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Aegon "Jon Snow" Targaryen ([personal profile] northerndragon) wrote in [community profile] abraxasnet2022-11-26 10:12 pm

To: everyone (a few days after all arrivals)

[Jon writes in a very fine hand, but to many, it will seem archaic.]

I would like to speak on duty, if you will.

What does duty mean to you, if it means anything at all?
How do you know what your duty is?
How do you know when you have done it, or failed to do it?

If it doesn't matter to you, why doesn't it matter?
If it does, why then?

I seek to learn from my fellows.

— Jon Snow, of Thorne
earthborn: (those times have passed away)

[personal profile] earthborn 2022-12-01 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
A marine is a soldier who's assigned to a ship, or who has a ship assigned to them, in my case. It's not a ship that sails on water, it's a spacecraft— a star ship. We go between star systems and visit other worlds on our mission.

I usually fight with one of several guns, which is a technology you might have seen around, if you were to visit Cadens or any other part of the Free Cities. But I'm also a biotic, which I'm told seems a lot like magic to most people here.

Then again, anyone calling themselves a "king" would sound like a joke to most anyone from my homeworld, so I'm not sure I'm one to judge.
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[personal profile] earthborn 2022-12-01 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Even in peacetime, we've always had some kind of standing military. But then [She stops and considers. Whatever Winterfell is for size, it's almost definitely a lot smaller than the Systems Alliance. A small ground territory wouldn't have the kind of constant fire-fighting that came with a governance that spanned multiple star-clusters. Was it condescending to mention it? Shepard had not often been accused of having tact.] That's probably just an economy of scale.

People still inherit where I'm from, but when it comes to positions of leadership you have to either be elected by the people, or earn it; take me, I'm an orphan, grew up on the streets. Now I'm the commander of the most prestigious vessel in the Alliance fleet. Or, I was, anyways. But we're all doing different work, nowadays.
earthborn: (pensive mood lighting is how i roll)

[personal profile] earthborn 2022-12-01 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
No, no. Back home it was... complicated. But what I meant was, I'm working for Free Cities, these days. The army.

There are a couple of spacers around, but not many of us. You might notice Garrus Vakarian around in places; he's pretty obvious in a crowd, once you see him. He isn't human. What about you, anybody else from your end of the universe pulled in here?
earthborn: (they multiply as they are seized)

[personal profile] earthborn 2022-12-01 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
If I told you something useful and you took it as face value, I'd say you were an idiot. That said, they're a hard-working bunch, and there's a lot of them. You'd have to be pretty self-destructive to deliberately provoke a war with 'em.

[The attack on Libertas looms over everything, recently.]

But since when has that ever stopped anyone from picking a stupid fight? Even in the face of bigger problems, people are still people.