Named after the messenger of the Greek gods. Supposed to have winged shoes that make him fly way faster than anything else, and if I had to guess, the people who name the planets did it because it's probably got the shortest year, so you'd see it zipping through the night sky way faster than the rest.

[she sighs, though, because she knows what happened to earth. the other planets might still be mysteries, but she can just. assume that in the very near future that teacher is from, humanity just fails. they continue to do nothing, and they watch, and they wait, and they fail.]

I don't know what our beloved Emperor did to Earth after the apocalypse we made, but humans... I don't know. I wanted to believe we were better than this. I wanted to believe we could course correct and keep our home habitable, but all the scientists have been saying for years that we're just going to turn it into a big, uninhabitable dead zone. We used to have water, trees, cities full of people, and now the buildings are probably the only things still standing. Or they will be, I guess, by the time my now becomes your past.

[another heavy sigh. she needs a drink after that one; she takes one and runs her other hand through her hair while she's doing it.]

Christ. Anyway. It really did used to be just this... amazing place, Earth. Don't let me get you all depressed about it. [let her hold all that instead.] We had this forest near where I grew up and sometimes I would just head out there and stretch out on a big flat rock and think about things while I stared up through the canopy of leaves. [she turns her attention to her omni.] Give me a sec, I can probably pull up some pictures of what it all looked like.