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[worldkiller]

[ So, since she's the last survivor of Krypton with her cousin and that clone, she's taking a wild guess no one will answer her if she talks in her native tongue. Instead she puts out a text post. ]

< I... where am I?

This isn't Earth, is it?

.... You can understand this, right? I played with this device a little to see how it works. It says that it has a translating function on it. I can't be sure if my words are going through well or not since I don't know the language.

Thank you.* >

[ *Translated from Kryptonian. ]

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[lehnsherr]

This planet is named Verdana. I have no idea where it is located in relation to Earth.

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[worldkiller]

< At least it's a name.

I don't understand how I got here, though. Or why... >

[lehnsherr]

I'm sure there are a number of theories already circulating. But nothing has been confirmed as of yet.

[worldkiller]

< I should have known straight answers would be hard to come by. >

[lehnsherr]

We're on an alien planet. Even the locals aren't entirely certain as to why we're here.

[worldkiller]

< That's strange. I've done something like this before and while I couldn't figure everything out I at least was able to learn some things immediately. Here it seems like there's not even the most basic of answers to start with. >

[lehnsherr]

You've been abducted and taken to other worlds before?

[worldkiller]

< Not abducted, but I woke up on Earth without realizing how or why I was there. I found some of those answers quickly, unlike here. >

[lehnsherr]

You aren't originally from Earth.

[worldkiller]

< I'm from Krypton. >

[lehnsherr]

Krypton?

[worldkiller]

< A planet with some more advance technologies than Earth's, but for the most part civilization seems fairly similar if different in execution. What I could make of Earth, at least. >

[lehnsherr]

And is interplanetary travel commonplace amongst those from Krypton?

[worldkiller]

< No.

Krypton was destroyed. I don't know how I survived. >

[lehnsherr]

Then those answers you found related to why you were sent to Earth as opposed to how.

[worldkiller]

< It was a small how. They made a pod for me, but I was unable to get anything more. >

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[thecricketer]

I'm afraid not, no. Did you awake on the ship?

And may I ask what you're translating from? I know quite a few languages.

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[worldkiller]

< I did. In one of those... pods.

Kryptonian. Do you know that one? > [ She'd love to get to talk in with someone who spoke her native tongue. ]

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[thecricketer]

Kryptonian - no, I'm afraid not. I am, however, a fast learner.

Can I ask where you're from? [it isn't a language of Earth, he knows that much]

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[worldkiller]

[ Oh... that was disappointing. ]

< Krpyton. It's... far from Earth. >

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[thecricketer]

As is my own world.

[he's hearing of entirely too many unknown planets, all told]

Have you enjoyed your time on Earth? I'm quite fond of it, myself.

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[worldkiller]

< Your world?

I like the sun. Same as the sun here. I have only been attacked since coming to Earth. >

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[thecricketer]

Yes - Gallifrey.

I'm sorry to hear that. There's a great deal of good to be found there, but...just as much malevolence. Like most worlds, really.

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[radars]

Certainly not Earth, unfortunately.

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[worldkiller]

< That's... what I've heard. And that no one knows why or how we came here? >

voice

[radars]

Only that it must have been for a purpose. Of some kind.

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[worldkiller]

< That unknown purpose is a little worrying... >

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[radars]

Quite, but it can't be helped. I don't plan on adhering to anyone else's agenda, if that helps.

Charles Xavier.

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[worldkiller]

< You are not alone in that, then.

Kara Zor-El. >

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[radars]

Kara. Good to meet you. You awakened on the ship, am I right to say that?

[femshep]

[The newcomer's already had the tour, so to speak, so Shepard's holding off for a minute and then sending a text back:]

Any chance you'd give me some of that out loud? I'm a little curious to see if my translator'll pick it up.

[worldkiller]

[ Oh! Well that's not a request she expected. So she repeats her original post in her voice this time, before sending with a text message. ]

< Did that work? >

[femshep]

It's either glitching or not in the system. So I have to ask: Who are you?

[Who is she, what is she, why isn't her language one of the thousands in Shepard's translator's system--even some of the other non-Citadel languages here are vaguely translatable, in a bits-and-pieces grasping-at-straws kind of way.]

[worldkiller]

[ She almost feels mute at this point. No one understanding her and so she can't speak to anyone. ]

< Kara Zor-El. From the planet Krypton. No one seems to know it. >

[femshep]

[Shepard's fortunate to have spent her whole life with the translator chip--she's never quite had to feel the way Kara's feeling right now.]

Don't take it personally. Not too many people know much about life outside of the known galaxy.