reverienet | audio; un: nanatsuya

So uh

I see everyone got this bullshit list of bullshit. Or at least numerous people.

So here's the deal. You got this shit here that don't mean shit, like "Geoscience"? Is that even relevant to us right now? "Comms Officer". Yeah that sure as hell doesn't mean shit to anyone here. Sounds like some military crap, first of all. Here we are, everyone using the comms and I can't see anyone figuring out how to stop someone yet. "Quarter Master"? Who the fuck even cares.

Now "Chief Food Supplier" is something we direly need but seeing as all we have are those crappy food dispensers, I'm not entirely sure what you would even do. I think that could be reworded to "Head chef" too, unless one of you fuckheads want to fly your happy ass down to that planet over there and try to catch some real meat.

Anyway, that's all just unnecessary garbage, but what I'm trying to get at is that we HARDLY have what could pass as a society here, and I don't know about you, but ain't none of you paying enough to get me or like anyone with a shred of self-respect to be a goddamn "Waste Disposal Chief". We don't even have an economy here.

So, how 'bout we just set this shit aside and don't even think about it, honestly? If you want a roster so bad, take one of those books and write everyone's names down.

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You're right.

[He was. She's just guilty of only listening with one ear. But apologetic glance aside, she pushes on to more interesting questions.]

Research, but with a small security presence.

What is terraforming?

[Second time in one day!!! Whew, he was on fire. Actually, he was probably not being careful enough. These people might start to wonder where this foul-mouthed teenage burnout actually got good ideas.]

Yeah. I mean it has a bar. How tight could security be? [He laughs at that.]

Terraforming is like. I mean. Humans get this idea in their head that they could space travel to a new planet, but maybe it's environment doesn't suit humanity. So they think maybe they can terraform it, so they uhhh... like. Change the atmosphere, grow some plants and shit, and bam, New Earth.

I haven't heard of it working before but some of these guys come from different worlds, so who knows?

I'm a human born on a world where we're locked in a struggle with the original inhabitants of the planet that has spanned millenia.

[Says Jasnah, matter of factly. So make it three times in one day; right again.]

It's one credible explanation for the end of the world. The planet fought back against the effort.

[The thought makes her glance in the direction of the world they hang over.]

Millenia? That's way too long.

[He guesses Heaven and Hell have been at war for millenia, but you know. It still felt too long. Well, maybe that was because it was too long for humans. Their lives are just not long enough for fighting that long. This is a fight that her great great grandparents fought, and that she still needs to fight.

What a downer.]

Well, guess we'll find out if we can get down there, right? But right now it doesn't seem SUPER plausible.

We don't have space travel on Roshar. So- do you know how it'd be possible to travel up and down from a planet? Is it something like surgebinding?

[The way Jasnah uses stormlight, maybe they can use electricity.]

I have no idea what surgebinding is.

[And even from context, he can't... really figure out what she means there. "Surge" "binding". Hm. Nope, he wasn't getting anything.]

It doesn't happen much on my world yet, but they use a big rocket to just. Shoot themselves out of the atmosphere. They usually only go to about the moon, then come back in a similar way.

Snapping from place to place, stepping between vast differences like you're passing between two rooms.

[In this context, though it's one ability, not a comprehensive statement of them all.]

What is there on the moon?

[She assumes they must be headed up there for some errand or quest.]

Ah, teleportation. I get it. [Well, he used to teleport himself now and then. Now he's not very likely to, but he gets it at least.]

Well, I'm guessing some flags, now. Nothing to harvest, just people studying what is outside of the atmosphere. It's not easy getting even that far, and other planets are so far away it'd take numerous lifetimes to get there.

Travel for the sake of travel.

[Agreeing; she can understand that.]

That leaves the planet beneath us. Would it take many years to get down there, if we could make the trip through something other than teleportation?

[He thought about that for a moment, tapping on his chin for a moment.]

Well, I think it is more tentative exploration. We want to go out there and find things, right? Humanity is very curious.

But I don't... I don't think it'd take that long at all to get down to the planet if we got a vehicle that could go. I don't actually know how long it takes, but it can't be more than a few hours, right?

Well, not 'right?', since you aren't familiar with the concept, but. I mean, you get it though?

I understand.

[She confirms, quietly, as she thinks this through.]

I think we'd need to be careful. The very first message I saw suggested that we are not where they intended to bring us. It might be that there's something about the planet we're hanging over that caused some of what went wrong.

[Even if they had a ship, Jasnah wouldn't rush down there without doing more research.]

Yeah yeah yeah, be careful and all that. I sure won't rush you guys, but if you want someone to just go down and check it out I'm your man. Even if it's only me.

[He was just getting cabin fever. Being stuck inside all the time really sucked. Not that he did much outside when he was on Earth, but he liked having the option.]

Why the interest? In this, I mean.

[Something about the way he talks about this suggests to her a special interest, or some kind of affinity or ability. She wonders if she's misreading that.]

I just have no sense of self preservation and hate feeling trapped. Rather be dead than stuck.

[Not necessarily true, but not really a lie either, as Kira did usually.]

And that world doesn't look like any I'm used to, so I'm curious.

Don't hurry towards it. I don't intend to die- but I don't intend to be stuck forever, either.

[She agrees, with a very small, very rare smile.]

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