Chapter 488 (2/2)
”Tell the Director she can come find me, or...” she let it draw out. ”She can go fuck herself.”
Vakwerta sat in the puddle of urine in her chair and stared at the broken table, unable to answer.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
Oops.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Don't say that. You know I'm a nervous person.
Define... oops.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
Nakteti arrived at New Tnvaru and had a meeting with the Assistant Planetary Director. Someone in station security leaked the footage of the confrontation.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Ooh, any good?
>gets popcorn
Tell me it's good.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
It's disastrous. The Planetary Director sent her assistant to make inquiries about why and how Nakteti lost most of her crew, how the colony was lost. It sounds like the Planetary Director was going to twist everything to make it seem like the lost of the colony and Tnvaru Prime was somehow Captain Nakteti's fault.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
What? That's rediculous. The PAWM was already sterilizing your colony when Nakteti showed up.
How is it her fault?
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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT
Politics. That's how.
We should hang all lawyers, engineers, and politicians.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Wow, someone feels muscular today.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
The big insect said to the muscle bound Rigellian power lifter during the body builder competition.
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ALL>Laugh
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Good one, kid.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
Oh, it gets better.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
>crams popcorn into his mouth
Oh oh oh! Tell us!
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AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS
How does indicting Nakteti for all of this get worse?
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
She had one of her allies with her. A Lady Carnight, the niece of Nakteti's Space Force assigned bodyguard, had gone with her.
She's from one of those magical primitivism planets.
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LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL
Didn't those fare pretty well due to the lack of actual cybernetics and low populations?
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BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
Actually, yeah, they really did.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
Apparently Captain Nakteti was having Lady Carnight speak for her, and the insults by the Assistant Planetary Director got too much and she chopped the table in half with a sword.
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ALL>AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
Then they just left. The Minister of Planetary Defense told the Planetary Director that he didn't have enough soldiers to send against a half hundred insane humans with swords and that he didn't think she could get away with an orbital strike that might not even kill the humans.
So we've got a power struggle brewing.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
You have to show the video. That sounds too amazing.
>holds up the popcorn
Anyone?
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
I don't see why you aren't all laughing at me.
This is just embarassing.
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PUBVIAN DOMINION
What, you think we're surprised that a Terran chopped up a table with a sword after being insulted?
You've met Terrans, right?
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Touche.