03 | VOICE.

[youbastard]

So, there’s a question I've become increasingly curious about the more people I've spoken to. What year is it where you’re from? So far I’m getting the impression that most of you are from the early 21st century or even before that. [Which is so ridiculously far in the past that she almost doesn't know what to do with it. It's definitely weird to think she's so far in the future to most people here, but it's also pretty interesting to hear about the past first hand. Even if it isn't necessarily her world's past. ]

For me it's 2514 and everything is pretty different than it is here. Earth is still our most populated planet, but we have colonies on almost all of the other planets, in our galaxy and outside of it. We have a very nice metropolis on the moon, New Horizon's Lunar Colony. We had a few civilian space stations that were metropolis size too, like Titan Station. It was built around the fragments of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons and it was huge. [She doesn't even notice that she slips into past tense when talking about Titan Station.]

I've honestly never spent very long on Earth, I wasn't even born there. What I have seen is pretty different than this place. I'd be interested to know what it's like in the year you're from too. Is it like this Earth, similar, or very different?

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voice;

[abadidea]

[Don't mind him. He's just...being a nerd.]

Weird. We're from the same year. And yeah, Earth's pretty different, there. This place is a lot more green.

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[youbastard]

[Hey, at least it gets a small chuckle. Nerd. Such a nerd.] What a coincidence. Here I thought I was the only one from that particular year. The green is nice though, so is the lack of pollution.

Voice

[viced]

Goddamn. That's a far way in the future.

Voice

[youbastard]

That seems to be the common reaction. [She sounds vaguely amused.] It's definitely a bit weird.

voice;

[waiting]

[ He whistles, sharply. ]

That far in the future, I'm surprised you can even recognize this place as Earth. It's gotta be pretty different. [ He shrugs, though. ] Uh, I come from 2003, and the Earth's a little different. Not so many flying cars around -- no flying cars at all, actually.

It's similar to where I come from but also really different in a lot of little ways.

voice;

[youbastard]

If it hadn't been explained to me, I probably wouldn't have. Florida doesn't even exist anymore when I'm from. [It's so weird for her to say when.]

2003. Wow. So, what kind of cars did you have?

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[iampretty]

People can live on the moon when you're from?!

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[youbastard]

We can and do. I lived there for a few years. It's not a bad city.

voice

[axemeaquestion]

You weren't born on Earth?

voice

[youbastard]

Nope. I was born on one of the colonies, I'm not sure which one though.

voice

[khajidont]

You guys seriously live on the Moon? What, did the Earth get too overpopulated or something?

[A beat, then he remembers to answer her question in return.]

Oh, and I'm from '06 -- 2006, I mean.

[Because hey, if there's folks here from 2514, who's ruling out 1906?]

voice

[youbastard]

Not quite. Earth ran out of all of it's natural resources and we had to look elsewhere. [That is the least depressing way she can think of to explain it.]

2006 seems like it's right in the middle of some of the other answers I've gotten.

[voice]

[smarterthandad]

[Valeria has a high-pitched child's voice, but speaks with perfectly understandable adult diction.]

It's 2011.

[Or so. Comics timelines are questionable.]

This place has a higher technological floor than my Earth, but the ceiling is much, much lower.

[Ask her about comic book science! Or don't, if you'd prefer not to be bored out of your skull.]

What happened to Titan Station...and to Titan, for that matter? [Very little, like that slip into the past tense, gets by Val.] Our Titan is settled by a distant cousin race to humanity and it's still in one piece as of the last time my folks visited.

[voice]

[youbastard]

[Ellie has a moderately strong somewhat British sounding accent.]

What do you mean the ceiling is lower?

[She hesitates with the question about what happened to Titan Station. That's not something she really talks in detail about with people she knows, let alone someone she's never spoken to. So, she simply glosses over the question about the station and goes straight to talking about Titan.] Titan was the site of the first planet crack. To make a very long explanation brief, planet cracking is a way to mine a moon or planet for it's resources, it involves taking it apart.

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[alofts]

'Titan station.'

[ God fucking dammit. ]

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[youbastard]

Yeah, it was named after the moon that it was built around.

voice;

[sacrificusdux]

Titan Station? [There is a Titan moon? This is concerning, very much so. But the idea that humanity could populate other planets is something even Erwin couldn't really imagine.]

I cannot say whether our world was Earth or not, though it seems there are some connections.

voice;

[youbastard]

It was named after the pieces of the moon it was built around.

What connections are there?

voice;

[caladrius]

Well, I'm not from Earth at all, so I cant give you a year or help you make a good comparison. I cant deny that I'm curious though, since Earth seems to be the most represented world here-- since this is an Earth.

voice;

[youbastard]

The majority definitely seem to be from Earth. I think I've only met a couple of people that haven't been from Earth. How different is it here from where you're from?

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[pyms]

2514? Wow. That's— I would love to see what those colonies look or what Earth looks like in 2514.

I'm from 2014. It's not too different from this place. Slight differences here and there, but mostly the same. We have satellites and we've tapped into space travel.

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[youbastard]

I don't think you'd actually want to see what Earth's like. [Unless he wants to be really depressed.] The colonies are pretty impressive to see though, at least in my opinion.

2014, that seems to be around the norm. What kind of space travel do you have?

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[heroofjustice]

Wow.

I'm from 1976. It's really different here. I've never been to America before, but I'm pretty sure America's not like this in 1976. We don't have stuff like flying cars or these communicators.

What's it like--in the future? Are people any different? Do you like it better there?

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[youbastard]

[The video of Ellie shows a woman with two different colored eyes, one blue and one green. She's got a moderate somewhat British sounding accent and she sounds vaguely amused by the questions.]

1976. That's further from the past than most of the other answers I've gotten. [He's not the furthest in the past she's met, but he's further than the other answers that seem to be around 2000]

It's hard to describe what it's like in the future, it's all I've known. Everything is a lot more advanced. We have almost instantaneous interstellar travel, we've colonized other planets, and the medical field has come far enough to make replacing anything possible. We also have medpacks, which heal a variety of wounds within seconds. People are a bit different, people are spread out less than they used to be and there's more mixing than there seems to be here. There's still some distinctions though. [Russians still cause problems!] We also have much better ways of communication.

Whether I like it better or not is hard to answer. I miss the technology, but this world is beautiful compared to it. Where exactly are you from? If you don't mind me asking.

[earnedmystripes]

[Space colonies, man. That's still insane.]

Well, like I said before, it's 1978 NC for me. But the Earth I'm from is more or less like this one? This place is higher-tech than my city, Sternbild, but otherwise they're pretty similar.

[youbastard]

If I end up with another person from the 1970's I may have to extend the range of I was putting most people at. How higher tech is it than your city?

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[connate]

Half a millennium behind you. I think there are some people trying to pay their way onto a non-existent moon colony, but that's about it. Have you been able to tell if anyone's from your past, or just... other pasts?

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[youbastard]

You seem to be about the same as everyone else then. [She laughs just a tiny bit at the non-existent joke.] I wouldn't be surprised if people actually did that. You know, I'm not quite certain. With some people it's obvious that it's another past, but with some it's hard to tell.

voice;

[welcome]

A metropolis on the moon? [He chuckles indulgently.] Like anyone's going to believe that.

voice;

[youbastard]

I haven't met anyone who hasn't believed me.

[notdaredevil]

It's 2014 where I come from. We don't have galactic empires yet. I'm sure maybe we could, if we weren't too busy with other...distractions. But they're out there, and we know they're interested in us.

[Which doesn't really come up on Matt's radar, but nobody could miss that Skrull invasion. Nobody.]

[youbastard]

Do you mind if I ask how you know they're interested?