AUDIO: Whoops.

[kingtyrantranger]

[Whoops. That'd been a thing for a while.

His voice snaps onto the omnicomm, filled with good humor. Jason's still not comfortable with the omnicomm's video function, especially since he's still having to dot his face with anti-fungal cream.]

I'm gonna start this off with a warning. Doublecheck to be sure that the mail you're opening is actually yours. I had to figure that out when I accidentally picked up something meant for Brainiac 5. The good news is that I'm now out of quarantine and the med techs are pretty sure I'm not going to grow any more mushrooms.

Thanks, guys. I don't know if I can look at a pizza the same way again, though.

[He'd spent most of the past few weeks trying to learn the Interlac alphabet on his own, without the earpieces translating for him. Might keep those mix-ups from happening again.

His voice takes on a wry tone, almost apologetic.]

So it sounds like I missed some action and a few new romances. Sorry about that, gang. For the new guys I missed, hey. I'm Jason, from Angel Grove, California, and I don't really do anything exciting. Nice to meet you all.

Comments

[deafleppard]

hey, hey. don't go ahead and jinx them

seriously, that's rule #1

[kingtyrantranger]

Whoa, yeah. Maybe I should see if there's any wood to knock on.

[deafleppard]

hang on.

is there? like, any wood at all in here?

[kingtyrantranger]

Well, I've seen things that looked like wood? But I don't know if they're really trees and wood or just some kind of plastic that looks like wood.

There's got yo be real trees, though. How else are we going to get oxygen?

[googledox]

Trees still exist in the future.

[Come on, people.]

[deafleppard]

well that's good to know.

[kingtyrantranger]

It was a legitimate concern!

[He did keep hearing about the dangers of deforestation and all, after all.]

[googledox]

Without trees, multiple planets would have failed to continue sustaining life and would have become barren wastelands. None of us would be here if that were the case.

[deafleppard]

so you still can't just like...

make planets automatically livable with science?

[that's not how any of this works, gwen.]

[googledox]

That would be terraforming, which we can indeed do, but on inhabited planets the population needs somewhere to live. The process isn't instantaneous.

That's why there is currently an immigration problem on several worlds. The planet Xanthu was rendered nearly uninhabitable due to Robotica devastating it while they were being controlled by a homicidal AI.

[He'll just leave out that that AI was his son, for right now.]

The UP is currently terraforming the planet to render it habitable again but the process may take several years, which means the Xanthan diaspora are without a world until the process is finished.

It's much more beneficial to preserve a planet's ecological systems than it is to terraform it. Fixing something that's broken is always more difficult than preventing it from being broken in the first place.

[deafleppard]

[gwen had to read that a couple of times before it actually made sense to her.

but we're good, now.]

oh, okay. yeah I guess that makes sense.