h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

well i need to train you three,
and it would be best to go somewhere.... less habited..
so we go to endor

/\/ Ewoks? Not a familiar race, oh well, course laid in /\/

hopefully we wont meet any....

/\/ Too bad, I'm all up for meeting new races. Why? /\/

i find them unsettling

but it will give us a good place to train not too many things to accedently dissect during lightsaber practice

\/\ Understood, I'll follow you, over /\/

*sits fingering the data-cube throughout this exchange*

*suddenly he stands and throws the cube with all his anger in the wall, it smashes*

/\/ You should have kept it /\/

.....

*goes over to the broken pieces and starts stamping on them, his shoes get cut to ribbons and his feet get scratched but he barely notices*

do you feel better now?

Yes

*slumps to the floor*

Now I belong to nobody

/\/ As I said, you should have kept it, for legal reasons /\/

i know and he knows...
and the blooded fragments over there know....

I would never keep it, now that it's gone nobody can ever have possession of it, or me again.

*his feet are oozing blood steadily from a number of small cuts*

/\/ But if someone were to, erm, obtain a copy of it before it were destroyed then they could legally claim you, as you have no proof otherwise /\/

lest i shot them....

come here youngling and let me tend your.... cuts

/\/ ahem, and I thought that you said that Jedi were supposed to be law-abiding? /\/

shot not killed.... just shot

*walks numbly over to Anthea*

I know it wasn't the most logical thing to do...but...I...

*silent tears start running down his face*

/\/ Just for the record, I made a copy of it before you obtained it, I apologise for the deception but I though it best to have an easy out should the situation turn nasty /\/