[hr][center][h1][color=f7941d]Port-1[/color][/h1]
[h3][color=f26522]Cafeteria
Hanson Seuclid, Sirius Free, Tessa Stride[/color][/h3][/center]
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[color=7ea7d8]"Any regular human who comes from a pod gets a couple months of treatments and check ins before being dropped into one of the spinning cans. Your lab rats find out we're anything more and we're stuck for a year if we're lucky. I've heard of a couple of podders coming out had to be restrained, something about being frozen hundreds of years affecting such a mind designed for something else. Of course the mapping, seems all of us advanced ones have something going on up in this cranium."[/color] he replied with a tap to his head before eating as the scientist surmised pain the kid went through before excusing herself from the table. With a head tilt, he looked down, figuring the kid would follow without registering their conversation. It wasn't until he heard the kid speak up again that he looked up and listened.

Sitting up in his chair his mouth morphed into a quizzical expression before leaning in slightly. [color=7ea7d8]"Listen kid, it was four years up here in space. Four years of breathing in the same recycled farts and recycled O[sup]2[/sup], eating mostly minimum spiced vegetables with the occasional flank of steak,"[/color] he pressed his fork into the meat and pushed further into the dish. [color=7ea7d8]"The people up here haven't set foot on mother Earth since the last great war, if they were ever that lucky. If things keep up like they are, they may not touch down in this lifetime. Being stuck up here, watching the administrators peer at the gas gauge and worrying about the needle hitting zero while intercepting the ones from Earth like some kind of gate keepers. The reason most of us in the pods feel so familiar within the cockpit is because odds are, you were in one fighting to kill or protect. Now look where we are, hundreds of years later and still fighting to kill, or protect."[/color] Hanson's eyes fleeted over to the scientist that left the kid unsupervised. [color=7ea7d8]"I've been stuck here for four years kid, stuck doing the same shit I did when I was frozen, just with less delicious rations. Fun is only had in the mobile suit. Or with a woman."[/color] Hanson let out a loud laugh as he added the final portion.