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What the fuck is up with this music?

Yeah, yeah, we get it. Christmas is coming. God bless, save the poor, whatever. Do I really need to hear some boys choir butcher O Holy Night seventeen times in a fucking row?

I got earplugs. They don't work. Jingle fucking Bells overpowers it.

Someone tell me that this whole month isn't going to be like this, otherwise I'm going to need stronger booze.

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I'm guessing First Contact hasn't happened yet where you come from.

[Come to think of it, this guy's the first person here who's had that kind of reaction to the whole alien thing.]

Only in movies. So yeah, that's a no.

Unless you count Ross Perot.

...I have no idea who that is.

However, from what little I understand about Earth movies from before humans made First Contact, I know enough that most of those speculations about aliens were way off.

No anal probes?

Maybe if you're getting a rectal exam from Mordin.

[Pause]

So alien, huh.

[CHANGE OF TOPIC DEAR GOD]

What's your planet called?

[You asked. Was he being serious with his answer? Maybe, maybe not.]

Palaven. It's the turian homeworld.

Light years from Earth?

Yeah, but it's nothing you can't reach with a few Mass Relay jumps.

Er, that is, the devices used to achieve faster-than-light travel.

I thought that was physically impossible. Theory of relativity and shit like that.

That was before the discovery of mass effect energy.

Huh.

So does that mean soon people will go to Mars and colonize or some shit like that?

Humanity has quite a few colonies by now, including Mars, yes. Even the remote ones had lots of humans living on them.

Enough to partly make that... thing. [Shudder.]

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