Libuscha IV System Mingle (no. 1)

[necromanswers]

Who: Everyone! OTA!
Broadcast: sure why not
Action: yeahhhhhh
When: 11/12 to 1/4 (minus 12/26)


It's Candlenights! Or Christmas! Or whatever! It's festive! Go celebrate, explore, go get free stuff from a tree!!

More importantly it's a mingle!

--SYSTEM INFORMATION--

Comments

[coinstability]

Humans did.

[Really, that one seems obvious. He appraises Han before following up with a question.]

I take it that the androids you know of aren't like me?

[straightouttacarbonite]

That narrows it down.

[ He's honestly half wondering if he's being messed with, here. ]

Well, even most protocol droids are still metal.

[coinstability]

[He's only half-wrong. At least 'droids' isn't really a common term for Connor, without much of the baggage those other terms come with.]

So they have external metal frames. They're obviously not intended to look like humans in your world if that's commonplace.

[straightouttacarbonite]

Well, no. You wouldn't need it and I bet it'd cost a fortune.

[ And that's assuming anyone would want to. Which he's not sure about. The whole idea is unsettling. ]

I don't think any species does that. At least not regularly.

[coinstability]

That's how it's been done in my world for over twenty years. The costs have been brought down significantly since the first few androids.

[Not that he particularly likes talking about how much androids cost to buy, these days. He rolls his shoulders a little bit, changing the subject.]

But you do have androids, which is something that seems rare for the worlds represented in the Fleet.

[straightouttacarbonite]

I mean, most planets do, back home. But a lot of people here come from places that seem...

[ he can't find a polite way to say it. ]

[coinstability]

[Don't worry, Connor's not that polite either.]

Not technologically advanced?

[straightouttacarbonite]

Yeah, exactly.

[coinstability]

I understand what you mean. Even for different versions of my own planet, there seems to be discrepancies in the level of technological advancement between them.

[A real puzzle. There's no reason why an Earth a century ahead of his own shouldn't have androids, and yet that's exactly what he's heard.]

You said planets - you were already familiar with space travel before coming here?

[straightouttacarbonite]

Sure. I'm the captain of a ship. A better one than the junkers we've got here.

[coinstability]

I take it the Fleet ships are not built to the same standard as those in your universe.

[straightouttacarbonite]

Certainly not to any ship I'd fly.