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Who: John Laurens
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit, specifically Space Bar
When: Right the heck now.

[John can be found, as usual, in the place where alcohol is served. He's all about that. Today he's also all about something else -- specifically, drawing. He picked up a notebook planetside, and he's idly doodling things from home. Some pages are torn out and sitting beside him -- a Southern plantation house, a picture of a young dark-haired man in a Continental army uniform, flowers, turtles, all sorts of things. He looks a little wistful as he picks up the nearby drink and takes a sip.]

Yo. So maybe it's cause I'm feelin' a little homesick, an' I figured some of y'all might be too. If anyone's around, come an' tell me about your homes! Or do it here, too, I ain't all that picky. What you miss, who you miss, all that. I feel like I should get t' know more people.

[There's a beat.] Oh yeah, an' since I didn't really introduce myself when I first got here--name's John Laurens, lately of South Carolina. Pleased to meet all of ya.

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[Yeah, he's glanced through a couple of the books in the library on the Iskaulit. Enough to get a general timeline, anyway.]

Well, thanks. But I don't think it's nearly enough material for -- what'd you say it was, a musical?

[He nods.]

Yeah, 1776 was a musical. And there are ... so many movies about the Founding Fathers.

Oh, like what happens on the communication things? That's pretty cool! I mean, I didn't do much foundin' of anything, but I'm sure Alexander and Washington did.

George Washington was actually our first president. Set the precedent for all the presidents who came after him.

[He makes a face.]

Say that five times fast.

[He perks up a little at that news.] Of course he was, makes sense. They were workin' on getting the treaties together, when I was at home.

[He nods slowly because wow. That is very close to ... wow.]

Yeah, it was Washington, then Adams, then Jefferson.