Chapter Seventy (Nakteti) (2/2)

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

Are you all right?

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TERRASOL

We are angry. We are enraged.

We have learned things.

The oppressed and downtrodden call out.

Call out to TerraSol.

Holding their children in their arms they cry out.

Small they are, yet are not all valued?

Is that not the lesson we have all learned?

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TELKAN GEꓕꓶⱯꓕS

Did I do something wrong?

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TERRASOL

No. It was done to you.

This can not stand.

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

Perhaps you should let us speak?

You are full of wrath. I can hear the hammers pounding the Anvils of Hate and the Wrath Forges.

When you get angry you get a little... um...

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

Breaky?

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

Smashy?

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TELKAN GESTALT

You're not angry at me, are you?

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

No, dear one. They are not.

TerraSol just needs a moment.

Perhaps, TERRASOL, you should take a moment to compose yourself.

Now, you know how you get when

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TERRASOL

War. War never changes.

>TERRASOL HAS LOGGED OFF

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

OH SHIT!

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

oh no no no no no!

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

um... that's not good.

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BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS

Uh, did he just say what I think he said?

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CLONE WORLDS DIRECTORATE

oh, this isn't good...

Sis, you gotta do something.

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

You guys take our little one someone safe.

I'll go talk to him.

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>DASS HAS LOGGED ON

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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SAPIENCE SYSTEMS

OK, I'm back, what did I...

Um... what's going on?

Did I miss something?

Why is Mars and Mercury lit up?

Guys?

Guys?

Where is everyone?