"Does the bitterness show?" CT says with a crooked quirk to her smile and a breath of a laugh, nodding her head to the side. Totally not watching Ripley's fingers a little, nope, don't mind her. "Yeah, I'm an Outer Colony kid. We were mostly mining exports—rare earth elements, precious metals, so on—with a side of tropical-climate agriculture. When the war started we got less and less support from the Inners or the UNSC as a whole, but we were still expected to export just as much—same story pretty much everywhere out there."
Exploitive.
The Cole Protocol that was meant to protect the locations of other colonies didn't even mention the Outers by name, just 'Earth, the Inner Colonies, or any other human population center'. You can imagine that people weren't too pleased about that, especially after it took years of Outers dropping flies before they even instigated the protocol at all.
"As I understand it our engines don't use actual fuel. Slipspace drives are charged before departure and our main engines are fusion drives. It's all— big, fuck off reactors built into the ships."
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"Does the bitterness show?" CT says with a crooked quirk to her smile and a breath of a laugh, nodding her head to the side. Totally not watching Ripley's fingers a little, nope, don't mind her. "Yeah, I'm an Outer Colony kid. We were mostly mining exports—rare earth elements, precious metals, so on—with a side of tropical-climate agriculture. When the war started we got less and less support from the Inners or the UNSC as a whole, but we were still expected to export just as much—same story pretty much everywhere out there."
Exploitive.
The Cole Protocol that was meant to protect the locations of other colonies didn't even mention the Outers by name, just 'Earth, the Inner Colonies, or any other human population center'. You can imagine that people weren't too pleased about that, especially after it took years of Outers dropping flies before they even instigated the protocol at all.
"As I understand it our engines don't use actual fuel. Slipspace drives are charged before departure and our main engines are fusion drives. It's all— big, fuck off reactors built into the ships."