Chapter 161: (Dorknyss) (2/2)
CONFEDMILINT
It's bad. OK. Just trust us.
It's making us look like complete idiots.
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RIGELLIAN COMPACT
I don't know. All of their headlines read like these.
”TERROR IN THE CAPITOL!”
”TERRANS LURKING IN EVERY SHADOW! ARE YOU SAFE? EXPERTS SAY NO!”
”HOW TO TELL IF YOUR NEIGHBOR IS SECRETLY A TERRAN! NUMBER EIGHT WILL SURPRISE YOU!”
”CITY MOST HIGH PLEADS FOR CALM AMID WAVE OF TERROR WITH SPOOKY TERRAN RIGHT BEHIND HIM!”
”OH, GOD, WHAT DOES IT WANT?”
Seems pretty effective to me.
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CONFEDMILINT
It's just the whole thing.
I mean, we're supposed to have decorum. There's rules, you know? They're acting like we're breaking them. None of this had been fatal or anything like that, but they're acting like Daxin himself just landed at the Starport.
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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
You realize, the Lanaktallan don't know the rules, right? All they know is some creepy looking Terran is lurking around the city.
Daxin they can understand, this thing, not so much.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
I'm not sure I understand it.
Oh man, my head really hurts.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
That's what you get for gorging on ice cream for three days straight.
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CONFEDMILINT
The worst part is, um, it looks like he might have, well...
A thing. A thing that, you know, might have been part of a black project.
You know, one of those projects nobody knows about and we claim we never funded?
A really really black one.
A bad one.
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BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
Why did the pucker factor of this chat suddenly skyrocket.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Define... bad one.
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CONFEDMILINT
Um, he might have, in his possession, a chaos seed generator. You know, the quantum device that observes random particles to change their state in order to generate the most space-time chaos event curve.
Apparently... he has one.
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RIGELLIAN COMPACT
You have to be kidding me.
What in the name of Cybernetic Saint Peter ever possessed you to go through with that project?
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CONFEDMILINT
You know... death to the Varakson Empire.
I'm sure it made sense to the researchers at the time why we developed it.
It was one of those things, you know?
Kind of like the Nazgul Protocol made sense at the time.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
The what?
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CONFEDMILINT
Nothing.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Don't you nothing me!
YOU GET BACK HERE!
>CONFEDMILINT HAS LEFT THE CHAT (IT APPEARS I LEFT THE OVEN ON)
Oh my God, this just keeps getting worse.
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RIGELLIAN COMPACT
I don't know. I think it's kind of funny.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Hey, who bricked the food dispenser in the break room?
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