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Moon Song
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The miklik was trying to escape back into the bridge. It must have merely been a lookout. I do not see anyone in the first hallway that we ran into.
I answer the call. The first thing I hear is the sound of a salikai.
>"s all well and good reasoning, but what of Polo and Rokoa?" it says.
>"A swarm would most likely kill them." The head salikai. I have still never seen these two. "I should have ordered their death when they had the chance, but it will be too costly now. I do not expect we could kill them without significant manpower losses of more than just a few arkots. We are in severe lack of non-arkot manpower, and I don't trust them not to mess up the illusion. We need to save as much as we can. Get the CAI to finish transmitting its fabrications about this hive."
>"We could just crash the ship."
>"Tempting, but they are broken as it is. Even the ones who could not teleport back are merely holding their position until the teleporters come back on. Not to say that they have received their comeuppance, they do deserve much more - yes, arkot, we are leaving the miklik to keep them busy, not as though we need more time, but it's too late - deserve much more than they've gotten. In the longrun, we're going to make a whole mess out of this hive on a political standpoint. It won't do much, but once again, we need to buy every bit of time we can get, and if we can get a single hive dealing with this damn warhive that would otherwise be doing subterranean scans for our whereabouts, then I will take it."
>"And of the science hive up there?"
>"We'll be evacuating all our pet neumono, tribals included, while they're under their own gas invention. It's worked with a damn lot less kinks than the link hijackers, but both can be improved with this data."
>"Good! I still recommend, even at high costs, killing those two. Every problem we've had involves them! Half of u-"
>"Yes, I wish I could retrack to the time she was subdued and inflict on her twice the crimes she has on us as revenge, I've thought about that, and that both of them are legitimate threats. We can't think of revenge, due or not. Tell me, do you think that out of all the neumono on our own homeworld, we just happened to run into the single most naturally monstrous soldier, and the only one who has betrayed their own link? We will have to deal with far more, and if those two alone are such a threat, we will be biting off more than we can chew. It's inevitable, but I look forward to it. Let's see, 9, then.... Yes, I-10, you've done well. Continue not telling the bitch anything. For the rest of you, the teleporters are too risky. Take an escape shuttle or several and head to sector 6-F-20-120, enact order 12. We'll find you. Better idea. CAI. Fire all the escape pods except for three. The rest of you take the remaining three. And do remember to input a new password to keep that hive busy."
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