*Torn walks in, looking slightly worried. However, this is his default expression in any case. Having to run an entire city with a hero running around'll do that to you. His expression changes to one of bemusement as he notices a fairly basic physical difference between himself and the other human occupants of the room - i.e. that concerned with
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Precursors, is that like your ancestors?
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Not exactly ancestors... They're... I don't really know how to describe it. They left all this powerful technology all over the planet. We know how to use some of it, but we don't know how to make more. They're gone. The Sage says that it was so long ago even the rocks don't remember them. *He's not about to talk about how he met them, and especially not about just what they really are.*
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...So they're like a past civilization, like the Greeks or Romans? We got all these ruins buried under years of dirt an' clay they keep diggin' up, an' learnin' more an' more 'bout how they lived. We got some books they wrote, an' we kinda know their language even though nobody really uses it anymore, an' some of our countries were built out of what they wrote an' taught. Is that kinda close?
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... I guess. *If Torn had no common sense, he would be asking "Were Greeks and Romans little fuzzy rats?" But he does, so he isn't. And anyway, Torn does not say fuzzy.* But like I said, the Precursors left all these technological wonders around. Or so Samos says. Most of 'em float - the artifacts, not the Precursors.
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Nobody does nothing but study Precursor artifacts - but it seems like everyone does it sometimes, or hires someone to. Rulers, sages, mechanics... you name it.
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So what d'you like t'do back home?
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I'm Torn, by the way.
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