HZD Terraforming Base-001 Text Communications Network
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Zo: Alva, I have questions about your empire's agriculture.
DIVINER: Well, I'm not an agriculturalist or a biologist, but I'll answer what questions I can!
Zo: Do you have land-gods? Machines that tend your fields?
DIVINER: No, we had to learn to do everything ourselves! Much of it was discovered in the labs belonging to Eileen Sasaki, which is why she's one of our most revered Ancestors. The Empire wouldn't exist if we couldn't expand our fields!
Zo: I suppose our reliance on our land-gods has limited our expansion.
DIVINER: Um, this might be an awkward question...
DIVINER: And by awkward, I mean insulting.
BoyNextDoor: Apologizing before the insult. Erend, you can learn a thing or two here.
HIMBO: IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU'RE ALL TOO SENSITIVE!
HIMBO: OH REALLY? GRANOLA GIRL?
Zo: So what was your question, Alva?
DIVINER: Do you um, know how to farm?? Without your land-gods, I mean!
Zo: Oh, that. Yes, we do. Not all our villages are directly in the paths of the land-gods. We haven't expanded much, but we have some.
HIMBO: SHARING A BORDER WITH THE TENAKTH PROBABLY HELPED KEEP YOU GUYS FROM PUSHING OUT.
MARSHAL Kotallo: The Tenakth have always had fine relations with the Utaru.
HIMBO: YEAH, AND I'M GUESSING THAT ANY TIME ANYONE SUGGESTED EXPANDING, SOMEONE BROUGHT THAT UP.
Zo: One of the biggest problems my people have is that we are passive. The land-gods provide more than enough for what we need. Even in our outer villages, we rarely actually need to farm. It is always easier to just sit by and let nature take its course.
FlameHairSavior: In my experience, the people in power generally want things to stay the same.
Zo: True, the Chorus is the worst, but this is a problem common among the Utaru. As much as I wish otherwise, the Chorus are not forcing their own passivity on anyone. This is simply the way we are.
BoyNextDoor: Except for a few brave members of the tribe who will charge into a Cauldron with a couple of strangers.
Zo: You say the sweetest things.
HIMBO: EW, THEY'RE KISSING.
BoyNextDoor: How old are you, twelve?
β: flirt on your own time its science now
DIVINER: Right! Zo, did you have a reason you were asking about the Empire??
Zo: I found a story of the Old Ones about an empire making a colony. It just got me wondering if your people had the expertise to do something like that.
DIVINER: I don't either! But I'm guessing it's sci-fi?
DIVINER: ...oh, wow, I just realized how much cultural context you're all missing.
FlameHairSavior: We are not having a movie night. At least not until I can go two consecutive days without having to put out literal fires.
DIVINER: I'm sorry to say, I don't think this is something that can be solved with a movie night!!
β: sure it can there are documentaries on film making or whatever
DIVINER: Oh, documentaries!! Those would be so useful!
DIVINER: I don't have any on my Focus, though!
HIMBO: WHAT'S A DOCUMENTARY?
DIVINER: It's a movie for teaching you about something!
HIMBO: SOUNDS HORRIFYING.
FlameHairSavior: I've changed my mind; we can watch one.
FlameHairSavior: Though I do seriously need to find a day without an emergency.
FlameHairSavior: I found a Tenakth town in the desert that is flooded, and still doesn't have any drinking water.
BoyNextDoor: What were you doing back in the dessert?
FlameHairSavior: Okay, this was a while ago. Back when I was traveling to Vegas.
MARSHAL Kotallo: Many of our villages are suffering from such problems.
HIMBO: I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT SORT OF SLAG. DON'T YOU GET MOST OF YOUR FOOD FROM THE UTARU?
MARSHAL Kotallo: We still live off the land where possible, one way or the other. We don't just steal everything from our neighbors. We are not savages.
β: also raiding is not a sustainable long term economic practice
β: pirate nations never last long and aloy said all the bandits are always starving
FlameHairSavior: Yeah. That was back in the Sundom and the Sacred Lands, though. The rebels seem to have things a little more thought-out.
MARSHAL Kotallo: They are attempting to wrest control of Tenakth society. There is more to them than mindless raiding for supplies.
DIVINER: So! I've looked over the archive, and there aren't really any documentaries??
DIVINER: Well, there's one on the history of sourdough bread, but that's probably not going to be interesting to anyone??
MARSHAL Kotallo: What in the name of the Ten is sourdough bread? That sounds like something that has been fouled and is unsuitable for consumption.
DIVINER: I don't know! I haven't watched it!
β: aloy we have a new mission for you
FlameHairSavior: I don't know what sourdough bread is either, and I'm not finding any.
β: no not that you need to find the documentary on film making
FlameHairSavior: And where would I find that?
β: youre supposed to be the anointed chosen baby or whatever thats your job
FlameHairSavior: If there's an undamaged library or something out there, no one has told me about it.
DIVINER: There's one in the Quen lands! Well, not UNDAMAGED, but much less damaged! It's where we obtained much of the Legacy we still have today!
FlameHairSavior: I'm not going to the Quen lands.
HIMBO: AND HERE I EXPECTED YOU TO SWIM ACROSS THE OCEAN.
FlameHairSavior: No, but I can come back to the base to smack you.
DIVINER: ...did Aloy somehow get all the way back to the base in seconds to smack Erend??
DIVINER: Oh, never mind, I see.
Zo: How WOULD you go about finding specific data, Aloy? Surely this has happened to you before.
FlameHairSavior: Usually, if it's important, I at least have a lead. I knew Faro was at the center of everything, so I went to Faro HQ. Then I found out about other bunkers and labs. That sort of thing.
DIVINER: All right! Then that just means you have to go to Hollywood!
FlameHairSavior: [Sigh.gif]
FlameHairSavior: Fine. Where is it?
ADMIN [GAIA]: The location of the former Hollywood Boulevard is approximately three hundred and thirty-six miles south-west of this facility. Assuming constant use of striders, and not accounting for detours or sleeping, it would be wise to budget at least forty hours for the outgoing trip.
FlameHairSavior: I'm not riding forty hours straight to get you a movie.
β: erend what are your plans for the weekend
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