I - Observations

[dynast_seraph]

[Ashe's handwriting isn't as neat as one might perhaps expect - but then, working with the Resistance didn't leave much time to keep up with her penmanship.]

So, I've reached Soeldei at last. The city of new beginnings... Perhaps there can be one even for me.

I'm staying in a hostel in Psilos district - Chairetizo, I believe it's called.  The owner

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[willofdurasteel]

[ her writing is plain for once; with a distinct casual scrawl as she gets used to writing at all ]

Considering how primitive this place is compared to what most of us are probably used to--it's no wonder they worship the sun. I just don't like how under wraps said worship is conducted.

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[dynast_seraph]

I don't know... It doesn't really seem quite that primitive. Simply because they don't use magick as a power source doesn't make them backward.

And the sun's more reliable than a lot of gods seem to be, if you listen to the stories.

[willofdurasteel]

Magic? Never heard of it, but that's not what I mean. Technology, and how advanced some of our worlds are with it compared to this one.

[dynast_seraph]

I'm sorry, I think we've misunderstood each other again. Magick and technology are more or less one and the same where I come from. This place isn't too different, actually.

Either way, religion doesn't necessarily say anything about a culture's development.

[willofdurasteel]

That's new. I'm more used to hyperdrives and power couplings and heating coils. Not so much anything powered by magic.

Maybe, or maybe not. I never said it was bad, though. Just something to adapt to.

[dynast_seraph]

What exactly do "hyperdrives" do?

I suppose so.

[willofdurasteel]

Take a starship from end of the galaxy to the other in a week. Or thereabouts.

[dynast_seraph]

... What is a galaxy?

((OOC: Please excuse the girl from a world with no space flight at all.))

[willofdurasteel]

A formation like a spiral in space consisting of hundreds, even thousands of star systems--planets and suns.

[ <3 S'okay. ]

[dynast_seraph]

The stars are suns... I suppose that makes sense. Suns much further away... But how can anyone tell it's a spiral?

[willofdurasteel]

Telescopes--star charts, and the like. Sentients who explored the galaxy from one end to the next thousands of years ago.

My friend Danni is a scientist, she knows all about that sort of thing if you ask her.

[dynast_seraph]

I'll keep her in mind. We don't really seem to have come to the point where discovering this sort of thing is possible in Ivalice.

[willofdurasteel]

It comes in handy. There's no greater freedom than to fly through space.

[dynast_seraph]

[chuckles] I know a few people who'd say something like that simply about flying at all.

[willofdurasteel]

I prefer space, though. It's how I grew up, so I got used to it, being on a ship.

[dynast_seraph]

I won't pass judgment one way or the other. Sky pirates just get rather attached to their ships, apparently.