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[hertale]

[Zoë has figured this thing out pretty quickly - she wouldn't be a modern teenager if she couldn't, after all. It's weird, and different from her PDA, but it's okay. She grins at the camera - the hospital can be seen behind her, so it's pretty clear she's in Leo ward.]

Hey! I'm... new here, I guess? I have no idea where I am. I tried asking someone what planet I was on and they just gave me a weird look. It's not Huckleberry because it doesn't smell like goat, and it's not Roanoake because it doesn't smell like farts. So... where am I?

Please tell me I didn't end up in some unexplored region of space because my mom is going to kill me if I did.

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[greyerrant]

You are on old Earth.

[hertale]

[Her eyes go wide.]

Wait what. Really? I mean I think that's where we were going to go, but it was going to take a while, and -

[... Something's wrong.]

What... year is it here?

[It's supposed to be different here, right? ... Did someone break time or something?]

[greyerrant]

I'm not sure. Sometime in M3, I believe. Well before my time.

As far as I can tell, we are well into the age of the Stellar Exodus.

[hertale]

[Those sure were a lot of terms she's not familiar with.]

M3? Stellar Exodus? What do you mean by that, exactly?

[greyerrant]

The historical explanation would be long and involved, but the basic concept is that this is the time period when man left Terra for other stars.

[hertale]

... Hasn't it just been a few hundred years?

[greyerrant]

To give some context, in my time, it is the 30th Millennium.

[hertale]

...

[...]

... Okay, what's going on here?

[greyerrant]

What do you mean?

[hertale]

It's not even close to that millennium where I'm from. Not by human time, at least.

[greyerrant]

Humanity rises and falls, many times, or so it is said. Some people talk about a great cycle.

[hertale]

... I don't know about you, but I'm doing what I can to make sure it doesn't fall.

[greyerrant]

[ The armored figure leans into the picture a bit and growls. }

Do you think men like me are made for anything other the defense of humanity?

[hertale]

[She is not intimidated, sorry.]

To be fair, I wasn't entirely sure if you were human or not. It's rude to assume that kind of thing.

[greyerrant]

I am human, though altered. I am a Space Marine, in the vernacular, though we prefer the Legiones Astartes.

[hertale]

Altered human... like the Colonial Defense Force, I guess.

[Though maybe not green. Possibly.]