[ WP ] You 're from Earth ? What 's it like ?

`` My name is General James Connor, and I am from Earth.'' I start my speech, taking into the microphone and facing the Titan colony. 
 
 
 `` I am grateful for your hospitality, we all are, us survivors. I only speak for the several dozen Earth-born that lived long enough to reach a shuttle. We arrived here only a week ago, we watched our world burn before us. Many of you are unhappy about our arrival, but it was the only way.'' 
 
 
 
 `` Most of you never saw Homeworld, but it was beautiful. It was burnt out, mostly ashes, yes, but it was home. Earth is n't like Titan, where everything is supplied, no.'' I shake my head, looking at the angry faces around me. 
 
 
 
 `` On Earth, you needed to work. You learnt courage, strength, dignity, pity and humiliation. Earth was everything and nothing. Growing up there, I fought for my food, waiting for the day I'd get to live on Titan. In the beginning, only the rich made it here, the rest left to die.'' 
 
 
 
 `` We did n't, we lived because we were stronger then the rich who left, we knew how to survive. Earth was half destroyed, the booming 12 billion people quickly cut to two million from leaving, and from dying. Now it's only hundreds. Here on Titan, you do n't learn about Earth. You do n't learn about strength.'' 
 
 
 `` In truth, Earth was a crater filled, radioactive fallout zone, but it was as beautiful to us as this plant is to you. We loved Earth, never regretting not leaving. We know more then you ever will. Lived more than you'll ever live.'' 
 
 
 
 `` So, when you learn to live, to teach, and to love, then you can be called Human. When you learn how to live on Earth, then you can be called warriors. Our heroes are back Home, mixing with our now deceased Earth.'' I think back to my family, my partner now dead, along with thousands of others. 
 
 
 `` Please, you left Earth years ago, but we watched it burn. Our home is gone. Give us our rightful time to grieve, and respect us, for you do n't know what we lived through.
