Chatper 203.5 (The War) (2/2)
CONFEDMIL is just messing with us.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
I don't know, he sounded pretty serious and Mantid freaked out.
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BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
It's just a scary story to explain what happened during the Mantid War.
Something blew a hole straight through the Mantid's psyche.
I mean, just the word Antaeus is enough to get her to freak out.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME!
>>TERRASOL HAS ENABLED ADMIN CONTROLS
>>MANTID_FREE_WORLDS HAS BEEN DISCONNECTED FROM EMOTIONAL LIBRARY
MANTID FREE WORLDS
Oh, thank the Digital Omnimessiah and the Twelve Biological Apostles.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Calm down, sis, the Antaeus Fleet is just an old ghost story.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
The Missouri is REAL. I'm telling you.
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RIGELLIAN COMPACT
Well, yeah. It's currently with the 19th Fleet heading into Lanaktallan Space.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Not that one.
THE Missouri. The Destroyer of Worlds, the Reaver of Souls, the Unstoppable Fury.
THAT one.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
That one's an old rumor. It's just trying to reconstruct what happened during the war, sis.
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RIGELLIAN COMPACT
Yeah, sis, it's just one of those stories Space Force guys like to tell each other about to creep each other out.
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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
You know the thing. The whole ”A Captain who goes down with his ship with enough rage will find himself chained to the Captain's Chair of one of the Undying Ships of the Antaeus Fleet in order to redeem himself and his ship” kind of thing.
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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE
Yeah, you know, one of those ”I know a guy who knows a guy who totally knew this Marine who ended up as part of the shipboard compliment of the Warspite.”
It's just ghost stories we use to scare each other.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
You mean like Daxin?
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Shit.