Galactic Field Trips, Monday

[unusual_sith]

"Hello, everybody." Lana smiled. "Today we can step through the portal before I do our introduction." She waved them through, where they came out in front of a stately home in a cool climate (which they had been alerted to dress for).

"Welcome to Alderaan. It's somewhat less cosmopolitan than either of the capitals. The inhabited area is largely forests and mountains. The cities are smaller and largely centered around noble houses - House Thul and House Organa are two of the major houses locally. We won't be visiting either of them, though; politics are very important here, and which house is aligned with which government can be a touchy subject. The Alliance's staunchest allies here are the indigenous species, the killiks."

She nodded to a man standing a little way off, and he came over and bowed. "Good afternoon. We are Vector Hyllus, the Dawn Herald of the Oroboro nest. We will be your guide through the nest today, where you will encounter some of our art and technology. Most killiks cannot speak Basic, but joiners like us can and will. Please let us know if you have any questions."

Lana nodded to Vector. "There is also an aerial tour of the planet, which I highly recommend because the thrantas are SO EFFING COOL OMG, but which is entirely optional if you have difficulties with heights."

Comments

Re: Listen to the lecture/look around

[hasaknightjob]

"Not the sort of travel for me, I'm afraid," Steven said when he saw what she was looking at. "I leave flying outside of a vehicle to Marc. But, er, wanted to say I saw your posters. For Pride? Can I be of any help at all?"

Re: Listen to the lecture/look around

[drumsticksandd20s]

"Not gonna lie, it does have a certain appeal," Steph admitted. There was a good chance she'd end up giving the aerial tour a shot before they left. "And yeah, of course! No way am I going to turn down help. Did you have anything in mind?"

Re: Listen to the lecture/look around

[hasaknightjob]

"Open to suggestions of course," Steven said. "But I know you put educational things in your radio programs last year. I could help with that if you'd like? Something about gender or sexuality in history?"

Re: Listen to the lecture/look around

[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph's mouth dropped open briefly.

"That," she said, "would be absolutely amazing, yeah. Not having to do all the research myself would save me so much time. I was thinking of a theme kind of like 'Surprise, fuckers! We've been here the whole time!'"

She paused.

"Just in a way that won't get me bleeped and then scolded by Leroy."

Re: Listen to the lecture/look around

[hasaknightjob]

"I mean my area of expertise is mainly ancient Egypt," Steven said, as far warning. "But that's thousands of years ago, so maybe a nice start? So to speak? And I'll do my best to avoid anything that needs to be censored."

So probably not the lettuce story then.

Re: Listen to the lecture/look around

[drumsticksandd20s]

The lettuce story would be amazing, but it would also probably net her a concussion from being pelted by several dozen acorns. So no, probably not.

"I mean, arguably thousands of years ago kind of underscores the point," Steph said thoughtfully.

Re: Listen to the lecture/look around

[hasaknightjob]

"Be more than happy to then," Steven said. "Give you something to read or call in like last year or - whatever you like, really. Your show. No problem at all to do it your way. I mean unless it involves flying on those creatures up there. That might be a problem then."

Steven grinned to show he was joking and did not actually expect this to be a requirement.

Re: Listen to the lecture/look around

[drumsticksandd20s]

"Whichever way works best for you," Steph replied. "It might be cool to have it direct from you as the resident expert, more or less, but I'm happy to read copy over the air if it's more comfortable for you."

She grinned.

"Not from the back of one of those flying creatures, though. No fancy windscreened mic in the universe would improve that sound."

Re: Listen to the lecture/look around

[hasaknightjob]

"Don't mind being the resident expert at all," Steven said, with the sort of enthusiasm which made it clear the problem might be getting him to stop. "Would that mean coming in to radio?"