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Who: EVERYONE
What: Event stuff happening!
When: RIGHT NOW?? Can be starting on the 27th and onward.
Where: EVERYWHERE
Summary: Creatures and creations and whatnot from the Battle Dome are appearing all over. This is for the sake of having a mass log available for everyone, so have a free-for-all~
Rating: ...Unrated, too many people 8 ( Read more... )
What: Event stuff happening!
When: RIGHT NOW?? Can be starting on the 27th and onward.
Where: EVERYWHERE
Summary: Creatures and creations and whatnot from the Battle Dome are appearing all over. This is for the sake of having a mass log available for everyone, so have a free-for-all~
Rating: ...Unrated, too many people 8 ( Read more... )
Agh! [He attempts to pull himself up almost immediately, though the wind's been thoroughly knocked out of him.]
Mr. Vash - ?
[... Oh. Shit, bandits.
This isn't the first time Robert's seen aggressive human enemies, but it is the first time they've noticed him.]
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[And luckily for Robert the bandits don't care one iota for the downed scientist. Their eyes are too full of double dollars to see him. They run right by as Vash vanishes between two building.
Eventually they group disappears. If Robert doesn't move away too quickly a few minutes later there will be a Vash jumping out of a window next to him.]
Ahahaha, sorry about that. Are you alright?
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He wipes a hand across his face to clear off dust, a little uncomfortably.]
... Not a p-problem.
That sort of thing has... b-been happening distressingly often a-as of late.
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... Y-Yes, they do, er, seem to be simulated.
O-Oddly enough, they... apparently fit the parameters for s-simulations of the Battle Dome...
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[And then Vash sighs sadly.] And they never seem to stop!
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... And there are non-human s-sapients from Terra here. [He's, uh, run into a few.] Though they are behaving very e-erratically... far too aggressive.
[He has to suppress a shudder. It's like the equivalent of seeing your extended family go on a rampage.]
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Er, y-yes. That is the name of my planet, though it was called E-Earth in the past - are you from a planet called E-Earth as well?
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No, I'm from a planet called Gunsmoke. [He turns to offer help if Robert feels like following him out the window.] Why did you have to change the name of your planet? Did something happen?
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Ah, w-well, Terra's name was simply... meant to show that the planet would be run by those with a... m-more suitable understanding of how it was meant to be stewarded, rather than those in its p-past who had failed to do so. That, and to recognize the unity of... a w-world without geopolitical boundaries.
[This is the highly-coloured-by-Terran-patriotism explanation, and a note of pedantic pride creeps into Robert's tone there quite without him realizing it.]
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It, er, is a long story, one that may be... d-difficult to tell in these conditions. But the reaction to it was known as the Great Cleansing, and it took... n-nearly a century to return the planet to... some state of habitability.
[The number of humans had dropped dramatically, entire ecosystems had been demolished, and countless amounts of money had been spent... but it had been habitable.
Tentatively.]
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... Many people starved to death from d-droughts brought on by s-severe climate change, or were killed as... as oceanic water levels rose due to m-melting polar ice...
[There are offworlder Terran colonies. But they've been genetically modified to fit their new planets, rather than the other way around... so they hardly look human from an outside perspective, in some cases.]
... It was... a-a travesty, but... it s-served to reduce further damages. [And the population stabilized after the massive die-offs. And by then, the economy and social structures meant it was more feasible to put off having children, or have only enough to replace the population.]
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