"Uh..." Yikes, what a question. "Not... really? We don't have different sentient species like they do here. There are mutants, but that's... it's a different situation." And a thorny one in its own right, true, but not really parallel to the Kin'nal.
There are plenty of parallels in Tony's world, but getting into that would require delving into the ugly complexities of poverty and prejudice, and that's an area that Tony is not well-equipped to discuss.
For all his personal growth, his upbringing had sheltered him from such realities, and they remain distant, academic concepts.
He's had more exposure to that sort of injustice in his years in Keeliai than he had in his whole eighteen years of life on Earth. But still, what he's seen in Keeliai has been so much smaller-scale, so much more immediate - things he feels like he can actually influence directly.
The Kin'nal straddle that divide, and it disturbs him. It's easy to analyze tunnels, rebuild homes, produce silk netting, help stabilize the caverns. But changing an entire society's social structure? That's not easy. And he's only beginning to realize exactly how hard it is.
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There are plenty of parallels in Tony's world, but getting into that would require delving into the ugly complexities of poverty and prejudice, and that's an area that Tony is not well-equipped to discuss.
For all his personal growth, his upbringing had sheltered him from such realities, and they remain distant, academic concepts.
He's had more exposure to that sort of injustice in his years in Keeliai than he had in his whole eighteen years of life on Earth. But still, what he's seen in Keeliai has been so much smaller-scale, so much more immediate - things he feels like he can actually influence directly.
The Kin'nal straddle that divide, and it disturbs him. It's easy to analyze tunnels, rebuild homes, produce silk netting, help stabilize the caverns. But changing an entire society's social structure? That's not easy. And he's only beginning to realize exactly how hard it is.