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? ]

[braidedwonder]

IDK

Can I be self hating enough to not like other humans? Probably.

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.

text; un: unchained

[hedonistic]

+1

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[centurian]

really? i didn't know humans were so self-hating.

[ though maybe when it's another species attacking them it's... different. ]

[centurian]

what's wrong with other humans? some of my best friends are humans.

[braidedwonder]

Some are pretty great. Some aren't worth the dirt they walk on.
But I think that's pretty universal, right?

Got bad and good no matter who you're talking about.

[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".

[centurian]

you said it.

a few of my people were real jerks too. though, one of them had the excuse of being brainwashed at the time.

[ but look. he was still a disgrace to his people. ]

[braidedwonder]

Was that convenient excuse brainwashing or actual?

Fine by me. Might be a bit of an old salt though considering I just got out of a war and all. Unsure.

[rightfully]

[ Well, no. Not really. Lucina has high expectations, though! If they are truly not gods, as people keep telling her, why wouldn't the crown princess of Ylisse be worthy of an audience? These ideals cannot be quashed by mere logic, and she doesn't like to think of anyone so separated from their own people. It's cruel. ]

As you say. How should I call you?

[ Lucina will get to the other stuff in a moment! ]

[centurian]

well, he was being controlled by a giant sentient spaceship that's millions of years old. i'd say that's not a bad excuse.

though, from the sounds of it, he was a real jerk before the brainwashing thing too.

[ you know... ]

everyone arguing must make you feel right at home, then.

[centurian]

call me? um, just "garrus" is fine.

[ "sir" makes him feel way too old.]

[braidedwonder]

.. Sentient spaceship? Wow. That sounds like a hell of a thing to have take you over in general.

Actually I'm just really annoyed that I have to get thrown in to a whole new ordeal, to be honest. I was looking forward to some time to myself - you know, make good on promising Howie I'd go "be a regular teenager" and all that good shit.

Not really an option now, huh?

[centurian]

[ um... wait just a second here. ]

Regular teenager?!

[ emphasis on "teenager". look he can't tell ages that well, ok!!! ]

this is a mess

[rightfully]

Garrus, then. It's nice to meet you.

[ Now, she'll get back to what he was asking in his broadcast! ]

I know of my own world, and it has many different species. Not merely animals, but varying sorts of people with their own traits and customs. Yet, I've only seen other humans thus far - myself, and one another. [ Some weirdo butler in full armor. ]

text | un: oswin

[ohshutup]

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.

[braidedwonder]

Uh.. yeah?

What, did you think I was older? Younger?

[centurian]

i was going with "older".

how old are you exactly? i know humans don't usually go into the military until they're eighteen, but you sound like you'd been doing these things for a while.

[ so, fifteen year olds in war? a little weird, but still not out of the realm of possibility. that is the age for all turian citizens to start their mandatory service, after all. ]

[braidedwonder]

Right now I’m seventeen. Been doing this for like two years.

much like garrus himself

[centurian]

nice to meet you too! well, sort of.

[ text and all. ]

it's similar with us. we've got dozens of species all over the galaxy, but all i've seen is just the humans here. no one else. plenty from Earth too, but none of their other colonies.

[ but then again, maybe Earth was one of the last places hit by the Storm. ]

[centurian]

huh. how about that.

actually, that'd put you right on track for a turian at your age. we all start boot camp when we're fifteen.

[braidedwonder]

I never did a boot camp, really. Not in the formal sense.

Just, you know. Training.

[centurian]

so they just picked you right out of your colony and threw you into a war?

that doesn't sound like a very sound strategy.

[ it actually sounds a... little unethical. ]