Jackal just gave him the most exasperated look at the mention of Camelot, at least, after a brief pause to realize he was actually literally saying that was where he's from. ...must be a ginger thing, right? Must be.
"...Camelot. Of course."
She pinched the bridge of her nose.
"MSFSOD is the Martian Space Force, Special Operations Division. Martian, as in Mars, the planet. And it's not a sailing ship."
A brief pause. If he wasn't just batty and this was really one of those damn alternate-history things, the nearest analog to Camelot would be, what, 6th century or thereabouts? Great.
"...all right. Brace yourself. You might know if you go high up on a mountain, the air gets thinner. If you keep going up, a couple hundred miles, you run out of air eventually. That's called 'space.' We're on a ship that travels in space, very... very far from Earth. And by something roughly like your reckoning, it's the 24th century. Don't think they have a Camelot, here."
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"...Camelot. Of course."
She pinched the bridge of her nose.
"MSFSOD is the Martian Space Force, Special Operations Division. Martian, as in Mars, the planet. And it's not a sailing ship."
A brief pause. If he wasn't just batty and this was really one of those damn alternate-history things, the nearest analog to Camelot would be, what, 6th century or thereabouts? Great.
"...all right. Brace yourself. You might know if you go high up on a mountain, the air gets thinner. If you keep going up, a couple hundred miles, you run out of air eventually. That's called 'space.' We're on a ship that travels in space, very... very far from Earth. And by something roughly like your reckoning, it's the 24th century. Don't think they have a Camelot, here."