"I'm not advocating for it either." But could he stop fate? He was going to find out if he was stuck here long term.
"Well, most armies on Earth don't accept children as soldiers. That's a war crime. Enlisting is voluntary, right now. In America - the country I lived in, they have a draft but aren't in any official wars - only conflicts. You can be seventeen to enlist, but you don't start basic training until you're actually legally an adult."
He was happy to give them a topic change while they worked.
"You can probably guess by the picture, families aren't forbidden. There are rules about officers and subordinates not having relationships, but ya, families.
"It's not the best. It's hard to be in the military with a mental disability. Health care is terrible. Health care on Earth probably all looks terrible for anyone here- we don't have bacta, we don't have neuro-interfaced cybernetic prosthetics. So losing my arm made staying in the airforce impossible. I was out after that."
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"Well, most armies on Earth don't accept children as soldiers. That's a war crime. Enlisting is voluntary, right now. In America - the country I lived in, they have a draft but aren't in any official wars - only conflicts. You can be seventeen to enlist, but you don't start basic training until you're actually legally an adult."
He was happy to give them a topic change while they worked.
"You can probably guess by the picture, families aren't forbidden. There are rules about officers and subordinates not having relationships, but ya, families.
"It's not the best. It's hard to be in the military with a mental disability. Health care is terrible. Health care on Earth probably all looks terrible for anyone here- we don't have bacta, we don't have neuro-interfaced cybernetic prosthetics. So losing my arm made staying in the airforce impossible. I was out after that."