forgivetheinsubordination | IC Contact

There was this slaver. Turoth Dat'terah. Mean, permanently angry. Batarian. So he's your typical... Wait, right. Batarians are pretty curt, pretty used to slavery, four eyes, all of them constantly glaring, that sort of a thing. Bipedal, about human height. Anyway. So he operated out of Omega. Pretty profitable op - runaways make it to the station, he promised work if they showed up, they wound up taken. I used it against him.

Had one of my people call him. Sensat. She was always good at sounding younger. Convinced him she needed a job. He was wary. Most people didn't contact him. I figured he'd come anyway, and have a lot of his men in case it was a trap. And that was what we were ready for. Proximity mines, snipers, everyone in place. Turoth and his best walked in, me and mine walked out. Hit his base of ops after that, took out more of his people, wound up setting free a good twenty kids.

[She sounds shocked.] Kids? You told the guards, right? 'Cause that shit gets you fucked up in prison.

But... that's a good story. Good guys win. Maybe it's an alien thing; that crap only happens in movies on Earth.

[His voice is calm and even.] No guards. When I say we took them out, I mean every slaver is dead. There's no laws on Omega against slavery. They wouldn't have been charged with anything, wouldn't've faced punishments. Me and my people? We were the punishment.

And the good guys don't always win. A lot of them don't. But the reason I'm still alive is because I've kept winning.

Jesus. Better'n nothing, I guess. [Still, she makes mental note to never tell Garrus about any time she or her family has done anything illegal.] Sounds like where you're from's a lot more... intense than where I'm from.

[He just punishes the people that hurt other people. Not all crimes are worth a bullet. And not all crimes are actually crimes.]

Everywhere's intense, I figure. Some acclimate, some don't. And it's a lot more settled if you're planet-bound. Generally. You have crime still, conflict, but it's not as bad as things can get in space. Gotta say I wouldn't trade space for planetary life, though. There's something about the stars...

[He trails off for a moment.]

Mm. The people too. You stay on a planet, and you get hide-bound. You figure your people's way is the best way. Don't really learn about others and how they do things. Stagnate. If you're in space working with people of other species, most of the time you learn. Some don't. You get stupid everywhere.

Huh. I guess I gotta keep that in mind for... all this shit. I never thought I was gonna go to space, before all this. Most people didn't.

Most people here, most people from your world. Not most people from my world. Or galaxy. Alien 101 - gotta have a bigger perspective. One world's a tiny place, one culture's a tiny thing.

But you've got a good start. You're already working to wrap your head around things.

IC Contact - Consignment

Clearly I have no idea how to format tags.

pfft np. i just use <blockquote>

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