Like you said, one does have to start somewhere. Taranis was particularly tough. I'm not even sure, honestly, why the original settlers bothered.
[...He isn't a compulsive liar. Really. But for someone who has been lying for so much of his life about so much of his life, laying the truth bare feels...uncomfortable. Even small, inconsequential truths about his past. The discomfort isn't entirely unwarranted either. If he were somehow connected to his home planet back in his own universe, why....that could lead to some inconvenient revelations. The chances here are almost non-existent but almost is not none.
So. He lies about the name of his home planet, though not the other details.]
I understand, though. I left home at 16. Taranis is in the Outer Rim, terribly backwater, and I wanted to see the galaxy.
[That isn't wholly a lie either. Leaving Brahma had been like a breath of fresh air. Even if he had also been running.]
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[...He isn't a compulsive liar. Really. But for someone who has been lying for so much of his life about so much of his life, laying the truth bare feels...uncomfortable. Even small, inconsequential truths about his past. The discomfort isn't entirely unwarranted either. If he were somehow connected to his home planet back in his own universe, why....that could lead to some inconvenient revelations. The chances here are almost non-existent but almost is not none.
So. He lies about the name of his home planet, though not the other details.]
I understand, though. I left home at 16. Taranis is in the Outer Rim, terribly backwater, and I wanted to see the galaxy.
[That isn't wholly a lie either. Leaving Brahma had been like a breath of fresh air. Even if he had also been running.]