Stars in your multitudes, scarce to be counted, filling the darkness with order and light.

[tookashirototheknee]

[Matt might be good at the network, but that doesn't mean he has complete control over his thoughts. Sometimes things slip through. But in this case, it's probably for the better.]

Oh, for the love of space peas, that's it!

[He pauses, and then sets out to make slightly more coherent comments. Standing in front of a mirror, at first all people can see is a detailed star chart. Anyone who is familiar with stars from earth would know this isn't exactly a view from Earth, but it's similar.]

So, I totally forgot that I got blessed with visions or hallucinations or something like that, but I had a... something of a star field. I don't know if I was there or in a planetarium or what, but I drew it out.

And then I realized. This is the star field as seen from Mars. I'd be a crap Garrison graduate if I couldn't figure that one out. So, uh, on top of everything else that's going on, we're going to Mars.

I haven't been there myself, but my dad's told me a lot about it, so I can help. I hope.

Comments

[helborn]

We're going to space?!

[Casper sounds positively delighted.]

[truerevelation]

...Man, that's a hell of a thing to catch!

[butthemiracleneverhappen]

An excellent catch. Along with premonitions of driving cattle...

Do you know the origin of the term "Space Opera?"

[carbonatedscientist]

Mars?

[Give him a moment, he'll be alright, he'll be alright...]

Where I come from...the Martian civilization was destroyed in some sort of terrible cataclysm. I've seen it. Or at least...footage of it.

[rustyhonesty]

Mars is ... a planet? Like Earth?

[Excuse his lack of astrology knowledge.]

[reallymean]

[Everyone else has covered most of the important bits, but:]

Space peas?

[starshaper]

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow, really??!! Really really really???!!! Are we really going to Mars??!!!!???

[hiddensword]

Nobody loves space peas.

I just hope we can keep our own suits and don't get forced in to those bulky old fashioned ones.

[willyousee]

It speaks to... something, I suppose, that my first thought was to question why the God of War would wish peas from beyond Earth's limits.

But it is the next furthest planet out from the sun, yes? Forgive me, but I am not as familiar with the history of the solar system of Earth as perhaps I ought, given the number of times we have journeyed into space. May I ask, what is its significance?

[levelthreehooligan]

A voice pipes up on the Network

Mars?? What is a 'Mars'?

Wait this is... SpacE??!! You're talking about outside of the Planet!!!???

[No one in Hydaelyn has gone off-planet before, The Allegans managed to launch a satellite, but that was it. She's incredibly excited about this.]