"Well... we've been to the moon," Hokuto said cheerfully. "At least, some countries have." To the best of her knowledge, Japan was still working on it. "But we're still a long way away from anything like being able to take vacations on Mars." Not that she cared much, honestly, unless aliens came down and revolutionized everyday technology.

"So how did you get into this Academy but not qualify for a lot of the classes?" Truthfully, she wanted to know partly because she could so see it happening at the Academy she was aiming for.