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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[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.