09-15-2016, 03:43 AM
The back and forth of questions was mostly the usual fare. Questions a lot of newcomers asked. Stanek wasn't surprised, but was glad for the chance to not have to answer them again. Once in such short order was enough. He was still mulling over his own thoughts and didn't want to spare the time for the whole well-meaning welcome act. He was content to leave that to the types who were actually cut out for it.
At the question about all of them being a part of the Fountain Watch, the answer went unspoken. All it really earned was a shrug from most parties, and an affirmative nod from Jayce, the rhetorical nature of the question managing, impressively, to sail right over his head. As Nezha went on about the EPD and its station outside of Coruscant proper, even the inward-thinking Sergeant finally turned his attention back outward to listen in.
And Graowr, for her part, was just as confused and curious as ever. Looking back and forth from the newcomer to the Imperial troops, trying to gauge some measure of what this was all about. She'd never really considered things from the angle Nezha pointed out, but to her simple, straightforward manner of thinking, it all did make sense as it was laid out like that. After all, they had mentioned that lot of camels or something. Didn't seem like they were on such good terms with them. And all those other places around here. The verses and whatnot. There was probably who even had any idea what out there, somewhere.
The request to tell more about the other places in more detail was met with silence for a moment, before Jayce obligingly held up his right hand, palm upward. The blue hologram flickered to life again, displaying a rough map of the Nexus as seen from overhead. Their current location was highlighted, and a line drawn to a gate more or less straight ahead. A label read 'Coruscant' in stylized lettering. The gates around the edge flickered, lighting up in turn as focus swept past them, coming to rest on the image of the clean, hewn stone of the gate to Camelot, with its label written in highly fancified cursive. "The other primary power in the Omniverse is the Kingdom of Camelot. The short version of events is that we have been more or less at war, though not in open conflict, for a long while now. As far as technology goes, they're at the opposite end of the spectrum, making use of magic and old-fashioned means."
"Doesn't really make them any less effective, what with the crazy way physics work in this place," Sisto interjected cheerfully. "Bow and arrow's as good as a blaster rifle, somehow or other. Heck, to some people, a regular ol' punch is just as good. Sometimes better." He chuckled at the absurdity of that. "It was a real experience, getting used to that when I first hot here, lemme tell you..."
"The Kingdom is also highly interested in recruiting new primes to its ranks, though is more subtle about it. They do not maintain an active presence in the Nexus here to try and recruit freshly-arrived Primes, for their own reasons, but they certainly keep a watch on it. Rest assure, they know when someone new arrives, just as surely as the Empire does." Jayce closed his hand into a loose fist, shutting off the display. "We've been fortunate not to have any encounters with them directly, but we've seen their scouting patrols lurking near their gate, and going to and fro along the edges into and out of other verses. We don't really know much of what they're up to, but we keep tabs on their business just as much as we know they do on ours."
"Sure is cold, for a war," Sisto once more added in. "Kinda glad it's so relatively peaceful. We've got enough problems inside our own borders to worry about. War on the outside on top of that would be a real ordeal."
At the question about all of them being a part of the Fountain Watch, the answer went unspoken. All it really earned was a shrug from most parties, and an affirmative nod from Jayce, the rhetorical nature of the question managing, impressively, to sail right over his head. As Nezha went on about the EPD and its station outside of Coruscant proper, even the inward-thinking Sergeant finally turned his attention back outward to listen in.
And Graowr, for her part, was just as confused and curious as ever. Looking back and forth from the newcomer to the Imperial troops, trying to gauge some measure of what this was all about. She'd never really considered things from the angle Nezha pointed out, but to her simple, straightforward manner of thinking, it all did make sense as it was laid out like that. After all, they had mentioned that lot of camels or something. Didn't seem like they were on such good terms with them. And all those other places around here. The verses and whatnot. There was probably who even had any idea what out there, somewhere.
The request to tell more about the other places in more detail was met with silence for a moment, before Jayce obligingly held up his right hand, palm upward. The blue hologram flickered to life again, displaying a rough map of the Nexus as seen from overhead. Their current location was highlighted, and a line drawn to a gate more or less straight ahead. A label read 'Coruscant' in stylized lettering. The gates around the edge flickered, lighting up in turn as focus swept past them, coming to rest on the image of the clean, hewn stone of the gate to Camelot, with its label written in highly fancified cursive. "The other primary power in the Omniverse is the Kingdom of Camelot. The short version of events is that we have been more or less at war, though not in open conflict, for a long while now. As far as technology goes, they're at the opposite end of the spectrum, making use of magic and old-fashioned means."
"Doesn't really make them any less effective, what with the crazy way physics work in this place," Sisto interjected cheerfully. "Bow and arrow's as good as a blaster rifle, somehow or other. Heck, to some people, a regular ol' punch is just as good. Sometimes better." He chuckled at the absurdity of that. "It was a real experience, getting used to that when I first hot here, lemme tell you..."
"The Kingdom is also highly interested in recruiting new primes to its ranks, though is more subtle about it. They do not maintain an active presence in the Nexus here to try and recruit freshly-arrived Primes, for their own reasons, but they certainly keep a watch on it. Rest assure, they know when someone new arrives, just as surely as the Empire does." Jayce closed his hand into a loose fist, shutting off the display. "We've been fortunate not to have any encounters with them directly, but we've seen their scouting patrols lurking near their gate, and going to and fro along the edges into and out of other verses. We don't really know much of what they're up to, but we keep tabs on their business just as much as we know they do on ours."
"Sure is cold, for a war," Sisto once more added in. "Kinda glad it's so relatively peaceful. We've got enough problems inside our own borders to worry about. War on the outside on top of that would be a real ordeal."