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thisavrou2017-02-24 03:07 pm
sketchycharacter) wrote in thisavrou2017-02-24 03:07 pm
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['sup everyone. It's your friendly historianerd here today, speaking into his TAB from...somewhere kinda high, judging by the background.]
I've been doing some exploring in Region Five lately, and I think I figured something out—everyone who came from the Moira, we're not the first humans to get here. [He laughs.] Well, obviously—there are other people who look like us. But it's not some sci-fi TV show thing where they're just aliens who happened to look the same. Check it out.
[He angles the TAB camera around, and it becomes clear that high is high—not skyscraper-level, but Nate has scaled some centrally-located building with a good view of various streets.]
Over there—Victorian houses right next to Edwardian ones, like the block is showing the passage of time. Couple streets over [the camera swings around] and you've got the late Italian. That's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to architecture.
And on some of the nicer streets and in parks there's Colombian statuary from mid-1700s, some Greek stuff—I did some sketches if anyone wants to see. [No one does. Probably.] it's the real thing, too, the actual style and not some fake imitation bullshit.
It's not that surprising, right? Ingresses existed before we ever showed up on the Moira, so they probably grabbed people from Earth before we ended up here, too. The point is, this planet isn't just a crossroads of culture, it's a crossroads of history, too. If people brought their architecture and their art, they brought all kinds of other knowledge too, things that might not have made it into the historical record, at least not in detail. We should take advantage of that. I've already seen one library that's as big as the Moira's, if not bigger—I'm gonna go exploring there once I get down from here.
[So this is basically an overly excited PSA for the local Kauto library, apparently.]
I've been doing some exploring in Region Five lately, and I think I figured something out—everyone who came from the Moira, we're not the first humans to get here. [He laughs.] Well, obviously—there are other people who look like us. But it's not some sci-fi TV show thing where they're just aliens who happened to look the same. Check it out.
[He angles the TAB camera around, and it becomes clear that high is high—not skyscraper-level, but Nate has scaled some centrally-located building with a good view of various streets.]
Over there—Victorian houses right next to Edwardian ones, like the block is showing the passage of time. Couple streets over [the camera swings around] and you've got the late Italian. That's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to architecture.
And on some of the nicer streets and in parks there's Colombian statuary from mid-1700s, some Greek stuff—I did some sketches if anyone wants to see. [No one does. Probably.] it's the real thing, too, the actual style and not some fake imitation bullshit.
It's not that surprising, right? Ingresses existed before we ever showed up on the Moira, so they probably grabbed people from Earth before we ended up here, too. The point is, this planet isn't just a crossroads of culture, it's a crossroads of history, too. If people brought their architecture and their art, they brought all kinds of other knowledge too, things that might not have made it into the historical record, at least not in detail. We should take advantage of that. I've already seen one library that's as big as the Moira's, if not bigger—I'm gonna go exploring there once I get down from here.
[So this is basically an overly excited PSA for the local Kauto library, apparently.]
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People from Earth or Earth similar places are usually the targets of the Ingress. But often it chooses people with something exceptional about them.
[He doesn't want to think about the idea of not going home, though, or that some of these people trapped here had kids. What if their parents were returned and never knew afterwards? Sort of a scalding thought.]
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On my base all soldiers are evaluated on a scale from E to S. S+ being the highest possible rank that they can achieve with productivity, mission success, notoriety, ingenuity... When I left, the R+D department of our base had in excess of 400 some A+ rank people, and a few S rank ones.
And five people in this place can do in a week what they can in a month. It's that sort of exceptional.
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By the skin of your teeth still counts.
The attack on the ship should have claimed a lot more victims than it did. [The ones that it did still upset him, but...]
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[He shrugs.]
I knew about the buildings because I know a lot about history. And I've survived some desperate situations because you run into them from time to time in my line of work. That's just skill, grit and some luck.
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For the most part, the Ingress has chosen people that have withstood what "normal" humans wouldn't normally. When the Cadacuns attacked, they were completely defeated with minimal losses on our side. When the the ship was overwhelmed by external threats, most of the crew successfully faced them. In any average population, it would have been impossible to fare so well.
On our base, we had five different classifications for skills. Combat, medical, research and development, support, and intel. When I was running the training sim, usually people excelled in at least one of those categories. I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule, but I've yet to see them. You have a knack for acquiring and differentiating useful information. What I'd class as intel.
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[Not that great, in his opinion. He remembers the aftermath as being pretty wretched. But he had been alive to experience it, and that's something.]
You make it sound like it'd be a spy or something, though. That's definitely not my kind of intel.
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Espionage is a way to use intel, yeah, but it's not always that. Intelligence includes the ability to efficiently locate resources, map areas, identify safe and hazardous locations, discern value of items or correctly identify them in general.
It's just how the intel is used that makes the difference between a spy or an archaeologist. I even knew a very talented woman [read: hot] who was an ornithologist who could accurately pinpoint locations in recordings from the birds she heard in the background.
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[Nathan shut up.]
Bet she'd have an interesting time here. There must be plenty of alien birds to learn about.
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She probably went back to Paris.
[A French bird nerd.]
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Yeah, well, maybe she'll get her chance one of these days. Have you ever noticed that once someone comes through an Ingress, it's more likely that someone they know will, too? A friend of mine thinks it has something to do with a weakened dimensional wall being more likely to open up again...or something like that.
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I hope it wouldn't be while I was here. I'd rather her remember me for who I as than meet me like I am now.
I actually knew how to show a girl a good time back then.
[Cécile was super annoyed by him and he existed to be annoying. That was his good time.]
In any case, yeah... don't gotta be a spy to be great at intelligence gathering.
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All right, you're the expert. I'll take your word for it, but I'll stick with what I'm doing now.