( text | un: sweetie )

[retrorsum]

I haven't been here that long but something that I haven't heard talked about very often is space. Planets, specifically and those of you for who this isn't your first trip to another planet.

Though anyone who isn't from Earth I'd also be interested in hearing from. Sharing experiences as it were.

Comments

[retrorsum]

Is Earth your home planet or somewhere you visited?

[fractaljesus]

I visited it; I do not have a home planet.

[retrorsum]

Not even somewhere where your parents came from?

[fractaljesus]

The concept of "parentage" only applies to biological entities to define the individuals whose genetic information had successfully replicated and passed to a subsequent generation. It is a process that developed in response to the nascence of the concept of life and death as a means to circumvent mortality.

Anisotropic beings predate this nascence. As a result, we do not possess genetic information, thus the concept of reproduction does not apply.

[Which is just a fancy way of saying "I don't have parents," but saying only that would likely result in misunderstanding.]

My origin is Novo--planets as you understand them do not exist there.

[retrorsum]

You might not have genetic information but there are other artificial species that assign familial relationships.

( she'd seen them. almost got caught in with some of it. accidentally, of course )

If you don't have planets -- what is there?

[fractaljesus]

[The white-haired man shakes his head, brows furrowed as he tries to find words to communicate a concept for which there exists no equivalent in this world.]

"Artificial species" is inaccurate. Neither word applies to Anisotropic beings; we are neither artificial nor can we be classified as a species. Additionally, our concept of interpersonal relationships is different from yours, and we lack a concept of familial relationships entirely. [They don't even have a proper name for their kind; they are entities that exist within Novo--anisotropic space--thus they are called 'anisotropic beings.']

Novo possesses higher dimensions than this universe. No equivalent concepts exist in this world--the conditions are fundamentally disparate.

[Which is why he considers Earth the first planet he'd ever visited.]