Meeting aboard Barrier

[Arant]

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To say that she was disappointed would have been an understatement but the intrepid young scientist didn't let expectations contend with hard, solid facts for long as she looked up from her note-taking; pen between her fingers as she rested a hand over the contents of her notebook. As if afraid some passerby would come by and be offended by the structured scribblings only she could properly understand. Taking a brief breath she sighed a soft exhale and rested a chin against her unoccupied hand; pen dangling off of the ends. "What a shame. I had hoped there would have been more life out there beyond our own. Certainly we have the little understood Nomads, alien and ignobly hostile as they seem to be, and the fledgling Artificial Intelligence socium .. but for our species to have come so far and not have want to travel beyond the Sirius system," She pulled out a pair of glasses and slipped them on, eyes narrowing as she flipped through her notebook as if for some rhetoric. "Both folly and depressing." She'd finish, smiling. "I worked under a brilliant and daring researcher when I first finished my academic studies, just an intern amongst many others, a glorified assistant. He said that it was humanity's desire to survive, propagate, and spread out into the stars that allowed us to come out of the Exodus alive. That to stay still would stagnate us. As space and resources begin to dwindle we would turn on each other over idealogies and posturing." It was clear that she had great respect for this mentor, whoever he may have been, and that some of that had rubbed off onto her. "He wanted to try to find us a second place to call home in case we all decided to start it all over again. Make the same mistakes one more time."