Mm, let me think... [and also squint at the hand. what combos were good again?
...none of these, probably. ah, well. nothing really to lose, so he doesn't sweat it.
Millennia...man, it's been a while since he thought about that story, back when his mom told it to him and Mamoru.]
I'm...pretty sure the parts about her being sent to Earth in secret and being raised by humans is right. It's the stuff afterward that kind of gets shrugged off.
But, yeah. La-Matel turns out to be a planet with this really weird orbit structure, where once every thousand years -- the millennia part -- it swings back into the Earth's solar system, behind uh... [he squints.] The tiny one. One of the orbits on the far end. I forget. And anyway, for some reason, the next orbital swing was going to send the planet smacking right into Earth. The La-Matellians sent a bunch of their kind to Earth to hide there and grab a bunch of humans for servants before impact, then use them to, like, cultivate some other planet the La-Matellians could own? Something like that. Aliens seemed to do that a lot to Earth...
[he looks up briefly in thought.]
Mm, so the part after the whole...deciding to help save both planets instead of destroying the Earth is what I think gets cut out. About how Queen Milennia left with La-Matel, and it became a place of machines. Its people gave up flesh and blood to live on as robotics, kind of like how humans who go out to Heavy Melder do.
[he looks back toward James.]
I think...a lot of people who grew up hating machine men got hung up on that more than, like, my Mom or whoever else just liked the parts about teamwork and stuff. Even now, people leave Earth hoping to get new bodies, and sometimes folks give them a hard time for it.
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...none of these, probably. ah, well. nothing really to lose, so he doesn't sweat it.
Millennia...man, it's been a while since he thought about that story, back when his mom told it to him and Mamoru.]
I'm...pretty sure the parts about her being sent to Earth in secret and being raised by humans is right. It's the stuff afterward that kind of gets shrugged off.
But, yeah. La-Matel turns out to be a planet with this really weird orbit structure, where once every thousand years -- the millennia part -- it swings back into the Earth's solar system, behind uh... [he squints.] The tiny one. One of the orbits on the far end. I forget. And anyway, for some reason, the next orbital swing was going to send the planet smacking right into Earth. The La-Matellians sent a bunch of their kind to Earth to hide there and grab a bunch of humans for servants before impact, then use them to, like, cultivate some other planet the La-Matellians could own? Something like that. Aliens seemed to do that a lot to Earth...
[he looks up briefly in thought.]
Mm, so the part after the whole...deciding to help save both planets instead of destroying the Earth is what I think gets cut out. About how Queen Milennia left with La-Matel, and it became a place of machines. Its people gave up flesh and blood to live on as robotics, kind of like how humans who go out to Heavy Melder do.
[he looks back toward James.]
I think...a lot of people who grew up hating machine men got hung up on that more than, like, my Mom or whoever else just liked the parts about teamwork and stuff. Even now, people leave Earth hoping to get new bodies, and sometimes folks give them a hard time for it.