Honestly, the righteous anger is a good look on her. And it makes Connie smile, half-disguised behind another bite of fruit. It's always— nice, when people actually hear what she's saying, when what she's saying is fuelled by her own well-worn resentment, after so long spent talking at the stubborn brick walls that were her teammates. The subject is different but it's no less a relief.
"You're right. One of my moms was still feeling her mine work years after she switched jobs. And I mean, wars were being fought over this both before and during the war with the aliens— if the Covenant hadn't attacked, there would've been a lot more Innies." She may well even have been one of them. Followed in her brother's footsteps. And if the war ever ends, what remains of the Outers will be enraged and the cycle will begin anew.
"Slipspace is— god, the science is complicated, I barely understand any of the technical stuff," despite her very technologically minded intelligence, "but it's how we travel at FTL speeds. Slipspace engines create a sort of— rupture in the fabric of space, letting us take our ships into this sort of subdimensional stream called slipspace. In that subdimension, there are corridors that contract the distances between locations all across the galaxy. It's like— wormholes. We create wormholes and use those to travel lightyears in anywhere from a couple months to days."
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Honestly, the righteous anger is a good look on her. And it makes Connie smile, half-disguised behind another bite of fruit. It's always— nice, when people actually hear what she's saying, when what she's saying is fuelled by her own well-worn resentment, after so long spent talking at the stubborn brick walls that were her teammates. The subject is different but it's no less a relief.
"You're right. One of my moms was still feeling her mine work years after she switched jobs. And I mean, wars were being fought over this both before and during the war with the aliens— if the Covenant hadn't attacked, there would've been a lot more Innies." She may well even have been one of them. Followed in her brother's footsteps. And if the war ever ends, what remains of the Outers will be enraged and the cycle will begin anew.
"Slipspace is— god, the science is complicated, I barely understand any of the technical stuff," despite her very technologically minded intelligence, "but it's how we travel at FTL speeds. Slipspace engines create a sort of— rupture in the fabric of space, letting us take our ships into this sort of subdimensional stream called slipspace. In that subdimension, there are corridors that contract the distances between locations all across the galaxy. It's like— wormholes. We create wormholes and use those to travel lightyears in anywhere from a couple months to days."