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[callsignhornet]

I have an important question for the sake of organizing information about the group.

Feel free to message me directly if you don't feel comfortable sharing publicly.

In the world you are from, what year is it?

Edit: record of death for me should be 2186. Or 2187, though it would be very early in the year.

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[callsignhornet]

Oh it absolutely has. As I understand it there was some fracturing after we developed space travel and met extraterrestrial life.

[hasapoint]

Yeah I don't envy your priests having to figure that out.

So you're from one of those worlds where people take extremely fast boats up in the stars. [Need has visited science fiction settings and doesn't like space. The distances are too great and empty!]

[callsignhornet]

It gets complicated, particularly when extraterrestrials who never lived in Earth join the faith.

Yeah. I’m what’s called a Spacer - my family served in the military so I was raised primarily on stations and pre-fab colonies.

[If there’s one thing Shepard actually hates here, it’s the stars. They don’t look or move like any kind of celestial bodies she’s ever seen. It’s too discomforting.]

[hasapoint]

We're rapidly leaving my comprehension behind. I can guess at some of these.

extraterrestrials: not-Terra. The foreign people.

stations: all right I got nothing.

I know what colonies are but not pre-fab. Is it an acronym?

[callsignhornet]

Sorry. You're right about 'extraterrestrial', stations are just referring to space stations; larger hubs that act as port cities for various kinds of ships.

'Pre-fab' is shorthand; pre-fabricated colonies are often made with buildings designed to be built quickly to make sure that the folks who live there, usually scientists and the people employed to protect them, like military or private security.

[hasapoint]

I've had little to do with the far sky. The scales involved always seem to be very large and then I feel like an old woman saying 'What?' every five minutes.

Are Spacers common?

[callsignhornet]

If it makes you feel any better, I do the same thing, trying to keep track of it all. And that's just the 'known universe'.

Sort of. About as common as any other military kid, at least for humans anyway. No idea for anyone that's from a more militaristic species.

[hasapoint]

What makes perfect sense in one world is bewildering nonsense in another.

Were you brought up expecting to join the military?

[callsignhornet]

It wasn't an expectation.

I think my family wanted all the normal things they want for a kid: health, happiness, success. Joining was my call in the end.

No one was shocked though.