002 ❅ [Action/Written]

[restoretheworld]

[So what, exactly, has Alex been doing since his arrival here? Aside from that little mishap known as an experiment, not much, frankly. Today, however, one may run into the blue-haired Adept at the library, reading through... a rather large stack of books. In particular, he seems to be reading up on the legends and mythology of various worlds

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[semper_cogitans]

[A beat. Robert hadn't considered that - frankly, the idea seemed preposterous up until that very moment, but then he remembered just exactly what Luceti had been so far. Ugh. Still, Robert isn't too quick to jump on the believer bandwagon just yet, but the poignant reminder of Helios casting magic right in front of him is enough to sober him a little. If that was possible - well, a lot of things were suddenly possible as well. Not something Robert really wanted to consider, but...] I see... very well, then. I suppose I can at least commend you for wishing to gather information.

[Robert smiles to himself, not like Alex can see it, at the next part.] Terra has a very fascinating history, stretching back through a few centuries. From what I remember of my history classes, the first major changes in Terran infrastructure and technology occurred as a result of the Great Cleansing, which was a worldwide technological effort to battle the runaway effects of anthropogenic climate change. The problem of climate change and wholesale destruction of the environment was first truly appreciated by 2025 A.D., but serious action was not taken until establishment of a planetwide coalition government, which assumed the role of temporary benefactor to the entire scientific community while the community strove to prevent the damage.

The actual Great Cleansing of the planet - the period where real work was done to improve the conditions on the planet to from intolerable to something approaching healthy again - happened between 2043 A.D. and 2135 A.D., if I am not mistaken. [Robert kind of hesitates a bit before continuing.] I was told that Terra lost much of its biodiversity during this time, though life was sequestered in DNA-collection chambers known as cryozoos as a method of maintaining them until their proper conditions could be met again.

By this point, the government of Terra, which had up until this point been unofficial, ran a referendum on whether it should be specifically inaugurated - the referendum was a complete success and the government was officially declared valid. That was the birth of the Terran Council - consisting of eight representatives chosen by the planet's populace from each continent and aggregate.

Technology and infrastructure had greatly improved and modernized as a result of the Great Cleansing - without it, much of the technology that I am used to on Terra simply would not exist. The technological improvement of Terra allowed for more extensive forays into both the planet's own processes and the greater physics of the universe... I believe it was by 2193 A.D. - February 7, since that is a planetwide holiday - where extrasolar life was first discovered... That was the real establishment of my profession, astrobiology - the study of non-Terran lifeforms. [Robert would beam at this if he could.] This, and the development of transporter technology - which enables the user to move between multiversions and across massive spacetime distances using a muon-catalyst fusion engine - both revolutionized science.

I was born in 2232 A.D., so I did not witness most of these particular discoveries myself, but they are all recorded in the massive databases back on Terra. If one day I were to ever have connection to these databases, and a good nanocomputer to project them with, I could show Luceti them myself.

(OOC: Have fun reading THAT tl;dr.)