I suspect the second bomb was put together more last minute. Ren and I built the first one - then I believe he took charge of building the second. It was not a bad opportunity to take advantage of, but communication between the kestrels seemed largely paper based.
No, this world is very digital. Datapads were common enough for me, but the majority of communication being via the neutral implants in our heads... I am used to it now, but it is not always convenient.
Paper is a rare and expensive commodity. Not worth the price to send any covert messages here.
[ But of all the Old Guard (not including Nile), he's likely the one who most embraces the new technology, having found it pretty useful for keeping their 'freelance business' afloat in a new digital age when the old methods were dying out.
Still: nothing will ever replace a good leather-bound book he could thumb through and display on a very large shelf. ]
We had physical cellular devices back home, probably primitive to you and many others here
I hate to say it, but it never quite stops being strange, no matter how fluent you become in it.
[ it helps that there are similarities to what cassian is used to - but he misses the physicality of comms. ]
It sounds like cellular devices might be similar to what we call commlinks. We carried them physically as well. At least here sending messages through our heads is a lot less likely to fall into the wrong hands.
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But combined they did quite a lot to de-stabilize the volary.
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Yes they did, that day the white towers fell
Was it a kestrel bomb?
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[ He was a newb, so he hadn't been given enough time to learn the inner workings of the kestrel group. ]
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My brother Joe used to send me messages that way
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It is quite useful. Paper is easily disposed, and it is almost unfortunate that it is so rare on this Earth in comparison. We favored it heavily.
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Back home I was something of a book collector
The irony of my name is not lost on me
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Did you simply decide to run with what was given to you, or did the Booker come later?
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It was a name I used for many years but when I met my family there came a point when it was easier and safer to remove ourselves from those identities
Not entirely but at least in part
Easier for English-speaking clients to pronounce too
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Though I do understand the necessities of changing one's identity.
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English is arguably one of the most-spoken languages in my world but it is difficult for native speakers to pronounce certain sounds
Hence 'Booker', which is a near-English translation of my name
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So it is a bit of both, with relation to your hobbies and evolution of your name.
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No paperbound books to be found here though
Not without paying quite the price, I've heard
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Paper is a rare and expensive commodity. Not worth the price to send any covert messages here.
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It's also still strange
[ But of all the Old Guard (not including Nile), he's likely the one who most embraces the new technology, having found it pretty useful for keeping their 'freelance business' afloat in a new digital age when the old methods were dying out.
Still: nothing will ever replace a good leather-bound book he could thumb through and display on a very large shelf. ]
We had physical cellular devices back home, probably primitive to you and many others here
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[ it helps that there are similarities to what cassian is used to - but he misses the physicality of comms. ]
It sounds like cellular devices might be similar to what we call commlinks. We carried them physically as well. At least here sending messages through our heads is a lot less likely to fall into the wrong hands.