[It's fine? It's fine. If Akechi thinks anything of her reaction, he doesn't show it. Instead, he walks over to take a look at whatever star chart she examining, across crossed.]
That's a shame. [Placidly, though lacking the saccharine sweetness he displays in front of everyone else. And then, after a beat:] ... Where you were "stationed"?
On a research base on the lunar surface. It's not where I was originally constructed, but most of my programming was done there to make me more, um... myself. I guess it's the closest thing to a home I have.
[Her fingers trace one of the constellations, her tone melancholy.]
I've been told Earth used to be a beautiful place for stargazing. Most people have to shuttle to the moon to do it now, though.
It was a pandemic that occured in 2028. Some believed it was an act of biological warfare. No one could prove it, though. Society collapsed within months. The pathogen was airborne, so the leading governments attempted to eradicate exposure to what few remained by... by detonating multiple antimatter reactors. The radiation essentially killed off the virus, but... lives were lost, and the nuclear winter that followed killed even more.
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That's a shame. [Placidly, though lacking the saccharine sweetness he displays in front of everyone else. And then, after a beat:] ... Where you were "stationed"?
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[Her fingers trace one of the constellations, her tone melancholy.]
I've been told Earth used to be a beautiful place for stargazing. Most people have to shuttle to the moon to do it now, though.
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I see.
[Living on the moon... That sounds wild.]
You hail from a future where humanity has finally ruined the Earth. Is that right?
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It was a pandemic that occured in 2028. Some believed it was an act of biological warfare. No one could prove it, though. Society collapsed within months. The pathogen was airborne, so the leading governments attempted to eradicate exposure to what few remained by... by detonating multiple antimatter reactors. The radiation essentially killed off the virus, but... lives were lost, and the nuclear winter that followed killed even more.
In the end... over six billion people died.