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[wolfchild]

Do you keep your gods here? I've wandered the ship.
There's not a temple or sept or statue.
Who knows to work the vehicles in the hangar?
Also what is an augment?

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[predomination]

Not entirely. It's more like improving on what's already there. Say you aren't very strong- augmentations done to your body would make you stronger.

[wolfchild]

What's wrong with that, then?

[predomination]

Nothing, really. Unless you just have some personal bias against artificial enhancements. Some people take issue with things that are "unnatural."

[wolfchild]

Everything here's unnatural.

[predomination]

[the chuckle is almost palpable.]

Depending on where you're from! But some people have very strong feelings on adding inorganic parts to organic ones, but as long as it's voluntary I don't see an issue. It's a cheap way to get stronger, but some people don't have other alternatives.

[wolfchild]

Do you have any?

[predomination]

Oh heavens no. That sort of thing is all science fiction where I'm from.

[wolfchild]

It's what?

[predomination]

[oh right. that might be a thing where she's from.]

Something out of stories. A lot of things we encounter aren't that unusual for some of us because we've seen or read about them in fiction. This is one of those things.

It's going to be interesting seeing it all up close.

[wolfchild]

Like the the imps last time. And the ogres.

[ and the magic. and the dragons. ]

[predomination]

Exactly! I'm coming to realize that just about everything in stories is real somewhere.

[But, honestly, he figured that. Being a mythical creature in Japanese folklore, himself.]

[wolfchild]

Not everything. [ there’s nowhere that isn’t cruel. ]
But it’s true enough, I guess.
I miss Oska sometimes. The library there had all sorts of useful information.

[predomination]

I do too, actually. It was nice to be on solid ground the majority of the time.

Space lost its novelty after that prison ship.

[wolfchild]

I wasn’t there for that one. I think I was brought right after it.

[predomination]

Thank goodness you missed it. And then we got stuck on that labyrinth planet right after.

The last bit of time in ALASTAIR was a lot more harrowing than I recalled, actually.

[wolfchild]

The last mission was. Those stupid breaking rocks.

[ ten years later she will still be viscerally offended if she’s alive. ]

[predomination]

[Don't remind him. He spend 90% of that mission in Bankai holding the rocks together and pretty much exhausted himself. That was F U N.]

That was completely unnecessary. I suppose it made for a good security system, but it was a pain in the butt to work with.

[wolfchild]

You can say ass. I won't tell.