Clarke is Skaikru, they are not Grounders. They were not raised with the cultural significance, only the logic of what the blood is.
[ Never doubt how uncomfortable talking about this with an outsider makes her, but Lexa is determined to grow outside of those limits. But the Flame she will never discuss.]
The survivors of the Praimfaya, the nuclear apocalypse, were given the Nightblood to survive the radiation. They were our ancestors. But as they bred and established themselves, not all of their children and grandchildren were born with the same blood. It was recessive. They all have enough resistance to survive on earth, but only the Nightbloods can survive radiation on the level of a Praimfaya. When a child with the black blood is born, they are sent for training to be our next leader. You could say it is a royal bloodline.
[He knows better than to point out that likely there are more Nightbloods than Lexa knows about because of a founder effect from Praimfaya. That is her culture and he won't dispute it. After all, it's similar to ancient Earth royalty.]
I told Clarke this--Nightblood would have been extremely useful for my people. In space, there can be dangerous and lethal levels of radiation. I offered to study it to Clarke.
[Would it be disrespectful to Lexa to further explore the properties of Nightbloods?]
We don't know everything the people here are capable of. We don't know if anything similar could happen here as what happened to your Earth. I would like to study the special properties of nightblood to see if they can be applicable on a wider scale if needed.
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[So Lexa has nightblood as well...how interesting.]
But your people survived on an irradiated Earth did they not? How could they have survived if everyone doesn't have nightblood?
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[ Never doubt how uncomfortable talking about this with an outsider makes her, but Lexa is determined to grow outside of those limits. But the Flame she will never discuss.]
The survivors of the Praimfaya, the nuclear apocalypse, were given the Nightblood to survive the radiation. They were our ancestors. But as they bred and established themselves, not all of their children and grandchildren were born with the same blood. It was recessive. They all have enough resistance to survive on earth, but only the Nightbloods can survive radiation on the level of a Praimfaya. When a child with the black blood is born, they are sent for training to be our next leader. You could say it is a royal bloodline.
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[He knows better than to point out that likely there are more Nightbloods than Lexa knows about because of a founder effect from Praimfaya. That is her culture and he won't dispute it. After all, it's similar to ancient Earth royalty.]
I told Clarke this--Nightblood would have been extremely useful for my people. In space, there can be dangerous and lethal levels of radiation. I offered to study it to Clarke.
[Would it be disrespectful to Lexa to further explore the properties of Nightbloods?]
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We are not in space, why would you want to study it here?
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[Julian is Starfleet though--he's been taught to respect other cultures and he'd rather not offend someone that's helped him and Garak both.]