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[eloquentness]

Who: Iris West and YOU!!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: If you're on the Marsiva, sure
When: May 4th

[ Two whole days later, Iris still can't believe she's actually in outer space. The view outside the Marsiva hasn't done anything to dissuade the notion, either. Part of her desperately wishes she could disembark and explore this star system: it would be the story of a lifetime, and more importantly, it would be a story she would've uncovered all by herself.

Exploring the hospitality deck hasn't answered many questions, so she's taken to sitting in the cafeteria with a trusty mug of coffee. Turns out, it's a good place to sit and think - as well as a good place to scroll through the Network and see what other people're saying.

So far, she's drawn a few conclusions: 1) there's a whole fleet of ships surrounding the Marsiva, 2) not everyone's from Earth - or a planet like it, and 3) they're here as part of a reality show?? That last one's pretty hard to believe. (Who'd watch someone write and edit?) Instead of asking her fellow captives the hows and whys, she figures she's better off asking them something else: ]

How many of you know the game 'Questions?'

It's a pretty simple game back on Earth: I pose a question, and you can only answer me with a question of your own. The first one to forget a question "loses." To make things easier on everyone, I won't instate any additional rules.

To start us off: Were you familiar with outer space travel before you arrived here?

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[robitussin]

what level of familiar do you mean? like are we talking "have you been on a spaceship before" or "do you know what nasa is"?

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[eloquentness]

Hm. If you know the former, could you talk about it?

Also: should I be worried that people don't know of NASA?

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[robitussin]

as for the former, i've only been on a simulation of one, but have you been on a real spaceship?

also, there are people from tons of different worlds and time periods, do you think all of them have heard of nasa?

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[eloquentness]

Prior to this, no, but I've seen time-travel? And superheroes?

[ She kept a whole blog, actually. Details. ]

Worlds like not-from-Earth, right? I've heard of those, but how common is that around here? Er, what do you think is the percentage of Earthlings versus non-Earthlings?

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[robitussin]

are both of those common for you?

i want to say most people i know here are from earth, but i don't know everyone by any means, so why take one person's word for it?

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[eloquentness]

Unfortunately. I cover superheroes, or metahumans, for the local newspaper.

[ Easiest way to talk about them without revealing anyone's identity to the multiverse. ]

I'm trying not to. It looks like there's a lot of information but it's all scattered. Has anyone tried keeping it all in one place?

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[robitussin]

sounds like an interesting job, do you like it?

my girlfriend has, do you want the document she's been working on?

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[eloquentness]

I couldn't ask for anything better. :)

Of course. Since I'm going stir crazy as it is, could you ask her if she wouldn't mind help down the road?

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[robitussin]

[she sends over the document, and a text follows shortly after]

any questions come to mind immediately?

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[eloquentness]

Thank you.

I'm sure I'll have more once I read it thoroughly, but the summary mentions "several months before this". How long has the Fleet been operating?

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[robitussin]

i got here over a year ago and it had been over a year then, so if my math is right - some people have been here for around two and a half years?

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[eloquentness]

Wow. That's a really long time.

We're not any closer to figuring out why some stay and others don't, right? I don't doubt what your girlfriend's written, but it's hard to believe this "Atroma's" been silent for so long.