Office hours [Tuesday, September 5, all day]

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Darth Vader was in his new, spotlessly clean and barren office.

He had a cup of coffee he couldn't drink and the list of students who would be in his class on Thursday.

He was in a mood.

Not that this was a dramatic shift from normal.

[OOC: Vader has an open door policy. He probably won't even toss you back through said open door...]

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"Ahhh, so it's just your office that's boring," Schrodinger said. "Or utilitarian or whatever you want to call it."

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"What would you suggest?" Vader asked dryly. "Plants? Tiny fuzzy animals?"

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Schrodinger shrugged. "The Major has replicas of tanks and battlefield dioramas and things like that. The Doc has a DNA model replica and a Rammenstein poster. Zorin has some weird ass pictures. Rip's got an original copy of some opera." He turned and tilted his head to the side. "What interests you, Lord Vader?"

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"Efficiency," Vader replied promptly. "Bringing order."

A very long pause.

"Music, on occasion."

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"Interesting," Schrodinger said. "What kind of music?"

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"Loud music," Vader said. "With drums."

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"Jan music," Schrodinger replied. "I would have expected something more... symphonic from a man who values order."

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"Too many moving parts in a symphony," Vader replied. "One sections starts sounding poorly and the entire rhythm is thrown off. I prefer duets."

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"A good conductor's job is to make sure that doesn't happen," Schrodinger pointed out. "But I there is a great deal of beauty to be found in a duet. The Major says that the duet makes things... more intense."

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"Explain," Vader commanded.

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"Which part?" Schrodinger asked. "About the intensity of a duet or what good conductor's job is?"

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Vader thought about it a moment. "The intensity of a duet."

Not that he'd had a lifetime of experience working in pairs or anything.

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Schrodinger nodded and, in a rare moment, stood at parade ground attention and rattled off his answer, obviously quoting someone. "Truely, there is nothing like a duet. A symphony is wonderful, a glorious moment of perfection when all the parts come together. But the intensity, the emotion of the two artists playing off each other is, perhaps, the epitome of the symphony. A truely great symphony should diminish until it is but two. And then diminish even further until is but one."

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"Much like the Jedi," Vader muttered. "The Sith have had it right all along."

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"The who and the who?" Schrodinger asked.

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"Jedi," Vader said, lifting one hand, "and Sith." He lifted the other hand. "Two sides of a credit crip for millennia. The Jedi were weak." He cleched that hand into a fist. "Now they are gone. Only the Sith survive."

There was a note of satisfaction in his voice.

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"Sucks to be them," Schrodinger said. "Shouldn't have been so weak. How'd it happen? Political disfavor? Internal strife?" His eyes shown a little. "War, maybe?"

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"Me."

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"...Iiiiinteresting," Schrodinger said. "How many Jedi did you happen to, then?"

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Thousands of faces flashed through Vader's mind.

"A fair few," he said dryly. "When I began, there were 15,000 Jedi. Now...there is me."

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"You must tell me the story sometime," Schrodinger said. "For you must be quite the amazing warrior." He smiled and added, almost as an afterthough. "Lord Vader."

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"I've made an impression," Vader replied.

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"Yes," Schrodinger said. "I think you have. I think they'll be very interested in you."

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"This Captain of yours, you mean?"

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"Him," Schrodinger said. "The Doc. And, above all, the Major."