Yeah... the stuff I run into is a lot more advanced than anything I've seen on Earth, for sure. [ He cringes a bit despite his smile, because boy has he seen some great and terrible things. ]
The lions aren't forbidden so much as coveted because we only have those five, and they're part of a set. Whoever can use them is really lucky, and whoever can't just gets to hope they're on the same side. The bright side... [ He smiles, and it's a warm and genuine one. ]
...Is that these things have been used for good, the whole time. The combined form and the pilots are literally called the Defenders of the Universe. So when things went wrong, they were separated to keep them out of enemy hands. [ A giggle, ever so small. ] And that's how humanity got pulled into things.
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The lions aren't forbidden so much as coveted because we only have those five, and they're part of a set. Whoever can use them is really lucky, and whoever can't just gets to hope they're on the same side. The bright side... [ He smiles, and it's a warm and genuine one. ]
...Is that these things have been used for good, the whole time. The combined form and the pilots are literally called the Defenders of the Universe. So when things went wrong, they were separated to keep them out of enemy hands. [ A giggle, ever so small. ] And that's how humanity got pulled into things.