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Encke had been taking a lot of people up to his comet lately.

Not that there was a problem with that, really. Encke liked the solitude that his comet provided, especially when it meant he could just put his head down and focus on the repairs, focus on the relaxation, sometimes even focus on the memories that washed over him as he wandered around. But he also liked getting to show his comet to others, letting others explore the comet, answering their questions, sometimes enlisting their help, and hell, even enjoying the time that he could breathe free of the chaotic auras that wandered the Earth, no matter who was with him.

It was nice that when he took Sedna up with him this time, she didn't bring with her that tainted Chaotic sensation that she had last time. He had certainly been willing. That didn't mean he liked the idea of his comet harboring Chaos at any point.

"You like?" asked Encke, casually, as he sat himself down nearby. In his hand, he was holding a small bag of sweets, food something he was growing accustomed to bringing with him on trips to space. If she didn't want any, he was perfectly fine eating them all himself. "The plant life is only growing more abundant, I think. This place is clearly rocky terrain, never will be covered in lush plants, but there's areas that might be."

Like this little place, with the glowing plants that reflected light on his body.

He glanced up to the sky for a moment, eyes widening in wonder as he noticed an asteroid in the sky at a distance. What was it like over there? Did that asteroid have a senshi? Did that asteroid contain an unseen society at one time or another? Did it currently?

Encke let out a contented sigh.

At the it's alright, Encke quirked a playful eyebrow, and returned with an, "Oh really."

But he didn't poke her about it any further, knowing as well as her to read between the lines of the sassy games they tended to play with each other. That was what their relationship was. He suspected, on some level, it may have been related to how their relationship started, but--

His gaze shifted from the stars to her when she spoke again, watching her as she asked him what was admittedly a relatively serious question. Was the wonder gone? He pursed his lips in curiosity, glancing back up at the sky, at the nearby asteroid, at the stars and likely other asteroids in the distance. He wondered if they were at the right orientation to see Mars from here. They were getting closer to it, at least, closer than they were about a month ago or so...

He was getting distracted.

"I wouldn't call it tainted," he finally decided, his gaze shifting back to the nearby asteroid. "Shifted, maybe. Expanded. When I look out there to space, I don't just feel stunned by how pretty the view is. I'm in wonder of how much is out there. How many societies there may have been, how many there may be still to discover. Just how many trillions of people must have lived in the universe, perhaps still live in the universe. How many trillions of plants, animals, the skies of each of those places, the architecture, the--"

He cut himself off with a laugh. "My creative side loves imagining what's out there. I am an actor, after all."

After a brief pause, he leaned forward, letting out a brief sigh. "I suppose the only thing that taints it is the knowledge that all these societies were wiped out, including my own." Somehow.

Encke quirked a brow, quietly asking, "What did Berginia think?" legitimately curious as to what the relatively stoic man tended to think of something that was so vast and wondrous.

Thinking of those things under the Negaverse's control definitely drew a bit of a frown to his face. How many of these places up above them were currently under a Chaotic veil? Was the asteroid above them under a Chaotic veil? What about the ones in the distance? What about the moons surrounding Mars? What about Mars itself? He had no way of knowing, really, though considering there were Martian Knights he assumed that was safe.

"They were places that used to be wondrous," concluded Encke, simply, turning his attention back to Sedna finally. "And with work, I think we can make them all wondrous again."

Even if that meant eventually meant sending those unredeemable of the Negaverse back to the Cauldron.

... He ... at least assumed dead Negaverse agents went back to the Cauldron...

Transcendence. Encke's brows lifted in interest, and his more serious expression quickly morphed into something more excited. Was Sedna interested? Did she want to transcend? He supposed it would only make sense. It would keep her safe. He wanted to keep everyone safe, really, and if everyone was transcendent, they were at least safe from the most monstrous of things the Negaverse did.

"I went to my comet a lot. I restored it. I spent time here. Learned the land. Repaired the paths. Got the electricity running. That was what actually did it, actually." Encke laughed. "In my years of being lower level, I eventually found this hidden entrance to the government building over there," he gestured in the direction of the still visible Tesla coiled spire, "and it took me into the basement of sorts. Found some rooms. A painting of my past self, even." At that, Encke smirked.

"I was hot in my past life, too."

It was nice to feel a bit confident in himself, again.

"But eventually I stumbled upon a room with a giant metal pole in it. Had a memory of myself actually electrocuting it to stabilize it so I used my abilities on it. And then the lights turned on. I got blown back and woke up like this."

Encke snorted quietly. "Why does that not surprise me?"

He didn't know terribly much about the Russian man that Sedna had fallen for, but in his brief time with him, a profound answer that sounded like he respected space for what it wasn't didn't terribly surprise him. It also didn't surprise him that Berginia apparently didn't go to space very much. Wasn't he a police officer, anyway?

Probably more concerned about Earth in that case...

At the idea of admiring himself and the mirror, he jokingly shot back that it wasn't a bad idea, but honestly, he mostly just went back down there to get a look at the electronics that were running everything down there. He wished he had more technological knowledge. Maybe someday, he could recruit a cat to come up with him. Maybe there was some way to reuse some of those things for Earthan purposes...

A guarantee?

Encke knit his brows. He wasn't sure he could call it a guarantee per se, but...

"Maybe not a guarantee, but there's a, how would Luke put it," he murmured, mind immediately going to the mathematical statistics nonsense he sometimes heard Luke discuss with Garber over family dinners, "a positive correlation, maybe?" Was that the right term or-- "I've noticed the senshi I've met who are similar to my level who have spent a lot of time on their planets, taking care of it, seem to be transcendent."

He glanced back up at the asteroid above them thoughtfully.

"It's enough that I'm willing to bet that's how you transcend, anyway."

It was enough that he was pushing Anser to go to her planet more, urging Basiluzzo to go visit his, continuing to work with Pendour on hers, talked to people about space in general and encouraged them to explore, and it wasn't like he didn't like space naturally, but if space was the key to protecting them against what the Negaverse liked to do--

Encke chuckled. Any advice?

"Whatever you're expecting? It's probably entirely different."

Honestly, while it felt like it couldn't be anything else at this point, Encke didn't know what he expected when he had originally found out he could go to his comet. He certainly hadn't expected a place with tall spires, eventual electricity, glowing plants, shifting seasons, and a suspicious absence of any sign of living humanoid life despite the memories he often experienced while on the comet...

"Also," he glanced over to her once more, taking his eyes off the asteroid above finally and quirking a brow, "this might sound funny, but the longer you're on your planet, the more you'll remember... then."

Then being her past life.

"I have memories fairly often here. Have a fairly good picture of what I was like in my past life, when I was known as," he cleared his throat, puffed out his chest, and continued, "the Chosen King of the People, First Born Descendent of the First House of Encke, The Designated Senshi of Encke's Comet," the way he said the words were boisterous and grand, fitting of the respect they commanded in the past.

It didn't stop him from snickering afterward.

"Might be disorienting at first. You won't expect it. It might be sudden. You'll relive things. See things. Learn who you were. Learn who others were. Wish that maybe you knew what happened to all those people." Wonder if it was somehow his fault.

There was a brief moment where Encke wondered why she suddenly looked more... Well, not agitated, but certainly less neutral. Maybe she was agitated. But what had he said that--

When she asked what the point was, he quietly said, "Ah."

Memories, right.

It was a good thing to prepare her for, but...

"I think the memories are mostly to teach us who we were before, before whatever swept through our worlds took it all away. To teach us what these planets were once like when they were bustling with life. To show us what they could be again, if we wanted them to be. To show us the story of the world you're standing on before it ended up in the state it currently is, since there are no history books and we're all that's left."

He fidgeted in his lap, admittedly a little more at a loss with this particular question, but also wanting to give her an answer.

"I think it's more related directly to the restoration of what the planet was, but perhaps we can learn things that might be helpful to us on Earth, too. What actually wiped us out. Strategies to deal with it and them. Strategies in general. Diplomacy." That felt very Enckean. "I think it fully depends on who your past life actually was on how much you'll get in that field."

He glanced upwards, towards a lightning bolt.

Running his hand through his hair, he added, "My memories have recently shown more of the usage of the tech here. I'd like to adapt it to Earth, maybe." He needed a Mauvian for that, but...

He ran his hand through his hair, again, before lowering his hand and constraining his fidgeting to his lap. Well, at least he had managed a good explanation, considering those were just shots in the dark.

Well, not entirely in the dark.

He had a pretty good idea of how these things worked after so long, but it wasn't like he knew what his comet was thinking.

(Did his comet think? Was that a thing comets did? If he thought it was alive it probably--)

Sucking his brain in from its distraction, Encke offered Sedna a grin at the idea of her going to her planet. She was going to go. Maybe he could go at some point, but most importantly, she was going to go. If she became attached to her planet the way Encke had become attached to his, perhaps she could protect herself from Chaos trying that s**t again and attempting to corrupt her once more. And then that would be one less potential person in their force, a person who did much better on their side, he thought--

"I can't blame you. Gotta readjust to being back on the right side, after all," teased Encke, lightly, and he was back to his normal cadence. "I'm excited you're going to go up there, though! I hope you like it. I hope you spend time on it." A pause, a moment, before he continued, with a wink, "I hope you take me, when you're ready."