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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
It's been nearly three month. I wish we could get some word of how it is going.
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AKLTAK FREE FLIGHT
I doubt it's going well for the Lanaktallan.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
I'll be honest, I don't think it will matter.
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AKLTAK FREE FLIGHT
What do you mean?
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
The fleet and armies already fighting in Council Space have had a chance to turn around and head for TerraSol, instead they are still continuing their attacks.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
Maybe they don't know?
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
They know.
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AKLTAK FREE FLIGHT
They just don't care.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
You two lost your home worlds. We barely kept ours. Do you really think that losing their home systems will matter? The Confederacy is huge. There's billions of Terrans, tens of billions of them all together, not to mention their allies.
Do you really think
>All right. Power's stable. You're right, board 83765655-23283-387 is completely shot. I'll have Wally fab up a new one.
>Replace that one and we'll move on to rebooting the emergency communications buffer system.
that the Terrans will
Wait, what was that? Did anyone else hear that?
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AKLTAK FREE FLIGHT
Yes, I heard it to. That was weird, it sounded like someone talking in the next room.
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>voltage is steady, amperage is kicking a bit along conduit 3765655-23211-A47. I'm going to replace it.
>Good plan. Oh God, there's a Nammerian squirmling hatch here. I have to find one of their parents. God, they're so frightened and confused.
>Heh. Don't let them bite you this time.
>I won't. Come here, little ones, let's find mommy.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
What is that? It's not broadcasting any identification and this is a secure chat room.
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AKLTAK FREE FLIGHT
They must somehow be inside the Gestalt system if
>How's that?
>Better.
>Did you find their parents?
>Yeah. They were at one of the riverbank parks I created. There's so many. I can't. I can't.
>You can because you must. It's just us. It's just us. We alone stand in the breach.
we can hear them this plain.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLD
By the Digital Omnimessiah, they sound like they are in so much pain.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
But where are they?
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
I don't
>I'm OK now.
>OK, I'm going to power up the buffer system. We'll see what happens.
>Ready.
>Activating
know what we can do to help
SYSTEM BACKBONE MESSAGE
6.43E+12 RECORDS TO PROCESS
PLEASE STAND BY
ARCHANGEL SYSTEM SELF TEST
them. They sound like they need help.
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AKLTAK FREE FLIGHT
Archangel?
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ARCHANGEL SELF TEST COMPLETE
BUFFER OUT OF RANGE
PLEASE CONTACT SUPERVISOR
>Supervisor Override Accepted
BUFFER.TRANSFER.BIN COMPILE
struct group_info init_groups = { .usage = ATOMIC_INIT(2) }; struct group_info *groups_alloc(int gidsetsize){ struct group_info *group_info; int nblocks; int i; nblocks = (gidsetsize + NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK - 1) / NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK; /* Make sure we always allocate at least one indirect block pointer */ nblocks = nblocks ? : 1; group_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*group_info) + nblocks*sizeof(gid_t *), GFP_USER); if (!group_info) return NULL; group_info->ngroups = gidsetsize; group_info->nblocks = nblocks; atomic_set(&group_info->usage, 1); if (gidsetsize blocks[0] = group_info->small_block; else { for (i = 0; i blocks[i] = b; } } return group_info; out_undo_partial_alloc: while (--i >= 0) { free_page((unsigned long)group_info->blocks[i]); } kfree(group_info); return NULL; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(groups_alloc); void groups_free(struct group_info *group_info) { if (group_info->blocks[0] != group_info->small_block) { int i; for (i = 0; i |
EMERGENCY BUFFER TRANSFER EXECUTING
>>TELKAN GESTALT screams
>>TELKAN GESTALT HAS LOGGED OFF (LOSS CONNECTION TO CLIENT)
AKLTAK FREE FLIGHT
WHAT WAS THAT?
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
EMERGENCY BUFFER TRANSFER COMPLETE
I think I had a stroke.
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I taste strawberries.
>TELKAN FORGE WORLDS HAS LOGGED ON
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>Coolant is moving fine. I think this one's stable.
>Looks like it. Oof, more Treana'ad hatchlings. Here, go here next.