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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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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."

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"Interesting hierarchy," Vader commented. "Most beings in charge prefer to be Generals or Emperors."

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"Oh, there are a couple of Colonels and Generals," Schrodinger said. "But they only delude themselves by thinking that they are in charge. The Major has been the Major for so long that changing his name would just make things confusing."