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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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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'!

Edited 2016-04-26 15:52 (UTC)

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.

Earth's... still a thing though, right?

I guess? I assume so. We lost communications with the other systems... a long time ago. When the Crash happened. Terrorists took our communications array out. No one's come to check on us, but it's likely that they're still okay.

This is just so much to wrap my head around.

Then again, I guess my version of Earth is pretty damn weird compared to a lot of people's here.

I guess? They all sound weird to me because everyone from Earth seems to come from really long ago and I don't remember anything from history class. [Or even taking classes at all.]

Why do you think yours is weird?

'Cause I got magic and I know a lot of y'all don't.

Oh, magic.

That's so cool. Yeah, I don't think we have anything like that. I kind of wonder if mine is weirder cause we don't? Like there are people who can do special things from Vision's home and a lot of other ones...

Yeah but Vision's not magic. I'd be able to tell if he was. Same with Kitty. There's science and stuff with them.

Wow, you can tell? That's so cool!