voice.

[tagential]

[There's not much to hear in the background when Edwon starts recording. It's quiet, deliberately so, making him easy to hear. And when he speaks, it's with an imperial British accent.]

I've recently arrived, and I have a couple of questions. First: Are there really no stars?

Normally I'd be able to sense them - I'm Miraluka, so I don't have eyes - but here there's nothing. And I can feel the heat from a local sun, but as far as I can tell, it's not actually in the sky.

[He sounds really confused, though he's been doing enough digging to both know that the sun is in its rightful place, and to have some idea as to why he can't sense it. He just wants to know how people react to this.]

And so far I've only run into Humans. Are there really no other species here?

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video, because who cares if edwon can see him, HE DESERVES TO BE SEEN

[biochemastery]

Welcome to Earth. It's terrible. Also it's got a moon. [No. He's not going to admit he didn't notice that at first.]

There's humans everywhere. None of them've bothered becoming anything better yet. Can you believe that?

You, though. Miraluka, you said? What'dyou mean, "sense"? What's to sense about them?

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[tagential]

I can’t sense a moon, either, and I’d notice something that big.

[Just going to play up his confusion here.]

Becoming better how? [He can guess, honestly. ] What species are you?

I can’t see, but I can sense the world around me. Otherwise I’d have a hard time getting around.

voice;

[loyal_soldier]

[Miraluka. That's one of the species that he learned about in flash training. All he knows are basic vital stats: near-human, blind, but have some sort of penetrating senses to make up for it, and no mention of how to neutralize that. He hadn't ever thought about that flash training file until now, but it's an odd one. Usually you got a countermeasure listed, but maybe they were just so rare that the data wasn't on file.]

There are stars. I'm not sure why you can't see them. Has it been like this since you arrived? [He's almost tempted to check whether he can still see the sun, just in case another anomaly's starting.]

The native population is one hundred percent human. There's more variation among imPorts, but it's still human-majority.

[tagential]

Yes. There’s nothing in the sky, as far as I can tell.

[And even if he does know why, it’s still weird. It feels like a giant void above his head.]

I take it you’re human as well?

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[helpdesk_hero]

Well, some of us aren't exactly human, but I imagine that humans and mutants probably seem the same to people from other worlds.

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[tagential]

That depends on the type of mutation.

voice

[anthropophagite]

I have met non-humans, all of them Imports. But most are "humanoid".


There are stars though. And the closest one we have is the Sun.

[tagential]

I wonder why that is. There's plenty of other species to choose from.

[And he'd be considered humanoid himself, aside from his lack of eyes, so.]

I've been informed, though I still can't sense them.

Voice

[rimuru]

There are plenty of stars in the sky!


As for the Human matter - I'm not one! But the natives of this Earth are humans, if you don't count non-sentient species.

[tagential]

That's what I've been told. It's strange.

[He sighs a little, like it still bothers him.]

Can I ask what species you are?

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[thyarchon]

Thou can normally sense the aetheric resonance of the stars?

[That is the most important thing.]

...and thou art correct, the native population of sentient beings upon this planet art entirely human, tis... unsettling.

[tagential]

I’ve never heard that term for it, but yes.

[Another non-human, then. He’s used to being the minority, but it’s still a relief.]

It is. It seems the Porter has a preference. Can I ask what species you are?

[adamantlyardent]

You'll have quite the time spying any stars within the city; the lamp lights are bright enough to drown them out. Try wandering far from the cities and you'll see signs of them.

As for nonhumans, there are a handful of us. Not many.

And it shows.

[tagential]

Light pollution doesn’t matter to me. Like I mentioned, I don’t have eyes.

It does make us stand out even more.

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[fireandhoney]

There's more than a few non-humans here. I'm a Dunmer, for example.

[tagential]

So I'm starting to notice. [He sounds a little bit pleased by that.] It's several species I hadn't heard of, too.

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[youarespecial]

I wouldn't say there's nothing but humans. There's myself and my fellow Reptilian.

[tagential]

That's a relief. The natives are all human, which make the other species more difficult to notice.

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[justlittle]

[ Bean usually defaults to text because he doesn't trust people not to patronize him when they can see or hear his young age, but if this person is blind... Sure, text to speech capabilities exist, but it wouldn't exactly be a kind thing to force him to resort to that. ]

What is it about the stars that you sense? Because I can tell you that they're still there.

[tagential]

[He appreciates it. He's been using voice-to-text with some people, but talking is definitely easier. He'll repay it by not being patronizing... Which is something he's more likely to do to adults anyway.]

Their presence, and their energy. The sky feels like a void, and it shouldn't.

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[kid_flash_found]

It probably has to do with the way the nanites either interfere or mimic any abilities imPorts have outside the human norm. I know there's limits on how high people can fly and other restrictions like that. I'm not really sure how they work, because it's part of the stuff the Porter people try to keep under wraps, like how any of this tech really works.

But since you can't fly past Earth's atmosphere, it might make sense that you can't sense things further than that, either.

[tagential]

That seems to be the likely explanation, from what I've been told.

[He'll pause for a second, though he's had time to consider the implications by now.]

Do you think the limitations are deliberate?

voice

[ct_7567]

It sounds to me like most people have set you right on the moon and the stars. There are non-humans here, but none that aren't imPorts. This planet only has humans as their sentient species, and the rest of the galaxy here is either unexplored or barren.

I've heard of your people before, though I've never met any of your kind. That means we're likely from the same galaxy.

[tagential]

A few people were aware of the limitations these nanites give us, but not all. Is it common to share vital information like that among imPorts?

[He knows not everyone cares enough to pay attention to something like that, even if that's not an attitude he understands. But meeting more people from his own galaxy is exactly what he wanted.]

You might be. What time are you from?

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[bifroster]

No stars?

[Nope, that isn't possible.]

I study the stars, so I can promise that they are there. Perhaps stars in this universe aren't like the ones in yours, so there isn't anything to sense.

[tagential]

Apparently any abilities we might have get cut off at the edge of the atmosphere.

[There's no need to pretend to be confused about that anymore - The question drew the attention he wanted it to.]

That includes senses, if they're not human ones. So I'll have to take your word for it.