Room 3

[testingphase]

[The room, once you've entered it, has a number of ear buds laid out on a table.]

Now, pop those ear buds in and we'll begin the test! Failure to comply will result in desyncing and forcing your team to pay for a replacement body.

Comments

[prideofabh]

An asteroid in Earth's star system?

[backwardscompatible]

No, it was far from Earth. A station called Demon's Run. But I hardly remember any of it, of course.

[prideofabh]

Of course. What sort of archeology do you do? Someone said you were an archeologist?

[backwardscompatible]

I was a professor, but more the leading expeditions into ancient ruins type than the standing in a dusty classroom type.

[prideofabh]

What kind of ruins?

[backwardscompatible]

Oh, all kinds. Tombs were always my favourite.

[prideofabh]

What sort of tombs?

[backwardscompatible]

[rattles off about a half a dozen completely unfamiliar names of alien races]. Those are the more recent ones.

[prideofabh]

I don't know who those are.

[backwardscompatible]

Dead civilisations, maybe even from a different timeline entirely to you.

[prideofabh]

Human?

[backwardscompatible]

Not those ones. I've done a couple of human tombs, but if you want to get truly creative it's better to get outside of your own species.

[prideofabh]

Do you encounter many living aliens?

[backwardscompatible]

Oh yes, of course. But it sounds like you're from a spacefaring era, why would you even need to ask?

[prideofabh]

As far as I know, humanity is the only sentient species in the galaxy.

[backwardscompatible]

That's... odd.

[prideofabh]

Is it? We assumed that the amount of time it takes for such species to develop that they wouldn't be common.

I take it that it's not the case where you coem form?

[backwardscompatible]

It's not so much that life is common as that the universe is a big place. But it shouldn't be that rare.

[prideofabh]

Well, we've only explore those systems that are connected via plane space. Moving sords around is time consuming.

[backwardscompatible]

But no one's contacted you either...

[prideofabh]

No, they haven't.