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[onlydoubts]

[ the video comes from a random hallway, and Bodhi is sitting against the wall, hair falling free from his hair tie, looking tired. he sighs, resting his chin on a hand. when speaking, he's not gesturing as much as he normally does. ]

I was wondering, how many of you have met people here, that you knew from before? Or... maybe someone you've never met, but they're from the same galaxy or planet as you. Just another -- time. 

[ he pauses. it's not completely unrelated to his next question. this is actually, a bit overdue. given he hasn't thought to try ask the network before, but he has been looking. 

but maybe, even if they aren't here, someone knows who they are? ]

Does the term "Rogue One" mean anything to anyone?

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[onlydoubts]

So what I'm getting is there are alternate versions of a similar reality.

[ if it sounds ridiculous to hear as it does to say... ]

Earth is popular, for some reason or another. I've never heard of it before coming here.

[donkeyballs]

Yeah. Back home they floated the multiverse theory a few times - where every change diverted one universe from another, until you ended up with billions of parallel universes - but far as I know it'd only ever been a thought experiment. Nothin' real behind it.

Only there's an Earth in my system, but no one else has a version of Mars where the colony was established.

You said you came from - Jedha, right? - I ain't never heard of it, either.

[onlydoubts]

I've... never heard of any theories like that before, but it sounds close enough to what all this seems to be. [ All these different Earths? Or versions of it? ]

Yeah. Jedha, that's where I was from. Our solar system consists of more than fifty planets. Corsucant, Lothal, Alderaan... to name a few others.

[donkeyballs]

Yeah. That's the only way I can make sense of it, anyway. Too many of the people here remember histories that are just - so damn far off my own that it don't make any sense, otherwise.

Fifty? [ He whistles. ]

I'm guessin' you're talkin' about full planets and not just satellites and moons, there.

[onlydoubts]

My list of things that don't make sense has nearly doubled, since getting here. [ Earth. Mars. Alternate universes and histories, time skips. ]

Yep. Not including stations or moons. Or even Wild Space. [ ... ] Being the part of the galaxy that hasn't really been explored.

[donkeyballs]

Same, brother. God damn same.

Damn. How many of the planets are like Earth? [ Oh right-- ] I mean, habitable from the get go. No terraformin' required.

[onlydoubts]

I'll be honest with you, I have no idea. [ because Star Wars is confusing and what is science in a story about space wizards? not a whole lot, I tell you. ] Corsucant, and a few others where the human population originates, I'd imagine.

There are planets that are partially terraformed, and some that are not at all - gas planets, or ones that consist primarily of active volcanoes, and the like. [ because who wants to live on Mustafar, honestly?? ]

[donkeyballs]

Yeah, we've only got one that even supports life at all. Just Earth. Mars was rock and dust before we got there, and still is, for the most part.

But hell.

Are they always at war with each other, or...?

[onlydoubts]

You mentioned that before. How livable is it, now?

[ TELL HIM MORE BOUT MARS PLZ ]

Not to my knowledge. The galaxy is at war, but the big war is not one between planets, or races.

[donkeyballs]

Well, the planet itself ain't livable at all. But we've got thousands of kilometres worth of domes an' tunnels, so there's plenty of space. It just ain't open air, exactly. It'll take about a hundred years, before we see a terraformed Mars.

Not between planets? Who's it between, then?