Strange Visitors

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||Mission complete,|| Stacy's voice rang out through the ship. ||Obs deck returning.||

The mission was a success, and so the away team returned, and the Obs Deck was back in it's proper place.

But, this time, they came back with a few more visitors.

Among the returning crew members stood three strange aliens. There was the ever-dour Revus Lod, the energetic Ippli, and the stoic Commander Rahk.

The Lensmen commander looked around at his surroundings, his expression rather inscrutable at the moment.

Anyone want to say hi to the new arrivals?

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Trudy took his hand - she was a whole lot more comfortable with aliens than she had been when she first woke up. Her handshake was firm, but not too tight. "We're kind of a slapdash bunch, but we do as well as we can with what we have. It doesn't help that our command staff keeps getting grabbed by one of the AIs to make sure their soul doesn't fall out."

Not knowing if you were going to wake up and find your general missing on any given day made it kind of hard to hold down a military command structure.

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"Soul?" Ippli asked curiously.

"I think she means Avia," Revus notes, "Some Pre-Bleeds get the two confused."

"Hmn," Rahk grunts, "I knew these ships had some issues, but I didn't know how bad it was."

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"We know what it's really called, we got a summary of the problem not too long ago when we tried to shut the AI down. Just that most of us know it by the different name, so it's less confusing to explain it that way."

It certainly sounded like the same thing. Trudy was far past the point of not believing in souls. After you've seen several hundred Na'vi linked up with a tree and trying to save your friend's life, your worldview expanded.