Galvan Wizards, Continued (For Nita+Azmuth)

[unfavorableinstigation]

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?

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[whohastimeforthat]

"Do you mean an artificially-created world or something else?" Azmuth asked, seeking clarification before he could come up with a response.

[unfavorableinstigation]

"I mean, maybe? Any place that's meant to wait, somehow. Or even fine waiting by itself, if what it's 'for' never comes to be."

[whohastimeforthat]

"In that case, it sounds like you're asking more about pre-existing lifeless planets 'waiting' to either naturally develop life or be terraformed rather than artificial planets. It's an intriguing question if only from the standpoint of answering 'Can you Speak to a planet?'"

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."

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita paused where Azmuth did, though a step belatedy.

"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.