paradisa | #004 - A Girl's Gotta Have Options

So I've been super busy. (No pun intended.) In the past three weeks I have:

Eaten chocolate I shouldn't have eaten, but thankfully DIDN'T get bitten in the butt over.
Sewn two new uniforms. Sort-of conservative ones. People keep giving me looks for wearing midriff-baring tops in the snow, so this is more for them than me.
Ate a ghost pepper and a hanabero pepper to see if I could taste the difference. Result: positive. I could practically feel the ghost pepper moving through my intestines. I don't know how people eat them without dying.
Hung out with my BFF, but that's not really something anyone should be surprised by.
Walked Krypto daily. I have walked Krypto more here than I have in the rest of my life.
Obtained scratches from walking Krypto. Dog, my arm is not a chew toy.
Read some truly terrible YA romance novels. Now questioning my taste in guys.
Met the Easter Bunny, who I have things in common with. I'm not sure what that says about me.

How's your weeks been? Devoid of energetic dogs and ghost peppers, I'd hope.

xoxoxo
Supergirl

You may have never heard of it because it doesn't exist anymore. [But moving on...] Earth doesn't really do the colonies-off-plant thing in my universe... all the other habitable planets already have their own peoples, and we have intergalactic peacekeeping and stuff to ensure that planets don't try to, you know, colonize other planets.

Oh... [well, that's kind of awkward. She should have said she was a refugee.]

Really, every planet? Isn't that kind of crowded?

So, what if a planet can't support it's population anymore?

Some intergalactic brute squad is going to stop Earth from putting a colony on Mars or the Moon something?

[Hell no. She can't think of a more depressing thing to call herself, even if it is true.]

Well, for one, the Green Lanterns aren't brutes. Two, Mars is barren and the Moon has only ever had one building 'cause it's not exactly habitable. Three, they would stop them. Colonialism is a bad thing. We don't want people invading Earth, so it'd be unfair to invade other plants.

Also, humans can't necessarily survive on those other planets. Alien biology and all. I'm lucky I can survive on Earth.

Both Mars and the Moon have been settled for hundreds of years and have populations in the billions.

And we weren't invading anyone's homes. The aliens started attacking us, not the other way around.

In your own universe, maybe! And how can the moon support a population that big?

Why did "the aliens" start attacking you, then, if you weren't invading them?

Because it's a major trade port for goods coming and going from Earth. Not to mention it's own mining and industries.
Plus, it was one of the first colonies started way back in the 2080's.

Because, their a bunch of psychotic religious zealots and something about our existence just seemed to rub them the wrong way.

Edited 2013-03-02 04:43 (UTC)

Kinda difficult to lump all aliens into "psychotic religious zealous" who just had it in for you.

Who's lumping all of them... I'm talking about the ones that started slaughtering billions of people and glassing whole planets.

My universe isn't exactly full of hippie-dippy aliens who just want to hug it out.

Neither is mine.

I'm just saying there's no reason for colonies. They never end well. Ever.

Earth was getting used up, there were famines and worse. What were we going to do? Just go quietly extinct?

Just let a bunch of empty planets sit there and gather dust?

I don't know anything about your species, but humans weren't about to let their kids starve so Mars could stay pristine.

The colonies aren't perfect... but after five hundred years we're still here.

Maybe not screw over and kill your own planet? Not let the population get out of hand? If it's an empty planet, whatever, but I'm saying colonizing planets that DO have populations is wrong. You go there as a refugee, not to just... take over.

Where the hell did you get the idea that we're invading anyone?

We were the ones getting wiped out!

Maybe you missed the part where I mentioned them wiping out whole planets full of people and sterilizing the surface so nothing survived.

How the fuck are you making us the bad guys here?!

I'm sorry my ancestors didn't do a good enough job for you.

That's not what I--- ugh! Nevermind! You obviously aren't listening to what I'm saying.

[Sorry, but this is a bit of an emotionally charged subject for him.]

No I get it... invading planets is bad... right with you there.

But I specifically said we didn't invaded anyone. I said we had colonies and then you went into a lecture on how evil colonies are. ALL colonies. You assumed that we were raping and pillaging our way across space.

So forgive me if I take a bit of offense to that.
And to your insinuation that we somehow justified the war, and the deaths of almost 100 billion people.

I said colonies are horrible for going to occupied land. I didn't assume anything about what you were doing.

And I say this as someone from a dead planet, whose refugees have basically all been killed when setting up colonies on other people's planets, thanks.

...

Ok, fine, whatever.

[He's not convinced but it's time to move on anyway.]

So, why would your people set up colonies on other inhabited planets, if there is some intergalactic space police to stop them?
Why not pick an uninhabited world and set up there?

Something like Mars would have made a decent enough home. A lot of work, but you can make it happen.

It's a long story and I don't want to talk about it.

Alright... Sheesh.

Well, for what it's worth I'm glad you were able to call Earth home.

I'm glad we were able to get along with someone out there.
Even if it is another universe.

People can't even get along with each other and co-operate enough to get things together and improve life for their own kind. Getting along with others in the universe is even more complicated.

Yeah well, no one is perfect.

[Sheesh lady, throw me a freakin' bone here!]

I know that.

#004 - A Girl's Gotta Have Options

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No, curse of the they're typo! Arggg....

even autocorrect can't help some things :'(

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