// Commander Tomalak was portrayed by the wonderful Andreas Katsulas, who was taken too soon by cancer If you have a moment please stop by and remember him www.findagrave.com/memorial/133...

@oopsallwarbirds.bsky.social >;)

𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝐻𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑅ℎ𝑖, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝐼𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑘 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑠ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑒

𝐿𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑦, 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒

NO

𝐿𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑤, 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑝 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑙𝑙. 𝐴 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝'𝑠. 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑, ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑑. "All stations report we are secured, airlock control reports-

𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑦

𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚. 𝐼𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑍𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑟 𝐹𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑝𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑡. 𝐼𝑓 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑...

Tylenol violated the Neutral Zone

Narak was such a disappointment

"I see no reason to ever stop."

I hear Pi-card is dead and now has a weird roboclone. I wasn't even the one to kill him How disappointing >:|

𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨

𝘚𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳, 𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘸𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳. '𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴' 𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘴, 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦-

I do regret not destroying Pi-card's ship

"𝘏𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰." 𝘛𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘬 𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘥, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

"Are you sure of this?" ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑, ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑠, 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. "Yes, everything checks out...we didn't believe it ourselves...but the facts don't lie." 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑, 𝑜𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑. "I knew Riov Sela was incompetent, but a flashy bumbler-

"There is video," 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, "security caught it...the intruders were here 49 minutes, killed 11 people, most were House staff getting a start in their morning work." 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑘 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑑𝑑, 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑝 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛. 𝐴 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑, 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑-

𝑂𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑆𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟, ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑠. 𝑅𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐷𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑎'𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑡, 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡...𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 '𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑' 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑔. 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, ℎ𝑒'𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑥 𝑜𝑛-

Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you'll never be surprised.

𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛, 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔

Ahh...memories... Such a wonderful ship, I do miss it.

This worked well until it didn't

"You will, of course, wish to test them out before taking them," ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑛, 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘, "I have no doubt you are eager to see what they can do."

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𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑖𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑑. 𝐹𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠, 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑘. 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑘 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑, 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒'𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔.

𝑆𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑦

Ugh, Avox...him again?

𝐶𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑂𝑢𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠, 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑡

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝘋'𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢-𝘢𝘦𝘯 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝘊𝘢𝘦𝘩𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘦 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑁'𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑐, ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅ℎ𝑖 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚, ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 21 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑...15 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑜

𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑, 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑, 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟, 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒...

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments.

𝑆𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒-

𝐼𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚, ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑚, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛 "No, nothing...we have checked with our official contacts and operatives, and nothing. I know there is a delay, but not so much we wouldn't have heard." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 "We are working to-

2408 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝘈𝘙𝘙 𝘋'𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢-𝘢𝘦𝘯 𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑒 5 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝘊𝘢𝘦𝘩𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘦. 𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑑, 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑝 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒. 𝑆𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝐴 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑑𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑-

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝘋'𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢-𝘢𝘦𝘯 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟, 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐷'𝑇𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑑𝑠, 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑘𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝐾𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑜𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝐾𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑟, 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒

𝐻𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡, 𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝐹𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠. 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑦, 𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛 "Shaoi dan, Senator, forgive my interruption-

I am not a morning person

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑧𝑧 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑. "What have you found that required me to transport down at this hour?" ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑, 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛-

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠 "It is regrettable to have to meet at such a scene as this, Commander D'Tan, but fortunately another attack was prevented." 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑘 𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑑, 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑜𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑦-