Blurugirl
Star
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2019
In a lot of ways, Tikuna IV was...
Well, there's no way to get around it. It was a shithole of a planet. Which was probably why they could get away with putting a human refugee camp on the planet.
Etar'ipy didn't have anything against humans. Quite the contrary. She liked humans. She didn't know any of them personally, and she felt bad for them. They had lived on their planet for millions, if not billions of years. She was a little fuzzy on the history part. And then the S'milsu came along, took over the planet, made it like one of the five holy sites of their religious founders, and then were selling to the rest of the galaxy tha the S'milsu Hegemony had always been native to Earth, and humans were somehow interlopers on their own planet.
Sucked being humans.
Everyone felt sorry for the humans, but nobody wanted human refugees on their homeworld. So humans either learned to assimilate and become exotic citizens on their new homeworlds, or lived for generations in barely tolerated refugee camps. And the refugee camps were always on little trashy backwater worlds like Tikuna IV.
Etar'ipy was actually here because of the human refugee camp. Humans might be unwelcome on most worlds throughout the galaxy, but human cultural artifacts were a different story. For example, a human "Coffee Table Book" dedicated to something called "The Pirates of the Caribbean" had spawned a whole fashion/lifestyle movement on Etar'ipy's homeworld. So she had brought her small one person trading ship to Tikuna IV in the hope she might find some long held treasure that a human might be willing to trade. So far, though, she hadn't gotten to talk to any humans. Tikuna IV was a minor planet in the Karfkab Kingdom. Unlike Eter'ipy's people, the Karfkab were canines and, though it was a stereotype, Eter'ipy's people and the Karfkabs got along like cats and dogs. Etar'ipy had spend three days sitting at the gate of the camp going through paperwork with no end in sight.
Maybe I should give up hope of talking to any humans Etar'ipy sighed to herself as she scrolled through yet another computer screen full of forms.