Aveta 103
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[so... it's been sunny. Or well, much sunnier than last month so far. Cam, like most other reasonable people, has been appreciating this in the ways sie knows how to do so - namely, sitting outside in the sunset. Sie's found hirself a nice spot near the center of town, set up a picnic blanket, and taken a seat there with a few ( Read more... )
[so... it's been sunny. Or well, much sunnier than last month so far. Cam, like most other reasonable people, has been appreciating this in the ways sie knows how to do so - namely, sitting outside in the sunset. Sie's found hirself a nice spot near the center of town, set up a picnic blanket, and taken a seat there with a few ( Read more... )
What an interesting question, Cameron.
My own species - human, known scientifically as homo sapiens sapiens seems to be common here, but I will happily give you detail on the species if you are a non-human sapient yourself... which I believe you are, if our last conversation was any indication.
The species I assumed the form of was an anthropomorphic mutant red-eared slider - trachemys scripta elegans, mutatens. It is a kind of highly-unique subspecies of the typical red-eared slider present on Terran multiversions. A red-eared slider is a species of turtle; turtles are quadruped animals covered in leathery scales - known as scutes - and a heavy shell which has evolved as an extension of their rib cages.
It was quite fascinating to be exothermic for a week...
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[...Exothermic. That would mean-]
So... turtles cannot produce their own body heat?
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Humans are part of the order known as primates - which are themselves part of the class referred to as mammals, an endothermic group of quadrupedal creatures, characterized by the presence of hair, mammary glands and three middle ear bones. [Robert pauses there.] While primates have other specific features - such as generally having five digits per limb, well-articulated shoulder joints and an emphasis on vision - I'm not sure how necessary it is for me to detail all of them...
But, at any rate, humans are one of the several sapient species of primate recognized on Terra. [Because other species, such as ( ... )
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Primates, Mammals - classifications of both, okay... they look a little like hir people? But that's odd, sie seems to have a darker tone than most people, and Robert - based on the little picture - has a lighter one too. Sie pauses, chewing on hir pen a moment...
Oh, right! Turtles - Reptiles, heat. This is all like a 101 course and that's off-putting, but sie knows sie's hardly qualified for anything more right now anyway... There's a brief hum before-]
I'm not sure animal classification is so detailed on the World I know. I wonder if some of the people in biological studies were working on such a classification system beforehand but... [...not hir field, sie shouldn't try to ( ... )
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He's working from the perspective of Cameron knowing pretty much nothing about the species - not a deliberately condescending thing, but it might come off that way. At least it's relatively informative?]
Ah, well, the classification system in my world has been in use for several centuries, though it has been highly refined and reorganized since its initial conception, and in many ways is entirely different from how it first began.
[Robert listens with surprise as sie educates him in return. It's nice to know that his guess was more or less correct... a whole planet of sapients of various subspecies is a very fascinating planet indeed.]So in your world, clans and tribes are the names given to what could be seen as various biological and sociocultural divisions? Almost like ethnic groups... The ( ... )
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If you don't mind me saying so, based on what I have observed here in Luceti, my own skin tone is dark as compared to many others here, but from casual listening there are a great many humans here- ah, and. "Terra," are all humans from there, or would it be too much to say that humans are on other worlds as well?
-...Do humans own the world? [That one comes out hesitant and quickly all at once, because Gem implied it but that thought it just weird]
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I am... quite pale, for a Terran. [Embarrassingly pale, actually.]
Also... Terra is a very specific multiversion of a planet, generally referred to as "Earth", that seems to be the source for many of the humans here. Not all, I would hasten to add, but many. While my own multiverse has non-Terran humans and related modified hominids - off-planet colonies, for example - that is not true of other multiverses, as far as I have learned.
[That last part disturbs Robert a little. It's a sentiment that seems decidedly pre-Terran.] Perhaps some pre-Terran humans feel that way. Terra was... highly damaged as a result of such a mindset as that ( ... )
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Multiverse? Multiversion? You have been using these terms quite a bit, Professor, though I am not sure I understand quite you you mean beyond, given the context, that is must refer to erm, variations of Worlds?
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The words "multiverse" and "multiversion" are terms deriving from Multiversal Theory, a theory that came into being in Terra rather recently. It refers to the existence of multiple possible universes stemming from the fluxation of events in quantum spacetime.
... In layperson's terms, events have the ability to bud off "separate" universes because of the quantum nature of the formation of universes. My own planet, Terra, is one of many billions of possible variants - and I would say that many of the worlds here are other variants of the same planet, set in their own separate universes.
It is certainly an extremely fascinating thing to see. There are all sorts of tiny variations in the worlds here, and those can certainly add up to major shifts.
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...What?]
I'm sorry Professor, I still don't quite understand. Is that to suggest that a World is like a flower?
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All actions lead to other possible actions, correct? Under Multiversal Theory, all possible actions have their own universes constructed around them, and that leads to many trillions of possible variants of every planet - which I assume explains many of the extremely-similar-but-at-the-same-time-subtly-different arrangements that have arose amongst the people here in Luceti.
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[This voice just cracked. Um.]
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I had thought the Malnosso might be using something similar to bring us here, but I cannot be certain anymore.
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Terra must be a truly fantastic place.
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Ah, speaking of which... I would be glad to show you my nanocomputer one day, Cameron. The Malnosso saw fit to at least let me have that, and while it has no connection to the Terran networks, nonetheless you might find it interesting.
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