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cousinsindozens2020-12-19 10:51 am
unfavorableinstigation) wrote in cousinsindozens2020-12-19 10:51 am
Galvan Wizards, Continued (For Nita+Azmuth)
Nita couldn't help but feel she'd been relegated to janitorial duty - being out in the parts of the world people rarely visited, in places that were growing just fine by themselves but not necessarily in ways healthy for the rest of the population...
If she hadn't known better, she would have thought it lonely. But then, there's no way that can be right. Not when there's so much life here!
Still, she'd been out working here for a while, and surely someone was going to come check on her at some point. Right?
If she hadn't known better, she would have thought it lonely. But then, there's no way that can be right. Not when there's so much life here!
Still, she'd been out working here for a while, and surely someone was going to come check on her at some point. Right?
I'm finally here!
Nita had probably noticed that for someone whom the manual had made her mentor, Azmuth didn't use magic all that much. He knew what he was talking about in regards to usage of The Speech, but he didn't actually use it as a general rule.
"Nita. There you are." He folded his hands behind his back, datapad still clutched in one hand. "How are things in this area?"
Woo! \o/
She finished with her own latest bout of analysis, thanked the last group of 'subjects', and turned to her mentor.
"The word they keep using in the Speech to describe the sunlight in this area is 'adequate'; I think they mean it as praise...? They use a different word for the soil and water. But the foliage here do all like each other, so overall I'd rank it as well-functioning for an ecosystem."
Was that what Azmuth had meant? Had she missed something in her survey?
"I have more of the numerics on the datapad, if you wanted to view those as well..."
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He brought his datapad back forward, accessing her datapad remotely to run comparisons.
"I imagine this isn't exactly what you had in mind when you began training."
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Always double-check your work - and have someone else do the same. That was the wizardry way, and more than a little the Galvan way as well.
"And... no. I don't know what I was expecting, though; wizardry really can be anything, can't it? I've seen the precis for works on different planets; there's such a range!"
Anything from inviting That Power to dinner to moving stars to negotiating peace treaties; there certainly didn't seem to be a pattern for what made an intervention work versus what just made it part of Life.
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He tapped his foot against the ground.
"It may not seem like much, but your particular specialty is incredibly helpful. This planet is only a year old after all."
And the last thing the Galvans needed was to have to rebuild their whole planet a second time.
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ONLY A YEAR OLD?! and This IS Azmuth; of course he can make a planet... or is he just helping it grow?
What she actually said, however, was: "I know I tune well with plants, but- what about the bacteria, and other microorganisms? Don't those found biospheres first?"
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This particular artificial planet was to potentially act as a colony world, a sort of backup in case the Galvan home planet was destroyed. Again. Building a planet to precise specifications was a massive migraine he didn't want to have to rush through a second time.
"The planet's core mainframe is running smoothly at least. Next time I'll just start from building the processor myself instead of assigning that to someone else."
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"I'm definitely better with plants than machines; building one, I couldn't do..."
She said that just a touch wistfully, because it seemed truly a wonder to watch one form, one that could run a whole planet designed to support a people.
I don't know how, but this tag got lost. I'm so sorry. D:
/hugs
"So, if I'm here for the plants, and you look after the core of the world - will we need to call on anyone else? Any other kind of specialist?"
Ugh. I hate it when I'm sick. ><
He'd rebuilt Galvan Prime, their homeworld, almost two years ago after it had been destroyed in the Highbreed War. At least for that and this project, he could call upon others to assist him.
Oooof. /sends Healing!Vibes >:
Enough to be restated in the Speech, even. And so, Nita figured it was best to change the topic.
"On to the next area, then?"
Presumably if someone at home wanted to contact her, either she'd have been pinged or Azmuth would have been told directly...
But between the two options, the former seemed more likely, if only slightly.
Doing better but I basically dropped off the face of the earth for a week.
He wasn't the sort for idle chat, but Ben had been particularly annoying on that front lately. If only to be able to tell Ben to stick his nose into someone else's business and prove the teen wrong, he asked, "Is there something on your mind?"
Ooof. Still. /hug?
She had found her mind going to a weird place while working with the plants here, though; maybe that was more along the lines of what Azmuth had meant?
"I did end up wondering what other corners of the worlds were out there like this, just waiting for people..."
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Azmuth paced slowly along before pausing to admire one of the flowers that was getting ready to blossom. Had he wanted to, he could've used the Speech to coax it to bloom. Or have had Nita do so given she likely would've been more persuasive than he. (Actually, Nita may have noticed that despite him being a 'mana manipulator', Azmuth didn't do anything of the sort nor did he use the Speech.)
"This world is different: Like all of my artificial planets, I built the computer core first. My older ones such as Primus I then built up over the years, condensing billions of years of natural evolution into a scant few centuries. While Galvan Prime and this particular world were built in a fraction of that accelerated timeline, they were also built up layer-by-layer. We don't know if anyone outside the Milky Way has managed to create a similar process, so sadly we have only my planets for comparison to natural worlds."
He then tilted his head to one side, still studying the flower.
"Still, that does leave me to wonder if those worlds I built were aware of their purpose while I was sculpting them. Did they develop their own Speech patterns as time went on? Did Primus realize at some point that it would be more than a rock-covered computer drifting through space or -- later on -- my private garden? Those are also intriguing questions."
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"So they'd be two broad spectrums of kinds of life working together, the machine and the organic... wouldn't that enhance any awareness?"
Complexity and Life went hand in hand, it seemed.