos: Bard (blue, facial, traditional geometric), Careen (black, facial, traditional), Jaig (brown, facial, meant to look like natural cat-like patterning), Recoil (black, arm, half-sleeve of traditional pattern), Nuhur (black, shoulder and lower neck, curling traditional pattern using negative space)

Scars: Blink (cheek, fight with guard), Recoil (broken nose, sparring), Jaig (cut across nose, training accident)

Alternative colours: all have a section of blue for Clan reasons

Pel'verd Company:

Facial hair: Blackout, Feedback, Ink, Pulse

Tattoos: Blackout (face and shoulders, shadow-like patterns), Feedback (black, arm, silhouette of crossed dc-15 rifle and lightsaber), Ink (black, facial, lines like brush strokes), Morpheus (purple, limbs, back, shoulders in tiger-like pattern), Rahn (black, facial, traditional)

Alternative colours: Dawnwatch (blond), Kohs (chestnut hair, darker skin with vitiligo), Milo (purple section on top)

Scars: Ink (various)

Wolfpack boys:

Facial hair: Orbit, Parsec

Tattoos: Plasma (orange, facial, like lines of fire), Eclipse (black, facial, stylised hawkhead silhouette around each eye, like a domino mask)

Alternative colours: Eclipse (right dark eye, left almost white, silver section in hair)

Smoke Squad:

Sie: demimale, though he doesn't really talk about it. Gender is just kinda "wobbly hand gesture elaborate shrug" for him. He's never really 'come out' because there was no name or pronoun change, and the squad have a kind of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ attitude to gender anyway.

Panther Squad:

Nuhur: non-binary, prefers they/them but doesn't mind he/him or being included in a group referred to as men/boys/brothers. They figured themself out fairly early on, so they were already using neutral pronouns by the time they left Kamino early. They're the only one with facial hair, but also they grow their hair out long enough to braid and put up.

Jaig: genderflux, mainly he/him but occasionally uses they/them pronouns, also doesn't mind the 'men/boys/brothers' thing. Jaig just periodically corrects people when they get it wrong, and that's how they know what pronouns to use for that day. He also has fairly long hair, although this was originally to help disguise a clone on the run. It's about shoulder length, and he only ties it back for sparring.

Pel'verd Company:

Rahn: an intersex trans woman who experiences almost no physical dysphoria. She always uses she/her, but she's more comfortable being referred to as 'vod' or brother than as 'sister,' because that feels like it's setting her apart from her brothers. She has breast development, so she gets a custom chestplate because binding in an athletic environment is dangerous (especially because you don't know how long you're going to be on the battlefield and more than eight hours at a time is not good for you). She also has much less of a voice drop, and laughs her ass off every time her squadmates' voices crack in the barracks.

Kohs: "Gender is a loose construction, but he/him pronouns work." Demiguy, very much flexible, doesn't really feel overly attached to gender. He's more like "none gender with left dude," to be honest.

Will there be more in the future? Quite possibly, who knows yet? They have to make themselves known to me if there are, but I look forward to meeting them.

Smoke Squad:

Romantic - Shrari/Qetryscelyon: These two... Talk about slow burn. They're both demi, which is partly why, but everyone sees them orbiting each other except them. He's the only one who calls her Shrari consistently, even Levi doesn't do that and they're best friends. Shrari will willingly be 'small' around Qet (granted, even in her relatively small human form she's still 5'11"), and despite the fact that he doesn't really need to be, he can almost always be found in her vicinity when he isn't cooking or doing something with his younger brothers. When they finally do get together it's still very slow and careful, but they've been together for a year and know for certain they want to adopt by the time they find Ilar, so the relationship is much more stable by that point. When they pick up this little golden two year old orphaned Twi'lek, Qetryscelyon immediately takes to him, and Ilar makes a quick habit of doing grabby hands at him to get picked up. Ilar picks up Mando'a remarkably quickly and starts using it alongside Ryl. The first time he properly calls Qet 'Buir' after learning the word, Qet has to hold it together because if he's not careful he's gonna burst into tears right there in front of the kid.

Later he does cry on his wife, and she holds him and tells him she always knew he'd be an amazing father.

Platonic - Levi & Shrari: Levi and Shrari are best friends. His name means 'loyal one,' and damn is he. When they find out about the chips (due to a a rather scary incident involving Punk on the operating table) and she finds out about their potential, she's furious and decides to take anything she left at the temple and leave. She was going to give her crew the opportunity to be reassigned, but before she could Levi just folded his arms and went "you didn't think you were leaving without us, did you Kashk?" Levi had no plans to let his best friend go off on her own, with no life experience and no protection. Never mind that she's 6'8" and a (former) Jedi, she's their Kashk, and they're family, and you don't split that kind of thing up.

Levi & Qet: These two grew up together. They're not batchers, but they're close, to the point that Qet was there when Levi figured out he was Force Sensitive and watched him spend the next week freaking out and getting hit in the head no fewer than three times during training because he was distracted (he helped Levi as best he could, of course, but there's only so much you can do for a bit when they're having to reshape their personal identity). Qetryscelyon also helped Levi figure out a name, and Levi was there when Qet got his name (Victorious Guardian, or Victor when shortened) from a group of refugees he protected. They're very proud of each other, although Levi almost went on it of his mind waiting for Qet to realise he was in love with Kashk.

Dogma & Shrapnel: These two are a fun pair because they bonded over the fact that they were imprisoned for six weeks together. Like that is literally how they know each other. Despite this, they trust each other, and it is Shrapnel's trust of Shrari that convinces Dogma that go with Smoke Squad. Shrapnel's boundless energy is often exhausting, it is also what kept Dogma from completely despairing. Shrapnel is also the first one to provide Dogma with a good deal of tactile affection which took some getting used to. Though they have the option to have separate rooms when they join the Smokies, they elect to stay together. They stay close, and Dogma is very excited to introduce Shrapnel to Tup when they eventually pick him up as well.

The Twins: Max (Maximum) and Trig (Trigger) became very close very quickly. They, along with Punk who is a disaster on his own but not a menace without help, are notorious pranksters and Finders of Trouble. They're not allowed to room together for fear of scheming. Despite being called the Twins Maximum is slightly older, and looks after Trig.

Punk & Peak: This one. Oh boy. Punk is a walking disaster. He sticks his head in anything he thinks might dye his hair. At best, it works with no adverse effects (or for does nothing at all). At worst, he's lying on Peak's medical table, and it's a very messy time. Peak rails against him for his lack of common sense (or ANY sense) and his absolute reckless nature, and Punk calls Peak fun-less and Grumpy. However, Peak gets Punk any cool (safe) hair dye and really good conditioner to maintain the color, and Punk brings Peak anything he thinks could be useful for either Peak's science experiments or low medical supplies. They snipe at each other a lot, but they do love each other.

Levi & Sie: These two bond over being both Force-sensitive and occasionally non-verbal, and it's a relief for both of them to know someone else goes through the same shit. Sie is the sniper, quiet, observant, and sometimes that peace is something Levi sorely needs.

Panther Squad:

Romantic - Bard/Sarya: he falls in love with her because she shows him exactly how dangerous she is with a knife. Also she has an amazing sense of humour and she's beautiful, but the moment he realises that he is completely and totally screwed is when she steals his knife, and just turns her hand into a blur with the blade before putting it into the table between his fingers and going to get another drink. She finds him wonderfully clever and talented and funny and charming, as well as handsome. They are a very sweet and loving duo, and their kids are incredibly talented.

Platonic - Recoil & Nuhur: It's a giant fighty-small soft sibling duo. Recoil is the one Nuhur gets to wrangle anyone avoiding medical (though that's less of a problem for them because their siblings know they're a sweetheart). Recoil gives them so many hugs.

Bard & Fives: two ARC troopers. Both have ridiculous senses of humour. One can use the Force, the other is a musician. They worry people. They're good friends, but they worry people.

Careen & Xhona: Best friends for years, she pulled him out of his flaming ship and nursed him back to health, teaching him about slicing and technology while doing so. He is really happy that she finds Cain and is happy with them.

Careen & Jaig: they're very dorky. Careen is actually one of the people who teaches Jaig to have a sense of humour. However, due to the fact that Jaig is around a few other influences, the sense of humour that he develops is very dry, so his and Careen's relationship involves incredible sarcasm and absolute Roastage.

Fives & Jaig (ru'dinad): they are an interesting duo because their development of their Force abilities was very different. Jaig knew he was different from a very young age and got training from a padawan in secret before going off on his own. In comparison Fives found out shortly before he left the army and had virtually no training. Being able to get training from a brother gave Fives more confidence and the pair of them train together as much as they do do with the former Jedi.

Pel'verd Company:

Romantic - Feedback/Qadla: disaster bisexual meets distinguished bisexual is basically they're relationship. She is a very confident badass who knows what she wants, he is very flustered, they're adorable. Their kids are much loved by the whole crew.

Ink/Dolus: Dolus' type is "adhd queer disaster badass" and that's Ink in a nutshell. Dolus is one of those thorns in the side of Several People, he's known as a galactic pain in the ass, and then Ink joins him in becoming a galactic pain in the ass, and they are obnoxious troublemakers together. Feedback is grateful for this because it pisses off the empire while keeping Ink from being a bad influence on his kids.

Platonic - Feedback & Tak: these two are the best of friends, and Feedback is actually one of the people who who gives Tak his name. The two of them are virtually inseparable. They practice swordwork together, and confide in each other about their concerns about the war and their company and each other and their personal lives. They're very sweet and there are hugs.

Feedback & Cody: Batchers that fight together stay together, even if that involves Actual Abduction (he had to get Cody away from 66, okay? He didn't have a choice). Cody makes sure that Feedback actually does the things he's supposed to do like paperwork and eating. Feedback make sure Cody does the things he's supposed to do like sleeping and not being touch starved as fuck. Feedback also happens to be BCC 2225. He is Cody's direct younger brother and will not let him forget it and is obnoxious. However, his company answers directly to Cody rather than Obi-Wan, and he (and Tak) will always double check with Cody whether that is actually what he wants them to do. He is incredibly loyal to Cody, but he's also a younger brother.

Pulse & Blackout & Rahn: the resident troublemakers of cat company. These three terrorize the entirety of the 212 battalion. there have been multiple incidents involving popcorn and no one is quite sure how they got a hold of it because they have, all three of them, been banned from acquiring popcorn and yet they still seem to manage to do so. They also form a musical group in which Pulse will rap, Blackout will beatbox, and Rahn will sing the hook.

Wolfpack boys:

Platonic - Dynamics within the 4: the four of them seem to work somehow. by all accounts they probably shouldn't. The two of them they are batchmates make sense but the baby and the fighty asshole should not. However, they they do anyway, which is probably for the best. Plasma keeps them in check and managers to tame most of Eclipse's more impulsive decisions. Parsec mentors Orbit the shiny, and they protect each other in a way that inspires even the veterans.

Wolffe & Orbit: listen, this is just. Snarky protective older brother and pure youngest brother, okay? Wolffe gave Orbit his name, so he feels protective of him, and Orbit is special and important for that reason, and Orbit really looks up to and admires Wolffe as a brother and a Commander.

Plasma & Parsec: these two are Batchers, and both of them got their names from someone else's offhand comment, which they adore. They kept each other company when things went wrong. They were reassigned to the Wolfpack after the Malevolence disaster, and they stuck very close in the wake of it. The strength they drew from each other kept them from being anxious about the reassignment. Plasma is the officer and Parsec is the specialist, and they drive each other nuts sometimes because you shouldn't know that, why do you know that?