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+[encryption disallowed, QEC will be plain text, continue?] Y
+
+[Retinal authorization of plain text transmission from 
+PO3 Chris Brazinsky]
+
+My Dearest Simone,
+
+The captain engaged stealth mode. I think it's an exercise. Well, I
+hope it's an exercise. Because it's tearing me apart.
+
+Stealth mode means I can't see the stars. I had you memorized. I
+knew exactly where you were. I even learned to use that stupid
+computer that tracks your route, so I could see you. I would run
+down to section three, weave my way through the degenerates hanging
+around the nitrous leak and press my nose against the porthole. I'd
+breathe a fog against the glass, find your star amongst all the
+stars, and stare at where you must be. But I can't now.
+
+One week ago, before the stealth mode exercise started, I swear I
+saw a glint of distortion on the edge of the pleiades. A speck, a
+gnat. I knew it was you, hiding deep inside the bowls of the
+Basilica. You were probably lounging about, reading that same
+magazine you've been working thin for the last year. And chewing on
+a split of your hair, right? Spiting it out, putting a fresh strand
+in, over and over as you flipped through the pages. Was it you out
+there? 
+
+BTW I'm going to get in big trouble sending this over the QEC. But
+I don't care I miss you. What are they going to do? Space me? And
+eat nutrition cubes for the rest of their lives, because they'll
+never learn to cook for themselves.
+
+I hope your new assignment is as glorious as it sounded when you
+broke the news to me, up there in the cupola. When you hopped up
+and down all smiles. At the time, the Tojiro was harvesting energy,
+so you had that white hot sun positioned behind you, playing merry
+with your silhouette. I poured all my happiness into you that day.
+I hope you can still feel it near you now.
+
+Maybe we could schedule a cryo together, you know? Not right now of
+course but sometime. You could do the calculations because I'm
+terrible at it. I certainly wouldn't want to wake up after you're a
+hundred years dead!
+
+But we could do it. Meet up in the far future like we did on Senza
+Tempo, where we re-enacted that old picture of your ancestors
+standing on the rings of Saturn. They looked so very happy, acting
+like the kind of carefree fools that only pure love can create.
+
+Remember Senza Tempo? We bent ourselves into that same goofy “ape”
+pose beneath ice rings that seemed to stretch forever. And after
+the camera drone flashed its light, I could feel the joy from your
+ancestors like lightning across time. "Here," they seemed to say.
+"Carry our torch. Never let it die."
+
+I bet the Basilica is totally in love with you right now. They
+fawned all over you the moment our two ships touched. They rushed
+at you like groupies from the docking port, and I couldn't stop
+myself from smiling. I hid myself in the shadows, so I could freely
+stretch my smile ear-to-ear and watch you attend to the adoring
+fans huddled about you. And boy, they pecked at you so bad, asking
+you a zillion convoluted questions with such eagerness they must
+have thought you were Altessa herself!
+
+You make me so proud. Of course, I didn't have anything to do with
+it. But I’ll take the pride anyway, tuck it in my shirt pocket.
+Hold it fast to my heart. I don't deserve it but I want to keep it,
+so I will. It's my lump of gold.
+
+I have to go, the grunts are getting hungry.
+
+Go be brilliant. Not because I tell you, but because it's who you
+are.
+
+Also, think about the cryo thing, it's okay if you don't wanna.
+
+
+with love,
+
+yer Pulsar
+

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