earthborn: (like the well-timed swoop of a falcon)
Commander Jane Shepard ([personal profile] earthborn) wrote in [community profile] station72 2017-05-15 03:22 am (UTC)

[Shepard scoffs at this, from where she stands, emptying the water out of her boots. They're going to need a couple of days to fully dry out and she has nobody to blame but herself. Worth it.]

Yeah, but I figure most star-names have meanings, they're Stars. I don't know about your world, but people on mine have a hundred legends for every constellation. Here--

[Straightening up, she activates her omni-tool, surrounding her arm in an orange, holographic display. A few taps later, and there's a list of named stars-- she stabs one at random.]

There. Miaplacidus. Part of the Carinae constellation, brightest southern star in Earth's sky, means "Calm Waters". [There is a pause. Misato had said, pick a powerful one. Didn't get much more powerful than that.] Now my brood's got a name. What's your brood got?

[Murphy. Her brood has Murphy, that's what.]

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