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

[rustyhonesty]

Mars is ... a planet? Like Earth?

[Excuse his lack of astrology knowledge.]

[tookashirototheknee]

Yeah! Our solar system has nine planets... [It may not be technically correct, but you can fite him. Pluto is a planet.] and Mars is the one closest to the Earth.

You wouldn't want to live there outside of the base, and, really, it's not that interesting, but, well. It is another planet.

[rustyhonesty]

Do they all have life?

[How big is your world. Jean's only known his wall surrounded one mostly so the thought of different planets among your own one is weird.]

[tookashirototheknee]

Oh, definitely not. In fact, none of the other planets in our solar system have life.

The ones that do are a lot further out.

[rustyhonesty]

Woah. Your world sounds giant. Well, obviously not all of them are like ours.

[tookashirototheknee]

All worlds are large, really. It's just a question of how much of the world people are aware of.

I just happen to have been to a lot of my universe.

[Mostly unwillingly, but he's starting to embrace it.]

[rustyhonesty]

... yeah, I guess that's true. Probably there's an ocean beyond our walls and lands beyond the ocean just like there are elsewhere. The problem is will we ever reach them.

It sounds amazing, being able to see places. I guess Traveling helps with that too, in a sense.