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When the [[Free Fleet]] took the human prisoners from the prison colony on [[Callisto]], a very limited set of media was in the possession of prisoners, and they managed to bring a small storage device with their favorite movies and some other material on it. These constitute the only media of any sort from [[Earth]] that exists in Starmourn, and happen to all have been in English. As you can see, the convicts were big fans of old sci-fi and action movies, and, apparently, period romances on ships. | When the [[Free Fleet]] took the human prisoners from the prison colony on [[Callisto]], a very limited set of media was in the possession of prisoners, and they managed to bring a small storage device with their favorite movies and some other material on it. These constitute the only media of any sort from [[Earth]] that exists in Starmourn, and happen to all have been in English. As you can see, the convicts were big fans of old sci-fi and action movies, and, apparently, period romances on ships. | ||
It's important to note that while these movies may be cultural touchstones for some [[Humans]], nobody actually speaks fluent English, and | It's important to note that while these movies may be cultural touchstones for some [[Humans]], nobody actually speaks fluent English, and they're of little to no interest to non-Human races aside from perhaps some anthropologists. | ||
Even the most ardent viewers of these movies don't have enough material to learn to speak English, so at best what people can do is quote phrases from it that very few other people will understand at all. No other Earth languages are known at all. Further, nobody has any clue how to read/write English or any other Earth language. | |||
'''Movies''' | '''Movies''' | ||