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59 lines
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Message inbound...
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Space Cruiser Excelsior
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Destination: Unknown
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~~ TELEMETRY SENSORS 1 AND 5 DOWN ~~
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Stardate Beta Epsilon 7 Epsilon
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[REDACTED AS PER PROCEDURE [REDACTED]]
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[autotranslator on]
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Corporal Sam Arnold, Systems Administrator
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To Captain [romanization: Kiu Sercas] of the Malkonkordo:
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I guess I was mistaken for assuming the Dekaoso are honorbound. I duly
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apologize.
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One thing the events on Hoffnung have made me think about is: I could do the
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same thing. I am the only one awakened, as per Procedure [REDACTED]
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requirements. If I really wanted to, I could kill everybody else on the ship
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right now. One simple command in the terminal, and 500 people die in the
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blink of an eye. The only thing separating me and the extremists of Hoffnung
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is my honor. I would much rather fight a bloody battle than simply "squash
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the head of weakness beneath their feet" as you claim the Hoffnung extremists
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have.
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At the same time, you continue your agression against me and the Excelsior.
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Perhaps I was unclear: you will not find us anywhere in any star map.
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In our desperate attempt to leave Terra for another inhabitable planet, we used
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every last piece of technology to augment our Astroviator and ensure our safe
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egress. When I said, "[we] have flung ourselves far from its reach," I was not
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joking in any sense.
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Normal procedure calls for an Astroviator to spend one whole day cycle in
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warmup mode. This allows the systems to boot correctly and ensure a perfect
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launch. However, given the circumstances, we were willing to accept a
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less-than-perfect launch, as speed was of the essence.
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After loading the Excelsior with all salvageable tech, we launched ourselves
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with a high-powered cannon. Where to? We didn't particularly care at the
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moment, as we were more concerned with fleeing. By the time we entered
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cryosleep 8 days later, the Excelsior had fully booted and we selected a
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patrolling program to find us an inhabitable planet once our speed ran out.
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1252 Terran years later, and we still haven't even burned off half of it.
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You can try to find us. You're certainly free to try.
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Even the Dekaoso's supposedly advanced starmaps cannot find a target moving
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faster than light.
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And to the Melchizedek: vitamin deficiencies suck. If it weren't for the fact
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that the Excelsior is moving so fast, I would send some spare supplies from our
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medbays, which would include vitamin supplements. I hope that the issues you're
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describing don't turn out as bad as it seems. Good luck.
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-- TRANSMISSION END --.
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