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[dolorous_sensei]

*The 8th Genoace Team has been helping the evacuation of South Ataria Island for a while, and now Walt is drinking coffee in a cafetaria somewhere in between the evacuation effort.*

Another alien enemy appears, eh? And it makes our newest flagship looks like a toy with their size and their number.

Like we don't have our hand full with the UE and Wulgaru already, with their superior number and technology...

And there's this species of robots in disguise who've been fighting since before we even raised the great pyramids...

Oh wait, and it turned out that some other alien species might've toyed with us to make us build the great pyramids...

Mankind is really just an insignificant speck of dust in the universe...

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[glorystargo]

Speck of dust? Maybe. But it's not too bad if you ask me.

[dolorous_sensei]

Why do you say so?

[glorystargo]

I have a job and friends to live for. Also, beer if the living gets too difficult. Nothing like a cold one after a bad day.

Maybe it's just a speck of dust, but it's our speck of dust.

[dolorous_sensei]

Funny you say that. Because the most depressing part for me is, despite realizing all this, I still can't just spend the rest of my life drinking that beer. Somehow I'm still keeping myself in the middle of all this.

[glorystargo]

So you realize how overwhelming everything is, but are man enough to try to do something about it?

That's not depressing. That's the opposite of depressing.

[dolorous_sensei]

But I wish I could ignore all that.

[glorystargo]

Sometimes not ignoring it is the right thing to do. Gives you perspective.

[keep_your_dignity]

WELCOME TO PERSPECTIVE.

[What, were you expecting any sort of commiseration from Kagura of all people?]

[dolorous_sensei]

And there's nothing we could do about it.

[keep_your_dignity]

NEVER GET INTO PHYSICS, LIEUTENANT SCHMERTZ. IF THIS MAKES YOU PANIC THAT WILL MAKE YOUR HEAD EXPLODE.

[dolorous_sensei]

How do you keep on fighting, Major?

[keep_your_dignity]

BY BEING SMART ENOUGH TO REALIZE THAT THE WHOLE ENORMITY OF THE UNIVERSE BULLSHIT THAT PEOPLE LIKE TO DRONE ON ABOUT DOESN'T MEAN FUCKING JACK, SCHMERTZ. THE UNIVERSE IS JUST EMPTY SPACE AND ROCKS THAT SPIN IN RANDOM ORBITS. PHYSICS ARE HOW THINGS WORK, NOT SOMETHING TO BE AWED BY OR SOME SHIT.

YES, EARTH IS SMALL. FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, IT'S ALSO MY HOUSE AND I'M GOING TO FUCK UP ANY SELF-IMPORTANT ALIEN CUNT WHO TRIES TO BREAK MY WINDOWS. END OF DISCUSSION.

[dolorous_sensei]

Even if it might mean nothing in the end?

[keep_your_dignity]

THINGS ONLY HAVE THE MEANING YOU GIVE THEM, LIEUTENANT. WHOEVER TRIES TO TELL YOU THAT YOU NEED SOME GRAND MEANING TO EVERYTHING IS TRYING TO SELL YOU SOMETHING.

DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO AND DON'T TRY TO MAKE THINGS MORE DIFFICULT THAN THEY ARE. SHIT IS USUALLY HARD ENOUGH AS IS WITHOUT PEOPLE INVENTING MORE TROUBLES TO HAVE.

[dolorous_sensei]

Thanks, Major. I guess we should just keep fighting these meaningless battles we have.

[keep_your_dignity]

YOU DO THAT.

[abugslife]

Actually, you built the pyramids yourselves. My people just copied the idea from you.

[dolorous_sensei]

That's good to hear. At least we could be proud that we were an intercivilization fad starter at least once.

[abugslife]

Yes, be proud, for you have reasons to be. The cultural heritage Earth created - not just in that one civilization, but all of them - is something to behold.

The AEP already have plans to build more pyramids on Earth, though, and they will, if they get their way. They won't erect them themselves personally, of course - Earthling slaves will.

[dolorous_sensei]

People on earth are kinda bored with pyramids already though.

[abugslife]

It is true that your culture seems to be galloping forward at an amazing pace. Geb, in comparison, prefers to stick to traditions.

[dolorous_sensei]

It's true. I can't understand what kids these days are into.

[abugslife]

The generational gap shall only grow wider as you get older.

It is the tragedy of age.

[modern_ancient]

The universe is too big to worry about all at once. You'll just drive yourself mad trying. The key is focusing on one problem at a time.

[dolorous_sensei]

My friend tried to do that once. He got shot in the back while focusing to the front.

[modern_ancient]

Okay so maybe you need to find a middle ground.

[dolorous_sensei]

I guess you're right. But what if all of the problems look just as big? Which part of it should we focus first?

[modern_ancient]

The parts that seem most immediately important?

Trust your gut. Your guts know more than most people give them credit for.

[dolorous_sensei]

You seem pretty experienced in trusting your gut.

[modern_ancient]

It's the one friend who never truly abandons you.

[majestic_keiki]

Everything is compared to the universe. There are are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way and more than a hundred billion known galaxies...I'm more concerned with how many of those species are determined to attack us.

[dolorous_sensei]

That's even worse. Now we're the insignificant among the insignificant.

[majestic_keiki]

I guess that's one way to look at it.

[dolorous_sensei]

Well, worse come to worst, at least everyone are just as insignificant at the end.

[majestic_keiki]

Please tell me that nobody ever thought to have you work on civilian morale.

[srwjunker]

"I know how that can be, it feels strange some times doesn't it? Can't let it get you down, it's our home. Our backyard and we are not going to let others run us over. Your team proved that I hear."

"If we are specks then we are but this is still our home. I'm more happy there's some aliens that think we're worth working with."

[dolorous_sensei]

Yeah, those friendly aliens are nice, if kinda makes me feeling overwhelmed. Like we're just small fish in a sea full of sharks.

[srwjunker]

"It does feel that way then again sharks only kill to eat. Most of our alien problems are things coming to pick a fight for their own ends. Hows your squad holding up?"

[dolorous_sensei]

Still up and can't stop fighting the good fight, somehow. I'm not even sure how or why.

[srwjunker]

"Good, they are doing well. I'll do what I can to help make sure they get back in one piece. I know where you been I started out service in a Messer of all things. Katina did as well, we looted the hangers as it were when some comrades got assigned some units to test."

Russel actually laughs a bit a the memory.

"So you should have seen the look on the LT's face when she was told the new units were not for her, she stormed off to the hanger and laid claim to the old units before they even had time to even think of taking them off the ship."

[kill_all_vagans]

[Flit's been helping with the rescue operations too, and is similarly trying to cool down. Except, well, the subject is aliens so...]

... That won't last forever. I refuse to believe that.

[dolorous_sensei]

Is there anything we can do about it?

[kill_all_vagans]

Fight back. It's how we've survived as long as we have.

[dolorous_sensei]

Is that the only thing we could do though? Fight back and fight back forever?

[kill_all_vagans]

Our capabilities aren't as limited as they were the day before. Or the day before that. We can learn, adapt and pool our resources to address each threat.

If we all work together, we can beat anyone out to destroy humanity.

[dolorous_sensei]

Glad to hear that. I just hope we can stay alive longer to adapt to the next threat.