Experiment 001 // Video;

[anomaliiiiies]

[so have one curious looking Jane Foster, recently woken up and in the ship]

All right, this is interesting. I seem to have found myself in a pod in a crashed ship, and frankly, that doesn't look like Earth tech. And need I add that it looks like somebody went trigger happy with the terraforming? It looks a bit desolate out there.

My name is Jane Foster, and so, um, who's out there, and what is going on?

Comments

[Video]

[relicrebellion]

If the ship is human technology, it is human technology from a distant future. As for the desolation, I believe it is the result of generational war compounded by natural disaster, rather than a terraforming accident.

[Video]

[anomaliiiiies]

That was my second guess, but I was hoping for better news than that.

[Video]

[relicrebellion]

In terms of survivability, it is not entirely bad news. This planet was clearly either chosen because its environment suits your species' needs, or was terraformed in the distant past to make it do so. Both war and disaster can be recovered from. A planet that cannot support life would be...difficult, with no way off-world.

[Video]

[anomaliiiiies]

You've experience in this sort of thing? Being stranded on a planet where there are people out to kill you, I mean?

[Video]

[relicrebellion]

I was only stranded the once. [And she's still embarrassed about it, if the defensive note to her voice is any indication.] But yes. It was a necessary risk.

[Video]

[anomaliiiiies]

Well, one time is usually enough, I would think, to learn how to manage oneself in new situations. [dry tone]

[Video]

[relicrebellion]

Unfortunately, the weight of history speaks against that line of reasoning.

[Video]

[anomaliiiiies]

Only if you always look to the past to deal with the future.

[Video]

[relicrebellion]

Our people share a saying: those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Which has become a very literal truth in my own recent history.

But I was speaking of cultural patterns, and the fact that it quite often takes repeated exposure to learn how to deal with something particularly difficult.

[Video]

[anomaliiiiies]

Oh! I see now. Yes, that is quite true. For both the saying, and what you meant.