un: maine | @everyone (ota)

[bloodbathing]

Technology's archaic.

[ Well, that's one way to introduce oneself. Insult the technology. Like an asshole. ]

Year you're from? [ Then, as an afterthought: ] Mine's 2547.


[ private @ wash ]

[ Guess what, buddy? Maine's got the Best News Ever: ]

Found soap.

[ BEST. NEWS. EVER. ]

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un: Odair65

[fishermansweater]

Doubt the dating where I'm from would mean anything to anyone else.

[bloodbathing]

Weird symbols?

[ Because if it includes anything like "[ν]–εуλ", Maine won't have the faintest idea. ]

[fishermansweater]

Relative to a reference point nobody else here recognizes.

75 years after the Dark Days.

I think it's in the future of most people here.

[bloodbathing]

[ Dark Days...

...

Wait a minute: ]

Fall of Rome?

[ Yeahhhh, he's thinking of the Dark Ages. ]

[fishermansweater]

[ The reference goes straight over Finnick's head. History class in Panem goes about as far as admitting that there was once a world that had more people in it before climate change, war, and disaster changed it forever.

Dark Ages? Roman Empire? Not so much, despite the country owing so much to it. ]

It was a revolution. Against the government of my country. Hundreds of years from anything anyone here seems to know about.

[bloodbathing]

What country? Planet?

[ The latter may seem like an odd question, but it's relevant in the space marine's mind. ]

[fishermansweater]

It used to be called North America, a long time ago.

[ That's the best point of reference he has for people here. ]

[bloodbathing]

[ ... Oh. Well. In that case: ]

Planet's Earth.

[ He knows that much. Blame it on Project Freelancer assigning its Agents code names based on the United States of America.

As Maine tries to figure out if they could be from the same universe: ]

Space travel a thing?

[fishermansweater]

It might have been once. It isn't anymore, or if it is, nobody's telling us about it.

[bloodbathing]

Sounds shitty.

[fishermansweater]

That's a good description.

[bloodbathing]

Most advanced tech?

[ He means back where Finnick is from, but he's not exactly clear. ]

[fishermansweater]

[ Fortunately, Finnick is used to making sense of terse or half-expressed sentences, and he gets what Maine means. ]

Hovercraft, force fields, holograms, genetic engineering, artificial climate.

I don't know how much of that helps. Most of us don't have access to advanced technology.

[bloodbathing]

[ With the exception of "artificial climate," that all sounds familiar to Maine. He frowns, thinking about it. Could terraforming be considered artificial climate...? ]

Most sound familiar.

[ Unseen, he sighs and rubs a hand over his scalp. This is why he leaves intel gathering to people who are good at it. This is just ... confusing. Frustrating. ]

Could be future. Humanity wins war. Earth fucks itself.

[fishermansweater]

Earth fucks itself is a pretty good summary of the little history I know.

I know there were wars and disasters that killed most of humanity.

[bloodbathing]

War seems universal. [ Or: ] Multi-universal?

[ He doesn't know the right term for it. ]