Fives groans, hanging upside-down from his bunk staring at Echo, who's thoroughly engrossed in what appears to be a holonovel.

"I'm so karking bored." Fives tosses a pillow at Echo's head, "How much farther is it to Xelipfon?"

Echo rolls his eyes before answering, "Two more days, just like it was when you asked 3 minutes ago."

"Arghhh but I'm bored!"

"You were literally begging for a day off less than four hours ago."

"Well, yeah, but that's before I knew I had one." Fives huffed, dramatically sliding down the top bunk and landing with a dense 'plop' onto Echo's.

"Break my bunk and I'll break you." Echo states, still not looking away from his holonovel.

"I'd like to see you try," Fives taunts.

"I wouldn't have to try." Echo mutters, swiping to the next page.

Fives looks scandalized, "Rude." He sighs dramatically once more before draping himself across Echo's lap directly in front of his holopad. "What are you reading, Ech'ika?"

"Nothing now, apparently." Echo shoves Fives into a slightly different position that allows him to see the holopad once again, "But I had been reading about natborn religions."

"Religion?" Fives tries out the word, "What's that?"

"Hmm it's complicated," Echo concludes, "But basically some natborns seem to need some usually invisible entity in which to place the blame for all of their wrong doings, or alternatively an entity that implies an existence after death."

"An existence after death?" Fives frowns, "But if you still exist how can you be dead?"

"Remember what the Alphas told them Prime had told them about the Manda?"

"Yeah," Fives snorts, "And the part where he said we didn't stand a chance of going there too."

"Well that's sort of Prime's religion, I think." Echo says, "There's also some religions that believe in reincarnation."

"Which is... what?"

"Basically where if you weren't good enough in your life you start over and have to do it again and again until you are."

"Oh, I didn't know natborns could get reconditioned too," Fives ponders.

"I don't think it's quite-"

"It must be exactly the same." Fives determines, "I wonder how they do it without Kaminoan tech though?"

"No, I think they get new bodies though. Reconditioning doesn't give you a new body."

"Ehhh it's still basically the same thing." Fives shrugs, "Why'd you start reading about it?"

"General Kenobi mentioned the religion of a group of natborns on the last campaign as the reason why they refused to bury their dead despite the sanitation concerns."

"Oh they wanted to cremate them?"

"No, they wanted to lie them out on towers in the sun so the birds can pick at them til only bones are left. And then they wanted to cremate them. And then spread the ashes in their fields as fertilizer."

Fives stares at him for a long moment, then nods. "I mean, I guess a body's more useful as food than rotting in the ground." then he reconsiders, "but if you're rotting in the ground then you're gonna end up food anyway, just by different critters. So I don't really see how it matters?"

Echo shrugs, then gestures to his datapad, "Me neither. Thus the holonovel."

"Lemme see that," Fives snatches the datapad from his hands, ignoring Echo's screech of protest.

"Give it back!"

"No, I'm reading." Fives refuses, "I thought you wanted me to read more."

"Read on your own holopad!"

"Nah, you've already got it pulled up. More convenient."

"For you, maybe!"

As it turns out, Fives is very capable of reading intently while in a headlock. Echo is dismayed, but also unwilling to tighten the headlock further, for fear of actually injuring his twin.

"You're so karking stubborn." Echo groans.

Fives ignores him, quickly scanning through the book, much to Echo's dismay. He pauses about a third of the way through the holobook and shifts his head to look at Echo, who has planted himself on top of his back so that he can read over his shoulder.

"So there's all these religions, right?"

Echo nods, unsure where Fives is going with this.

"Where did they come from?" Fives asks, "Like did people just... did they always believe these things? Just randomly know them upon being born? Is it a species thing?"

"No, religions may be more common within a particular species, but they're rarely limited to them." Echo answers, "For the most part, religions just kind of. Occur."

"Just occur?" Fives mutters, "Does everyone have a religion? Do we have a religion?"

"I mean we're probably supposed to have Prime's." Echo reflects, "Usually it's passed down from buir to ad, but we don't really have buire. Prime's the closest thing we've got. Or maybe the Jetii like Master Koon?"

"Eh I guess they're sort of buire? But not really." Fives frowns, "I can't believe they even took religion from us. It's literally just made up stories and words and we're not allowed to have it because Prime says so."

"I don't think Prime took it from us on purpose," Echo says slowly, "I don't think Prime has it anymore either. He did tell the Alphas not to look for him in the Ka'ra, because he won't be there."

"He said that?" Fives questioned, "How can you just lose a religion like that? That and the armor are the only things he had left of his buire. And he'd just give one up? For no reason?"

Fives scowls, "If I had a buir, I would keep everything I had from them."

"I mean sometimes new religions happen," Echo says, "They just spring up and people start following them. Usually it happens with new being groups."

Fives blinks, "We're a new being group." he says, "Could we have our own religion?"

"I mean in theory, yes, but usually-"

"Excellent. I'm building a religion," Fives determines, "We need something to pass to the tubies so they aren't left out from this whole religion thing too."

"It's not a thing you build di'kut, it's just a thing that happens."

"Well why would I wait for it to 'just happen' when I can make one myself." Fives points out, "Plus, it can't be that hard. You just need what? A deity, some holy stuff, a ritual or ceremony thing, and a bunch of beings to follow it. All of which we have."

"A Deity?"

"We can make one up. That's what all the rest of them did, right? That or just pick someone who died a long time ago." Fives grabs his datapad from on top the bed and pulse up the notes section. "Alright, we should probably start with a list of potential deities."

"Some religions don't have a deity at all though?"

"Eh, yeah, but I think it would be cooler to have a big universe dude to celebrate than it would be to not."

"Or dudette."

"Or dudette," Fives agrees, "Soooo what type of things makes a good deity? Like what should they be like?"

Echo squints, scrolling through a few pages of the holobook, "They could be benevolent, neutral, or malevolent. We should probably decide that first."

"Well we don't want them to karking kill us," Fives scoffs, "So malevolent's out. And the galaxy is too damn kriffed up for me to believe that any being controlling stuff is completely benevolent, so we kinda have to go with neutral."

"Fair enough," Echo agrees, "So do you want to go the route of a dead being from a long time ago or the route of a being who never had a physical form?"

"It'll be harder to find holy objects related to them if they were never a physical being that would need objects, soooo."

"Physical being, got it." Echo nods, "Plus if they actually existed we won't have to make as much up, so it'll be easier."

Echo briefly wonders how he let Fives talk him into this, but he supposes it doesn't much matter now. Sighing, he opens a new document, titles it "Vodeism", and starts scrawling down notes.

A/N: Played with this idea in the Oya server, now here's the first installment! Stay tuned to find out who our favorite twins determine should be a deity... And how quickly this new religion picks up amongst the vode.