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[benames]

Who: Cisco Ramon
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: the marsiva
When: current

[ today you can see cisco ramon putting tons of cheddar gel between two wheat solids, pressing them all together into a sandwich before heating them up on the highest setting available. it's not really grilled cheese but it's as close as it comes.

he's already eating out of a plate of frozen banana cubes ]

ok so eating all of this alone while everyone else is partying is absolutely my senior prom all over again just in space-setting.

[ oh to be a nerd, even in space. ]

so - what do we call ourselves? the fleeters? this is just for future knowledge, I am not in any way implying that title is.

[ the space microwave beeps ]

are they going to serve frozen tequila cubes in that party? because if so then a) awesome and b) I think those should definitely be provided to those of us who are stuck here on board of the SS No-Date.

Just saying.

Comments

[video]

[pompous_today]

Well, I should probably start with the fact that I am not even from Earth to begin with. By my time, Earth was used up and left behind centuries ago. Thus far, the only sentient creatures we know of are humans, though.

[video]

[benames]

dude, seriously? no one was able to save an ape or - a cow? in the name of science?

[ a sigh ]

ok that really sucks. I might need some vodka to be able to handle that. so - what's the new home planet? is there a home planet?

[video]

[pompous_today]

Oh, we have animals, as well- they were brought from Earth when humanity went to colonize elsewhere. No intelligent aliens, however.

[Simon smiled a little.]

Sorry for the shock. The seat of our government rests on the planet Sihnon, but humans have spread to many planets and moons since Sihnon and its sister planet Londinium were colonized.

[video]

[benames]

It's ok. In a way I knew this was coming, global warming and all.

[ sighing ]

...were we able to save most of the humans? do I want to know the answer or?

[video]

[pompous_today]

That is what eventually did it, yes- and overpopulation. Too many people, not enough resources to go around.

From what I understand, yes. Of course, it may well have been impossible to have EVERYONE evacuate, but history tells us most humans were perfectly willing to leave before it became truly uninhabitable.

[video]

[benames]

man. I'm going to miss earth. as cool as space travel may be. how's the new planets working out for all of us?

[ do they still have burgers, that's super important ]

[video]

[pompous_today]

Fairly well now, though when I was younger there was a civil war. The central planets- that is, the ones closest to our seat of government- are bastions of culture and learning. There are also planets that have little more than farms and ranches, and everything in between. A process called terraforming allows them to be habitable.

[video]

[benames]

are you from - the central ones or the farmlands? farmplanets? is that what they're called?

[video]

[pompous_today]

I grew up on a more affluent planet called Osiris, but once I'd graduated from med school, I decided to travel. Visit some of the border planets and bring my services to people who didn't have regular doctor access.

[video]

[benames]

Like third-world planets? or - third-planets-planets? is there even a name for those in your time?

[ he'll have to start writing all of this stuff down ]

[video]

[pompous_today]

We didn't really have a term for them... well, sometimes "backwater", but that seems unkind. But yes- newly-settled planets tended to be strictly ranches and saloons. Not much in the way of hospitals or clinics.