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[resnipstance]

Who: Ahsoka + You
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: Not really (though if you want to find her, she'll be in her room on the Starstruck)
When: idk today

Hey! Soooooo since we're all stuck here, and going outside on this planet kinda sucks bigtime right now, I've been making it a project of mine to try and learn as much as I can about the different cultures of the other worlds people here are from! Particularly Earth, because there's so many of you! Someone told me the collective noun is "Earthlings"? Anyway.

I've been trawling through the media library, but to be honest, I'm not very good at sitting and reading for long periods of time. So I figured, why not just ask you guys instead?

Tell me one (or more!) thing about your home world that you think is culturally significant. It can be traditional, religious, social, or pop culture is fair game too! After all, it's no fun when people are making pop culture references that fly over my head.

The only rule is that you can't say the same thing as someone else. You ready? Go!

Comments

[resnipstance]

... To be fair, the whole planet is mostly desert.

[experiencepoints]

I guess that makes sense, but... Well, I guess anything's possible.

[resnipstance]

The universe is pretty big, yeah.

And just when you think you know everything about it-- poof! It proves you wrong.

[experiencepoints]

I am definitely not arrogant enough to believe I know everything, but it still seems like it enjoys proving what little I do know wrong.

[resnipstance]

I'll say. If the universe has a sense of humour, it's definitely a sadistic one.

[experiencepoints]

Pretty sure where we are proves that.

[resnipstance]

Yeah, but is that really the universe, or is that the Atroma?

[experiencepoints]

I meant more specifically this planet. Inhabited, but ridiculously poisonous.

The Atroma are just idiots.

[resnipstance]

... Oh. Yeah.

Sometimes that can happen. I've heard about it before, but... it's never good. It'll take them centuries to make this place habitable again.

[experiencepoints]

You'd think relocation would be possible, with the technology around here.

[resnipstance]

It's not so easy to move an entire planet. First of all, where do you put them? We don't even know if there are any habitable planets nearby, let alone if they're willing to take them. Refugees aren't popular no matter what era you live in.

[experiencepoints]

Well, we know we're at least only a couple weeks out from the Starlight. And if the pattern holds true, a couple weeks out from our next destination, too. It's definitely not feasible all at once, but...

[resnipstance]

Yes, but you're assuming that these people have access to the same level of technology that the Atroma do. And also that travel between planets is only taking us a few weeks.

[Ahsoka doesn't believe that it is.]

[experiencepoints]

If they have ports for spaceships, they must have spaceships, too.

... Why would it be taking more than a few weeks?

[resnipstance]

Arslae didn't have one. And this moon only has the one.

But more importantly-- we're not travelling in hyperspace. At least, not that I can see. Do you know how far away most planets typically are from each other, when you're not travelling at hyperspace speeds? Months, at best. Years, sometimes.

[experiencepoints]

My world didn't have space travel. You're going to have to explain hyperspace.

1/2

[resnipstance]

Oh-- right. [She has the decency to look a little sheepish.] Sorry.

this is a shitty explanation and i'm sorry

[resnipstance]

Okay. So-- how long does it take your eyes to spot a light of a campfire on a dark night? Pretty much instantaneously, right? That's what we call "the speed of light." It's generally considered to be the benchmark for the "fastest" speed that stuff can travel at. I mean-- there's a bunch of stuff that can travel faster, but then you start getting into wonky messed up time shenanigans, and it's generally pretty difficult anyway. For the purposes of this explanation, let's just say it can't typically be done.

Except, without faster-than-light-speed travel, far-reaching space-travel is impossible. You remember my example with the campfire a moment ago? Well, the light you see from the stars in the sky is also travelling at light speed. And you know what? At a minimum, most of them are going to be a couple of light years away at best. More likely, a good lot of them are going to be hundreds, if not thousands of light years away.

That's where hyperspace comes in. Hyperspace is a pocket dimension that runs parallel to ours, where the laws of physics don't work in the same way. Using hyperspace, it's possible to chart a course from point A to point B at much faster than light speeds. You chart your course, jump in, fly through it, and them jump out at your destination a few days or weeks later. That's what makes galaxy-wide travel possible.

pets

[experiencepoints]

Okay, I know what the speed of light is, just not hyperspace.

But, are you sure we're not traveling through something similar? For example, we've all been plucked here from our separate universes. I mean, I was pulled here from what should have been a totally inaccessible void demiplane. Isn't it possible they're just jumping to another universe and back, rather than hyperspace?

[resnipstance]

Well-- yeah. That's what I think they're doing.

Except none of us notice it. Doesn't that seem a little odd to you?

[experiencepoints]

Not at all. We already know the implants can be used to alter and control our perceptions.

[resnipstance]

Right. So it seems like we're only travelling a few weeks away, but I'm willing to bet that in reality, it's much longer.

[experiencepoints]

... No.

I do know about the cryobeds that were found on the Marsiva, but I don't agree. There are other explanations still, using what we know the Atroma are capable of.

[resnipstance]

I'm not talking about cryosleeping. I'm talking about-- going to sleep one night, and while we're all asleep, the Atroma making the jump to hyperspace-- or whatever it is they use-- and when we wake up, we're in a different star system. It would be a good way to thwart any attempts to map where we are.

[experiencepoints]

Oh. I guess... That would be possible. But there are a few flaws in that theory, too. I don't know if there's a time when everyone in the Fleet is asleep.