<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=74959.msg3324129#msg3324129">Quote from: PeacethatPowerbrings on 20-07-2010, 05:10:13</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"You two are from an autocracy... Manticore, are you not?" she said, knowing from what she'd already heard where they were from and at least what kind of governance they had.<br/><br/>"Your companion...is a tree-dwelling cat originating from a relatively high-gravity world, is it not?" she asked, curious about the creature. The deduction was purely physical, as it happened, there were Var who specialized in the classification of life-forms.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"Indeed so, ma'am." His reply was polite, with only the barest hint of hesitation for the mode of address. The 'woman' was evidently some form of mechanical, though more sophisticated than any he had ever seen, and with a personality and response time very much indicating that 'she' was no remote unit. He supposed a full-body prosthetic was technically possible, though it must be indescribably complicated.<br/><br/>"Our home is the Star Empire of Manticore. Specifically, we are both from the planet Sphinx, which as you deduced, is a heavy-gravity planet. Maria's people are the native sapients of Sphinx, I immigrated there from another planet within the Empire."