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[hot_mess_express]

Who: anyone
When: day 38, after noon
Where: in and around the train

[A gentle breeze keeps the afternoon cool. It seems peaceful around now, with the malice pushed back so far, unless you're heading to the island of concentrated malice of course.

It's a good day to relax and daydream.

Distantly you might sometimes hear the tick ticking of clockwork? Or it might be your imagination.

Speaking of imagination, if you think about things too hard you may find your thoughts and feelings shared with those nearby. Or even if you don't think hard at all.

At the mildest this might simply be like your thoughts and emotions being understood by others next to you, either in a vague or explicitly detailed way, but at the most extreme you might project shared delusions. Something like others getting to watch your own memories. Or fantasy sequences. Or inner monologues. Or maybe even blending you delusions with another's.

Whether it goes that far or remains a more telepathic/empathic thing is very random.]

Comments

[bowtiedbones]

It's not a math problem, it's strategy.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Are these ten planets in strategically strong places?

[bowtiedbones]

Ask the Construct. I only know what I got from the Prince.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Right. That's fair. I'll ask him tonight. [Just in case things Happen today.]

[bowtiedbones]

It's going to be a while before we have to deal with those ones anyways, and that's if the train's able to go where we need it to, too.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I know, but it'd be good to know what to look out, or see if there's some way to find out more information. Things like that.

[bowtiedbones]

I think all of those things are covered on the Prince and his retinue's end. We don't have any astronomical capabilities.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....I wonder if we could change that. Maybe see if we could get some kind of astrophysics lab or observatory next upgrade.

[bowtiedbones]

You know astronomy is like, hard, right?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yes.

But I'm also special ops in space and maybe had an AI in my head at some point. I should at least have some knowledge on how to observe things through space for tactics. Hopefully I'm not the only space travel person, but there's also potential for books and very smart people on board.

[bowtiedbones]

Sorry you're what?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Special ops.

In space.

From my perspective, we've had computers and space travel for over half a millenia. Viable deep space travel a few centuries.

We've colonized a lot of other planets. There's a good chance I wasn't even born on Earth. Or been on it.

[bowtiedbones]

Why are you still watching Star Wars five centuries later!?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Because around three dozen sequels were made and they're classic films?

And because there's been a resurgence of classic films as old messages sent to space around that time finally reach planets we've since colonized thanks to slipstream travel.

[That or literally everyone in RVB is a film nerd.]

[bowtiedbones]

Does it still get classed as sci-fi? Do you have to call it something else when it's hit the point of antiquity and you have actual space colonization??

[schrodingerscockroach]

It's still primarily sci-fi since the science still has a lot of fiction, but it does have an added classification of religious text.

[bowtiedbones]

—okay now I don't believe you.

[schrodingerscockroach]

What? The Jedi Order really took off in the early twenty-second century. Jedi Master Markov was the one who funded the colonization of a planet that he named Ilum that's like the holy land for them these days.

I mean, obviously they don't have the Force, but they call the philosophy pretty seriously.

[bowtiedbones]

Somehow Star Wars being popular in a hundred years sounds even more fake than it being popular in five hundred...

[schrodingerscockroach]

Why? Ancient Greek poets and Shakespeare are still popular and Star Wars is way close to modern day.

[bowtiedbones]

That's even worse.

[schrodingerscockroach]

You do know literature and creative projects are basically the bones of culture, right?

[bowtiedbones]

Your bones are my now, I'm allowed to feel weird about it.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I'd think it'd be more disturbing to think that all your modern day things would just vanish into the void in a few centuries.

[bowtiedbones]

It's happened for all the other past centuries. Past decades, too. Only fragments survive, and that's with academic intervention.