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There's something I've been thinking about over the past few months of being here: the portal appears to have a distinctly Human bias. I'm Human myself but I come from a universe with hundreds, if not thousands of other sapient species, yet the three of us who are here from that universe are all Humans. What's more is that no one else I've talked to here has ever encountered or even heard of the other people we share our galaxy with, no more than I'd known of Asgardians or Elves or the Prawn before I arrived. On the other hand, despite vast other differences in our realities here, most people seem to know about Humans, which seems strange to me. Surely there must be an infinite number of universes out there without Humans, right? So why are there no representatives of those worlds? Or simply more representatives of a wider variety of peoples?

Now, if this was one of the historical portals built by the inhabitants of the planet we orbit, I wouldn't think as much of it - perhaps they'd specifically target realities that were closest to their own. But if this one is supposedly a natural occurrence, then why this pattern of selection?

Any thoughts on this?

[Because surely, she can't be the only one thinking about it.]

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I imagine it must be a little...isolating.

Not as much now as it would have been just a few years ago. Being on a ship of primarily humans for the last couple of years helps, but it's still strange seeing crowds and no Turians or Krogan towering above everyone else.

[Yet more examples of species she's never heard of and still, in that universe Humans are there.]

I can imagine - it's already strange enough for me not to see other species around.

[Garrus has learned this as well from talking to a few others. Humans seem fairly universal. Other species? Not so much.]

I take it humans have been to other planets where you're from then?

[She chuckles.] I should say so! In fact, I've spent very little time on Earth myself.

I've only been to Earth once myself. It... Wasn't a very nice visit.

Then again, I hadn't really been back home in a long time myself.

I'm sorry to hear that.

[It's doubtful the Earth he saw has much in common with hers, sounds like.]

Where is home for you, if I may ask?

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