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[resultofwar]

A while ago, I asked if humanity had made contact with aliens by the time period of others on the Barge. It seemed like most people had at least sent people into space. We've set up space colonies orbiting Earth, but we haven't made first contact with any alien lifeforms yet. Space travel isn't necessarily uncommon, but only politicians and military officials frequently travel between Earth and the Colonies.

What's considered normal technology for your world? Is commercial space travel available?

[Private to Slade]

I'm still interested in sparring, assuming another flood isn't going to hit in the next few hours.

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[lotoftrouble.livejournal.com]

There isn't any technology like that back in my home. I travelled in between realms using magic.

[resultofwar]

Between realms?

[lotoftrouble.livejournal.com]

Of course. Back home, in my world, there were nine realms, all connected by Yggdrasil, the world tree. Asgard, land of the Aesir. Midgard, land of man. Jotunheim, land of the giants. Vanaheim, land of the Vanir. Hel, land of the dead. Alfheim, land of the elves. Svartalfaheim, land of the dark elves. Niflheim, land of ice. Finally, Muspelheim, land of fire.

[resultofwar]

Have you been to all of them?

[lotoftrouble.livejournal.com]

More or less.

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Still playing the wind-up soldier, huh Heero? No one's killed you yet, I see. You must be so disappointed.

[truth_is_cold]

It was in mine. Even after the fall of the Commonwealth.

[timesbureaucrat]

In my time and universe, the Humans are one of the Temporal Powers--a loose alliance of time travelling races. People from Earth travel freely, if not always responsibly, across space and time.

My people, of course, have been travelling through time for many millennia now, and are technologically capable of going wherever and whenever they please. Most choose to stay on Gallifrey, however.

[resultofwar]

So, you're really a god?

[resultofwar]

David. [Look at all the fucks he gives, David.]

[resultofwar]

How far have you colonized?

[resultofwar]

Why?

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

How have you been, Heero? You've been keeping a low profile. [That's okay. He has enough fucks for the both of them.]

[truth_is_cold]

The majority of them are in the Milky Way, Triangulum, and Andromeda galaxies. Earth itself is comparably minor. ...In fact, in the time I was most recently to it was a slave world still suffering from its last Magog invasion.

[timesbureaucrat]

They have no reason to leave. On Gallifrey they have...had [oh that verb tense change hits him in the hearts]...safety, security, stability, plentiful resources, all the ingredients for a calm and satisfying thirteen lives. The only people who regularly left the planet were politicians--mainly diplomats--CIA operatives sent out into the universe to protect Gallifrey and the timelines, and criminals.

[resultofwar]

Why do you care?

[resultofwar]

How long ago was that?

[resultofwar]

Had? [Sorry Narvin. :c]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Oh, just making sure you hadn't come down with something. I know how cold it is down on that eighth level. And you don't get visitors too often.

[resultofwar]

Or ever. [He rotates between never being there, and being in there all the time and not coming out, because he's a fucking weird teenager. :|]

[truth_is_cold]

In the past fifteen years. But Earth has been suffering for millennia. When the Commonwealth was at its strongest, Earth had no prominence within it.

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

It'd be a real tragedy if something happened to you in there, wouldn't it? No one would know for days.

[resultofwar]

What happened?

[resultofwar]

So?

[timesbureaucrat]

The was a civil war followed closely by a virus epidemic--a new form of biological warfare constructed by anti-Gallifreyan terrorists. And the futures I've seen reek of more war and possible annihilation.