"I hadn't met many, before I got here, but..." He watched the dignitaries splitting off, reforming in new conversational groups, the furtive (and general unimpressed) looks many of them were giving the new Legionnaires. A rainbow of infinite diversity in infinite combinations, but still somehow missing something important, even if it was hard to describe exactly what.
A sense of wonder, maybe. This was all so old to all of them that they didn't seem to have much appreciation for just how amazing the universe they lived in was. There couldn't possibly be anything new for these recruits to bring to the table, so what did it matter?
"The most brilliant scientist I ever met was light years ahead of what's being done on earth, but he was still willing to walk straight into the lion's den to try and save not just his people - but us. He was willing to trust us to be able to catch up with a handful of his research notes, enough to shut down a threat most people back home would never be able to get their heads around." That had been a job and a half, translating the notes into something understandable, figuring out how to synthesize the more exotic components, getting the teleporter finished and test driven and fine-tuned before the Technodrome went operational, but -
"We managed. Somehow." (And he'd nearly gotten killed for his efforts, but that was beside the point.) "These people...it's like they've forgotten what it's like to have to push yourself to accomplish something, because society's done it all already."
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A sense of wonder, maybe. This was all so old to all of them that they didn't seem to have much appreciation for just how amazing the universe they lived in was. There couldn't possibly be anything new for these recruits to bring to the table, so what did it matter?
"The most brilliant scientist I ever met was light years ahead of what's being done on earth, but he was still willing to walk straight into the lion's den to try and save not just his people - but us. He was willing to trust us to be able to catch up with a handful of his research notes, enough to shut down a threat most people back home would never be able to get their heads around." That had been a job and a half, translating the notes into something understandable, figuring out how to synthesize the more exotic components, getting the teleporter finished and test driven and fine-tuned before the Technodrome went operational, but -
"We managed. Somehow." (And he'd nearly gotten killed for his efforts, but that was beside the point.) "These people...it's like they've forgotten what it's like to have to push yourself to accomplish something, because society's done it all already."