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[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone!
What: The event has started!
When: From the beginning of the event until the end.
Where: EVERYWHERE
Summary: You're feeling a bit different today.
Rating: All over the place, yo.

Go to town, kiddies!

Comments

[semper_cogitans]

And likewise, I'd love to read to you! [This'll be one of the few times where he can do it without stuttering, and at any rate, it's probably the best time to try to get information out of him.]

Well, my world is pretty far in the future compared to most of the places here - objectively, anyway. Though really, it seems to be kinda random - times from all over the place. There are some worlds that have a time further ahead than mine - 2332 A.D., that is - but their technology is in a completely different stage. It's so very fascinating! [Normally pedantic about Terran things, but his increased sociability makes him aware that overt pedanticness comes off badly.]

Forms of writing seem to be pretty common amongst most sapients, I've noticed. Though there are some species that don't, or can't... but there's always some form of communication, and generally a way to permanently store knowledge. It's exciting! [He's an astrobiologist, Anodrac. That's why he can't shut up about this.]

It's from a very old language from Terra - Latin. That language is used a lot in the sciences.

And I'm sure my species is fascinating to you too, if you've never seen a human before! Homo sapiens sapiens, to be exact, though "human" works well enough...

[semper_cogitans]

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[At Anodrac's expression, Robert just beams. It's so fun to meet people who love to learn!]

I would be glad to! Knowledge is meant to be shared with everyone!

[semper_cogitans]

[Robert is smiling just as broadly as her as he saunters up to the table and seats himself across it from the anthropomorphic pseudo-Chiropteran.]

So what exactly do you want to know? I mean, there's a lot to cover...

[But he doesn't seem bothered by this at all.]

[semper_cogitans]

[And Robert just smirks at the creepy tone. It doesn't bother him right now - since he can tell what Anodrac meant by it.]

Hey, it's all cool.

But I could be here all day - any topic you're really interested in, first off?

[semper_cogitans]

[That's basically the one thing that Terrans have general apathy towards. Though... Robert's social enough that he wants to talk anyway, and he's been prodded into being more open to history in general, so he's learning.]

Sure! It's pretty long though... I mean, how far back are we talking, exactly? Our timelines probably don't match up perfectly.

[semper_cogitans]

A whole century, huh? [To somebody in a world where technology changes so rapidly and scientific progress accelerates at a blistering pace, a century is a long time.]

... Huh. Well, it's a little outside the hundred-years category, but February 7, 2193 A.D. was the first confirmed report of extrasolar sapient life. [Robert grins.] Basically, a species outside our own solar system that was demonstably capable of several important things, like being able to make tools, being able to think about thinking and have self-awareness, having some kind of linguistics or communication structure... that kind of stuff.

It's an extremely important date for myself, and anybody else who works as an astrobiologist.

[semper_cogitans]

There certainly is, on Terra. It's quite a cool profession, if I do say so myself!

[He just... won't mention how snooty he tends to be looking at other worlds' cultures. Though he really is getting better at that.]

[semper_cogitans]

Selles? Is that your home?

I'd like to hear about it, if you wouldn't mind!

[... Yeah, asking about other cultures. This isn't just the experiment, but it's definitely helping.]