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[Ignoring that boyfriend bit.]

I've continued to train in my spare time, of course.

My endurance does appear to be increasing.

[hellrisen02]

That's what she said

Good, then it's working. In practice, but have you tested it in actual application?

That is, if the need has arisen.

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In combat, you mean?

I am afraid that I try to avoid such altercations if at all possible. Aside from our training sessions, the need has not arisen to test my abilities with any other individuals.

[hellrisen02]

Not really an unfortunate situation, there.

Trial by fire always works best anyway.

You're gonna need it.

[d33tached]

Inevitably, though do you happen to have something specific in mind that you are attempting to warn me of?

[hellrisen02]

I might do something stupid soon.

You hear about that moon base?

[d33tached]

[Oh, great.]

Something about it.

What are you going to do, Shinigami?

[Son is suddenly concerned.]

[hellrisen02]

Keeping this government out of my home.

So, you know, if I disappear.

I need you to do something for me.

Somethings.

[d33tached]

Of course.

[Check out that loyalty. He doesn't even question it.]

I will await your orders.

[Now, that made it a little creepy.]

1/2

[hellrisen02]

Uh

Can you

Not

Say that

2/2

[hellrisen02]

Anyway

If I get canned, look after the brat, make sure he doesn't get mixed up in trying to break me out or anything like that.

(You can suppress him just don't like, break anything.)

And there are materials I'm trying to get out of my little escapade. If I get caught before I can get them out I need you and him to come pick them up all secret-like.

I'll give you a rendezvous if that happens.

And if I end up in space and can't contact Earth, I need you to get a message to the Cybertronian "Riptide".

(Look at that, I've got contingencies up the wazoo, aren't I a little cool?)

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[Oh, great. So he's being reduced to a babysitter - and he has to talk to Riptide.]

Very well.

I have experience in retrieving materials. That should be of little issue.

[He won't speak on the rest for now.]

What business do you have in space, if I might ask?

[hellrisen02]

I said, didn't I? I don't want them mucking about

They can keep their mitts to Earth in their own territory

Space is free right now and it should stay that way if the Earth can't even keep peace with each other

[The way he talks of Earth as a separate entity...]

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[Yes, about that...]

Your home, you've said.

Are you from outer space, then?

[He never would have guessed that, despite how many others he's met in this world that come from the same. Priests...in space?]

[hellrisen02]

What gave you that idea? Haha.

I guess I won't be keeping it secret much longer if I get involved with this, so yeah. I am.

What do you want to know about it?

[Because he knows you're going to ask.]

[d33tached]

[A lot is the answer, but for starters:]

How does one actually live in outer space?

Did you live on a different planet? A different galaxy, perhaps?

[hellrisen02]

Nah, I'm from the Earth's orbit. Man-made habitats have existed for about 200 years, when I come from.

They're called colonies, there's hundreds of them. I was born on a colony in the Lagrange-2 cluster, located on the backside of the moon-Earth orbit. They look just like cities, except everything is internally gravitational.

Imagine if you looked up but instead of sky, you saw the other half of the city. Like the Earth turned inside out- that's a colony.

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I see.

[Well, he's trying to picture it, anyway.]

Are these something like man-made planets?]

[hellrisen02]

Do you?

[file attachment: stanford torus.jpg]

More like a donut. I've read, early on, there were hypothetical models using an internalized sphere, but they were scrapped in favor of this design for the majority of colonies.

wtf is that bracket doing there rip me

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[Donuts, you say?]

I see.

[He's...starting to get it? A little? Maybe?]

As you may well imagine, such things did not exist in the world from whence I came.

Not to my knowledge, anyway.

[hellrisen02]

[Delicious, spinny space donuts.]

You say that a lot and I'm never quite sure if you do or not

I figured, I've never come across a single imPort who was familiar with them- not even other space-faring ones.

[d33tached]

Would that mean that you have yet to come into contact with another ImPort from your world, Shinigami?

Aside from the obvious.

[Can you hear him rolling his eyes?]

[hellrisen02]

I meant amongst those not from my world, obviously.

[Not entirely an answer.]

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[He noticed.]

That doesn't answer my question.

[hellrisen02]

I'm glad you noticed!

[It's cute you think the call out will produce an answer, Deedee.]