Fortitude Class: Alternian History

[mamarosa]

Characters: Dolorosa + Fortitude students
Format: what ever your heart desires
This log is: open to Fortitude students!
Location: Class rooms
Summary: Come learn about Alternian history from your lovely Headmistress
Warnings: None yet

Dolorosa starts the class by explaining that Alternia has a caste system which influences how the planet is organized. She calls it the hemospectrum and it runs from rust red to tyrian purple, with a only a few outliers usually referred to as mutants. The mutants are usually culled at birth, but that isn't the case for all of them. That story, she tells you, will come later in the semester.

Her lecture for the day is basically a run down of the Hemospecturm, going over each color and class status, explain their amount of influence and the abilities that come along with a certain color. She says that she is a rather rare color, jade blooded, and cuts her finger to show the class her color, explaining that she understands humans only have candy red blood, a cull-worthy color.

If you ask, she will tell stories about the trolls in various colors that she has met, how she has met people who reinforced the stereotypes and proven them wrong, but she won't answer any questions about mutated blood just yet.

Comments

[mamarosa]

It takes her a moment to answer because she gets caught on the word family, "Troll's don't have the same concept of family as humans do. While you have a mother and a father and possibly siblings, Trolls have a guardian who they are not genetically connected to. While there are some genetic matches they are usually generations apart. The Empress is just the highest blooded troll, when she passes her title will go to another." She pauses for a moment so he can take that all in.

"The Alternian Empire spans many planets, I cannot begin to describe how vast it is."

[veepofchess]

He considered this as she answered. While she had opened up the possibilities of asking about just what the social structure of the trolls were, he wasn't particularly interested in that aspect. He was more concerned with the imperial aspect. "Are these new planets assimilated into your society, or are they simply laid waste, or conquered for the sake of it?"

[mamarosa]

"I would assume they are conquered for the sake of it, just to show off the power the Empress and her fleet have. If they are frightened and it is for a legitimate reason, then you will not be attacked," she's upset by this kind of logic, but that's just how it is.

[veepofchess]

The admission made his hair on his neck stand on end, but he didn't let his reaction show. And it was clear that on her planet, Nunnally wouldn't stand a chance. "That sounds like a horrendous waste of resources."

[mamarosa]

"Not particularly, once other planets are conquered we have full control of their resources, and the ships are," she pauses for a long moment, "run on a different type of energy that can be renewed. It is actually better for all of us on Alternia, it keeps the Empress away."