"Earth?" Axl said, shrugging a little as he considered the question. "It's pretty high-tech, kinda like here only on a planet. And most of the people are reploids-- there was a big disaster a few decades ago, and a lot of humans were killed. Screwed up the planet pretty good in general, actually. A lot of reploids work to fix it up-- fix the atmosphere and the oceans and try to re-populate all the plants and animals and stuff that were hit.

"I'm a Maverick Hunter, so my job's all about making sure there aren't any reploids who lose it and try to kill all the rest of the humans or start going after all the normal people who are just doing their thing. Sometimes it's hard, though. The Earth Federation's a little quick to call reploids Mavericks, and sometimes I wonder if it's just for disagreeing instead of for something, you know, important."

Wow. When you looked at it that way, things were pretty messed up at home, too.