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[Wash does not look great. He's cleaned up, but bruised and exhausted looking, strangely like he's just come out of a fight. That's what you get for actually throwing yourself into a fight with a half-woman half-shark and an AI possessed man with the strength of ten bears.

He also looks less than impressed.]

I'm pretty sure this is all some bullshit mindgame anyway. But in case it isn't...

Let me know if you see any idiots calling them blue team and red team. I owe them... I think I owe them a favour.

And if you see any suits of armour, grey and yellow. That's mine.

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[ Blue team and red team, huh? Raleigh's heard about a lot of teams since he's gotten here, but not those. Not the most creative names, either. He answers anyway, though, because there's one thing he's curious about. His drivesuit is missing, too, someone obviously changed him out of it when they abducted him. It's not exactly useful on its own, but maybe this guy's is. ]

What kind of armor?

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The usual kind.

[Although if some of what he's heard is true, then that might not be helpful. Ugh.]

Power armour. And a black armoured bodysuit. Not the standard issue shit.

[ Yeah that's not helpful, but 'power armor' is a little more descriptive. It's probably bulkier than a drive suit, at least. ]

I'll keep an eye out but nobody's found any of their stuff yet, that I've heard.

[ One more thing he's curious about, though. ]

How would this be a mind game? It feels... very real.

Great.

[He sounds extremely sour about this.]

You think there aren't people who can set up realistic simulations like this? Manufacture situations, hell, entire wars, to experiment on people?

It's crossed my mind that that this is some kind of experiment, yeah, but it's still real. We were still actually kidnapped to space, it's not a mass hallucination.

I guess the question, if that's the case, is why. Why us, and why here?

Space is a good place to kidnap people to.

Who knows? We'll have to find one of the people who brought us here. Or records of it.

Different worlds. Until I woke up here two weeks ago, I didn't realize space was possible to kidnap people to. We barely have space travel at all, where I'm from but it seems like that's not the case for a lot of people here.

Good luck with that... at first I thought maybe some of the people around were just lying about being kidnapped, too, like stealth handlers put in the group to watch us? But that's probably paranoid.

Huh. That's... weird. I've never even visited Earth. It's just how things are.

No such thing as too paranoid.

What year is it? And where'd you grow up, then?

[ Since you look human, bro. He shouldn't assume that anymore, but it feels weird to assume the other way, too. Raleigh's new policy is gonna be to just ask everyone. ]

...that's dark.

2554. And I grew up on a colony in the Leonis Minoris system.

[He shrugs.]

Just sensible.

I don't even know where that is. Is it still in the Milky Way?

[ Yeah, Raleigh's not sure he wants to touch that one, because he... might agree, but it's definitely not a fun way to look at the world. Let's just talk about stars, okay? ]

Yeah. The galaxy's a big place. But it's a long way from Earth. Expensive trip.

That far into the future I'm not even sure it's worth a visit. I mean, my Earth seems like kind of an extreme example after talking to people here, but we've kinda wrecked it already... by necessity in a lot of cases. Still.

It's always sounded like a pretty nice place. I've been to Casbah. That was fancy as hell.

It really depends where you are, at this point, but I do like it. Even if I've got nothing to compare it to.

Where's Casbah? And what's it like there?

Capital of Tribute. I had shore leave for a while. It's a big city, lots to see. Lots of bars.

If that's your thing you're gonna be pretty disappointed here. There is a bar, for some reason, but it's... questionable.

It's... not. Anymore. But what else are you supposed to do on shore leave?

Good point. I've never really had it but I guess... whatever you want? At this point I'd probably find a decent meal and see a movie or something.

You reach a point where just getting blackout drunk is all you want.

...yeah, I do know that feeling.

[ It never overlapped with his service... the longing for oblivion had come after, and at that point he hadn't been the one who had to worry about being sober when a Kaiju alarm blared anyway. He tilts his head at Wash curiously. ]

How long have you been in?

The military? About... [He frowns, trying to remember. There's a lot of time that isn't quite fixed in his head.] Ten years? I enlisted when I was eighteen. I think I'm getting on for thirty.

Wait, you don't... know how old you are?

[ That's kinda weird, man. ]

It's been a very strange few years.

[ Raleigh understands that sentiment, too, but. ]

Can't you just go by what year it is? Or does everybody keep track of time differently in deep space?

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