text | un: archangel

[centurian]

[ so... Garrus likes poking around the network. he likes it a lot. but it's the first time that he's actually... really gone through with the effort to make a post on on it. might as well start with the small talk. ]

so, i've been up for a while and i can't help but notice something.

there's a lot of humans around here. a lot of humans that are awake, and not so many of any other species. take me, for example. back home, as amazing as i am, i'm only one example out of billions of turians. here, i'm the only one.

if you ask me, it's a little strange.

does anyone have a good, sound, scientific explanation for this? like humans are more storm-proof, or something? and how many of you guys are the only ones of your species that are around? are you used to it? do you find it weird that the locals don't seem to notice anything out of the ordinary?

all i'm saying is there's a lot of questions.

[ oh, and for good measure... ]

and, if any of you orbiters are hanging out around here, you're also welcome to answer!

Comments

text - un: maxwell

[braidedwonder]

Only acceptable explanation :

Humans are the cockroaches of every universe.

the end

[centurian]

isn't that kinda racist?

[ or is it one of those things that's fine when a human says (types) it? ]

text; un: unchained

[hedonistic]

+1

text | un: zevran

[agradecido]

They certainly breed like them.

No offense meant, of course.

text, un: mrhandsome69

[blap_blap]

yknow that really would explain so much

just like in general? about humanity?

your ideas are intriguing to me and i wish to subscribe to your newsletter

text | un: luc/ina

[rightfully]

I am sorry to hear your people are so disadvantaged, sir.

[ Here she is, with impossibly! genuine! sentiment. It's a little gross, honestly. Try not to get any on you, Garrus.

She's also struggling a bit with the texting, so after several seconds of typing... ]

Perhaps if you told me a little more about Turians, I could appeal to the Natha on their behalf.

[centurian]

[ well isn't this super cute ]

do you speak to the natha that often? that's pretty cool! though i don't think talking to them will help. it might be that our immunity is a little hard to work out, especially against the supposed storm effects.

and please, don't worry about the "sir".

text | un: oswin

[oddbod]

I noticed that as well. It's astounding, humans and humanoids are the minority in so much of the universe, yet they scrabble their way to the top of nearly every food chain. We're either impressive or tyrannical, depending on who you ask. I'm bound to say the latter. We're certainly not storm-proof - we're actually pretty breakable, most of us.

I think the sound, scientific explanation is probably that the Natha have a bias. I'm sorry, Garrus. You deserve to have more of your people here.

[centurian]

thanks. i guess it could be worse. i'm used to working a human spaceship. but. it's just. a little weird to be the only one that's awake.

[ "a little weird" being an understatement.

as to her other comments... ]

see, before everything went on back home, that was actually a pretty big argument between everyone. humans just showed up thirty years ago, and they already managed to do better than most species do in centuries.

but i don't know. other than a few insensitive comments here and there, i don't think you guys are so bad.

[ after all, it's not like his species was exactly on the "pacifist" end of the scale. ]

text; un: ROCKET

[beatupgrass]

Yeah, I was noticing that, myself. Way to make the non-humanoids stand out even more, guys.

[centurian]

right?

they say it's because others are still "damaged from the storm", but how is it that humans are fine while out of billions of others, everyone else isn't?

[ look. it seems a little suspicious. ]

text; un: ironman

[inacan]

natha are ovs speciesist

or whatever you aliens call it

sorry :(

[centurian]

"alien" is a subjective term. to me, humans are all aliens.

[ but the point still stands. ]

but to answer your question, it's just called plain old racism, ironman.

cool name, by the way.

[ not as cool as "archangel" but look, it'll do. ]

voice | un: graecus

[phykios]

[ texting is really not percy's favorite form of communication, so it's voice from this one. ]

Yeah, I was wondering about that too, [ he says thoughtfully.

not that he misses the seemingly endless supply of monsters from his version of earth, but it does seem a little weird that he hadn't met any, he doesn't know, satyrs or centaurs or harpies or immortals. he hasn't even run into any other half-bloods. ]

I'm all out of scientific explanations, though. But -- I'm with you, it's weird.

[ he also wants to ask what a turian is...but that seems rude... ]

[centurian]

[ well then, voice it is! when he replies there might just be a slightly strange effect in his voice. ]

You'd just think there'd be more non-humans, with billions of us out there.

[ which begs the question. ]

Are you that familiar with different species? Or are you another one of those guys from early twenty-first century Earth, where all you've done is make it to Luna?

text; un: helloimcole

[forgetmenow]

oh. yes. i noticed that.

...maybe humans are bad at staying asleep?

[centurian]

really? because back where i come from, it's the salarians that are always awake. advanced metabolism and everything.

[ look. he really needs to stop doing these references that no one here seems to get. ]

text; un: armstrong

[wallofbriggs]

Where were you when the Storm hit? At home or...

[centurian]

just getting into a war summit off-planet. given the circumstances, we couldn't really be on-planet. but the thing is, i wasn't the only turian there, either. the primarch of palaven, that is, the leader of our homeworld, was also there.

text; un; Inquisitor

[heraldsdawn]

It does seem rather strange, doesn't it?

I have yet to meet many elves during my stay here. Least of all from my own world.

[centurian]

at least you've seen a few awake, though, right? that's something to look forward to.

[ ok he's going to be blunt but he has to ask... ]

what do elves look like?

voice; un: catalyst

[badgerlock]

Are non-humans common where you're from?

In my own world we used to have Elderlings.

[centurian]

As common as humans at least. Probably more than that. All of our homeworlds had about the same population, but they hadn't really spread out among the colonies. If anything, I'd probably say salarians are... [ damn it ] were the most common of the council species.

[ and now he's curious. ]

What did "elderlings" look like?

text | un: zevran

[agradecido]

I'm continually surprised no dwarves or Qunari have awoken yet, either. One would think they would have, as they're both quite hardy.

[centurian]

[ ooh, more species to learn about. ]

What do dwarves and qunari look like? we've got a bunch of really hardy species too, like the krogan, but they're also still asleep.

though, depending on who you ask, that might not be the worst thing ever.

un: jtk

[willrevile]

If I had to take a blind crack at a 'scientific' explanation I'd guess atmosphere. Climate, gravity, radiation, the makeup of what we're breathing, all seem consistent with ideal conditions on the human homeworld (at least where I'm from). The intent could be to safeguard from potential dangers, but knowing how many different beings can function just fine (or better than humans) in an M-class enviro, it doesn't quite scan past 'good' or 'sound'. Alternate idea: bias?

+ In case it's not obvious, I'm used to a lot more non-humans being around, too.

[centurian]

that's the first actual scientific explanation I've heard beyond "racism". so i'll definitely take it.

it might also not be too far from the truth. especially since my homeworld has a lot more radiation than most. but, climate doesn't really make sense because wyver's almost exactly the same as where i grew up. but then again, humans do have a lot more genetic diversity than most of us, at least where i come from.

there's a lot of factors to take in, i guess, and xenobiology wasn't my major. the one guy who could probably answer more of our questions is unfortunately, asleep.

i'm going to take a wild guess and say you're also familiar with "aliens"? have you ever heard of the human "systems alliance"?

[ look, it's a stretch, but might as well find out. but hey, who knows. plenty of other universes might've also developed space travel on their own. ]