What Two Parents See When They Look at the Same Poster

In Galatea and Terra, childhood is the first battlefield (just as in the real world...)

In the Galatean universe, the divide between Terra and Galatea isn’t just political or technological. It’s cultural. Emotional. Philosophical. You see it most clearly in how they raise their kids—and in what they’re taught to admire.

That’s the heartbeat behind this propaganda poster.

This poster started as a bit of a joke—one of those casual worldbuilding one-liners about Galatean efficiency vs Terran emotion.

But it stuck with me.

I kept thinking about who sees this kind of propaganda. Who it's for. Who it wounds.

So I wrote this fictional moment—a split scene showing two parents, one from each world, looking at the same image. Each of them wanting something simple. Each of them feeling like the world denied it.

Excerpt: From “The Poster”

(full dual-POV scene available on my website)

Ana Quen (Galatean, mother of three)
Her youngest daughter asked last night:
“Can we go outside barefoot one day?”

Ana smiled. Said maybe. It was a lie she wanted to believe.
She looked again at the poster. Then imagined her little girl, barefoot, running through tall grass.
No dome. No mask. Just sky.

This isn’t a scene from the main story. It’s something else—part of the world’s emotional sediment. And I’ll be sharing more like it as I continue expanding the Galatean Saga.

These aren’t spoilers. They’re atmosphere. Tone. Truths whispered around the edges of war.

Thanks for walking this world with me.

—Jasmine