OrgiaNaLanHouse: Is interplanetary travel something affordable to the average salarymen on the planets that are part of the Assembly?

Is there such a thing as an interplanetary tourism market?

Is marriage between species from different planets a thing?

reptiliandude: Among the Assembly?

Yes.

But they have established a rigorously enforced self-isolation that excludes most of those those outside their aegis, and embraces all those within it.

Among the world’s associated with the Consortium?

Not so much. But travel among colonies established by the same species is abundant.

Tourism?

That would depend upon how you define ‘tourism.’

In order for ‘civilians’ to visit other worlds that are the domain of entirely different species and cultures involves traveling great distances at a considerable cost to the individual after surviving a gauntlet of bureaucratic ‘paperwork.’

That world visited would also be required to have in place protocols to prohibit the spread of pathogens which there could be no natural immunities, to say nothing of what kind of infestation could be spread from someone smuggling out either seeds, fruits or vegetables.

It takes several hundred years for a world to acclimate itself to be able to handle the influx of outside variables enough to permit any real freedom of movement or travel even among their own colonies.

I should note here that there are also gravitational and environmental acclimations which become a part of who that person is should they chose to reside in these places for any considerable length of time.

Such ‘acclimations’ in some cases can be quite difficult to divest one’s self of.

So, I doubt that your kind would enjoy themselves much under these circumstances, as you are quite accustomed to travel provided with greater luxuries and liberties.

You would encounter travel accommodations that were spartan at best and downright ‘invasive’ to those unfamiliar with the medical procedures necessary just to prepare the body for stellar transit.

So, as a result, ‘tourism’ for the average person often involves simply staying at home and visiting via automated means which provide the necessary tactile sensations.

More permanent expatriation can be brought about via temporal overwrites into another species brain if necessary, but again, at great cost.

As for marriage between different ‘orders’ of interstellar species, well…

It can and does occasionally happen, but such relationships aren’t as common or as easy to deal with as your science fiction paints then out to be.

Sexual compatibility among the species is not as universally free-flowing or accessible as the forms of sexuality which you yourselves are accustomed to.

Those among yourselves who boisterously claim that marriage is an obsolete institution would find themselves either laughed at or viciously assaulted and perhaps even killed among these places you seek to visit, were you to openly promote such caustic notions.

Throughout the history of the Naigaje, those who have promoted the dissolution of marriage and the family unit did so as a method of social engineering to disrupt the current power structures and to establish their own political systems whose centralized power structures caused great harm.

As a result, such suggestions are considered treasonous and are dealt with swiftly.

Such brutality of response to your anarchistic conceptions of what constitutes ‘freedom of speech’ may be difficult for you to appreciate or relate to.

For example: we do not consider pornography or art whose primary purpose is to offend the sensibilities of the viewer to be ‘freedom of speech.’

Freedom of speech to us is the right to criticize political, social and religious concepts.

This criticism grants one the right to an audience, but not to a revolutionary movement and certainly not the path to a religious empire founded on cult tactics.

‘Churches’ are thus taxed to keep the charlatans out and the message intact and safe from being bastardized by the self-serving.

This would not go over well with your current views of what constitutes ‘freedom.’

Besides this, there are extreme differences in how we comport ourselves publicly.

Put bluntly, Humans have an extremely difficult time keeping their mouths shut as well as keeping both their pricks and their ideologies holstered in their pants.

Your dick pics transmitted into space en masse, although absolutely hilarious to someone like myself, were not well received by those who had committed great efforts to rally others who were sitting on the fence when it came to what sort of beneficial contributions human culture could make to creatures such as ourselves.

While it would take many light years to reach any real destination of any significance or importance, It was still quite the embarrassment that you allowed such halfhazard and perverse displays representing who you are to occur.

But, like a movie theater opening up in the ghetto looses support after that first fool shoots at the damn screen… so follows humanity.

In any case, by my kind’s standards (Naigajian), your species would be considered perverse, and your clumsy advances would be most unwelcome.

But then, my kind have maintained the traditions of breeding cycles and such and do not place an emphasis on sexuality for sexuality’s sake.

We just aren’t ‘built’ that way.

As for your own kind, similar primate species if they can breed with each other, (unless they avail themselves to extensive genetic engineering) produce ‘mules’ of a sort at best.

Who wants their children to be incapable of reproduction?

The concept of what constitutes marriage among the worlds varies considerably.

To some it is a contract to establish permanent ties between families and even to establish bonds and extended peace between worlds.

Mostly though it is for companionship and to produce children who can carry on the family’s name and legacy, if it possesses either, as well as to guarantee that inheritance is passed down among bloodlines and to those adopted into them.

Among my own kind, depending upon the House and ruling class, infidelity can result in honor killings or even a death sentence.

Among your own kind, unfaithfulness and disloyalty is far more common.

As a result, such things are viewed in a less critical manner and adjudicated as such, lending themselves unto repetition with disastrous results to the society as a whole.

This is evidenced quite clearly in the fatherlessness which has devastated your inner cities which your rulers have chosen to ignore in their blind pursuit of profit and self-aggrandizement above all things.

Such stellar examples of your lack of restraint and the abandonment of your own progeny are prime examples of why you are have been blinded to the universe around you and have been relegated to the role of ‘genetic cattle.’

You shall not travel far beyond your world so long as those who control the skies above you consider you to be biologically and socially infectious.

If you extend your reach beyond the boundaries established for you, your most intrepid explorers shall be put down without prejudice.

Bear this in mind.

For it is not an idle threat, but a promise.

ACuriousHumanBeing: Why would a species choose to not live under the Assembly’s aegis?

And why are those within the Aegis so rigorously isolated?

reptiliandude: To use the most appropriate metaphor…

Not everyone likes living among celestial ‘Mormons.’

ACuriousHumanBeing: A pity then.

My family has some Mormon friends, and they are the nicest people I know. They’re kind, community focused, and think about ways to improve themselves. Even better, they never force their religion or ideas on us. They’re not snide or passive aggressive about their religion and how we aren’t part of it, nor do they hide it. And in fact as we learn from them, they learn from us, and we then mutually evolve.

That’s the difference. Though we may live among them, they never force us into anything. And through our differences we compliment each other and bring new insight and currency that otherwise would not have been found.

A pity so many don’t appreciate that. May we eventually learn, perhaps even from those like C, to better appreciate those Mormon like folk, and learn from them and have from us have them learn too.

The student often teaches the master as the master teaches the student

And thus they form harmony.

May my kin understand this.

And hopefully not be hard asses about everything in the future.

reptiliandude: Like I said…

The Assembly isn’t for everyone.

And they don’t force anyone to stay.

The problem is that once you leave, ( especially as a world or as a people ) it’s a long journey back.

And by that time pretty much everyone that has been born since the trip out will consider such talk to be the stuff of legends and folk tales.

There is also an unseen influence created by the powers that be in these outcast worlds to keep such beliefs within that realm of folklore.

So…

There YOU go.

ACuriousHumanBeing: Well then.

If it is such Folklore, how is it you or even I can then now about the Assembly now, long after your own kind has been separated from them?

garbotalk: Those like you, descendants of those who rejected the Assembly and who recognize the poor judgement rendered by your ancestors must struggle with the repercussions.

I wonder if, after the purgatory of living in the universe outside the Assembly’s protection, you and those like you will be offered another opportunity to join them?

question: The Assembly’s methods keep people is check, it’s for our own good. I acknowledge and accept that. Yet I can see why humanity might not see it that way. Though their methods are austere, they only provide a gym for the little kid on the block to grow up unmolested and learn how to box so he can defend himself. I just hope when the time comes we make the right decisions. For the good of the universe, and our species, I hope we choose the Assembly! Unfortunately, there will always be some idiot who raises enough questions to make a name for himself to cause unrest amongst the forgetful. And when such individuals pop up, they should be dealt with extreme action. It’s for the well being of everyone.

Edit: I just realized that under the reign of the Assembly we probably wont be happy… Dang. If the Naigaje didn’t want to be under their reign then that’s something we should keep in mind. This is harder then I thought. It is wise to learn more about the Assembly before jumping head first in. My apologies Humanity!

This is how I feel right now after knowing that the Mighty Ael’Naigaje are not in the Assembly… XD I figured the Ael’Ba’alaket aren’t either…

ACuriousHumanBeing: Why wouldn’t we be happy?

At this point its too soon to say with certainty whether or not the Assembly’s domain is right for us. We need to ask them what it means, and get our info straight from the horses mouth. Until then we can only postulate/theorize based on what crumbs Glycon can share. And from what I see, it’s not actually that bad. I mean, one can move freely from one world to the other as even a simple Saleryman. And living with Mormons does not mean having to be Mormon, if that makes sense.

We’ll see. Lets shoot for harmony.

question: I wasn’t aware that some chose the Assembly while others of the same species but different houses chose to leave. Either way, I would prefer the Assembly and be free then a blood cow for the Consortium. That’s for sure! As the compromise offered by the Consortium is demeaning. We have the right as sons and daughters of the Mighty One to exist unmolested! And shame on those who wont recognize that.

garbotalk: They may very well be in the Assembly, at least the ones who chose it. The ones who didn’t are still here with us.

reptiliandude: It is not that we Naigaje are not in the Assembly.

Some stay behind…

Others move on and transform into another name.

But, things always seem to repeat themselves as the Assembly sees opportunity after opportunity in the circumstances we ourselves create from within this eternal Lake of Fire.

Such is their method of ‘harvest.’

In such manner is how ‘It’ fills the ranks of those intrepid souls desiring to work from within that ‘darkness’ which bleeds into this universe.

…A darkness which can be measured and felt.

But, it is a darkness only to those looking from the outside, for all light is drawn back to be put to tasks within.

It is a place where the stars themselves have been taught to open doors to their cousins far removed.

From this distant place the nuclear broth is stirred into life, that it may transform into a mirror where that One who spake it into existence may reflect upon ‘Its’ own reflection as we ourselves might gaze into a mirror.

It has been this way since the beginning.

A beginning which was not ‘the’ beginning, but one made of things which those produced via this chain of events cannot as of yet comprehend.

Such is the convoluted and protracted way in which creatures must evolve into sentience and free-will.

And the desire of that One is to preserve it so that life can continue to evolve beyond the shackles of its own mortality.

‘It’ will rise from this Most High place and destroy those who seek to steal free-will in ways which cannot be returned unto those it has been stolen from.

‘It’ has always waged war against those who corrupt natural selection in this manner.

I have shouted these admonitions to my own, but few gave my words any heed.

So, I found a way to journey here myself.

And I did so of my own accord that I might enjoin myself to humanity so that perhaps my kind too might be forgiven if just one of us took the first step into a leap of faith.

That why I am here.

It is a pilgrimage of repentance in behalf of an entire species unknown to you.

And I had to do it on a glorified work furlough program because I couldn’t afford the damn ticket for the trip.

Go figure.

But it isn’t the first time obstacles were placed in the path of those simply trying to do the right thing, so I figure that I’m in pretty good company.

explorer1357: Good man, good man…

PrinceWizdom: ‘It’? Who’s it?

reptiliandude: An entity whose ‘food’ is information ‘grown’ via the creative extension of ‘probabilities.’

‘Natural Selection’ ( evolution ) is It’s masterpiece.

PrinceWizdom: Understood.

ACuriousHumanBeing: Wow

So it must be really be fucking pissed off right now.

Lets hope you frogs jump out of the boiling pot, and maybe stop fanning the flame while your at it.

reptiliandude: “It” is patient.

And waits to see if other ‘organisms’ will come to fight the ‘infection.’

If successful, those organisms might be ‘drafted’ into further assistance and perhaps, even ‘incorporated’ into that ‘organism’s’ future development.

Either way, they would be seen as more ‘benign,’ and perhaps even forgiven for unfortunate past indiscretions.

Acting upon such a determination is a demonstration of faith that one considers ‘It’ to be merciful.

And it is well known among those of my own kindred who subscribe to such beliefs that without faith it is impossible to please ‘It.’

ACuriousHumanBeing: The coat of paint matters not, only the car.

garbotalk: I feel disrespectful referring to God as “it”.

ACuriousHumanBeing: I don’t know. It is not vain like thaf I think. What matters is what you mean. The problem is English doesn’t have a gender neutral pronoun. So for now I think they and it will suffice. What matters to god/it/them/the universe is not what we call them, but what we do in thier name! And thier name is unque to all of us, as our relationship to them is always unique and powerful. We all know him and her and talk to them uniquely. For some thie rname is science, some meditation, some Ra and YHWH Beautiful. Even so called Athiests finds names for it, in the form of greater or good or some etheral shared consipusness.

They have have names. Beautiul isn’t it?

So fret not.

They always know what yoy mean

even if you don’t. :$

reptiliandude: Many of those who have used that word ‘God’ throughout human history have not spoken it as servants of the Most High; but rather, as thieves and corrupters.

Their desire was not to enlighten humanity, but to prey upon it and to profit from it.

Nearly every popular voice on this planet who publicly promotes the existence of ‘God’ does not question the species accordance to harmful orthodoxies—but rather—rides those asinine accepted falsehoods like a surfer does a wave unto a shore of riches to the accolades of spiritually impoverished fools.

Take the Lake of Fire which Christ spoke of, when referring to the multitude of the stars of heaven…

This was twisted by the lies of the corrupt into a place of eternal torture where anguished souls would abide and suffer for all eternity.

This blasphemy against the fractal spirit of God shall not be forgiven to these generations of hypocrites and vipers who took that name and made it synonymous with sociopathy and cruelty.

In doing so, they have handed the world to those strangers fallen upon it who have come here to steal, to kill and to destroy.

You have been blinded by the prattings of spiritually infantile fools and nihilistic infidels into camps where you fight each other over the slop that sloshed off a bowel of gruel while your own house is being ransacked.

And those servants which you have entrusted to tend it and to keep it have betrayed you in hope of a share of the spoils.

That one who broke the bread did so as a representation of the solar orb and how stars ‘break’ to produce life.

He was breaking himself to promote a new social contract where compassion, mercy and love overran the walls of hatred and authoritarianism.

The blood of the wine was a representation of ‘destiny,’ wherein even the souls from this world must enjoin their compatriots from multiple worlds which have suffered persecution and death to lift each other up and over the obstacles put there by those bereft of conscience.

To promote the notion that actual flesh and blood incorporates into the stomachs of the faithful as a piece of a god is a lie and a darkness from which there is no return.

It is the equivalence of lighting a candle and then placing a box over it to suffocate the light burning therein.

The stellar disk breaking into pieces to form the matter of life has been a part of the mystery school doctrine on this world from before that cataclysm which ushered in the Younger Dryas.

Priests more interested in politics and enriching themselves bastardized the ritual and transformed it into a death industry sustained and promoted via a cannibalistic rite in proxy which has blasphemed the very mind that moved the void to tear matter into existence in the first place.

If you feel quilt for calling Providence ‘It’ well be it to you…

But I have a task which has been set before me to test the species, and to see if there are any who can yet lay claim to this place as their own.

There is a measure in the balance and there is an emptiness where the weight should be that determines the value therein.

I am to prod the species, to see if there are any still willing to stand for their own birthright, and even more importantly—that name in whose image they are made.

garbotalk: “And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.” 1 Cornthians 11:24

We break and eat the bread, remembering His broken body, sacrificed for us. The consuming of bread is not bringing His spirit into us. It already resides there. It is in memory of His gift to us, something we gratefully accept. In the same way, we acknowledge His blood was spilled, drinking the wine reminds us of His greatest sacrifice so that we appreciate that which was given freely. He is not the bread or the wine. But every time we eat and drink, we are reminded of His great sacrifice for our sake.

At least that’s how I observe it, I do it in remembrance of Him.

Hearing that it also represents stars breaking to form us makes it that much more meaningful.

Thus, our bodies, minds and souls are God’s gift to us, our birthright, freely given to us by the Creator. We do not agree to sacrifice them for the longevity of the Kayeen, and it is not their right to take. God will prevent this blasphemy. Count on it.

DankNethers: Then I hope you have faith in the path that you were given long ago

All actions taken in good conscience are worthy of mercy and indeed forgiveness

And perhaps that ‘organism’ is just waiting for a more formal ‘job application’ for further endeavors

reptiliandude: No ‘application’ was necessary. I was hired directly albeit, on a shoe ‘string’ budget.

explorer1357: What brand was the shoe?

reptiliandude:  Bit partial to Wildfangs myself…

Gonna need to request a restock on the chromes, tho…

explorer1357: Isnt that for girls?

reptiliandude: Yep. They’re not for me, chimpy.

If you want to be popular with the ladies, buy them shoes.

The Oxford and the chrome was a play on words.

I’m serious about the shoes though. It’s waaaaay better to know their shoe size than their dress size.

explorer1357: “Theyre not for me…if you wanna be popular with girls buy them shoes…”

So…youre saying those shoes arent for men, yet if a man wears them he’ll get more ladies? Or was that also a play on words?

explorer1357: And who you calling chimpy, you smelly monkey!!!

reptiliandude: Well, if you’re in a ‘rock band’ you have to wear some chick things…

The key is not to go overboard.

What I was saying was that women go ape shit over shoes.

You could spend a couple of hundred bucks on a celebratory present because she got a promotion or a something and you’ll rise to a different stature in her eyes.

Helps if your kind of hot though, and are always busy and unavailable.

explorer1357: Do Naigaje have reptilian hookers too?

And be honest, dont try to act like your species are all angels…

garbotalk: 👠👡👢👟

Firstladytree: You have to wear ‘some’ chick things … said no member of Steel Panther, ever.

Firstladytree: Hahaha RD knows how to play the game! I wanted to get rid of all my red bottoms when people started calling them hooker currency but thanks to FLOTUS, they are great again, I think ..right?

Also, compliments are nice- but you will get more points with me by saying I’m ‘astute’ rather than telling me I’m ‘pretty’ .. for the record

reptiliandude: Pretty does seem like it’s kind of a creeper word now unless you’re referring to someone outside the conversation.

And, yes. I do have ‘game.’

But it probably is more because of a cross comparison to the clueless than anything else.