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If they're anything like droids, I'd have a hard time thinking them capable of telepathy.

[She doesn't think R2 or 3PO would be capable of anything like the time she's heard Luke's voice in her head back home. Here, if they had a crystal, maybe something could work, but with no droids, there's no way of knowing.]

It sounds like you have some experience with them, though.

[Judging by that wistfulness.]

[Who knows, they have thoughts of their own. Who knows, R2-D2's sass might even be translated if the crystals are kind enough.

And any way, Allura's lions are MUCH more capable of telepathy.]

I do; my father built five of them. They're meant to preserve peace in our universe. Some might view them as mere weapons, but they have minds and hearts of their own.

[She knew that the lions here weren't QUITE like the ones back home, but was still enough to cause a slight twinge of regret at having to resort to destroying them.]

[The crystals can't handle R2's sass, let's be real here.]

I can't say I've heard of anything similar, here or at home, but functional droids and large machinery are something we have an abundance of. Can I ask what your lions are like?

[Beyond, you know, being robots. She's curious.]

I think... it might be easier to show than to tell.

[And more impressive. Leia's mind will be filled with an image of five MASSIVE lions in five different colors, towering and proud, bright yellow eyes somehow looking alive. Different emotions swirl around them all. Open, trusting, enthusiastic Blue; strong, steady, caring Yellow; clever, curious, daring Green; brash, fierce, protective Red; and then majestic, powerful Black. Lions with bonds to their pilots, their Paladins. Lions with mind and souls, unimaginable powers just waiting to be unlocked.

Impressive on their own, but when they form Voltron? It truly is incomparable.]

[Leia watches the images Allura sends with interest. They look more like something of her galaxy than anything here, but even then, they were distinctly different from anything she'd ever seen back home. Droids often could be mistaken for something alive, they had their own personalities, but even those feel different from the images Allura sent.]

Impressive. I've never seen anything like these before.

[There's definitely a note of calm pride that comes through the link now.]

Thank you. My father worked hard to create them.

How do they work?

[Because sure, she'd seen images, and Allura said they were used for defense, but Leia has Many Questions here.]

To put it simply, they choose and form bonds with paladins- pilots, if you will- in order to guide them and to unlock their powers. I think the closest equivalent here would be riding these... horses; the lion can move on its own accord, but with a paladin its full potential is unlocked. And when those paladins have a strong enough bond between each other, they're also able to combine their lions to form Voltron.

Incredible. Even more so that as machinery, they're able to form bonds. Not that the droids where I'm from can't, but the bonds they form aren't like this, and they're still largely machine.

Honestly, I'd be more surprised if there were more machines out there with their level of sapience. There's a reason I was so surprised to find the ones in the desert.

They weren't able to come with you here, were they?

Unfortunately no. It would have been hard to find a place to put them here anyway, especially since the Castle of Lions didn't come with my arrival. Ah well, at least the paladins were able to procure a very nice house before I arrived.

You were able to find people you know here?

[There's a bit of relief behind Leia's words, because she can imagine how it feels to be dropped here with no one you know, and it's not a feeling she wants to ever have. She knows there are plenty of people here where that's the case, and that she's one of the most fortunate ones to have so many people from her galaxy that she gets along decently with here, so she can't help but feel for those without people here for them.]

But, I can understand that feeling. No ships from my galaxy made their way here, despite so many of us being here in Verens.

I was; apparently all five of my paladins had been brought here before me, as well as one of our Galra allies.

I suppose living beings are easier to bring over than non-sapient machines and vehicles.

[Not to mention it'd defeat the purpose of being brought here to help this planet if you automatically gave them a way to escape.]

[Look if it brought the Falcon, the hyperdrive probably wouldn't even work anyway.

But of what Allura said, one word in particular there catches Leia's attention. Galra. She'd heard that before, from someone else here.]

Is one of your paladins named Hunk, by any chance?

Oh! Yes he is, have you met then?

Yes, I've spoken with him before. We discussed space travel.

[and other things. But it was nice to meet someone else who had experience with it and wasn't from her galaxy.]

[More of that pride comes through the link, some mix between a commandeer to her soldiers and a big sister to her younger sibling.]

He's quite smart, isn't he? He's the paladin of the Yellow Lion. You wouldn't happen to know Keith, Pidge, Lance, or Shiro as well, would you?

[That first mix of pride, that's something Leia's felt before, she knows it well. And the both of them together give Leia an idea just how close Allura must be to her paladins.]

I've met someone by the name of Shiro, and another who mentioned someone named Pidge, but regrettably I didn't get his name.

[Maybe another mental picture will help.]

Shiro is paired with the Black Lion, and the leader of the paladins. Pidge is bonded to the Green Lion. Do either of the other two look familiar?

[It does help. Because while Keith didn't give his name, his first broadcast was image, so she knows what he looks like.]

Shiro, and the man in red are the two I've spoken with, aside from Hunk.

That's Keith; as you can see he's the Red Paladin.

[Because THIS version of Voltron is rebellious in having the paladin's armor match the lion they pilot 100%.]

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Keith, then.

[she'll remember it, in case she runs into him again at some point.]

The both of them also asked about ships and space flight. It's not common to find people here from other universes where spacetravel is capable of sending someone further than their planet's moon.

Let alone farther than their own solar system, for that matter. Apparently before the Blue Lion brought the Paladins to my castle, humans in my world had only started visiting one of their more distant dwarf planet's moons in person.

[And Leia gets a sketchier version of this model of Earth's solar system. More planets or dwarf planets may or may not have been added to this diagram, but the important part is the distance between Earth and Pluto, which stand out a little more in the image.]

[It's one of the more remarkable distances for someone not from her galaxy, but to Leia's eye, it's still short. She knows that at some point, space travel had to be that undeveloped back home, but it's been hundreds of thousands of years, and it's hard to imagine anything from before space travel was as widespread as it is now.]

It still seems lonely to me. There's a lot of the galaxy they haven't seen, I'm sure.

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