[ Obsessive, dedicated, fascinated-by-anything-with-wings pilot. He listens in silence as she speaks, one eye on their surroundings.
A single solar system. Plans for one colony. Poe shakes his head, trying to fit his thoughts into that small a starscape. It's impossible. He wants to ask her how many sentient species there are on her world, what kind of planets share the system, what kind of possible life they've found. That stuff is more in Poe's wheelhouse than--well, than most of what he's experienced, here. Certainly more than being ground-bound for this venture when it would be so much easier to clear the place with a ship and a decent weapons system. ] Last estimate had our galaxy at 3.2 million habitable systems. I've seen a few dozen of them.
[ It's not a brag, and it doesn't sound like one. Just a recitation of facts. ] I was born on a colony out in the Outer Rim--that's what we call the edge of explored space. I say the edge, but the Outer Rim is bigger than the Mid Rim or the Core Planets.
[ It's weird to describe things that are considered general knowledge. But hey, he has to get used to it at some point.
His hand goes briefly to his blaster as something darts between the trees overhead, but the feathery monkey-thing gives an angry hoot and launches itself on to a different set of trees. ] What's your planet like?
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[ Obsessive, dedicated, fascinated-by-anything-with-wings pilot. He listens in silence as she speaks, one eye on their surroundings.
A single solar system. Plans for one colony. Poe shakes his head, trying to fit his thoughts into that small a starscape. It's impossible. He wants to ask her how many sentient species there are on her world, what kind of planets share the system, what kind of possible life they've found. That stuff is more in Poe's wheelhouse than--well, than most of what he's experienced, here. Certainly more than being ground-bound for this venture when it would be so much easier to clear the place with a ship and a decent weapons system. ] Last estimate had our galaxy at 3.2 million habitable systems. I've seen a few dozen of them.
[ It's not a brag, and it doesn't sound like one. Just a recitation of facts. ] I was born on a colony out in the Outer Rim--that's what we call the edge of explored space. I say the edge, but the Outer Rim is bigger than the Mid Rim or the Core Planets.
[ It's weird to describe things that are considered general knowledge. But hey, he has to get used to it at some point.
His hand goes briefly to his blaster as something darts between the trees overhead, but the feathery monkey-thing gives an angry hoot and launches itself on to a different set of trees. ] What's your planet like?