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airlockedmods ([personal profile] airlockedmods) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2017-10-16 12:01 pm
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Welcome to the Program

Good Morning, Champions. In the interest of maintaining healthy sleep patterns, a day/night cycle is in effect. Your presence is expected in the cafeteria in exactly one hour.

[The voice comes through not a large speaker, but through the device that's attached to each Champion's arm. Further investigation of the features of the device will reveal a list of profiles, a mini-map, and a list of rules. The hallways are shiny white and silver, with running lights along the floor and lights on the ceiling, and at the junction of the hallways is a sign with a knife and fork icon and an arrow pointing down the hall.

Welcome to the Excellence Program, Champions. Time to get to know your teammates.]
karappo: (I officially have worse injuries)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-20 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
N-nothing! I was just surprised, is all...I was not expecting my assumption of you fighting aliens to be the correct one.

[Though he has met someone else who has spent a hell of a lot of time in space so it probably shouldn't be all that surprising.]
batfortheprincess: (♦ are you certain of this?)

[personal profile] batfortheprincess 2017-10-21 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Huh?

[Aliens... Martians... oh. He doesn't relax quite yet, but.]

N-no, it has nothing to do with aliens. You... you haven't heard of the Vers Empire?
karappo: but completely the opposite (it's like)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-21 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
...I am afraid I do not know what that is.
batfortheprincess: (♦ is there no other choice?)

[personal profile] batfortheprincess 2017-10-22 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah... he's not sure if he should be feeling relieved or not over all this unfamiliarity with things that are common knowledge to him, but the tension does leave his shoulders.]

The Vers Empire is a nation that was founded on Mars almost thirty years ago, by the colonists that settled there from Earth. There has been... a great deal of tension between the planets since then.

[Although shit is a lot more complicated than just that, but he figures that's probably enough context for Karamatsu right now.]
karappo: but completely the opposite (it's like)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-22 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Wow. That's...wow.]

I cannot say that Mars is settled at all back home, at least not as far as I know...we have only made it so far as the moon.
batfortheprincess: (♦ what...?)

[personal profile] batfortheprincess 2017-10-22 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
There wasn't a hypergate excavated on the Moon?

[This is apparently news to him. Yeah...]
karappo: when the bar uses your drunk picture to scare people (its horrible of you to say)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-22 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
A...a what?

[Apparently no, there wasn't.]
batfortheprincess: (♦ i don't mean to speak out of turn...)

[personal profile] batfortheprincess 2017-10-23 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. The technology that allowed us to travel to Mars, it... it was found on the Moon first, by one of the landers. They said it was the remnants of an ancient Marsian civilization and they named it the hypergate.

[so yes, Karamatsu. aliens were a thing once upon a time.]
karappo: <user name=bureiku> (I have two stamps on my hand)

[personal profile] karappo 2017-10-23 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Little does he know that he'll remember that aliens are a thing in his world, too...just not right now.]

How long did it take to uncover something like that? Surely we would have noticed it by now, too...
batfortheprincess: (♦ please give me a moment.)

[personal profile] batfortheprincess 2017-10-24 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure, but I believe it was discovered shortly after they had landed, since it was a fairly conspicuous device. It was capable of warping fleets of transport ships, so it must have been sizable.