1 - A boy in the brig

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

[The surviving captured Disciple of Baphomet is in the brig and has been since the fight with them a week ago. He seems rather resigned. He eats and sleeps and exercises but doesn't do much else. He hasn't tried to escape, nor has he really complained.]

((OOC: Feel free to time your posts at any point after this log: warning: the log contains a somewhat graphic suicide.))

Comments

[g-saviour.livejournal.com]

I think we're all pretty much the exception to any rule. It's a safe bet to say everyone on this ship will surprise you at least once. Kids with magic, public enemies lending a helping hand, people from other planets and dimensions.

Considering all that's on this ship, we're a pretty understanding group if you're willing talk it out first.

So, what's the plan when we finally let you go?

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

I don't know.

[g-saviour.livejournal.com]

Not heading back?

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

They'd have moved on and I don't have a way to get to them even if I knew where they went.

[g-saviour.livejournal.com]

That's unfortunate.

Well... I think if you can behave yourself, you can stick around here. It's not nature, but, we've got an atrium at least. So that's a little something. And you'll get to see a whole lot more of the world than you would getting around on foot.

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have seen a lot of places, we travel by Elemental.

[g-saviour.livejournal.com]

By Elemental?

Like a creature made out of fire, or water or wind? [[He leans on the bars since, it's getting pretty lame just STANDING there]]

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

There are animal and plant Elementals to.

Actually, I am pretty sure if something exists anywhere in nature, there is an Elemental of it.

[g-saviour.livejournal.com]

So Elemental is more than just a literal meaning then?

Well... there's space too. Not much in the way of nature, but, it's still it's own sight to see if you haven't already. Maybe we can make a swing by Gaia too. For a colony, it's pretty close to a jungle these days I'm sure.

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

[He looks up at the ceiling.]

I've been told people live in space. That they live on stolen resources and look down upon the planet, blissfully ignorant of the world they squandered to the point that they didn't even want to live there anymore.

So you are one of those people?

[g-saviour.livejournal.com]

Who? Greater Zeon? No. I'm from Earth, but I've been back and forth plenty of times.

The thing is, people in space have gotten a bad rap because of one particular group who does do things like that.

Everything's going to have it's good and bad... and just like most people see you guys, that's how a lot of people see them. Gaia, one of the colonies up there is actually trying to help Earth. I was there when they developed a formula for bioluminescence. With that, we can grow crops and other plants underwater. It's not a world-saving solution, but damn if it's not a big help.

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

Crops... the first foray away from the natural world humanity took.

They would be unnecessary if people did not excessively breed the way they do. Then they use technology to poison the gene pool by allowing those who have negative traits to bear young.

[It doesn't sound like he's really talking to Mark, more musing.]

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

[He then looks down at the floor.]

You probably think I'm crazy.

[g-saviour.livejournal.com]

Not particularly no. A little jaded maybe, but, you're not really in the wrong here.

Part of the problem is the damage is already done. Another is that it's a matter of priority. Not everyone has the same list, or even has them in order.

All we can do is try to work on it a step at a time, and growing crops underwater is one of those steps. Moving up into space is another. People have good intentions with science... just sometimes we forget that along the way.

[[He pauses, and recalls something.]]

Well... at least we haven't fallen as low as some cultures in space. Would you believe there's an alien race that looks at us as crops? Nothing more than cattle and grain for their harvesting?

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

Well that's not good. They shouldn't be rearing us, they should be hunting us in our natural habitat.

Way to miss there, kid.

[g-saviour.livejournal.com]

[[He's a little taken aback that both points were missed, though...]]

It doesn't bother you that they've essentially done the same thing to their planet, if they have to come to ours for resources.

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

Who knows. They might have a perfectly healthy planet which they want to keep that way by taking resources from elsewhere.

I'm more concerned that they have the technology to fly through space at all. That shows that they have a total disregard for the natural world. After all, why else would they leave their own planet?

[g-saviour.livejournal.com]

Well... at least you have a problem with them at all. We have that technology too, obviously, but, at least us, from the Earth Sphere, haven't wandered out much further than Jupiter.

I guess, if you look at it on a bigger scale, anything we've done centers from Earth. They're going too far out and...
We're all doing the same thing, now that I think about it. You head out way from home to get resources; hunting animals and building materials. We do it too, just from the rocks and planets nearby. They're heading out who-knows how far to come get out blood and bones.

So, it all comes down to a regard for consequences, doesn't it?

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

[Cue creepy grin.]

You get it.

[g-saviour.livejournal.com]

Well then putting these aliens aside, and getting back to, the problem isn't so much technology, but, the disregard of the people using it.

And even that... Well, I'll admit, when there's a lot of things going on in the world, you kinda forget about that. For a while, this ship was short on resources, so it's kind of a small taste of what your people are trying to preach.

...

You know, I never introduced myself. Mark Curran [[No need to mention "former Federation officer" since it's not like Flynn will even know what that is anyway. But he offers his hand through the bars.]]

[primalfanatic.livejournal.com]

[Flynn takes it hesitantly, almost as if he isn't sure what to do.]

Flynn O'Shea.