House of Rain

14:35 : Start writing.

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15:20 : Spellcheck.
15:24 : Proofreading and flow-checking.
15:31 : Finished draft, for now.
15:34 : Named. Awaiting possible feedback from the general populace, and later reflection.

Recommended soundtrack choices:
Graeme Revell - Rain Forever
The The - Sweet Bird of Truth
Mussolini Headkick - War Drum
Stromkern - Melt
Front 242 - Gripped by Fear
Somatic Responses - Û
Vein Cage vs Mercy Cage - Defeat + [2k-2K]indaCage
The Merry Thoughts - House of Rain

A short time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

Here's yer power coupler, friend. You oughtta get those serviced more regularly if'n yer gonna be stayin' on Tatooine - the sand really wears away at 'em out here. Not like yer nice paved streets like on Dagobah or Coruscant, that's fer sure...

Yeah, that whole thing happened right here in Mos Eisley. Jus' over there at the Cantina - 'course, there's no-one but droids in that place these days. We still get historians comin' in every few cycles with some new gadget or other, tryin' to see if they can find the blaster marks on the wall, like there weren't half a dozen blaster fights in there in a good week. Some kinda bone o' contention with academics in the Republic, apparently.

Y'see, there's some that says that the famous General Hanslo came past here once, on the run from some kinda gangster who he owed money - called Jabber Duhut or somethin'. I know, a famous leader of the New Republic like that up to his gundarks in debt... pretty wild, huh? Anyways, they says he wuz over there in the Cantina and ran afoul of some Rodian bounty hunter called Greedo. Good name fer a bounty hunter, I says.

But there's some fightin' over what came next. Some says that Hanslo shot first, and some says that Greedo shot at him first, and Hanslo wuz only killin' him in self-defiance. Either way, there sure wuz a dead Rodian left in that booth. My great-great-however-many-greats grandpappy said he seen 'em. And he didn't like many people, so you know he ain't gonna bother takin' sides on this kinda thing. Lost his hand that day too, but that's another story.

The Imperials... well, of course they'd say that Hanslo shot first. He wuz what they called "rebel scum" in those days, and they needed to catch up with him and his friends real quick like, so puttin' out an all ports bulletin on a dangerous murderer woulda worked better'n sayin' "sorry everyone, we can't find no important rebel scum in these parts, can you give a helpin' hand?". Especially with my great-great-however-many-greats grandpappy, as he only had the one left.

The New Republicans these days... well, they done a bit of their own propaganda in their time. Got out some kinda carbonite mould which they said Hanslo wuz frozen in, figgered out where he woulda sat himself and did a buncha calculations what said that Greedo'd shot first. "Back, and to the right", they'd say. Repeatin' it kinda like a mantra or somethin'. Yeah, and they even deny that Hanslo wuz scruffy lookin'. Or that Leia Organa ever wore that gettup they got over'n the museum. Anyone who's seen any of those old holocasts'll tell you that he was wuz danged scruffy like a nerf-herder knee deep in pudu, even after they blew up them Death Stars. You might be able to buy a recordin' over at the souvenir store if yer lucky.

Anyhow. You remember what I said about them power couplers, y'hear? Treat 'em badly, and they'll go down faster'n a jawa in a brothel - and a jawa sure ain't got far to go. Take care, friend.

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This post inspired by ladyjestyr and thatcash over here, and of course by www.hanshootsfirst.org.

I'm having a creative day, or something.