11th Observation [audio // English]

[fred_cassidy]

An informal and entirely statistically invalid survey, if it's not too much time out of your day.

[And what are the odds someone has anything better to do than sit around woolgathering over the comms?How many of you are from universes with FTL--that's faster-than-light--interstellar travel

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[phasebitchin]

Our extraterrestrials just want to kill us. Can't blame 'em, honestly.

[fred_cassidy]

That seems counterproductive. It's not like Earth has much to recommend it that a spacefaring society can't get more cheaply from an uninhabited system.

[phasebitchin]

Ain't got nothin' to do with money. More a case of... Earthlings getting too big for their boots.

Know what I'm saying?

[fred_cassidy]

Where I'm from, that would get them censured in the Galactic Assembly, and no one wants that. They'd lose all kinds of clout.

[Fred wasn't kidding about bureaucracy.]

[brynkitten]

Yeeeaaah no. I'm from 2008. Faster-than-light travel is something still featured on the SCI-FI channel.

[That's right, Bryn's from back when it was still SCI-FI, not SyFy.]

[fred_cassidy]

[Fred chuckles.]

In 2008, I wasn't even close to having been born.

[brynkitten]

Does that make me your elder? [Bryn conveniently ignores that Fred's technically been alive more years than her, and runs with the joke.] Y'better respect me, boy.

[fred_cassidy]

You've aged remarkably well. What's your secret?

[He's safely on this end of the comm.]

lol, like this has never been done with our characters before

[sandpaperbreath]

[Okay, he looked up a few words, and now he's pretty sure he's got a smart-sounding answer for Mister Survey.]

There's a lotta speculation that the Precursors that created our world came from the stars, but it's not a talent our kind has gotten around to mastering yet.

That may still counts as a 'yes', though.

Fred is *way* easier to have a conversation with than Lika ever was. x3

[fred_cassidy]

Artificial biome? That's some mega-engineering.

[Fred's taking it in stride. It's within the capabilities of several of the species in his world.]

Torn could argue that point. He thinks.

[sandpaperbreath]

Sure.

[wut.]

[fred_cassidy]

[The new guy is talkative.]

Building worlds is expensive. It's the kind of thing civilizations only do when they've advanced so far they've run out of other things to do for fun.

[diverged_fate]

If there's 'FTL' in my universe, I wouldn't know about it. We didn't even get close before everything fell apart. I mean, someone's probably got it. Aliens. There's weird rumors...

I'd be kinda skeptical that other species are just like humans, but I've seen enough of that on this ship. I'm not really surprised.

What's it like out in space?

[fred_cassidy]

Look around.

Basically like that, except you can't go out on deck without a vacuum suit.

[kaikou_tide]

Faster than light? For what purpose?

[fred_cassidy]

We're not patient enough, as a species, to take the slow boat to the stars.

[kaikou_tide]

Why would you want to go to the stars?

[fred_cassidy]

Lots of interesting people and places out there.