The Nomad Lore

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NOMAD SEXUALITY 101 Hall #3

The year is 23.07.903 A.S. Standard Sirius Time.
You walk in feeling slightly silly and embarrassed for even being here. You hope your mates don't find you reading this "stuff" as it would be very embarrassing for a Liberty Rogue/LSF agent/Outcast to be caught with this very explicit and indepth information. You shuffle over to an empty desk, one of the only remaining seats in the packed auditorium. Weirdly enough, you get the feeling that the last guy before you took the last empty desk as well. Oh well, no time for that Rudo Paradox. We have Nomad sexuality to explore!

A shrivelled up extremely old guy walks in. He's tapping a cane and wheezing as he walks to the front. Hyung Soong is his name. He looks slightly Kusarian. It's hard to tell under his extravagant baldness. He stops for awhile in front of the classroom, just staring at nothing ... he stares for so long, some of the other students start looking at the spot on the wall where Hyung is looking. But he breaks off and continues on his way to his desk. He gives out a large sigh, and sits in his chair. He pulls out a large book, thumbs it open casually and begins to speak. The room is hushed with the expectant sounds of academy students filling up their brain-nano drives.

"Ok." *cough-Wheeeze*
"Lore."
"V1.28."
"Page 21."
"Pictures."
"Human study. Image one."

Old Hyung puts up a slide on the projector. This academy projector was on of those new ones, you know, the K969-self loading, top heavy , sleek design, curved and shiny ones that project the images directly into the students visual cortex? Yeah that one. Almost every home has one these days. This is the university grade one. Slightly better quality than the home version. Ok. Sorry. I lied. *Much* better quality.

Hyung waves his arms and you see the pointer in your visual cortex moving relativistically along with Hyungs arm movements. He continues speaking...

"This image shows the complexity of humans to other humans. Each human is made up of related parts, and in some circles of humanity they are considered "... Hyung sniffs..."cannon. There are four humans on this image." He gesticulates his arms and the red pointer pings each human 'sphere' in turn. He continues, "This image is a VERY simplified version of reality. There are a number of relationships that have been omitted from this lecture and image, as the relevance of those relationships, can be followed alongside with what we already have here.

Now,"... here Hyung coughs and wheezes a bit, ... "Instead of using specified humans of male/female characteristic models, I have used more simplified genotypes, as in what we call Homo-erectus cum homo-sapiens, or more commonly known as, human beings. Sexuality does not come into this lecture, apart from the well known fact that men like more sex more often than women." Hyung turns his head and Hacks and coughs little bits of [color=#33FFFF]Donut, man all over his desk. He continues... "Now, to clarify, each human being is considered a separate entity to other human beings. The only things that comes close to a merger of individual beings in humanity is coitus, and some certain Athenian meditation rituals. Aside from these, humans are pretty much individualistic, self-centric, and autonomous entites in their own capability." Hyung paused here and gulped down some Altaeris Bear. Refreshed he continued. " As you can see at the top left, we have a human called 'Me'.

This term, 'me' shows the relationship and self-definition that comes from life experiences, what people tell us, how they beat us when we were young, what we like to do, where we like to go, what defines us as 'separate' from other 'me's, how we relate to our 'enemies' and so on and so forth. Now," Hyung gesticulates wildly and the red pointer in your visual cortex does a Jimmy number on your retinals. "...The next two circles out from 'me' are the Body and Gender circles, respectively. These are placed and linked fairly close together. Characteristics of both genders can be in both genders. Students! Note that this 'Gender' has nothing to do with human sexuality. That is a different issue that is not covered in this course. Now, going back to 'Gender', Your gender can determine your body. If you are masculine, then you will usually end up with a penis. If you are feminine you will usually end up with a vagina. That is based on genes and chromosomes. However, personality characteristics also come into play here. You can be a male, with effeminate characteristics, OR you can be a female with masculine tendencies. Again this has nothing to do with your sexuality, or your sexual preferences. Gender and sexuality are two distinctly different things."

Old Hyung pauses here and looks out the window. He mutters softly to himself... "Oh how I wish you would not bug me at this time. I have had a Titanic struggle with you for a long time old friend. Yet you seem to still have the Tenacity to buzz in my mind..."

"Professor Soong?", one of the students called out. "What? oh er... nothing...where was I?" Hyung replied. He continued his lecture, "...Oh yes! Gender. Now the next circle is Soul. Some circles of humanity believe there are three non corporeal parts to a human being. The soul is an integral part of what a human being is. It is where a sense of morality comes from and is trained into. It is our compass in life. It can be damaged, or fixed. It is the centre of our emotions, the subconscious, the primal parts of us, the instinctual drives. It is what makes us 'like' certain things, and 'dislike' others. It can be programmed or twisted."

"The next circle is the Mind. Now, notice that the mind is bigger than the body circle. This is illustrated quite deliberately in this fashion to indicate that the mind, while tethered to the body, is larger than the body. It is a larger part of the human that makes 'me' to be 'me' I have a separate mind from you students, and apart from certain gifted individuals of Turkish descent, humans do not connect to each others mind.

"Now here is another part that has always been difficult to define. The Spirit of man is that other part of us that makes us human. We feel with our Soul, we think with our Mind, we *Are* with our Spirits. People have reported being able to move in and out of their bodies, be fully aware, and sense and feel feelings. Others have had near-death, or death and clinical death out of body experiences, and have retained knowledge from that time. Even today, we cannot explain it in a satisfactory scientific way. When the Malcalypsse666 happened in the Second Sirius-Nomad war, many people were reported clinically dead, and yet some came back, one or two days later, remembering top secret information, and other things that they couldn't possibly have known, unless they were party to those conversations and events."

Here, Old Professor Hyung paused again in his flowing Korrd of words to mutter, "and terrible days those were too. It's enough to put the Grimreaper into someone."

"Now, I think it's time for a break. We shall reconvene here in more or less 2 or three days. And yes, you fellow, hoodlum with the Heavy Metal Queen jacket on. I'd like you to follow me to the King, vailant sir. We will be carrying lots of those merry tinker bells to him.


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To be continued

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