[ Alex isn't drinking, at the moment, just sitting with his glass between his hands. ]
Now here's the thing. That's the date - or at least was the date - for where we are. And if we got here by stasis, that's - well. That's it.
But I don't think we did. Or at least - if we did, it was in tandem with somethin' else.
This station is full of people who are from Earth - but they ain't from our Earth. The histories don't line up. So something - that's gotta mean something, right? It can't just be that we're... That we're really out here, three hundred years later, and everyone else happens to be from somewhere else...?
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Now here's the thing. That's the date - or at least was the date - for where we are. And if we got here by stasis, that's - well. That's it.
But I don't think we did. Or at least - if we did, it was in tandem with somethin' else.
This station is full of people who are from Earth - but they ain't from our Earth. The histories don't line up. So something - that's gotta mean something, right? It can't just be that we're... That we're really out here, three hundred years later, and everyone else happens to be from somewhere else...?