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007: AMAs, Third Round
So, we've got a load of new people, and that means it's time for me to do the only thing it feels like I get on these comms to do anymore: AMAs.
For you new people, I find it helps when we get together and explain a little bit about ourselves, any powers we have, and our skillsets. That way we know what we're starting with and what we can build off of. So, please, come and introduce yourselves and be willing to answer questions.
For you new people, I find it helps when we get together and explain a little bit about ourselves, any powers we have, and our skillsets. That way we know what we're starting with and what we can build off of. So, please, come and introduce yourselves and be willing to answer questions.
[text]
War-Prince Alloran-Semitur-Corrass. I am an Andalite. War-Prince is a military rank, but don't imagine I'm suitable for positions of authority. In service to the Fleet and the Electorate I made various destructive choices that might be typical of war but are no less terrible for that. Then I was captured and enslaved by the enemy for the equivalent of twenty-four of your years, which has left me with lingering effects. Humans freed me just before I came here, and in the absence of those courageous young warriors I suppose I owe humanity. The last several months are not enough to have changed that.
I have the morphing ability which allows me limited ability to change my body. My own body has four eyes, a tailblade, and is non-bipedal. I don't have a mouth or access to sound-speech except when I take human form, but I have thought-speech. I cannot read minds.
Anything else, I'd prefer off of this format. If I've seen or heard someone I can contact them privately when we are within a few hundred feet.
[text]
[ That maybe explains a few things. ]
[text]
Rank equivalencies are necessarily imprecise. In the Fleet only a Captain-Prince can command and override a War-Prince without getting into various technical exceptions. I had oversight and broad discretionary power over a broad array of my peoples' forces, at the height of my career.
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[ She seems interested in the idea. ]
That's interesting.
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My career was accelerated in crisis to something of an absurd rate, as I was in a good position to advance and made several fortunate calls. And I suppose it was advantageous to various parties. I don't know how long it typically takes Radchaai responsible for a few hundred men to become Fleet-Captains, but I was elevated in about two years.
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And it typically takes longer than that, yes. And good connections, if I remember correctly.
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I come from a family of privilege with numerous members in the military. Not my parents, women don't serve directly, but uncles and shorms and so on.
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Ah. I've lived it for twenty years, but it's still strange to me how people divide their societies on the basis of biological sex. The Radch doesn't bother with that. There's really only one gender.
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There's very little difference between male and female humans. It's more evident with Andalites. Men are better suited to combat and rapid action. Women are more intelligent and deliberate. Not that there isn't overlap or exceptions, or the split-hearted, but the inclinations are strongly set in most people.
[The only gender divides that make sense to him are his own.]
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And it works because the Radch is far too big for one person to effectively lead it on their own. It works because she has ruled the Radch for all of its thousands of years of existence. Much like ships have ancillaries, the Lord of the Radch has hundreds of clone bodies, which all undergo the same treatment as ancillaries. However it isn't perfect. Thoughts and ideas can take months to cross from one end of the Radch to the other, even with speed of data transmission between gates. So... you have been at odds with yourself before, I imagine. Stuck on what decision to make.
Now imagine that "you" were spread out over hundreds of bodies and minds that were also all you. The leader of the Radch is of two minds. Literally, in this case. And that was why my lieutenant was killed and why I was destroyed.
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Well. That's appalling. And here I believed everyone considered their clones their children.
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I suppose I've had the same experience, on a much small scale, but I was always the ship.
[private thought-speech]
Did you have strange entities insisting on showing you visions the other night ago?
[alloran she can't talk back in this format that's rude]
[private thought-speech]
Can you hear me?
[ She says that aloud, wondering if it's a bit like a station. When she doesn't get a response, she texts him using the lock that the hires have created. ]
I did not, although I heard about them. And apparently I cannot respond to you in kind.
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It's only that I don't trust this network and its assurances of security. If nothing else, I doubt everyone with access is necessarily trustworthy.
[Though she does seem to be pretty open about things.]
Perhaps it's also that I enjoy the feeling of secrecy as an option.
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[Draconis was a fucking moron and he'd see the man dead some day. You don't throw away that many lives for your own ego. You just don't.]
Congratulations on popping my illusion of being the highest ranking person here, War-Prince.
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...Those might be the wrong names. Cadets choose sound-names when we enter the Fleet so that aliens with mouths know what to call us, but it's been a long time. In any case, my rank is now vestigial. I am no longer even as suited to command as I was then.