"I'd hope they wouldn't," he says, voice quiet. "I'm not keen to have to pick a fight over this."
When he'd considered the problems he might encounter in an alternate universe where there is not and never has been a Commonwealth, the idea that his genetics might be illegal was far from his thoughts. In part, certainly, that's because there's a difference between being engineered yourself and inheriting enhanced genetics like he did from his mother's family who'd lived on a heavy gravity world before she came to Tarn-Vedra, or Tyr and Rhade from their whole race.
He has his issues with the Nietzschean race, but they're with their actions, their philosophies and beliefs and what they do as a result, not with who they're born. Gaheris might have been a traitor, but Ismael was a loyalist. Tyr is a friend. The Sabra-Jaguar are allies, and for all the trouble they've caused, he needs them. That's what matters.
And that's from their world, not this one. Any of it.
Dylan's fingers tap on the table for a moment.
"Not specifically." He draws out a long, thoughtful breath. "But it is clear I need to learn more about the history of the Federation and this world." He smiles. "Not just because of this."
He hasn't forgotten Trance's words when he first found himself here, either. Hasn't forgotten that this is a world where there's a Federation three times larger than the Commonwealth charter requires.
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When he'd considered the problems he might encounter in an alternate universe where there is not and never has been a Commonwealth, the idea that his genetics might be illegal was far from his thoughts. In part, certainly, that's because there's a difference between being engineered yourself and inheriting enhanced genetics like he did from his mother's family who'd lived on a heavy gravity world before she came to Tarn-Vedra, or Tyr and Rhade from their whole race.
He has his issues with the Nietzschean race, but they're with their actions, their philosophies and beliefs and what they do as a result, not with who they're born. Gaheris might have been a traitor, but Ismael was a loyalist. Tyr is a friend. The Sabra-Jaguar are allies, and for all the trouble they've caused, he needs them. That's what matters.
And that's from their world, not this one. Any of it.
Dylan's fingers tap on the table for a moment.
"Not specifically." He draws out a long, thoughtful breath. "But it is clear I need to learn more about the history of the Federation and this world." He smiles. "Not just because of this."
He hasn't forgotten Trance's words when he first found himself here, either. Hasn't forgotten that this is a world where there's a Federation three times larger than the Commonwealth charter requires.