I see you're here, the ones Iola told me she was sending. I don't know what she told you. Probably that I knew a lot about Earth, because my mother came from there. That I would understand you better because of that. I don't, really. I've been to Earth, and of course I was raised by my mother, so I must have had some exposure to Earth culture at some point.

Not many residents of Earth come out this way, really. You and my mom and her teammates are the only ones, really. Most of your people have never ventured off your planet.

No, my mother didn't somehow get mysteriously cast into space like you did. She came here of her own free will, leaving her home planet Earth to participate in the quest to rescue Zordon of Eltar. She was a Ranger, but powerless at the time, but that didn't stop her. She and her teammates left your planet anyway. That's how she met my father.

My father was born on KO-35, a long-abandoned colony. When he was a young man, he was chosen to be a Space Ranger. He was eventually put in charge of the Astro Megaship by sheer bad luck. It wasn't until my mother and her teammates arrived that my father had crewmates again.

To make a long story short, mother met father. Mother liked father at first sight. Father took a little longer to notice mother's charms, but he's like me, a loner. He had to get used to people first. Mother and father were pair-bonded after Zordon had been rescued, just before the rest of my mother's team retired. Rangers of Earth traditionally retire at age 18, like my mother's predecessor, and my mother's teammates chose to follow tradition. Not mother, however. She chose to stay on, not only because she was with my father, but because she truly loved space.

My parents eventually aquired another crew. I know this because they were there as far back as I remember, plus I know most of them were on board when I was born. There was a slight difference, of course, because aunt Cassie had filled in for Mother when she was pregnant with me, and there was a different Black Ranger- a y'resan named G'y'he. He left a few months after I was born to mate, and was replaced by another y'resan named C'fa. I remember C'fa. I don't remember G'y'he.

I grew up on that ship. I didn't know at first that people didn't grow up aboard spaceships, and even today I somewhat pity those who grow up on planets. That's why, even though I spent part of my life on your planet, that I don't consider that I really have any sort of bond there. I know it, I've been there, but it's like the forty zillion other places I have visited, even if it's a place that my parents went to fairly often.

So, why am I here? Because I fell in love, and married. My bond-partner is not the space-going type, and I'm not comfortable on a planet, so we compromised and ended up here on this station. Besides, my parents still drop by often, as do my younger brother and sister. My parents aren't Rangers anymore, but they would miss not being in space, so they run a commercial spaceship, shipping things all over several galaxies. My sister is a scientist on a exploratory ship, while my brother, taking after our parents, is a Ranger.

That is who I am. That is why I'm here. And if you'll excuse me, I have work to do. I wish you luck in getting home.