[Call it Martian mentality, but having a whole garden like this largely tended and kept for nothing more than the amusement of those that wandered through it seemed ostentatious. But when the soil would actually support such a thing, perhaps it was simply a luxury they could afford. It was difficult to shake off preconceptions, however, hailing from a place where any soil fit for growing crops was put to financial use.]
Regulated? [This is the first he's heard of that. But... well, he supposes the terraforming of Mars was something like that, though it'd mostly been creating a machine and leaving it to run. They didn't have any direct control over the weather.] Well... hell. It'd sure be useful.
[To be able to tailor the weather to your whims...]
Some. [Keeping up the conversation on two fronts was a little tiring, he had to admit, though it would be an important skill to sharpen.] Seen more than I've spoken to, mostly around the apartment building. You have any idea of our numbers?
[He's just thinking like a commander, wanting to know exact details of what they had at their disposal. It's a particularly difficult part of his brain to disable.]
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[Call it Martian mentality, but having a whole garden like this largely tended and kept for nothing more than the amusement of those that wandered through it seemed ostentatious. But when the soil would actually support such a thing, perhaps it was simply a luxury they could afford. It was difficult to shake off preconceptions, however, hailing from a place where any soil fit for growing crops was put to financial use.]
Regulated? [This is the first he's heard of that. But... well, he supposes the terraforming of Mars was something like that, though it'd mostly been creating a machine and leaving it to run. They didn't have any direct control over the weather.] Well... hell. It'd sure be useful.
[To be able to tailor the weather to your whims...]
Some. [Keeping up the conversation on two fronts was a little tiring, he had to admit, though it would be an important skill to sharpen.] Seen more than I've spoken to, mostly around the apartment building. You have any idea of our numbers?
[He's just thinking like a commander, wanting to know exact details of what they had at their disposal. It's a particularly difficult part of his brain to disable.]