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39 lines
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Hyperdrive isn't as interesting as I thought it would be. Most of
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the time here's no reason to look outside your ship. It's like
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riding your velocipede along a country road, all the wildflowers
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are just a blur of color; except there's no color. The beauty of
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the universe comes in rays of light beyond our perception. By the
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time they've been digitized and color-shifted into our visual
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spectrum, they're still not as beautiful and mysterious as the
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composite images you see in text books and magazines.
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I'd die for a magazine. Even at Nalmykian-enhanced hyperspeeds
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we've passed a whole lot of nothing, and the Protectorate's tablets
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don't provide that tangible experience of hands on paper. I wonder
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if the Refreshlicator could make paper, but I don't want to break
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it trying to find out.
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After the Protectorate spread throughout the ship, there were only
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three human-sized portions left to act as its agents in our world.
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One spent the bulk of the time with the team in the lab, and the
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others mostly just sat around. Occasionally I'd engage them in a
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game of chess or something. They were easier to beat than the
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computer at first, but over time every game became a real
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challenge. We're certain they're connected at the quantum level,
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somehow.
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The ship says we're on course to some place called Havion,
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on one of the maps our guests managed to merge into our system.
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Their scout's computer interface got faster by the day, perhaps one
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of the 3 humanoids is shrinking or something. It's hard to tell.
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I've taken special care not to connect my computer into the ships
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since we were first boarded, a complete air-gap. It's not like we
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have the full internet anyhow, just whatever is on the ship's
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computers. There's nothing out there to network with, the
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Protectorate had no use for creating games, they're already
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networked. I doubt there's much fun to be had when your collective
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powers can calculate all probabilities on all sides of play. I'm
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not even sure they think of themselves as individuals, what would
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they compete for?
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