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[tellmejohn]

[Voice]

As a species, "humans" have a great deal of variations for abilities, do they not? Witnessing only Luceti, the range is quite... fascinating. Do you imagine these differences come with changes to their DNA structure, or learned abilities which don't matter terribly much to their genetic code? [Inhale] Thus far, the evidence I've collected [the samples he examined of Adele's] seems to point to the former. Though my sampling pool has been... limited. Thus far.

[Hah ]

Perhaps I am simply seeking kindred spirits. Are any of you from a reality where space travel is a realized and daily face of your existence?

[Too few

PS: As it's a voice post it's not super relevant but on the offchance you run into him in Action (and you can if you want! He's in his den behind C5) see here]

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[Voice]

[castbytheglyph]

Nah nah, you got it all wrong. It's totally all learned, or passed on through glowy humanoid whatchamajiggers. You just throw around one of those super long incantation things, spin around, throw your weapon in the air like you just don't care and BAM! Swirling vortex of water splashing around like crazy.

[Buuut she doesn't want to get into the nitty gritty of cryas expansion theorem sooo enough of that.]

Plus when you get the saying down you can just throw out whatever and the arte works like there's nothin' to it! You get me?

[voice]

[vor]

Yes.

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[hidingworks]

I live on a spaceship.

[Voice]

[kineticcajun]

What're you samplin' for, anyhow?

[Because you are setting off all kinds of mental alarms, going on about DNA structures and abilities.]

[Voice]

[tellmejohn]

Variation. Whatever I might find. [Inhale] A greater understanding of the species, given my lack of familiarity with it.

voice:

[tellmejohn]

Do you. Not anymore, I imagine.

[voice]

[tellmejohn]

How very distressing being planetbound must be for you.

[Voice]

[tellmejohn]

I do not. "Ahachamajiggers?"

[voice]

[vor]

Not especially, sorry. I grew up planetside.

[voice]

[tellmejohn]

Ah. My apologies, I was projecting.

[voice]

[vor]

Nothing wrong with that. Station-born?

voice:

[hidingworks]

Okay. Well, no. Not anymore. But I did. For over a year. Before I got yanked here.

[Voice]

[castbytheglyph]

Whatchamajiggers, you nearly got it though! That's like a seven out of ten for your first try. Go you! [Clap clap claaap.]

But yeah, glowy stuff, cryas artes and all that jazz. They're the things that let you lay the smackdown on monsters before they can even work out 'hey is that a giant blast of wind heading straight for me or- WAH'! Like that.

[voice]

[tellmejohn]

Dreadnought, actually. [Scarran, but lala, not getting into that] It is relatively common for Peacekeepers to be born aboard the vessels their parents serve on.

voice:

[tellmejohn]

A year. [One cycle] New to space, or simply to that vessel?

[Voice]

[tellmejohn]

Cryas artes?

[voice]

[vor]

I see. [A pause.] Sounds like quite the risk, allowing pregnant women to serve like that. They must take their honor very seriously.

[Spoken with a lot of respect. Risk in service is what being Vor is all about, and the feudal Barrayaran oath system is based on honor.

The jackasses who let pregnant women serve, on the other hand, might get a different tone.]

voice:

[hidingworks]

Sort of both?

I don't know if you know the Crystalis solar system. But I'm from Nimon. Left there when I was eighteen, traveled on a ship to Wyar. Lived there for three years. Joined the crew of Confidante.

[A very abridged version of her history, really.]

[Voice]

[kineticcajun]

Jus' curiosity, then.

[Yeah, right. It's never that simple.]

[Voice]

[castbytheglyph]

Yup, cryas artes. [Is she talking to a parrot here or what.]

Anyhoo, why do ya' want to know all this stuff? The biological DNA whatevers aren't really my thing, that's more my Sis and her crazy awesome monster's department, but tell me anyway!

[cannoneer]

Not common for Earth. But we've got a working interstellar ship I made from an alien ship. She's a beauty too. And I know the League's got some ships like that too. We've got an alien on the team, so we head out into space sometimes.

[voice]

[truthin_bones]

Perhaps you could clarify what abilities you are specifically referring to? As it is, I find your statement to be too broad to provide an adequate answer to.

[Voice]

[notshadowfever]

Space travel is fairly uncommon where I come from, though certain genius scientists have been known to have their own space fleets!

[Totally talking about himself, in case it's not obvious.]

[Voice]

[tellmejohn]

Curiosity. Much of the enclosure is made up of species I am entirely unfamiliar with and as such... study of them is quite intriguing.

However, if that isn't your specialty- what, per se, is?

[voice]

[tellmejohn]

Naturally. Peacekeepers are raised to believe in ideals of honor, duty, and sacrifice. To ensure the well being of the billions who rely on the Peacekeepers for their protection, the dedication of every soldier to the cause must be their first priority.