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[suoxi]

[ the feed cuts on and Inara is positioned behind the console, smiling lightly with crimson lips pulled upwards as she regarded the camer thoughtfully. She is cleaned up and prepped for a public chat, hair dried and styled as well as she was able. ]

Good evening, everyone. My name is Inara Serra, and I have recently found myself a bit out of sorts with my arrival in this strange place. I would cry kidnapping, but I hardly think that is the case.

I was wondering - and hoping - that there might just be someone I know here. Please, if you recognize me, I would greatly appreciate if it you could respond.

Also, if anyone could perhaps explain a bit more about what this place is and how I might have come to be here - and why - I would also be greatly indebted to you.

Thank you.

[ she smiles once more as she waits for responses, should they come. ]

Comments

[notdreaming]

How long ago?

[suoxi]

A little more than five hundred years ago.

[notdreaming]

[ Five hundred years isn't really that long if you're thinking about written histories, especially considering where Earth was technologically while Kara was there. So it's worth asking... ]

What happened?

[suoxi]

Resources were depleted, it was overcrowded - it wasn't good. So humans left. It was...generations ago, and it took several generations to become settled in the star system we now reside in.

[notdreaming]

I see. It's a good thing you developed space travel before it became a problem.

[suoxi]

I suppose it is, yes. Quite a lot of the...logistics are lost to the sands of ime, but some stories remain. An entire generation lived on the space ships that were shutting them to their new home. There were people, I hear, that never saw the light of day or set foot planetside.

[notdreaming]

Perhaps they could have used a bit of practice beforehand. It seems unlikely they managed to get so far in such a long time without picking up more supplies along the way.

[suoxi]

Truth be told, I just don't know. Most people these days don't pay much attention to history books, or the lessons they taught.

[ there's a lot of other, pressing concerns. ]

[notdreaming]

That's too bad. History has a lot of value.

[suoxi]

I agree. I was...educated more than most, but on the outer planets, surviving is the most important thing.

[notdreaming]

If survival is still such an issue it doesn't seem that humanity has gotten very far in that time.

[suoxi]

I wonder if we ever will.