1 00:00:03,399 --> 00:00:08,759 Speaker 1: The waste of space records Native Sun by dagger Blacker, 2 00:00:09,839 --> 00:00:20,320 Chapter two. The undergal had a new addition to the 3 00:00:20,399 --> 00:00:25,800 dance floor, suffocating humans. Three green, gleaming cosmopods were lodged 4 00:00:25,839 --> 00:00:28,719 in the walls of the great rotating pyramid, breaking the 5 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:33,600 oxygen vacuum and letting out all the precious air, The 6 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,759 wishing roar of it escaping just the background instrumental to 7 00:00:36,799 --> 00:00:42,640 the song of suffering. Whooping gasps, heavy wet, heaving cries, 8 00:00:43,359 --> 00:00:48,399 then silence, bodies collapsing, blue and purple in the face, 9 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,200 hands frozen where they clawed at the throats of the fallen, thick, 10 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,039 throbbing veins bulging in their arms and foreheads before going still. 11 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,359 My helmet sprang over my head before I'd had time 12 00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:03,799 to inhale. In the underclub, pressure sensitive hair triggered collapsible 13 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,040 domes that the crew had nicked off a shipment to 14 00:01:06,079 --> 00:01:09,519 the rust dust Mars Mall meant to react to the 15 00:01:09,599 --> 00:01:13,280 lack of oxygen before we could even In type's colony, 16 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,840 grade equipment required manual activation. The constable, desperately slapping at 17 00:01:17,879 --> 00:01:20,439 the buttons along her collar as her own gasping joined 18 00:01:20,439 --> 00:01:24,799 in on the chorus bodies, My mind flashed a word 19 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,200 behind my eyes, white hot light blotting out the masked 20 00:01:28,239 --> 00:01:33,200 graveyard bodies, and blood red oozing down the chins of 21 00:01:33,239 --> 00:01:37,079 gurgling people, Scarlet webbing crawling over the dimming eyes of 22 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,799 the dead. At once, the rushing wind was riddled with dust. 23 00:01:41,359 --> 00:01:43,959 The bodies before me were those of the oozers instead 24 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,599 of the humans. The cries, for fuck's sake, the cries 25 00:01:47,599 --> 00:01:51,200 were the same, and Tyape's whooping hacks clapped on my 26 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,000 ear drums, her fingers growing blue or as they fumbled 27 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,040 at the unlabeled buttons at the top of her suit. Right. 28 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,760 I had to get it together, had to keep it 29 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,599 together for Aunt, for the crew. In a rush of resolve, 30 00:02:03,879 --> 00:02:07,000 I forced everything else out of focus except her, stepping 31 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,560 over two class bodies to press the little black button 32 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,520 I'd seen her press before. Her own helmet closed over 33 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,000 her head, though this did nothing to stop her hands 34 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,000 from tribbling dead. She stammered, kneeling the cradle a gasping 35 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,879 blue rodent, one of the living scarves of the Terrance 36 00:02:22,879 --> 00:02:29,400 that used as inaccessory. They're dying, Captain Cad howled, my title, 37 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,479 both hands already anchoring USh and pool in place amidst 38 00:02:32,479 --> 00:02:35,280 the sea of limbs. The Kaylak's crew were some of 39 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,039 the only humans that remained standing. As Trillif emerged from 40 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,879 his loft with Wave, his collidis In partner, Waves shouted 41 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,039 down at the Colidizans leaping down from the smoking, crushed 42 00:02:45,039 --> 00:02:49,599 ships in the wall. Something fast. The ruger words smushed together, 43 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,840 so I doubt it save, but a fluent speaker could 44 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,759 parse them. One of the Colidizans drew a hot shot 45 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,000 and blasted at Wave after taking aim. Missed, but only 46 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,879 because they meant to a warning that the wave didn't heed. 47 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,759 Starting down the metal steps to the floor, but Trillith 48 00:03:03,879 --> 00:03:06,800 used those tentacles to stop them, urged their partner back 49 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,560 into their room and shut the door. I thought that 50 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,039 was the end of it, but Trillif emerged accents later 51 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,120 with a long silver hot shot and shot the shooter's 52 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,439 head clean off the sphere, exploding into a shower of 53 00:03:18,479 --> 00:03:23,680 glittering scales, shards of obsidian bone, and oozing goldiker coalidis 54 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,599 In blood had been spilled. No Poul cried at the 55 00:03:27,599 --> 00:03:30,599 same time that the remaining three Collidisans opened fire on 56 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:35,199 the octal Trillia's tentacles shielding the first brutal volley, but 57 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,479 there was no blocking them when his tentacles were reduced 58 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,120 to shreds of gray skin, green blood, splatting the stair 59 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:45,879 top as wave trembled in the doorway. Don't worry, Bochel, 60 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,400 you can do so much better than the some greasy bugmug. 61 00:03:49,919 --> 00:03:54,199 One of the gentleids sneered, it's about time everyone started 62 00:03:54,199 --> 00:03:58,400 to learn their place, who they belonged with. They gave 63 00:03:58,479 --> 00:04:01,520 pull a real dirty look at this, scowling at them 64 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,280 as those orange eyes seared a rage filled path up 65 00:04:04,319 --> 00:04:08,120 all eight feet of my translator. Kad still heaved from 66 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,159 the sudden loss of oxygen, taking great gulps in so 67 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,080 his helmet fogged. He drew his hammer as he urged 68 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,680 pool behind him, though the length of the purple metal 69 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,319 handle trembled furiously. Despite the clear sheen of panic on 70 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,920 his face, his voice was as easy going as ever 71 00:04:22,959 --> 00:04:25,879 when he said, if you're here for the drinks, there's 72 00:04:25,959 --> 00:04:30,560 less fatal ways to make an entrance. Save your precious breath, Grieva, 73 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,120 I won't speak with any human save the thief. Set 74 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,759 a blue hued kalidis in balm. Keep your head on straight. 75 00:04:38,199 --> 00:04:43,959 We've got through focus. Their gills flexed, taking in that 76 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:49,360 invisible scent pools pheromones. The colide is an equivalent. Well, 77 00:04:49,959 --> 00:04:54,759 we do have time. I suppose Kad swung the blunt 78 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,759 metal into the purple handled hammer through the closing distance 79 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:02,120 between him and the jinkolid To me, dude, they're not interested. 80 00:05:02,959 --> 00:05:07,800 The jingld hissed, long slitted nostrils flaring, triple forked, blue 81 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,120 tongue bared and lashing like a whip, dripping that golden 82 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:15,279 icher that served as both blood and venom one touch 83 00:05:15,319 --> 00:05:18,959 could put a person asleep for six irons. Pool stepped 84 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:21,839 along a throng of suffocating corpses to get between Cad 85 00:05:21,879 --> 00:05:25,680 and the three circling jinkolids. What an eager's name is 86 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,519 going on here? All of this over a mate the 87 00:05:29,519 --> 00:05:33,360 blue scaled colidis, and strode forward. If you don't know, 88 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,720 then you really are a bystander. This time freeze you 89 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,360 up for other things anyhow, Pond the blue Jinglid's comp 90 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,680 here gave a sharp whistle through their gills. Why don't 91 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,720 you get to know a gallad for ones pocagal, don't 92 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:53,120 call me that. All those elongated spikes along Pool's forearm, neck, 93 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,439 and brow bristled, trembling as if aching to spear an 94 00:05:56,519 --> 00:06:00,160 enemy through. Pool Scales flexed, and their voice was so 95 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,800 thick with rage. The sound thundered around in my bones 96 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,519 for avins afterward, shaking loose something I'd never felt with Pool. Fear. 97 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,360 It's a compliment. The blue Jinkle had waved, as if 98 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:16,959 knocking away any doubt. Brood Bringer, You've never been so radiant, 99 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:21,759 and I've never been so mesmerized. Okay, lover Scales. I 100 00:06:21,879 --> 00:06:24,639 rolled my neck, felt the pop, the release attention at 101 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:28,480 the base of my skull, ramming needed prep properly running 102 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,240 someone through. So what if Pool was getting bigger? They 103 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,160 weren't the only one who could get scary. This isn't 104 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,399 really my kind of music, But I'll still dance to 105 00:06:37,519 --> 00:06:42,040 my back and TYPEE stammered, Gene, what what are you doing? 106 00:06:42,759 --> 00:06:47,360 Follow Nelson aunt? Nelson rung his dreadlocks what he howled, 107 00:06:48,199 --> 00:06:51,120 I can't pilot the ship. You don't have to fly 108 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,399 it yet, I soothed, just started all those years right 109 00:06:55,439 --> 00:06:57,839 next to the wheel. I know you can do it. Nelson, 110 00:06:58,519 --> 00:07:01,439 I addressed, Aunt, Cad can show you where the tank is. 111 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,160 It's empty, so it might eat all your ions. It 112 00:07:04,199 --> 00:07:06,839 has a habit of doing that. Usha agreed, joining me 113 00:07:06,879 --> 00:07:09,879 at Pool's side. Now both of you get to the Kaylaks, 114 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:14,480 I said, wait for me there. Keplarastianism held non violence 115 00:07:14,519 --> 00:07:17,519 as a virtue for practitioners, of which the Kepler born 116 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,319 first mate was a devout practitioner. Every yush without harming 117 00:07:21,319 --> 00:07:23,879 another's vessel marked with the incredible growth of his hip 118 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,560 length dreadlocks. However, despite Kad's pleading, Ushpool and I had 119 00:07:28,639 --> 00:07:31,600 used our numbers and the fear factor of xenophobia to 120 00:07:31,639 --> 00:07:33,720 get the upper hand on more than a few grain 121 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,600 transport pods. Still, this will be our first fight midst 122 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,560 an ocean of death. Whatever lay on the other end 123 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,759 of this conflict, I was the captain. If anyone got hurt, 124 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,600 that was on me. Well, I jerked my head back 125 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,959 toward the ship. I said, wait for me there. That 126 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,519 was in order. Nelson relents it first, be careful, captain. 127 00:07:57,519 --> 00:07:59,680 I found the black key in my pocket. Everyone else 128 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,439 at Life their copy, and tossed it across the dance 129 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,560 floor to the first mate. He caught it bounding back 130 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,839 toward the ship, but Aunt remained standing for a few accents. 131 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:13,160 I nodded at her just once. Finally she joined him, 132 00:08:13,519 --> 00:08:16,759 that's in order, I'm going to have to decline, Pool 133 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,120 growled through fangs, dripping with venom. A thick green drop 134 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,279 splashed onto their iron gauntland As they adjusted the flintlocks 135 00:08:23,279 --> 00:08:26,360 switch in the control panel embedded in their forearm. The 136 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:29,439 ratchet clicked and their splayed metal fingers sprang into a 137 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:34,240 steel fist. I concur said Usher, smirking. She drew a 138 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,279 narrow brick of silver, one of Tendon's treats, from her 139 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:42,000 lab coat. What an unruly crew you have, good thing, 140 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:45,320 I'm not a real captain. The Jinkleids crashed on us 141 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,480 in a glittering wave, a bleat tour through me, reading 142 00:08:48,519 --> 00:08:50,679 and way too loud in that sense. I'd always hate it, 143 00:08:50,879 --> 00:08:55,360 but appreciated now Ush's metal brick bursting through one orange Ei, 144 00:08:55,919 --> 00:08:58,240 the doctor taking a volley of spikes to the arm, 145 00:08:58,519 --> 00:09:01,759 flesh coming away with fabric just as easily, her suit 146 00:09:01,799 --> 00:09:03,679 mending in that way, all of ours was set to. 147 00:09:04,039 --> 00:09:06,519 Since we'd stolen the nano nitter from a moon called 148 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,639 reeselease two yushes ago, My horn sank into Pond's abdomen, 149 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,320 but their scales mended around the wound as easily as 150 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,759 our suits did. Colidizans weren't like Zena jeans, and that 151 00:09:16,799 --> 00:09:21,720 they were particularly strong, but their biology was persistent, long 152 00:09:21,799 --> 00:09:26,879 natural life spans, quick mending wounds, limb regeneration, the gills 153 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:30,480 to breathe in open space. The same Colidizan's aries had 154 00:09:30,519 --> 00:09:33,919 died over fifty five yushes ago were still young, not 155 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,840 to mention kicking around in Octo eight. Part of the 156 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,519 reason the embers of revenge It never simmered despite their 157 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:44,720 dwindling numbers, something I honestly respected. I mean, it's one 158 00:09:44,759 --> 00:09:47,559 thing to vividly hurt over an exchange of harsh words 159 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:50,639 that occurred scepters Ago. I could only wonder about the 160 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,840 pain of half a century burning so hotly. Pull took 161 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:58,799 the brunt of the attacks, gliding between opponents, weaving elaborate 162 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:03,320 defense moves, block, block, bite, hiss block. The blue hue 163 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:06,440 Jinkolid was giving them a run for their drokens, matching 164 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:11,200 every move, every twirl. It's river, by the way, said 165 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,879 blue scales, panting as pool lunged at their jugular Not 166 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:19,279 that you asked, was it planning to? A handful of 167 00:10:19,279 --> 00:10:21,919 blue hued scales came off and Pool's clad hand as 168 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,240 they slashed at the Jinkalid's face. Did you ever consider it? 169 00:10:25,279 --> 00:10:28,919 Isn't my life's dream to be your breeding tool, River shouted. 170 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,279 It's not like I have a choice in the matter either. 171 00:10:31,919 --> 00:10:34,919 We're in heat. It's our duty to our kind, to 172 00:10:35,039 --> 00:10:38,440 all the forgotten species of the Andromeda galaxy. We have 173 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,279 a duty to ourselves. That's just as important. It will 174 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:47,240 be said River, when we've regained our numbers, tell me Pool, 175 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:52,320 who waited? We are espron via kalitism. All the fight 176 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,440 drained from Pool's body. They swayed at the mention of 177 00:10:55,480 --> 00:11:01,000 their full title. How do you know my name ignored them? 178 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,759 How does hanging out with these bozobs contribute to the cause? 179 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:11,639 Boastore our numbers make any strides toward liberation reclamation? Who 180 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:17,039 are you? Pool's gills flexed, those big orange eyes widened 181 00:11:17,519 --> 00:11:25,559 glinted with gold. River fhenerin graffenassin gin kaleitisan. River beamed 182 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,799 in the scales and spikes at once their hinge klids 183 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,480 pond in another one, they referred to his drip scuttle 184 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,759 to the blue Jenklid's back, orange eyes scanning us for 185 00:11:37,799 --> 00:11:41,559 any sign of trickery. Pool stumbled backward for a moment, 186 00:11:41,919 --> 00:11:45,600 their glittering bronze hand clasped over their mouth. What is 187 00:11:46,519 --> 00:11:50,440 how could it? But what about? Pull through a glance 188 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,840 back up at the loft where Trilif was still splattered wave, 189 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,759 his partner crooning to the gray slime oozing into their palm. Right, 190 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,320 ever seen it in action, had never seen anyone attack 191 00:12:03,399 --> 00:12:09,759 the peaceful octals whatsoever? But Octilavians had a healing factor too, restructuring. 192 00:12:10,399 --> 00:12:13,240 Trilif would be back, though he might use a different name, 193 00:12:13,639 --> 00:12:17,440 and he might not be a he this time around. Relax, 194 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:22,240 River soothed, were not out for any trouble. Just what 195 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:27,559 the humans stole. See no harm done, No harm done. 196 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,799 Pul swaying gave way to buckling again. USh caught them 197 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,679 slid an arm around their shoulder. Look around, River, you've 198 00:12:36,759 --> 00:12:42,600 murdered dozens of innocent oxygeners, River sneered, sh you in 199 00:12:42,639 --> 00:12:46,159 that perspective of yours, Well, isn't it about time we 200 00:12:46,279 --> 00:12:50,960 told our side of the story. That's right, Drip chimed. 201 00:12:51,919 --> 00:12:56,639 River went on. I returned to my legally rented garage 202 00:12:56,759 --> 00:13:00,519 to find two of my closest friends riddled with holes. 203 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:07,919 Are lab ransacked, Trickle a mated vikelitisan, an accomplished scientist, 204 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,559 and Stream a laze about Sure, but they were loyal, 205 00:13:12,159 --> 00:13:16,240 They were my friends. A strangled kind of anguish rippled 206 00:13:16,279 --> 00:13:19,759 along the edges of rivers words. For a moment I 207 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:23,320 couldn't help but see someone mourning, a griever no different 208 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,360 from the rest of us, except that I was shacking 209 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,120 up with the killer in question. River's voice grew sturdier. 210 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,840 A valuable, volatile item has been stolen from me, and 211 00:13:35,879 --> 00:13:39,440 not just by a representative of those colonies you studied under, 212 00:13:40,039 --> 00:13:44,879 but the daughter of the secretary himself. This is a 213 00:13:44,879 --> 00:13:49,399 matter of intense security. Whoever got hurt in the process 214 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:54,679 of pursuit is just collateral. If you are the River, 215 00:13:54,799 --> 00:13:57,559 I know, then you have no business speaking like this. 216 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:04,000 Things change, said River, a simple, almost shakingly human expression, 217 00:14:04,399 --> 00:14:08,000 and a cold one at that. Has it even occurred 218 00:14:08,039 --> 00:14:12,080 to you that you're interrogating me in the colonizer's language, 219 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:17,200 huin hr Schremska. I've asked myself the same question and 220 00:14:17,279 --> 00:14:22,080 continued to but so much you, Pool, have you no shame? 221 00:14:23,399 --> 00:14:27,120 I'm not ashamed of my friends, Pool snapped, not them, 222 00:14:27,879 --> 00:14:32,320 and not Kimmy either. Then you still refuse to apologize. 223 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,240 Just say it, Pool, that's all the other hatchmates want 224 00:14:36,279 --> 00:14:43,159 to hear. We all make mistakes sometimes, Kimmykad sounded out slow, 225 00:14:43,879 --> 00:14:46,080 his voice hollow and soft from where he uttered the 226 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,120 word in the shadow of the murmuring kylaks. A faint 227 00:14:49,159 --> 00:14:53,279 blush curled up into his cheeks. It was no mistake, 228 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:57,679 River Pool corrected them. You know me, I've always been 229 00:14:57,759 --> 00:15:01,840 curious about other cultures. Pool had always been close mouthed 230 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:03,799 about how they ended up on that drill ship with 231 00:15:03,919 --> 00:15:07,600 USh mining for super ionic crystals, as USh monitored samples 232 00:15:07,639 --> 00:15:10,799 of ion dust to document the effects on artificial lungs 233 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,639 before being cleared for usage is fuel. Cultural differences have 234 00:15:15,759 --> 00:15:19,279 been their only answer for yushis now, I wondered if 235 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,960 I should plug my ears and sing time for a switch. 236 00:15:23,039 --> 00:15:25,279 Holding tight to our drokens was the thing we valued 237 00:15:25,279 --> 00:15:28,360 above all on the Cosmocraft Coylyx, but holding tight to 238 00:15:28,399 --> 00:15:30,720 our secrets was the thing we valued above all in 239 00:15:30,759 --> 00:15:37,039 space pool. I started. Their scales were on edge, all 240 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:43,799 throwing light, all spectacular shimmering skin. It's okay, I'm done 241 00:15:43,799 --> 00:15:46,679 feeling like I did anything wrong. They looked over their 242 00:15:46,679 --> 00:15:51,120 shoulder at the three of us. She is was a 243 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:55,600 spacefaring human, you know, from one of the colonies, Lutin. 244 00:15:56,559 --> 00:16:01,159 We met at Uranus University, the college pool. The human 245 00:16:01,279 --> 00:16:05,679 not so much. I just started studying translation, so I 246 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,480 thought i'd tried my hand at some Latin. Poul chuckled. 247 00:16:10,159 --> 00:16:12,240 Not as common anymore as I was led to believe 248 00:16:12,279 --> 00:16:16,559 in my studies. We kept talking. She was studying painting, 249 00:16:16,799 --> 00:16:19,200 so we joked that both our degrees would be meaningless. 250 00:16:19,919 --> 00:16:22,559 USh cackled at this, spit flying out of her mouth 251 00:16:22,559 --> 00:16:26,399 as she slapped her knee. Ignore me, go on, sorry, 252 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,600 it's just that I was thinking that exactly. Paul scowled 253 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,200 at USh a moment, then continued. Kimmy and I became 254 00:16:34,279 --> 00:16:37,600 close friends. I even visited her home planet over the 255 00:16:37,639 --> 00:16:42,159 Adams daybreak back on Luton, that's where we first kissed. 256 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:48,200 And back at college that's where we first cad Berry 257 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,080 brightened at this, while River hawked and spat a green 258 00:16:51,159 --> 00:16:55,600 glob of venom Onto a human's corpse, You and a human. 259 00:16:56,519 --> 00:17:00,159 Nelson didn't mask his hopeful tone. A human indie you. 260 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,240 I didn't think it'd be a big deal, said Pool. 261 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:09,160 Everyone experiments in college, which is why only asexuals get 262 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:13,240 Adams Awards for their research. USh noted, Pool ignored her. 263 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:16,640 Someone must have reported us after one of our sleepovers. 264 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:21,400 Disgusting drip piped up. Weren't you ever worried about that 265 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:26,200 thing giving you geopox? All off earth humans are vaccinated 266 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,319 for geopox, USh said, it's just as deadly to us 267 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:34,039 as to octyls and kalids. Kimmy wasn't sick. Pool sniffed. 268 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,599 The eldenev were what they did to her, they could 269 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:40,319 have just as easily done to you. River cut in 270 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:45,559 if a Pool weren't on the council. Collidizans are supposed 271 00:17:45,599 --> 00:17:51,480 to be above that bloodline. Nonsense, Pool protested Pool. Ernertian 272 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:56,880 Ragiostia has never given me anything, only taken. Pool thrust 273 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,599 their steel arm out toward the jinklid. Yeah, only one 274 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:06,559 half of your rotten union stands speaking. River replied, everyone 275 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,000 knows there was an exception made for you. Pool. Doesn't 276 00:18:10,039 --> 00:18:13,359 mean it'll happen again. To run with humans is to 277 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:17,240 muddy one Sporassica. You may not have seen the dirt 278 00:18:17,279 --> 00:18:20,119 they track all over the universe, but this is because 279 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,440 the eldern iv remember, so we don't have to make 280 00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:26,759 the hard decisions, so we don't have to so we 281 00:18:26,799 --> 00:18:29,880 don't have to think more. Like Paul cried, I was 282 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:36,200 only curious. River curiosity killed the calleidisin the Kaylyx's engine 283 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,640 turned over in a series of sputtering huffs, echoing down 284 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,640 the chamber leading up to the underclub dance floor, the 285 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,799 floor trembling, shaking up a blanket of dust and track. 286 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:50,799 Dirt drip peered down the corridor. Worry mutpups getting off 287 00:18:50,839 --> 00:18:56,839 to so fast anyway? They nudged Pond. Pond nodded, Gill's flexing. 288 00:18:57,799 --> 00:19:01,960 It's on that cosmocraft, isn't it? With the terin what 289 00:19:02,079 --> 00:19:04,759 are you? Pool? Step toward them, but I took their hand. 290 00:19:05,279 --> 00:19:07,519 USh was already ahead of us, sprinting out and away 291 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:10,960 from the undergaland down the docking corridor. We tore across 292 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,079 the floor are steps only little additions to the cacophony 293 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,599 of patter, slithering, shouting, urging, and weeping as others loaded 294 00:19:17,599 --> 00:19:20,359 into their ships, left their friends behind on the floor. 295 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,839 When Trailiff reformed, there was no doubt he'd sweep them 296 00:19:23,839 --> 00:19:26,400 into a shoot so their bodies could streak through space 297 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,480 as burning distant wish stars, the same fade as the 298 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:34,799 billions and grievers before them. It's I'll explain when a 299 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,200 volley of lasers ate until the straight twists at the 300 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,839 top of my head pull practically pushed the rest of 301 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:42,680 us insiet As we came to the idol rumbling ship 302 00:19:43,519 --> 00:19:46,680 used their body as a shield, burning black holes rippling 303 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,039 along their torso. As the Jinkolids continued to fire, the 304 00:19:50,079 --> 00:19:53,319 wounds closed as quickly as they opened. USh heave the 305 00:19:53,319 --> 00:19:57,359 hatch closed, throwing that rusted damn lever. The Kylks didn't 306 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,119 have a lot going for it, but it was laser proof. 307 00:20:00,559 --> 00:20:03,000 It was the heat from continuous fire that would eventually 308 00:20:03,039 --> 00:20:06,839 be the death of us. Already, the exterior thermostat embedded 309 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,160 in the control panel was ebbing on three thousand degrees fahrenheit. 310 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,559 The limit was five before the interior thermostat began to 311 00:20:13,599 --> 00:20:18,079 creep toward two hundred degrees. Well. I brushed past cat 312 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,240 to my seat. Despite the active temp readings, no other 313 00:20:21,319 --> 00:20:25,480 indicator appeared alive. What the fuck, Nelson, I asked you 314 00:20:25,519 --> 00:20:28,000 to start the ship. I didn't have to look at 315 00:20:28,039 --> 00:20:30,440 him the nose expression. Slumping into his seat in my 316 00:20:30,519 --> 00:20:34,519 peripheree at my right hand. I told you when I 317 00:20:34,559 --> 00:20:37,519 moved in Jeane. Before this, I've only ever been in 318 00:20:37,599 --> 00:20:41,200 charge of inventory an engine maintenance. He sunk into his 319 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,519 seat with a deep, low sigh. I'm not like you 320 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,759 or Pool or USh. I'm not a specialist. I don't 321 00:20:48,799 --> 00:20:55,319 have any training or skills or powers. I'm just some guy. Yeah. Well, 322 00:20:55,759 --> 00:20:58,519 I couldn't help but roll my eyes. I didn't exactly 323 00:20:58,519 --> 00:21:02,599 stick around for my pilot's license, you know, take some initiative. Cad. 324 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,839 Nelson flinched at my tone, but I didn't have time 325 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,920 to feel bad about this, not yet. Aunt gripped the 326 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,960 back of my chair as my hand hovered over the 327 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,039 central pedestal, the raised platform between Cad and I, the 328 00:21:16,079 --> 00:21:21,119 pilot and co pilot that included the controls for lighting, hatchlocks, 329 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,680 and most importantly, the engine gene. She drew an arm 330 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:30,799 across her sweating forehead. It's hot, what about you? I said, 331 00:21:31,319 --> 00:21:36,039 why didn't you show them. I well, we were always given, 332 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,440 you know, aunt seemed to be choking on something other 333 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:44,279 than the heat Zeno's to pilot the ships. I only 334 00:21:44,319 --> 00:21:49,559 know how to operate a Jeffington seventy. Seriously, for some reason, 335 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,960 this admission tasted bitter on my tongue. I shook the 336 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,319 sweat from my coaly mane, splashing it across the waterproof 337 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,799 control panel, land most importantly keeping it out of my eyes. 338 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,920 Anyone who cares to learn watch me now. I zeroed 339 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,119 in on the engine panel. The auto letters glowed red 340 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,279 at the top of the crank dial. Automated systems were down, 341 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,240 a symptom of the kaylages being low on fuel, meaning 342 00:22:14,279 --> 00:22:18,400 manual startup would be the only means USh. The doctor 343 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,559 understood immediately. We were already at one hundred and twenty 344 00:22:21,559 --> 00:22:24,640 five degrees. A human could would stand two hundred more 345 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:29,039 acts than she panted tops start a timer. I wrenched 346 00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:31,880 the dial to the left label and the left end 347 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,799 of the uniaxialer engine cloth. At the same time, the 348 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,119 engine structure quaked as one of those green cosmopods tried 349 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,000 to wrestle free of the steel wall. I found the 350 00:22:42,079 --> 00:22:45,920 reclining bar with my heels and shoved downward. Aunt gasped 351 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,279 as I jerked into a lying down position. Sorry, this 352 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,319 is the best way to my hands. Took control from there, 353 00:22:52,759 --> 00:22:56,960 stealing all the concentration away from my brain my fingertips, 354 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,960 playing a series of switches along the throttle quadrant assembly 355 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:05,319 left burnout protection, left thrust. Now back to the engine panel. 356 00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:09,599 Left engine. Now the ship gave a great groan forward, 357 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:14,119 a blast echoing through the corridor. Thush reported seventy accents. 358 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,079 Guided by memory, I repeated the series of clicks, flips 359 00:23:18,079 --> 00:23:21,279 and cranks for the right engine, the right burnout protection, 360 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,359 right thrust. The reluctant hum of the engine was accompanied 361 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,000 by the soft yellow light of the cabin flickering to life. 362 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:32,920 Now we're cooking with ion octane. Captain Pull spoke with 363 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,359 their face smushed against the glass of the oval window 364 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,960 on the left side of the cockpit. They were coiled 365 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,519 away from the sight, squeezing their head, which seemed to 366 00:23:40,559 --> 00:23:46,640 visibly throb the translation. The officer's eyes flashed gold stop. Noah, 367 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,720 it can't, they wouldn't. Kad's eyes snapped up from the 368 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:56,039 control panel. Pull, what's wrong? He tried to rise from 369 00:23:56,079 --> 00:24:01,440 his chair sit down. I barked and buckle up. Nelson 370 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,640 didn't protest. No one did, Aunt finding the seat on 371 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,519 the other side of him and stretching the seat belt 372 00:24:06,519 --> 00:24:08,519 across her lap. In time with the rest of the crew, 373 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,119 the Kaylaks rocked as one pod freed itself, creating a 374 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,000 total vacuum inside What remained of the undergal Limbs loosed 375 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,839 from their bodies as easily as clothing items, which all 376 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,200 leaped toward and out of the new openings, washing over 377 00:24:22,279 --> 00:24:25,160 our windshield and a great gust of chaos and color. 378 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,400 I gripped the throttle lever and threw it forward to 379 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,680 the maximum thrust. When the lever clicked in the place, 380 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,559 I planted both hands on the black metal steering wheel 381 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,839 and jerked it upward. The cosmocraft leaped out of the 382 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,960 docking corridor clean, smashing a hole through the ceiling. Cherlif 383 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,319 will understand when I explained that we were being shot 384 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,240 at hell. He'd understand when he saw everyone who needed 385 00:24:47,279 --> 00:24:51,359 oxygen was dead. Anyway, the jets caught us. I knew 386 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:56,519 from experience the sequence. First small yellow sparks, then orange flames, 387 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,319 then great blue walls of fire get us into the atmosphere. 388 00:25:01,799 --> 00:25:04,799 After that, the antiox converter would eat at the ions 389 00:25:04,839 --> 00:25:10,240 to take us wherever was next. River Pool groaned, holding 390 00:25:10,279 --> 00:25:13,759 their head as we hurtled into space. I glanced at 391 00:25:13,759 --> 00:25:17,960 the monitor between the menacinerator and intercom speaker, the staticky 392 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,680 image of those callit ships wrenching through the remainder of 393 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,359 the metal pyramid, which looked more like a cube that 394 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,920 was burst open. Now, Cad strained against his seat belt, 395 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,319 reached across my shoulders to plant one hand on the 396 00:25:29,319 --> 00:25:33,880 translation officers, is that monster in your head now? Poole 397 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:39,160 gave a rattling growl. No, they thrashed, liar. They slammed 398 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,839 both fists, iron and scale into the right inboard module, 399 00:25:43,279 --> 00:25:47,400 gold tendrils of iker Kalidisan's blood surging just below the 400 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,880 downy skin under their glittering coat. I won't let them 401 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:55,119 see our next move. I'm I'm cutting our cool leg off. 402 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,480 Nelson's mouth twitched into a deep frown. He withdrew his hand. 403 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,680 You were talking to that murderer. He wiped his sweating 404 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:08,160 palm across his suit, staining the bright rainbow tied eye. 405 00:26:08,279 --> 00:26:10,319 We'll get all our murder. Talk out of the way 406 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,920 soon enough, guys, I said, The violet skies of the 407 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,279 undergal bleached a black, distant yellow, orange, red, and white 408 00:26:18,319 --> 00:26:22,079 stars winking millions of miles away. Right now, I need 409 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:27,839 everyone to brace themselves. Falling leaf maneuver, falling what Kat cried? 410 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,599 I accelerated as all three pods raced in a line 411 00:26:31,599 --> 00:26:34,440 to head me off fifty comitans in front of the coylycs. 412 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,400 They were looking for me to overshoot as if I 413 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,759 spat at the rear viewing monitor, any pilot worth their 414 00:26:41,759 --> 00:26:43,680 weight and wheat new to keep the enemy in front 415 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,920 of you. And the pods didn't even have the good 416 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,319 sense to travel in a shortcutted arc instead of a 417 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,599 direct line giving way. There's soon to be positioned and 418 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,319 hovering fix to meet me on the same aerial plane 419 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,200 we glided on now. There weren't any enforceable speeding laws 420 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,599 in space, least of all on the fringes of the 421 00:27:00,599 --> 00:27:04,559 four quadrants, and there weren't any other crafts for planetons. 422 00:27:05,079 --> 00:27:09,279 Traffic only collected in inner space, crowded shipways established only 423 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,759 along high density areas clustered about the colonies open space 424 00:27:14,039 --> 00:27:17,119 where the debris and outlaws were That was a free 425 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,599 for all, a pilot's playground. With a glee that frightened myself, 426 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,359 I took hold of the aileron lever within the central pedestal, 427 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,480 rockets roaring as I shifted the controls to the right. 428 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,559 The Coylyx bank left hard. The cabin jolted everyone at once, 429 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,759 thankful I'd want them to strap in as we caught 430 00:27:35,799 --> 00:27:39,640 air before slamming back onto our seats. Now I eased 431 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,440 the boosters and we jerked downward by ten hole yards. 432 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,720 A successful diagonal move and one. I repeat it to 433 00:27:45,759 --> 00:27:49,720 the right, the left, the right, again and again, everyone 434 00:27:49,799 --> 00:27:52,440 crying out dully in the background as my heart pounded 435 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,359 in time with some rhythm. I'd forgotten whatever kind of 436 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,880 monster river was. They were a competent pilot. As we 437 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,680 zigzagged downward, thrusting forward at the formation of pods ahead 438 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,279 and above us, they refused to fall into the roll 439 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:09,559 of pursued maintained their pursuant title, the three pods moving 440 00:28:09,599 --> 00:28:12,680 in sanchronized formation to fall behind the Coylyaks as the 441 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,200 top of the ship scraped shrilly at the lowest of 442 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,160 the three pods through the rear monitor. I watched as 443 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,559 lasers reigned out of a weapons opening in the whole 444 00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:24,319 of the nearest pod, washed over the rear of the 445 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,359 Kaylyaks in a useless shower of sparks. However, if River 446 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,079 and company were catching on that their guns were no good, 447 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,079 they might turn to explosives. This the Kylyaks was immune 448 00:28:35,079 --> 00:28:37,720 to on the exterior, but I didn't want to find 449 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:40,200 out how the blunder would react to the rocking cabin. 450 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,119 I threw the throttle forward as my crewmate's neck snapped backward. 451 00:28:44,599 --> 00:28:48,000 USh Cad and Ant clutching the control panel, I checked 452 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,559 the right overhead module. Sure enough, the G force dial 453 00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:54,200 had leaped into the orange half of the pressure estimator. 454 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,880 Humans weren't meant to be shaken around in a flying 455 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,960 metal can. Their spines could snap at the wrong bank angle, 456 00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:02,960 and their hearts could burst at the long speed. I 457 00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:06,680 eased the throttle backward, decelerating by just enough to let Cad, 458 00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:10,920 Ant and USh recover their breaths. Sorry, is everyone okay? 459 00:29:12,079 --> 00:29:15,079 That was? Cad clung to his dreadlogs as if to 460 00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:21,720 stabilizes spinning head. Incredible entie ite vomited as she said it, 461 00:29:22,359 --> 00:29:25,319 the pink brown chunks spilling past her lips and rolling 462 00:29:25,359 --> 00:29:28,720 off her gold stained proof suit. The fruit fly stirred 463 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,759 from the bin of cans to feast on the latest 464 00:29:30,759 --> 00:29:34,519 addition to the cabin floor. We were taught falling leaf, 465 00:29:34,599 --> 00:29:37,359 but I never saw anything like that in flight class. 466 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:39,880 I swerved out of the way as the first of 467 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,440 the three trailing pods surged past us, landing squarely into 468 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,119 our vision and into the roll of prey to our predator, 469 00:29:46,599 --> 00:29:49,039 the other two falling behind like the tucking tail of 470 00:29:49,119 --> 00:29:54,319 some great, green, gleaming creature. Starshine, I said, fixing both 471 00:29:54,319 --> 00:29:58,519 hands on the metal wheel, you've got no IDEA river 472 00:29:58,599 --> 00:30:00,880 at the head had gotten the hang of arching backward 473 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,799 to meet ones pursuant, but it was far too late 474 00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:07,599 for that. Now now I had had time to think 475 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,599 the worst thing you can hand a pilot or a 476 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:15,119 captain for that matter, Cad I asked, when was the 477 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,240 last time you took out the trash? The first mate 478 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:25,519 fidgeted with the light dimmer recently two washes ago, three 479 00:30:25,759 --> 00:30:34,519 washes ago, three cat's side, three scepters ago. Captain I 480 00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:37,319 bit back my criticism, for now this would work in 481 00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:41,240 our favor. Out the airlock, aim for about five r rons. 482 00:30:41,759 --> 00:30:46,039 Cadbury balked, how am I supposed to aim for our time? 483 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,960 The ovular ships followed suit as I let them in 484 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000 a gentle weaving flight path. We need them close at 485 00:30:52,039 --> 00:30:54,880 hand and behind us for our next move. The small 486 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,519 are on hand, Nelson, I strained as I aired up 487 00:30:58,519 --> 00:31:00,839 on the wheel to watch the three ships collide before 488 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,480 changing the weaving path. Keep them guessing. But one can 489 00:31:04,519 --> 00:31:07,480 only keep a proper ruse up for so long. The 490 00:31:07,519 --> 00:31:12,599 element of surprise was expiring. I can't. I never figured 491 00:31:12,599 --> 00:31:15,319 out how to tell time on an analog clock. Cat 492 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,640 admit it, I chanced to glance over at his seat. 493 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,440 You mean to tell me you never read those manuals 494 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,759 I gave you. Analog was considered glitch proof compared to digital. 495 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,720 Not true, but they were harder to tamper with without 496 00:31:31,759 --> 00:31:35,160 serious commitment. The safest bent for a ship flying under 497 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:40,319 the radar, No, Captain, Nelson said. I didn't bother to 498 00:31:40,359 --> 00:31:44,039 comment further. Usher the Doctor had taken advantage of the 499 00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:47,000 lull and dangerous swerving to stumble to the grime grinder, 500 00:31:47,319 --> 00:31:50,000 a garbage compacting device we'd lift it from a garage 501 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,880 sale in the Neo Levy quadrant five oh hour on 502 00:31:53,119 --> 00:31:56,720 got it, Captain USh reported to be clear, Should I 503 00:31:56,839 --> 00:32:00,720 use all the bacteria clean? Just a few? Should do? 504 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,319 I said, grinning so widely it hurt. One knew a 505 00:32:04,359 --> 00:32:06,799 plan was already awry when they were the only one 506 00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:11,880 thinking it. That stuff spreads like mintweed. Usher donned the 507 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,319 exposure gloves from the supply closet in the corridor, headed 508 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:20,480 back toward the airlock. Cad blushed, I'll hold her feet. 509 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,359 He followed. USh Pool avoided CAD's gaze as he left 510 00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:27,279 the cabin, but crowded around the rear monitor to watch 511 00:32:27,319 --> 00:32:30,799 the hatch open and Ush's gloves pop out, thick padded 512 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,000 silver and clutching the ground garbage that smelt so sour. 513 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,400 I thought I might give ants vomit on the floor. 514 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:41,759 Some company hold, I shouted, spinning the rudder switch to 515 00:32:41,839 --> 00:32:45,559 shift the rear alerons diagonally and give the entire kylaks 516 00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:50,359 a sideways tilt. Now where River would have slammed into 517 00:32:50,359 --> 00:32:54,039 the underbelly of the kylyks, they instead slammed into a 518 00:32:54,079 --> 00:32:58,240 wall of stinking trash sludge, A wet smack echoing throughout 519 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,720 the kylaks as the two other pods suit Just as 520 00:33:01,759 --> 00:33:04,799 I thought they might. The pods spun wildly trying to 521 00:33:04,839 --> 00:33:08,839 dislodge the thick blanket smeared across their windshields, each idling 522 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,000 to avoid collisions, drifting to five O wash, the designated 523 00:33:13,079 --> 00:33:17,279 rest location for injured crafts one. Every pilot was taught 524 00:33:17,279 --> 00:33:20,039 to keep an eye out for injured compers hovering within. 525 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,400 When I guided the Kailaks over the three pods, though 526 00:33:23,599 --> 00:33:27,680 it wasn't to dispatch assistance, USh pushed a metti patch 527 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,960 blaster to shoot the small orange drops of bacteria clean 528 00:33:31,319 --> 00:33:35,000 across the narrow distance between us and the pods. The 529 00:33:35,039 --> 00:33:37,799 liquid bubbled on impact with the sludge and got to 530 00:33:37,799 --> 00:33:42,839 work replicating thick, green, frothing carpets of hungry, swarming bacteria 531 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,960 blooming across the three cosmopods, encasing them as easily as 532 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,839 a closing mouth. You did amazing, Aunt cheered, closing her 533 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,519 arms around my neck from behind in a hug that 534 00:33:54,559 --> 00:33:58,160 included the back of my chair. Now, what's the plan. 535 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,519 Pull's eyes were all orange now and all six blazing 536 00:34:02,559 --> 00:34:06,119 as hotly as any fire. What do you mean they snapped, 537 00:34:06,759 --> 00:34:09,079 we're not being chased. We should get as far away 538 00:34:09,079 --> 00:34:12,960 from them as possible. Aunt didn't relent, standing straight with 539 00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:16,119 her hands placed on my shoulders from behind. Even though 540 00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:18,840 she didn't ask, I knew this gesture meant to back 541 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,039 her up. That's ridiculous, she said. Why should we put 542 00:34:23,039 --> 00:34:27,360 off being pursued for later? Pool spoke curtly, so we 543 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,719 have more time to find out what they're pursuing exactly. 544 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,679 Ant's face flushed a deep and modeled purple. I may 545 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,960 need some more training behind the wheel, more than I thought. 546 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,079 But those Jinkolds aren't riding us as hard as the 547 00:34:42,119 --> 00:34:45,199 pilots they report to Will. She had a point there. 548 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,320 What was the word Pool, it used Eldenev. These pilots 549 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:55,559 would be more skilled, battle hardened, even vengeful. Pool eyed, 550 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:59,760 and Tiapee, you speak so surely about ending the lives 551 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:05,199 of endangered, they sniffed, almost as if you've done it before. 552 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,280 I understood, then what exactly Pool and River had discussed 553 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:14,880 via the neural network. That part's true, I said, we 554 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,800 had to get this out of the way for good reason. 555 00:35:18,679 --> 00:35:23,320 Then explain yourself. Pool blaired, stabbing a finger at the cosmopods. 556 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,880 Still half in case through the oval window and get 557 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,360 us far away from them. I took care of that 558 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,440 last part, taking advantage of a nearby pebble belt to 559 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,159 shift into a different starstream. The different colors and placements 560 00:35:37,199 --> 00:35:40,239 of these would confuse anyone. A unique arrangement from the 561 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,960 glittering tapestry just hundreds of comitants to the third wash 562 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,760 and TYPEE sat on the smooth metal floor as we 563 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:51,519 jetted out of the belt. Set the suitcase down carefully. 564 00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:56,119 It's not mine. I kind of confiscated it from a 565 00:35:56,119 --> 00:35:59,719 crime scene something. Those Collidizins must be a part of 566 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,000 some kind of extremist group. She fumbled with the latches, 567 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,320 but undid them after a moment, opened the suitcase, the 568 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,480 foam inside cushioning the bottled black hole in the center. 569 00:36:12,599 --> 00:36:18,400 Pool's expression soured. River was right. Their glare didn't dwell 570 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,599 on ant on the floor for long, turning their accusing 571 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:28,480 orange glare onto me. You knew about this for like 572 00:36:28,559 --> 00:36:32,480 twenty avins more than you, Pool, I assured them. Trust me. 573 00:36:32,599 --> 00:36:35,000 I'm not happy about it, but Aunt didn't have any 574 00:36:35,079 --> 00:36:37,599 other place to go, and we can't let any humans 575 00:36:37,599 --> 00:36:41,480 war collidisans get their hands on this. Kad swooned in 576 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:46,239 the mouth of the corridor coffee. He muttered, I haven't 577 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:50,039 had enough. I must be hallucinating withdrawal. Can do that? 578 00:36:51,119 --> 00:36:54,039 USh only planted herself in her seat, swiveled to the 579 00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:58,960 control panel, and said, what's your plan, Captain? I explained 580 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,119 as well as I could, not, like any of us, 581 00:37:01,119 --> 00:37:05,079 were in denial about our situation. Food was scarcer by 582 00:37:05,079 --> 00:37:08,239 the wash, the only things thriving in space being grains 583 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,960 and potatoes, But there was an infectious soil based bacteria 584 00:37:12,079 --> 00:37:16,280 infecting vast swaths of harvesa crops, the blight turning the 585 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:21,000 potatoes to rotten black mash and the wheat to wilt neuture. 586 00:37:21,079 --> 00:37:24,400 Soup concocted in the colonies with ingredients fresh from Earth 587 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,280 was expensive, and drokens were only getting harder to come 588 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,800 by given the dragoons tightening hold on transport. I'm as 589 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,920 devoted to Entipee as all of you, I emphasized Cad. 590 00:37:37,159 --> 00:37:39,239 I've known you since I was so hungry I couldn't 591 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,480 lift a sheet of paper. USh. You fixed me up 592 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,840 more times than I could count. Pool. You've talked us 593 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,800 out of more jams than a computer can count. It's 594 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,760 my turn ours to end this game with aries and 595 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,480 make a home somewhere land for good. Pool was the 596 00:37:55,519 --> 00:37:58,639 first to respond, all three of my friends gaping at 597 00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:01,320 me and silent before the collide is and glided across 598 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,039 the cockpit and whipped the back of their scaled hand 599 00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:07,920 across in ti Ape's face. Though they shimmered with rage 600 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,920 as Aunt cried out, a red print throbbing on her cheek, 601 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:16,519 their voice was collected as they said no this snapcad 602 00:38:16,599 --> 00:38:20,280 to attention, shielding the translations officer from my sabers as 603 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,000 I lunged, snarling over Kad's muscled shoulder as he restrained me. 604 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:29,880 Gene deep breaths, Pool, you went too far. Violence is 605 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:34,559 never the answer. Venom ooz pass Pool's needle thin teeth. 606 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,880 If you think that was violent, just wait until you 607 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,400 hear what happened to the Andromeda. None of that is 608 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,639 Ant's fault. There was no way to mauw Pool without 609 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,760 getting past Cadbury, so I spat over the first mate's 610 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,679 shoulder at the translation officer. As your captain, I am 611 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,559 enforcing in Tiape's right to comfort as a member of 612 00:38:54,599 --> 00:38:59,519 this crew. Pool sneered mimicking my earlier words. Then it's 613 00:38:59,559 --> 00:39:03,199 a good thing you're not a real captain. It's okay, 614 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,599 Jane aunt soothed, stroking my ear. I understand there's a 615 00:39:07,599 --> 00:39:10,280 lot of baggage around my name what I've done to 616 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,719 get the blunder. I don't approve of lethal force in 617 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:18,039 any way, Kad said, But Pool, you have to admit 618 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,880 this could be our big break. We might not ever 619 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:27,079 have anything so valuable. Again, it's not about value, Pool insisted, 620 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:31,679 pacing the length of the cockpit. It's about blood. That 621 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,599 black hole, to me, represents the near extinction of my 622 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:39,000 kind and the complete loss of hundreds of peoples, their lives, 623 00:39:39,559 --> 00:39:44,079 their cultures, entire languages will never be spoken again. And 624 00:39:44,119 --> 00:39:48,000 it's because of your father. Pool sniffed at entire pee, 625 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:53,960 Spike's trembling, seeming to grow even longer. I mean, Gene think, 626 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,760 I understand you humans have certain social needs, but isn't 627 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,119 it enough. I'm letting the colonizer's spawn move in with us, 628 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,320 despite myself. I stood putting an arm out in front 629 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:11,519 of ant, letting it's my ship just as well as yours. 630 00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:15,239 Pool snapped, all of ours. I have a right to 631 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,960 veto this plan, and I choose to invoke it. Pool's 632 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:28,360 blazing orange eyes flicked a Cad Nelson. Cad hesitated, I, Pool, 633 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,360 I respect you so much. I know with everything you've 634 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,760 been through. Grievers have been through a lot too enough. 635 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,440 Paul said, are you with me or not? Caad threw 636 00:40:41,519 --> 00:40:45,519 up his arms. I'm with both of you. I see 637 00:40:45,559 --> 00:40:48,760 your side, Pool, but I'm also tired of being hungry 638 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,679 all the time, the land ridden. They always seem to 639 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:57,039 have food weighs to grow more. I could start a garden, 640 00:40:57,079 --> 00:41:01,960 maybe forget about you. Then Pool turned to USh. What 641 00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:06,280 do you think doc? USh stroked her chin, reached into 642 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,400 the wide pocket of that black lab coat and pulled 643 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:13,719 out a black droken clutched it, flipped it, turned it 644 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:18,719 over and over. I think everyone in this room is 645 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:24,639 thinking with their genitals. She shook her head, chuckled darkly. Cad, 646 00:41:25,119 --> 00:41:28,119 I've been patient, but this madness has gone on long enough. 647 00:41:28,639 --> 00:41:32,039 Everyone knows you're in love with Pool. A stone formed 648 00:41:32,079 --> 00:41:35,960 in my throat. Holy shit, I mean yeah, we all knew, 649 00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:40,280 including Pool, but no one, no one had ever come 650 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,760 out and just said it. USh pressed on despite CAD's 651 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,360 sputtering protests. Don't try to deny it. I seen your 652 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:53,360 visajector history. I was only curious. Cad insisted turning to Pool. 653 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,000 It's not like they teach you how it works with humans, 654 00:41:56,039 --> 00:41:59,960 even in general colony courses. I didn't want to accidental 655 00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:03,400 be disrespectful. I've never had the right instincts for that 656 00:42:03,519 --> 00:42:06,039 kind of thing, So I did some research on the 657 00:42:06,119 --> 00:42:11,559 colitis in body biologically, that is, scientifically. He was beginning 658 00:42:11,559 --> 00:42:17,559 to stammer and sweat more than anything. Sweat. You don't 659 00:42:17,559 --> 00:42:21,679 have to explain yourself, Nelson. Pool soothed their tone, half 660 00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:29,559 annoyed and half sincere. I've done similar research. Their do 661 00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,360 lap inflated partially, and they stroked it to get it 662 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,880 to go down. USh rolled her eyes into the next dimension. 663 00:42:36,679 --> 00:42:40,320 Just give each other a physical demonstration. Already obviously you 664 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,519 two heur into each other, and we're all sick at 665 00:42:42,559 --> 00:42:46,559 pretending you're not Nelson. Your pent up emotions are creating 666 00:42:46,599 --> 00:42:50,159 a tense workplace that is difficult to communicate clearly in 667 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:55,480 either go forward or admit you're a coward. USh spun 668 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,639 on her heels to address Pool vikalidis in. I've worked 669 00:42:59,679 --> 00:43:02,880 with you for five Yushes, and never in that time 670 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,400 have you ever mentioned what happened to the androma seeing 671 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,079 your old friends shook loose some guilt or trauma or 672 00:43:10,559 --> 00:43:15,920 I don't know, attraction, because remember everyone, they're molting in 673 00:43:16,039 --> 00:43:20,239 heat and not thinking clearly. That's one hell of a coincidence. 674 00:43:20,679 --> 00:43:22,840 We have one run in with someone from your past, 675 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,440 and you're preaching to the choir about justice, law and 676 00:43:25,599 --> 00:43:28,239 order when none of us has ever given us shit 677 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:32,920 about that, Hey, Poul interjected, But USh was on a roll, 678 00:43:33,199 --> 00:43:36,440 spinning to face me. At last, we come to our 679 00:43:36,639 --> 00:43:40,360 oh so and love captain whisking their girlfriend off for 680 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,719 a bomb riddled septin among the stars, which I'm sure 681 00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,360 her father will take no notice of. Get real, Gene, 682 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,440 if your veins weren't so pumped full of hormones, you'd 683 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:54,880 have enough sense to reason that this entire plan is ridiculous, malformed, 684 00:43:55,239 --> 00:44:00,440 and short sighted. Okay One, I said you have got 685 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:05,079 to stop snooping into the viisilogue search history. Two. I've 686 00:44:05,079 --> 00:44:07,559 been the same old horny Zeno the whole time I've 687 00:44:07,599 --> 00:44:13,880 piloted this crew. Nothing's changed just because just because say it, Gene, 688 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,480 USh was all out shouting. Now just because you're screwing 689 00:44:17,559 --> 00:44:20,199 one of the crewmates. Say it so you can hear 690 00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:24,039 how nonsensical you're being. Of course, the dynamic is changing. 691 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,159 You're favoring the goals and feelings of the person you're fucking, 692 00:44:27,639 --> 00:44:31,719 and over your own friends. We haven't even had sex yet. 693 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,480 My voice had risen to meet hers on the ceiling. 694 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,519 I haven't had sex in three Yushes, because I didn't 695 00:44:38,519 --> 00:44:40,719 want either of you to think I was prioritizing a 696 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,719 lover over our crew. USh took a few steps back 697 00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,960 at this, physically backing into the wall to heave through 698 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:56,719 several long, deep breaths. I uh didn't know that. Yeah, well, 699 00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,840 I thought to bring my own voice down. Something nakedly 700 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,280 wild was brewing in me. Now you don't know everything, 701 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:08,400 after all, Doctor USh may have backed off, but she 702 00:45:08,519 --> 00:45:11,599 was far from cowering in a corner. I know that 703 00:45:11,679 --> 00:45:13,320 none of you trust me as much as you do 704 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,679 each other. There was a melancholy bite to her tone 705 00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:22,280 as she explained romance. That kind of closeness breeds loyalty 706 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:28,159 more than anything. Loyalty breeds trust, trust breeds belief. But 707 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,920 I'm loyal to the safety of this crew. USh crossed 708 00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,239 the cabin to the pilot's seat, and I thought she 709 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,239 might sit in it. Didn't put it past her till 710 00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,760 she draped her arm over the chair at the pilot's 711 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:45,400 right hand and sat in that instead. It's about time 712 00:45:45,559 --> 00:45:49,599 someone started thinking logically around here. USh fiddled with the 713 00:45:49,679 --> 00:45:53,239 right side inboard climate control panels, peering at a screen 714 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,519 embedded in the dashboard. According to the interior climate logs, 715 00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:01,719 the Kylax has withstood below freezing temperature before the planet 716 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,039 on Gage lines up with a series of deliveries to 717 00:46:04,119 --> 00:46:10,960 the reaches the anterior. What Cad said the reaches Pool repeated. 718 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,960 If inner space belonged to the colonies and open space 719 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,519 belonged to the grievers, then outer space belonged to no one. 720 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:23,119 The reaches were always that just out of reach. Don't 721 00:46:23,119 --> 00:46:25,639 they call it that because you die before you reach it? 722 00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,400 It seemed callidis and said similar stories about outer space. 723 00:46:30,599 --> 00:46:32,719 It would take us forever to cross the Milky Way 724 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,440 and the Canisen with the local drive engine, Kad said. 725 00:46:37,039 --> 00:46:39,920 Plus it would take us too far from potential customers 726 00:46:40,199 --> 00:46:43,840 and too far from the typical food roots. It's suicide. 727 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,320 It's the only way. USh corrected him. We need to 728 00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,960 safely dispose of the blunder in an abandoned galaxy. It'll 729 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,519 take a few yushes to find a perfect spot and 730 00:46:54,559 --> 00:46:57,199 to sweep it for life. Make absolute sure no one 731 00:46:57,199 --> 00:47:01,039 gets hurt. That would be a waste. Uhh, I said, 732 00:47:01,639 --> 00:47:03,840 thank you. But I can love in Tiapee and do 733 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:08,480 what's best for everyone at the same time. Can you us? 734 00:47:08,519 --> 00:47:12,000 Shot back, rising from Nelson's seed at the control panel. 735 00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,119 You've let your emotions get in the way of every 736 00:47:15,159 --> 00:47:19,280 decision you've made since you named Cad first mate, Woolf, 737 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,159 forget the love confession. The stony quiet that overtook the 738 00:47:23,199 --> 00:47:28,039 cabin then was downright lethal. You weren't questioning my decision 739 00:47:28,039 --> 00:47:31,320 making when I let a high rank medical professional, someone 740 00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:36,039 trackable and useful to the colonies move aboard. Did you 741 00:47:36,079 --> 00:47:38,400 ever think about what kind of risk I took taking 742 00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:42,920 you in, gene USh began, but I cut her off 743 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:47,559 with an incisive bleat. I let you in with no judgment. 744 00:47:48,119 --> 00:47:52,400 I continued at great personal risk to myself, Cad, Burry, 745 00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:56,199 and Pool, even though I didn't know anything about you 746 00:47:56,639 --> 00:48:01,559 except that, like me, you were running from something. USh 747 00:48:01,679 --> 00:48:06,320 kept her eyes steely and hard. If Poole's burned with rage, 748 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:12,199 hers burned with bitter secrets. I'm not questioning your decision making, Captain, 749 00:48:12,559 --> 00:48:19,280 she said, plainly, I'm questioning your self awareness enough, I snorted. 750 00:48:20,159 --> 00:48:23,280 Whether you like it or not, I'm the captain. This 751 00:48:23,599 --> 00:48:27,760 is our best bet at freedom. No arguments now, Poole 752 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:33,159 came to Ush's defense. Captain, you shouldn't. Your captain has spoken. 753 00:48:34,519 --> 00:48:38,719 Another finite bleat burst out of me and radiated across 754 00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:42,559 the room, leaving no room for discussion and nothing but 755 00:48:42,679 --> 00:48:43,840 quiet in its wake. 756 00:49:11,239 --> 00:50:17,519 Speaker 2: Stock then, instead of fish areasionation.