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64th moon [video]

I've recently been thinking of acquiring another Fighting-type or two. Are any species particularly worth looking into?

[Cecil probably didn't pay much attention when centering the camera, because his bandaged hands sewing a shirt back together are taking up most of the screen.]

I'd also like to hear about monkey species. Or beautiful Pokémon. I've no intention of catching them immediately, so their natural habitat matters little at the moment.

[His hands still for a few seconds.]

Do people enjoy learning that their friends named Pokémon after them? It's... perhaps too late for me to ask that question, but I'd rather not upset anyone.

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It seems to me like you don't fully believe your own words.

[He's heard enough skepticism in his lifetime to learn when to pick it up.]

...We can only visit a small part of it. For all we know, everything beyond Johto and Kanto is torn apart by conflict even as we speak. Yet we hear nothing from the lands beyond these borders. Why?

...Have you ever considered the possibility that such lands simply do not exist in this world?

We cannot reject that possibility, of course. But then, where would the ocean end? What would we find beyond the mountains north of Blachthorn and Cerulean?

Perhaps the world simply loops back in around on itself?

It might, but that would be difficult to prove without an airship.

An...airship?

[Sure, his world had ships that could fly through the atmosphere, but they were almost always considered spaceships first and foremost.]

Ships that travel the skies, rather than the seas. A girl I spoke with long ago said they sound like her world's 'airplanes', if that sounds more familiar.

Yes, I figured that as soon as the word left my mouth.

[He looks a bit sheepish now.]

My world possesses ships that can fly in the atmosphere, but we classify them as spaceships because they are almost always tailored for traveling through space.

A spaceship? We have one of those, but no one could say it resembles a ship. It's whale-shaped, rather.

...Wow, that's...curious.

[Athrun's been in this world too long to be weirded out by this sort of thing. However...]

Is there some sort of theme regarding whales in space...?

A theme? Are your spaceships whale-shaped, too?

Huh? Oh, sorry, no. No, not even close. But there's something else -- a fossil. We found it in a manned expedition to the Jupiter Sphere. The fossil looked like that of a winged whale, and it was the first proof we've found of extraterrestrial, multicellular life.

That's the only proof you have? Your world has had no contact with other civilizations or even foreign monsters?

No, none at all. Man has never gone beyond Jovian orbit, and no extraterrestrial beings have ever come to us. We're still not even sure if faster-than-light travel is physically possible.

...But from the way you phrased that question, it sounds as if you have.

We have indeed. We can be certain of at least one race and hundreds of monster species. Then again, they had the advantage of not needing to travel particularly fast; they're extremely long-lived.

How long are we talking? I mean, light takes thousands of years to reach Earth from other stars. With a powerful enough telescope, we can see to near the beginning of the universe, because that light is only just reaching us now. Long-lived or not, I imagine they must have used some sort of cold sleep.

Hundreds, thousands of years? I never thought to ask. But they do sleep deep within the moon, and their original planet was just beyond the red one. You could say that they had quite a few advantages.

Wait. Just beyond the red planet? Are you saying that they're from Jupiter?

They... could be?

[What are planet names.]

Fusoya said that their planet was between the red one and the large one, and that it was destroyed. He never mentioned its name.

Oh, so you're referring to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But that accounts for a major difference between our worlds. In my world, we've determined that the chances of the asteroid belt once being a planet are astronomically low.

Could the addition of a single planet truly cause so many differences in our societies? Though the existence of the Lunarians did change our planet greatly...

I don't know. However, I do know that we never found any signs of life on the moon back home. The only time any kind of life began to appear on the moon was when we began to build colonies there.

...Wait a moment. Does you planet happen to have only one moon? We do have one that appears devoid of life. It could be the one that matches yours.

...Well, yes. You have more than one?

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