02 Aliens On Earth

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

1) [Dita's looking through the observation windows at the landscape around them. It was beautiful and terrible at the same time, with the damaged landscape from numerous battles, to the alien architecture not associated with Mejire.]

It's so haunting...


2) [She's in the hangar of the Chalice, helping the mechanics that stayed behind to do some adjustments to any of the mecha that they're allowed to work on. Who knew Dita was a competent mechanic?]


3) [Lunch time! She's cooking up a Mejire dish for everyone, some kind of variant of roast turkey no less. Whatever it is, it smells DELICIOUS. Come have some?]

Comments

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

The moon? Oh that must have been in the early spacetravel years, right?

[saikyocivrobo]

Obviously. That was maybe the fourth step in space exploration, long before Mobile Suits were invented. We're on step... around twenty now, I'd say. Not that most people care about space exploration much anymore. They're too busy trying to survive.

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

Still, Mejire and Taraak haven't been beyond the storm yet. So I guess I've still got the same love for exploration.

[saikyocivrobo]

If you're into exploration than you'll find plenty of sights on Earth. A country can be diametrally different from its neighbors, and there's a lot of them. Often not liking each other much, but that's a detail.

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

I'll have to learn about each part of this world then. It sounds interesting.

[saikyocivrobo]

We have people aboard from everywhere except maybe the antarctic cycle, so why not start by asking them?

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

Oh that sounds wonderful! I'll definitely do that.

[saikyocivrobo]

There's one right in front of you, you know. I didn't spend the last 20 years in a vacuum. Actually, since space counts as vacuum, the people who did probably have interesting stories too.

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

Hehe that's true. Okay, what was your home like, growing up?

[saikyocivrobo]

Well, I had to witness the whole world going straight to Hell, so even though I had the luck of living in a big city that didn't get bombs dropped on it, it was still pretty hard. I didn't have much of a childhood till my teenage years.

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

Mmm I see. So it was hard growing up until you gained some independence of your own?

[saikyocivrobo]

Yeah, but those aren't related events. I had good parents - hell, I still have, and they're probably worried how I'm doing. It's just that things in Germany, and most of the world, got better over time. The first few years after Second Impact were very difficult, even to comparison to all the mess that's happening lately.

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

That does make sense. Did you contact your Fama and Ohma then after we returned here?

[saikyocivrobo]

We call them Father and Mother here. And the former tends to be a man.

[Werter remembers the lecture on Mejirian procreation, it seems.]

Anyway, I haven't yet. Berlin is too far away, communication over such distance is impossible since Second Impact destroyed the global network.

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

[Nods] I remember everyone saying that.

[Thinks about it.] How long does it take to deliver a message then?

[saikyocivrobo]

A message? Why didn't I think about this idea? It has potential... Though finding someone willing to deliver it might be problematic...

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

Well... our Dread Team isn't doing anything right now. I could ask Meia if she'd let one of us go to Germany and drop a written message off for you?

[saikyocivrobo]

That'd be appreciated, but I won't blame anyone if she refuses. It's just a message for a stranger, after all, while the road is long and most likely filled with danger.

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

[Nods] Our ships are fast, and we use dreads for traveling around Mejire anyhow.

[saikyocivrobo]

Well then, if Meia agrees, then I owe you and your crew one. And I'm glad Prometheus is not here, because he'd probably give a terrible comment now.

Just tell the messenger not to let the local food scare her. Or the dialects.

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

All right, I'll make sure to get them to send someone reliable on the dread team.

Is the dialect very strange or odd sounding? [Wondering about the food too.]

1/3

[saikyocivrobo]

Well, it sounds more or less like this...

2/3

[saikyocivrobo]

[Super-stereotypical German accent, go!]

Die Kolonien sind kilometerlange Zylinder, sogenannte O'Neill-Kolonien, deren Wände teils aus Fenstern bestehen, teils (auf der Innenseite) das Land der Kolonie tragen! Große Reflektoren sammeln das Sonnenlicht und werfen es durch die Fenster auf das Land der Kolonie! Auf diesem Boden sind Landschaften nebst Gewässern und Städten angelegt worden! Durch die Rotation der Zylinder um die Längsachse wirkt die Zentrifugalkraft als künstliche Schwerkraft innerhalb der Kolonie!

3/3

[saikyocivrobo]

And there you have it. That was, of course, a slight exaggeration.

Re: 3/3

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

[Looks positively frazzled.]

W-wow... that's... a very loud language...! Maybe I could go since I won't be thrown off next time. It shouldn't take too long at high speeds for me to head to Germany...