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[fatespoken]

When you’re a kid, maybe you say to yourself:

"I wish I could go to Disneyland."

"I hope I'll get my cock sucked by fifteen. By sixteen, I better be banging someone in the back of dad's favorite car.”

"One day, I’ll get into Harvard and become a brown-nosing yuppie making bonuses bigger than my insecurity complex. I’ll get married even. Have a kid, maybe two. A dog. And if I'm really lucky, I won’t be miserable.”

Those are the sort of wishes that come true. The mundane ones. You don’t say: "Well, one day I’d really like to go up into space. Maybe spend a night or two in a space ship. A journey through space? Oh man, why not? Not like we've only gotten as far as the moon. ”

And then, bam. Space.

Life doesn’t work like this. You don’t get what you want and when you do, it never comes free. So, what’s the catch? Probing, space slugs taking over our brains, being sold as human cargo to a far away planet, a floating menagerie? The options are endless.

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[fatespoken]

That's what I would've said. If not that, then what? Science?

So there is a way to leave to this place... and I'd guess that it's as completely random as arriving here.

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[dino_zarf]

People vanish sometimes, just as random as when we show up. No real telling where they end up. The drives don't work like anything I'd ever seen before.

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[fatespoken]

By drives, you're talking about the engines, right? What makes them so unique?

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[dino_zarf]

Engines, yeah. Seem to... shift things around rather than generating thrust.

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[fatespoken]

You want to tell me how that works? I'm curious. Farthest our shuttles can go is our own moon.

And after looking at all of this? That's pretty damn sad,

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[dino_zarf]

Seems to be a different sorta energy source than I'm used to. I fly a cargo ship out on the border worlds, but she's nothing like Tranquility in terms of general tech.

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[fatespoken]

We use liquid hydrogen and oxygen to fuel our engines. Real efficient stuff. Got us to our own moon once, and only blew the shuttle up 2 times out of 135 launches.

[dino_zarf]

Now that's one I've only read about in history books.

[fatespoken]

You're calling me ancient.

[dino_zarf]

Back home people haven't lived on Earth in ages.

[So... not exactly. But technically]

Strange things happen on board here.

[fatespoken]

idiots finally managed a nuclear holocaust?

[dino_zarf]

Not nearly that dramatic. Too many people, not enough everything else. So space.

[fatespoken]

hey, it's not dramatic. nearly happened back home.

[dino_zarf]

Wasn't what did it in the end though. Little bit by little bit instead.

[fatespoken]

predictable, aren't we? no matter the universe.