( which, if one dug into that complicated and uncomfortable background just a bit more, is borderline hilarious. the grounders first leader, the one who'd pioneered the radiation resistant nightblood that'd grown to symbolize royalty, had been an astronaut that'd dropped from space in an escape pod too. only becca franko's (accidental originator of the apocalypse, only surviving member of the team that'd piloted that thirteenth ship) pod had been enshrined in the deepest religious pit, guarded by such secrecy that no one alive on earth had known what they were looking at when a hundred juvenile delinquents had crashed down in a very similar dropship. the sky people and the grounders had an intertwined shared history, and both had lost their parts of it to time.
clarke can appreciate the shift in conversation. it feels purposeful, and in return she very purposefully forces some of the tension out of her shoulders. )
Maybe by some standards, but it was also very old technology that'd just been well maintained by the time I came around. We had holograms, but nowhere near as seamless as Aurora. We had hydroponic farms, and EVA suits. I've heard going on a spacewalk is one of the coolest things a person could do in their lifetime.
But I'm sure some worlds had it better. It's not like we had any sort of magic, and at the end we didn't even have medicine.
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( which, if one dug into that complicated and uncomfortable background just a bit more, is borderline hilarious. the grounders first leader, the one who'd pioneered the radiation resistant nightblood that'd grown to symbolize royalty, had been an astronaut that'd dropped from space in an escape pod too. only becca franko's (accidental originator of the apocalypse, only surviving member of the team that'd piloted that thirteenth ship) pod had been enshrined in the deepest religious pit, guarded by such secrecy that no one alive on earth had known what they were looking at when a hundred juvenile delinquents had crashed down in a very similar dropship. the sky people and the grounders had an intertwined shared history, and both had lost their parts of it to time.
clarke can appreciate the shift in conversation. it feels purposeful, and in return she very purposefully forces some of the tension out of her shoulders. )
Maybe by some standards, but it was also very old technology that'd just been well maintained by the time I came around. We had holograms, but nowhere near as seamless as Aurora. We had hydroponic farms, and EVA suits. I've heard going on a spacewalk is one of the coolest things a person could do in their lifetime.
But I'm sure some worlds had it better. It's not like we had any sort of magic, and at the end we didn't even have medicine.
( s h r u g. )
What was technology like where you came from?