Well, I uh... I grew up somethin' called a 'Battle Slave'? Kree Empire keeps cannon fodder to go on the front lines. But if you're kind of a rare race like me, I fetched a good price when I was a youngin' apparently, you get dolled up to be special cannon fodder.
[He gestures to the fin on his head and shrugs, honestly not seeming too offended or particularly burdened by it. It's his fin now. To hell with the Kree!] Ya also get used to fixin' your own combat equipment 'cause you're low priority. Means your vehicles too. So by the time I worked my way up as a Ravager you could throw me in front of an engine an' I could yell, 'the hell did y'all do to this?' an' set it right.
[But there's something sort of sad about that, though. A Terran astrophysicist who might never have gotten the chance to get up near as possible to a star.]
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[He gestures to the fin on his head and shrugs, honestly not seeming too offended or particularly burdened by it. It's his fin now. To hell with the Kree!] Ya also get used to fixin' your own combat equipment 'cause you're low priority. Means your vehicles too. So by the time I worked my way up as a Ravager you could throw me in front of an engine an' I could yell, 'the hell did y'all do to this?' an' set it right.
[But there's something sort of sad about that, though. A Terran astrophysicist who might never have gotten the chance to get up near as possible to a star.]
How far you ever been out to space?