piratejournal | 001 Written Introduction

I've heard a lot about this journal and how some of these things work, so I guess I will introduce myself. My name is Edward Elric, and like all of you, this isn't the world I'm from.

I have every intention of going home in a relatively short amount of time. I'm not interested in going on a pre-designed treasure hunt to do it though. I don't think we should be just doing whatever these people 'Scurvey Dog' and 'Davy Jones say we should do. I don't know anything about sailing yet, but I'm about to pick up as many books as I can. I'm going to get a ship of my own, because I don't really want to follow this little 'game'.

If this sounds agreeable to you and you want to sail with me, then by all means let me know. I'm sure my first mate Winry Rockbell and myself could use the help. You won't need to worry about food, Winry makes a really great apple pie.

Aside from that, I'm interested in hearing about these strange, other worlds. What can you tell me about where you come from?

-Edward Elric

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Yea Andromeda the next galaxy over which was where I was before getting stuck here.

It's not a mater of obeying orders is doing you job so the ship runs well. Well outside of combat at at least. Then you want the person with the most experience leading. [Out side of that Harlock had never really complained about how everyone spent their down time on the DeathShadow. Well there was the one time he'd had to remind the first mate about how how the bridge wasn't property ventilated for some brands of model kit paint.]

You've been to space then. Someone else mentioned that. What's it like? Why do you want to go there? Is there anything interesting to discover?

All the same, I'd rather decide where I'm going then be stuck in some situation I don't want to be in. I have plenty of combat experience, although I will say none of it has been on the water.

Broad question. For some it's humanities's desire to explore. There are countless worlds out there that can support human life. No two are the same, some are were colonized by humans others are home to sentient life and civilizations older than humans have existed. Then there’s all manner of strange phenomenon in space who wouldn't want the chance to leave home and see just a fraction of it?
As for Andromeda, well Heavy Meldar’s a major traffic hub for the galaxy railway most space ships going from the Milky Way to Andromeda. It’s likes to think it’s the wild west on a good day and they've got a few towns that really know how to distill Bourbon. There are also a few factions originating in Andromeda that my comrades and I were keeping an eye on. [Be it Promethium or the Metanoids plenty of people wanting to a wipe out all organic life were hiding out there.]

I am getting the sense that this is far into the future. I can't even imagine that. Humans actually left the planet?

I would explore it, given the chance, it just never crossed my mind. I never really thought about it. I'll have to think about it, it could be something cool I work on in my spare time. I'm not very mechanically inclined though, but I bet Winry would help me.

[How extremely far in the future he's from had slipped his mind again.] It was 2971 where I was.
They made it to the moon in the mid 20th century. The wave motion technology to travel between the stars was something humanity had a little help in getting.

Wow. I'd be long gone by then. You're the furthest in the future so far! It was only 1917.

What kind of help did they have?

1917, World War I. The first Phantom F. Harlock would have been serving as fighter pilot around then.

Earth was sent the blueprints to the wave motion engine so they could make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar to pick up some device.

World War I? I hope that's not something in my world. That would be really bad news and I just managed to get myself out, I'm not exactly chomping at the bit to go back in. Retired or not, I'm sure I can still get drafted if the need arose.

Light year...if I should know that, it's not coming to me. I'm really not up on my Astronomy to be fair, far more interested in Alchemy.

Well I think it had already been going on for a few years by then.

A light year is the distance light travels in a year. [He can't recall exact numbers]

That's almost a relief. Although I guess I don't need to worry about that as long as I'm in this strange place.

I never gave it much thought, how far the stars are from us. I'm guessing it's pretty far. Have you been to a star before? What's it like?

[It must not be happening in his world hard to miss.]

The distance varieties. Closest is a little over 3 light years. It's sort of hard to get close to a star without a ship being destroyed by radiation and or gravity. Plenty of habitable planets in orbit around said stars worth visiting.

[You'd be surprised, very little outside news filters its way into Amestris. Or inside news for that matter.]

So you can't really go to a star, huh. How many planets have you been to? Is this possible this is just a different planet than we were on? If so, is it hard to leave a planet?

I've long lost count. It's very possible that we're on some other planet. It be very difficult to leave this planet. The technology doesn't exist here and even then distance is an issue.

Could you make the technology needed? Winry can make almost anything. She's a great mechanic. She might be able to help you with that. But she doesn't know about space travel.

What do you mean about distance?

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