As soon as Kareet asked about who the crew were, Vigdis started laughing. [color=00AEFF]”That’s a good question, because half of us aren’t even supposed to be on board.”[/color] She managed to get out before recomposing herself, [color=00AEFF]”That includes me. Many of us just took shelter on the ship when the shipyard was attacked. I haven’t had the time to familiarize myself with most people yet, except those I work with. We engineers have been busy with… You know.”[/color] She quietly pointed at several dents in the hull where bigger rocks struck it or parts have been ripped off. [color=00AEFF]”We built her well.”[/color] Vigdis said with evident pride, looking over the mass of metal that managed to survive missiles built to take down ships bigger than her and then slamming into the ground with just three dead and two major injuries. The NSIA will be happy.

[color=00AEFF]”But in general, the original crew are explorers. Some former military, as the Jotunheim’s owners needed well-trained people who could work independently. The ‘stowaways’ I assume are mostly dock workers who happened to be nearby as in my case. When people are shooting at you, a mobile fortress sounds like a good place to be.”[/color] It was also fortunate a lot of the stowaways were from Norway, a country that still conscripted both genders, but that was another piece of information Vigdis judged would be best kept quiet about.

[color=00AEFF]”Actual history is a very extensive topic, between more than 200 nations on Earth alone, plus all the colonies. It would probably be best to learn your writing and make the translators work with text as well as spoken word, that way we could simply give you any written records we have with us.”[/color] She tried to explain the scale, though unsure if historical notes were something they had saved in some dark recess of the computer banks. [color=00AEFF]”The ship itself was built to explore distant worlds. The ability to travel faster than light- well, it probably isn’t actually faster than light, I think that’s fundamentally impossible, but I’m a metallurgist, not a physicist. Anyway, the ability to travel to worlds other than those around our sun is new to us. A decade ago, a species that had this ability showed up at our doorstep so to speak, asking for aid and in exchange, they would explain this technology of theirs to us. Then we had ourselves a fight over who’d get to host them and benefit from this the most.“[/color] Nope, still not proud of their warrior culture, [color=00AEFF]”Sound familiar? Naturally, those who got their hands on this knowledge started working on it right away, and we’d just finished the Jotunheim when someone attacked it. I don’t know if they wanted it for themselves, or were opposed to using this technology, it doesn’ really matter. Except something went wrong when we tried to use this propulsion method to get away from the shipyard quickly, and instead of ‘on the other side of Earth’ we ended up here. Come to think of it, humans have a record of accidentally finding something useful or interesting, land and new cultures inhabiting it included. Historically speaking the first order of business is to establish a spice trade.”[/color] Well, after violence and putting the locals’ stuff into museums, but let’s not be British.