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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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"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."

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Vader's voice was as amused as it ever was. "I know his type."

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"Do you really?" Schrodinger asked. "What is his type, then?"

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"One that has made himself virtually indispensible, am I correct? Keeper of just enough knowledge that he won't share?"

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Schrodinger laughed. "In a way... although if they believe he ever will share it, they are sorely mistakent. Their usefulness is running out. I don't know why the Major tolerates them to begin with."

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"It's useful to have beings who aren't...quite as indispensible," Vader said. "They make for object lessons."

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Schroginer grinned. "That makes sense," he said. "Would you like to meet them?"