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Who: Crew of the SS Windrose and visitors
Broadcast: Nope
Action: SS Windrose
When: March

[For the ship full of extremely kickass people. Go forth and mingle!]

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A kind of fish protein that's grown? It's pink!

So like... you don't have to kill anything to make it?

Well yeah. Ugh, why would a person eat a dead animal, that's so gross. Like, it's one thing if Officer Snuggles wants to eat rats, he's a fox, and that's what foxes are supposed to do. But... [UGH.]

I wish we had something like that back home. I mean, I guess there's tofu, but that ain't quite the same.

I don't know if I've ever had tofu. But it's got to be better than eating an animal! That's so gross.

I don't like it either but y'know, sometimes people ain't got many choices, you know? It ain't like when they kill animals for fur or for fun. I don't tolerate that none.

Well yeah, I guess if there wasn't anything else to eat, you gotta do what you gotta do. Surviving is number one.

Maybe I can give the vegetarian thing a try here though. With the bacon kelp and protein cubes and everything. Wasn't something I could do at home.

Totally. Well, unless you want to eat space rats, you're kind of default vegan right now I think. I doubt any of this came from anywhere but a vat.

Probably not. Ain't much natural about any of this at all.

I don't see what's so great about natural stuff anyway. Nature just wants to kill you and eat your corpse.

[All right, now she's gonna take offense to that. She pulls back and frowns, her voice getting louder as she talks.]

Nature ain't ever killed me. The swamps gave me a home and the birds gave me friends and the wind gave me music. People are the ones who killed me, who hunted me and called me a freak. Not nature.

Wow, that really sucks.

Some people just aren't kind, or generous, and they deserve to get their fucking heads beat in.

But I lived on a planet that was trying to kill us, so. [Shrug.]

[Appeased by Wrath’s sympathy, Misty relaxes again.]

How’s it tryin’ to kill you?

Atmosphere's poisonous now. It'll eat your skin off. And then you get dysthrophe and try to kill your friends.

Holy shit!

How'd it get like that?

The atmosphere started poisonous and the first settlers started the terraforming. But everything went wrong during the war.

[She frowns in confusion.] Terraforming? What's that?

That's when you take a planet that nothing can live on and alter the atmosphere and stuff so it'll be like Earth.

Wow! People can do that? No kiddin'!

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Yeah, it's like... really technical and lots of scientists have to work on it and there are huge machines involves and stuff.

Well go figure. Guess maybe one day we will live on Mars after all. Already found out aliens are real so... [She shrugs.]

Oh yeah, totally. There's a bunch of colonies in the Sol system before people ever moved out to further systems. Cause it takes way longer to travel and they had to invent... jump gates and stuff.

So did you originally come from Earth then? Or I mean, your people?

Oh yeah, I'm human and all. We're a colony world of Earth. Just really far away from it.