February System Mingle

[thespaceopera]

Who: EVERYONE!!!
Broadcast: Possibly
Action: The Shinda BR-10 System
When: The fleet will be in this system from 1/26 to 2/23



Welcome to the Shinda system! There are three explorable planets here - Duotera, Ebrion, and Philias - each with its own current temperature state. Get out there and see the sights - but do please prepare for the extreme weather as necessary!

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[rebuildyourruins]

[Even with that level of pessimism, Thor's listening to what Peggy has to say. He's not blind to the risks. He loves Earth and thinks the best of it, but he's aware of some of the worse aspects of the place. After a moment, he shrugs.]

I don't mind. I would prefer you speak your mind. [Thor stakes most of his actions on honesty and directness.] But I think things will be all right in the end.

[He tips his head back to look at the clouds. Frowning, he tamps down on his mood. The clouds should start to dissipate within ten minutes, so long as nothing else makes him feel grim.]

In truth, Earth is our best option. I have considered others, and this is still the one I will pursue.

[mucked]

And what of your sister?

[ she points out her eye, indicating his -- the one he's lost. ]

What are the chances she might follow you there?

[rebuildyourruins]

[He shakes his head at that.]

Hela is dead. Asgard's destruction saw to that. If she had still been alive then yes... she would have come after us eventually. But that is not the case.

[It was the main reason he went to such lengths as destroying his own realm to keep her from wreaking her vengeance upon other worlds.]

[mucked]

Small mercies.

[ she answers, wryly, with a touch of sympathy. peggy rubs her hands together -- as if coaxing warmth from the night air. ]

God, I think I would have liked to have seen it. The day a whole civilization comes to Earth not for war or conquest but -- to cohabitate. I'm sorry I'm going to miss it.

[ spoken like fact. spoken as though she knows, of course, that she never will. ]

[rebuildyourruins]

[Thor doesn't react with surprise, or ask why she thinks she won't see it. He already knows why. He merely watches her for a moment before smiling pensively, looking back to the sky.]

It is a shame. [Simple as that.] There are others I would have dearly liked to share it with as well.

[The Warriors Three. Sif. His mother. His father. But they're all gone now. What remains is for him to bring this future of cohabitation to life for those that still survive.]

I think it will be a first for both of our peoples.

[mucked]

I'd like to think so.

[ that it's a first. ]

I was told a story, once. About a conquering people who apparently landed on Earth some centuries ago. Maybe more. I never believed it at the time and I'm not sure I believe it now. It seems so unlikely that it went unrecorded or undiscovered.

The man who told it to me, after all, was a bit of a bastard in the first place.

[rebuildyourruins]

I think you mentioned him to me once before. A HYDRA agent?

[It's been a while for Thor, the details are a little foggy.]

He may have meant the Frost Giants. They did invade Earth centuries ago, and it was Asgard's forces that drove them back. That much I know is true.

[mucked]

Possibly. I confess, I've never been able to corroborate those claims. Considering the horrors we found in his workshop, I thought it best not to give him too much credence.

[rebuildyourruins]

I do not blame you for that.

[Because fuck HYDRA, honestly.]

And it was a very long time ago on your world. That was before the Nine Realms agreed to leave Midgard - that is, Earth - alone.

[mucked]

May I ask what merited such an agreement?

[rebuildyourruins]

[Well, Thor's the one who brought it up, so he has to deal with the awkward explanation. Even if he doesn't agree with it, now that he has the benefit of hindsight.]

It was decided that Earth's inhabitants were not advanced enough to continue dealing with. So ultimately the rest of the Nine Realms pulled away from contact.

[He cocks his head a little, with a huff of faint amusement.]

As I told someone much later, it may have been for the best, considering half of what we did on Earth was rampage around fighting wars against each other.

[mucked]

Thor.

[ she almost smiles. ]

That's half of what humans do on Earth in a good century. [ she goes as far as to nudge her shoulder against his own. personable, suddenly. ] I ought to know. I saw a lot of it during the war.

[rebuildyourruins]

[He chuckles a bit. Ultimately they're all more alike than they think, which is certainly something Thor intends to impress upon his own people before they even get near Earth.]

I am sure you did. But at least you didn't have other-worldly interference for most of the last thousand years.

[Until Thor and Loki showed up .... rampaging around fighting each other. #typical]

[mucked]

Yes, I've -- actually, I've read the report. On the New York incident. Someone had a copy of it, someone who's not here any longer, and he let me look it over shortly after I arrived.

It was something of a revelation. On many counts. [ a beat. ] I suppose I've known about you since then. Admittedly, I was rather curious to meet you.

[rebuildyourruins]

Oh, really? [He's not so surprised that she's heard of that event, but more that she read it in a report. He would have assumed Steve told her.] I can't say I know what would have been in the report, since I left so soon afterwards.

And what do you think now?

[mucked]

I think the word 'God' -- as I've heard it thrown around -- is something of a generous one. [ a beat. ] Which I mean as a compliment.

[ he's far more interesting than that dusty old term. ]

[rebuildyourruins]

[That makes him laugh, funnily enough. It's so strange to hear it put in such a way.]

Thank you, I think.

[mucked]

You're quite welcome.

[ and then, thoughtfully: ] When it comes down to it, the myth isn't half so moving as the man. In my experience.

[ she's referencing steve; she must be. ]

Not that you'll ever convince the wider world of it. They do so love to sell their lunch-boxes and their radio programmes.

[rebuildyourruins]

It isn't something you can escape from. Even though I was only on Earth for half an hour last time, I still got stopped for a photo.

[He's always agreeable to it, at least. Probably there are endless lunchboxes too.]

You are right, though. Myths do not always reflect reality. It was like that for me when I met a Valkyrie for the first time.

[mucked]

A Valkyrie?

[ there's a moment of sting in her eyes. that word means something very different to peggy, but she doesn't for a moment assume that thor could be describing the hydra plane. ]

What, like an actual Valkyrie?

[rebuildyourruins]

Yes - I was surprised too. The Valkyrior are legendary, I grew up hearing tales about them. They had all died long before I was born though.

[He shrugs, knowing that the whole truth of the matter had never been told to him as a child. Their deaths weren't the mystery that they had once been. They had died at the hands of his sister.]

But it turns out one still lives. She wasn't what I was expecting.

[mucked]

No? [ a gentle query. but there's no hiding how curious she really is. ] How so?

[rebuildyourruins]

[Deadpan:] She captured me and sold me to a tyrant, to start with. That was unexpected.

[And one of the rudest possible ways to meet a childhood hero.]

Of course I didn't know she was a Valkyrie right at that moment, but it made it even more insulting when I did find out.

[mucked]

[ well. she must be formidable indeed to have captured him. peg likes her already. ]

I take it that's not typical behaviour for a Valkyrie?

[rebuildyourruins]

I wouldn't have thought so. But I've been wrong before.

We're friends now though, so I've come to appreciate what's typical for her rather than the stories.