[Her surprise is pretty telling that wherever she comes from, people probably haven't made it to Mars quite yet.]
Yes. It was in 1975 that the first expedition took place. [Her pleasant bearing scales down a bit, though her smile does not fade, only weakens.] The last year I remember it being before I arrived here to El Nysa was 2014. It hadn't been even a half-century old...
[As tense as the state of affairs had been in her home empire, thinking about it stirs homesickness in her heart. It never got a chance to flourish, to become something better like she had hoped, before it met its fate in The Storm.]
I take it colonization on Mars had not happened where you are from?
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Yes. It was in 1975 that the first expedition took place. [Her pleasant bearing scales down a bit, though her smile does not fade, only weakens.] The last year I remember it being before I arrived here to El Nysa was 2014. It hadn't been even a half-century old...
[As tense as the state of affairs had been in her home empire, thinking about it stirs homesickness in her heart. It never got a chance to flourish, to become something better like she had hoped, before it met its fate in The Storm.]
I take it colonization on Mars had not happened where you are from?