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[pidgeypidge]

Has anyone seen any stars or constellations they recognize? I've been looking, and I haven't seen a single thing that seems familiar.

[It's a little disappointing, honestly. And she's been here for roughly two months now? How is that even possible?]

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[givenofox]

Only the stars in your eyes.

[givenofox]

But now that you mention it, yeah. None of thm look familiar at all.

They're different from Duplicity too.

lmao you're fired

[pidgeypidge]

[That's... just not helpful.]

Cute.

[But not quite what she was looking for.]

That's not comforting. I keep thinking I'm going to see something I recognize, and then it's just more of the same weird sky on another weird world that isn't mine.

[givenofox]

[ ...okay, yeah, that was a bit tone-deaf of him. he's not blind to how homesick she gets. ]

I'm sorry, Katie. I was trying to make you laugh, but this definitely wasn't the time.

[ really, Ren can't blame Pidge for being upset at staring at a different sky. he didn't have anything to go back to, but...she did. and she'd been away from it for months after being stuck out in space even in that world for, what was it, years? ]

Stars change the further you go from a galaxy, right? Maybe we just keep ending up on entirely different planets but in the same universe?

I can try and find some books or maps of the stars here for you. If we're in the same universe, we should still be able to find something we recognize, even if it's further out. Right?

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[404s]

Where I'm from, the stars are other worlds. Maybe it's the same here, so we're just around a bunch of new worlds no one recognizes?

[ He's better with data than he is with space, but. ]

[pidgeypidge]

Do you really think they're all different worlds?

[It's certainly something to consider.]

[404s]

They might be! But we don't know unless we go check them out.

There's a bunch of us here who might be able to travel to them if it works like it does at home.

[pidgeypidge]

Somehow I don't think it's going to be so easy to just go check them out.

Wait. What?

[fridgeninja]

I don't recognize them, but other than Vega and Altair, I don't really know much about stars or constellations.

[pidgeypidge]

I can't decide if that's a good thing or not. I'm going to keep looking, though.

[fridgeninja]

Are there any stars bright or distinctive enough that you could recognize them even if we're at a completely different angle and distance?

[tookashirototheknee]

Nope.

And trust me, I've looked.

I know some stars from different perspectives back home, and I haven't found a single thing that makes sense. It's a bit unsettling.

[pidgeypidge]

[Yea, thanks, she hates it.]

I've been looking nearly every night. And nothing makes sense. What are we supposed to do?

[tookashirototheknee]

I don't know.

If I could get out of atmo for a bit, I could maybe get a better perspective. Maybe I'll look into taking a trip to the moon base.

I, uh, wasn't paying an awful lot of attention when I first got here.

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[paradoxically]

The sky would sometimes look different depending on where we were.

Or which time we were.

But nothing like what we see here.

[pidgeypidge]

Which time you were?

[Yes, that's absolutely what she's latching onto.]

@deku

[defendure]

i haven't been to spot any recognizable constellations, but given the "different planet and three moons" thing i didn't really expect to be able to?

[pidgeypidge]

Fair enough. But I'm not narrow-minded enough to believe that everyone has been dragged here from the same place or time. So I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

[defendure]

well...if someone could recognize a constellation from this position on this planet, though, they'd already be familiar with the three-moon system, right? i feel like that would have come up before now, but you're right that someone might have kept it quiet.

[darkcharge]

No. Though I've never been to a world I couldn't leave freely before either.

[pidgeypidge]

I'm assuming you can't leave this one freely?

[darkcharge]

No. None of the pathways are working.
They just loop right back to this place.

[sympathyforadevil]

That's a big negatory.
It's fucking bizarre is what it is. I keep looking up expecting to see Bahamut but I got nothing. But that's probably to be expected, right? Different plane, different stars, right?

I mean I wouldn't know I haven't actually been off the prime before, but hey

[pidgeypidge]

[That's certainly... an answer.]

Yea, I figured as much. I've been to other worlds, so I figured it'd be like that. But it's just... unfamiliar stars.

[Discouraging to say the least.]

The prime?

[sympathyforadevil]

Sorry, Prime Material. It's the plane that's the center of... well, not everything, obviously, but center of

It's a word we used back home to mean 'our world'. There's a bunch of planes of existence and they all orbit the Prime Material, except there's a couple that're sort of... occupying the same space, I guess? I really should've paid more attention to this