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[mirrortide]

I'm going to the planet below sometime soon when I feel like it. This is an open offer to anyone to come with me. Just know that I refuse to guarantee anyone's safety, so if you can't survive in space without oxygen or on unknown planets with unknown atmospheres, you might wanna reconsider coming along.

Also I can only bring like, three people, because I don't feel like carting around more than three of you. [She holds up exactly three fingers.]

Other than that, I'll need someone to look after Pumpkin while I'm gone. She's very important to me so if you screw up I'll make you regret it.

[As if on cue, an extremely adorable sentient pumpkin jumps up onto Lapis' lap, looks into the communicator, and barks.

And then licks the screen. Enjoy your pumpkin kisses, station.]

[ooc; i'll probably rng if more people wanna go and have Lapis hit them up privately!]

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[mirrortide]

No. And I've seen a lot of galaxies, and a lot of planets.

[rk800connor]

[He pressed his lips together into a thin line, a little disappointed, but nodded.]

I attempted to match the constellations visible from the observation deck to any known star systems. [He pauses a moment and decides he needs to clarify.] Any star systems recorded by Earth scientists in the year 2038 where I'm from.

[Basically, this place wasn't anywhere that he knew of either.]

Based on your experience, do you have any predictions regarding the planet based on what we can see of it?

[mirrortide]

From a glance? It's got liquid water and a lot of rocky areas. Which means it's probably able to support some kind of life, though I don't know how evolved it'd be. Obviously nothing as advanced as Gems though. Early-Human tier at best.

[rk800connor]

It will be interesting to see if the liquid present is water or something else. It appears blue but that may have something to do with the atmosphere.

'Gems'? Is that what your people call themselves?

Early human? That would be surprising but, I suppose, it is a possibility.

[mirrortide]

Trust me, there's water down there. It doens't have anything to do with the atmosphere. And it's not what we call ourselves, it's what we are. Gem is the general term, but to be more specific, I'm a Lapis Lazuli.

[She'll twist around, so she can take a good shot of the gem between her shoulder blades.]

That's me. Everything around it? It's just a projection of solid light.

[rk800connor]

That's a good sign, isn't it? The presence of water increases the likelihood that the planet supports life of some kind.

[She'd answered his question. She was a 'gem' and not a 'human'.]

A projection of solid light? I'm not sure I understand. Light is not solid. Does that mean things can pass through you? Can you physically manipulate items? [Basically, could she interact with her environment if she was made of light.]

[mirrortide]

What part of "Solid Light" makes you think things can pass through me normally? [The important part here is "normally".]

Of course I can physically manipulate items. That's the point of me projecting a form. I can't otherwise interact with just about anything otherwise. Obviously.

[rk800connor]

Mostly the part where light isn't solid. Photons don't act like particles of matter. They shouldn't... do that.

[He opened his mouth and then simply closed it and exhaled, seeming to give up, a weird android sigh of defeat. Lapis was breaking physics again and Connor's programming didn't like it... again.

His LED was a solid yellow as he simply had to force himself to move on.]

[mirrortide]

What is with people telling me I can't be made of solid light? Just because you can't understand it doesn't mean I'm lying. Besides, you said you were made, right? And humans made you, and they're not really all that advanced.

[rk800connor]

[Connor's expression immediately shifted to mimic apologetic.]

I apologize, I didn't mean to imply you were lying.

[He tilted his head to the side, looking a little puzzled.] That's right... I was created by humans. [He frowned slightly.] I suppose I have nothing to compare humans to but their theories when it comes to physics seem accurate for the world in which they were theorized. Things like magic don't exist where I come from.

[mirrortide]

I mean, it's not really magic. [???] I'm sure Peridot could tell you more about how Gems work than I can, since she used to make 'em. I'm just a Lapis Lazuli.

[rk800connor]

No... [He mentally chided himself for not being clearer.] No, I was agreeing with you... or trying to. I meant, if there are things like magic, which exist here that do not exist where I'm from, then it's not unreasonable that there are aspects of physical science that are not understood or has not been discovered yet where I'm from.