[Kaidan catches the capital letter applied to the quality, but, aside from a curious glimmer of his eyes, he doesn't pursue inquiries. Instead he nods assent to the question, and pauses a moment to gather his own thoughts and to twiddle with a setting on his communicator.]
I should warn you that I haven't been here more than a month myself, so my information's not complete. But this planet is called Verdana, and it has a sister planet that engaged in an inter-generational war with the population here. Some of the society retreated to live in cities behind energy domes like the one there.]
[He lifts the device to let the camera take in a glimpse of the dome from where he's standing.]
Conditions in there, from what we can tell, aren't great. Totalitarian police state, they all have compromised immune systems, and dissenters can get tossed out here into the ruins, where they die in short order... although we do have one who's hanging on. He's starting to fade again, though.
Out here, you have the locals. They try and get by as best they can, and they're doing pretty well for what they're up against -- trade-based economy, low tech level, a lot of scavenging in the ruins. Then you've got the alien ship we came out of. Crash-landed some time nobody can remember, there's a legend that we were sent by the aliens to help retake the domes, free the people, that sort of thing.
[Kaidan's smile is a wry one.]
Not something I've got any problem with doing, but given the difference in tech levels between the Outer Authorities -- that's the military police squad that comes out and stomps the people here if they look like they're organizing -- and the locals, it'll be a slow process.
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I should warn you that I haven't been here more than a month myself, so my information's not complete. But this planet is called Verdana, and it has a sister planet that engaged in an inter-generational war with the population here. Some of the society retreated to live in cities behind energy domes like the one there.]
[He lifts the device to let the camera take in a glimpse of the dome from where he's standing.]
Conditions in there, from what we can tell, aren't great. Totalitarian police state, they all have compromised immune systems, and dissenters can get tossed out here into the ruins, where they die in short order... although we do have one who's hanging on. He's starting to fade again, though.
Out here, you have the locals. They try and get by as best they can, and they're doing pretty well for what they're up against -- trade-based economy, low tech level, a lot of scavenging in the ruins. Then you've got the alien ship we came out of. Crash-landed some time nobody can remember, there's a legend that we were sent by the aliens to help retake the domes, free the people, that sort of thing.
[Kaidan's smile is a wry one.]
Not something I've got any problem with doing, but given the difference in tech levels between the Outer Authorities -- that's the military police squad that comes out and stomps the people here if they look like they're organizing -- and the locals, it'll be a slow process.