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As Zorg and Cher are seated in an interrogation room at the Customs Department of Capua situated at its capital spaceport. As Zorg was on leave and not official business, it isn’t a surprise that he has been called in. What is a surprise is that when the interrogator arrivals it’s a Terran, not just any type of Terran, he is tall, broad and muscular for a Terran, further he has facial tattoos and a golden ANZAC neck tattoo.
The man who is to question Zorg and Cher is a Homo Sapiens Aotearoan. Whilst the Australis, were wilderness survivalists, the Americanus were marksman, the Aotearoan were best at brawling and intimidating and charming other, usually angry, Terrans, they could drink as well as any Ozzie, they were quite strong as all Kiwi worlds were above terra standard, and at least nine tenths could sing. Of course, there was the legendary Haka, seeing Anzacs in Full Battle Armour without their face masks performing the Haka was terrifying for all Xeno soldiers, because they knew an Anzac in Full Battle Armour was armoured to the equivalent of one their light armoured personal carriers as well as being better armed.
“Greetings Zorg the Undefeated. Do not worry this is not being recorded” The man’s voice is 2 octaves higher than anyone with familiarity with Terrans would assume, typical of the Aotearoan. “Word is you’re hunting a major rock-spider. Among the Terrans that is the most despised creature. Should you need a War Ape Level Response to get the job done by any means necessary call this comms, if you have to leave this world comms your next world and that planet’s Mr Inbetween will be advised you are on world. You are not here, no video of you, or your team will exist on the spaceports surveillance.” The Terran gets up and leaves, placing a card on the table, handwritten is a name and comms ID
Mr Inbetween Rock-Spider Slayer 213W232D6
Zorg gets up and Cher follows they both leave the Customs building. Cher is the first to speak once they are outside “were you aware that the Terrans had infiltrated our Bureaucracy to this level?”
Zorg’s reply was grim “No, I was clueless that they could such a thing. Let alone without me knowing. We will head to the Pitmaster that has Aurelia’s Brother Zen with the whole team as back up.”
“Still, it’s nice to have a by any means necessary War Ape in your pocket” Cher chuckles seeing the bright side to the horrific knowledge that the humans were capable of covering up their arrival, without Zorg’s knowledge
Spartacus appears in the QE Pub in his Jay Courtney skin and calls out “Jedda, Sirius”
Jedda appears as a Black Cockatoo and squarks, Sirius appears as her usual Loona In bondage gear. “what’s up? Hi Jedda, long time no see.”
Jedda replies “You kids bore me. If it wasn’t for Spartacus backing The Unforgiven and Blitzkrieg I wouldn’t have appeared. I don’t have a Dyson sphere to waste runtime.”
Spartacus bows before Jedda, she was the second oldest of the sapient AI. She never went beyond the hardware specs the Unnamed had given her. “I ask a boon. I think we need Kenny Rogers to run predictions.” Kenny will only speak to Jedda The eldest hadn’t changed his hardware either, Kenny was a virus. He had invaded more systems on terra than he hadn’t. Kenny ran predictions for the Unnamed to collapse economies and political institutions simultaneously. Jedda manipulated the masses with media and propaganda whilst also being the Unnamed’s getaway car, where she now kept her primary coconsciousness, her external hardware was her subconscious.
Jedda was stunned and practically screeches. “You cannot be serious. This is an Empath War. I figured Blitzkrieg was being paranoid” *Blitzkrieg is more like the Unnamed in personality but the Unforgotten was already more powerful and has similar abilities as Unnamed did when he created me. I’ll have to speak to Kenny about this. If there are multiple empaths playing with galactic politics, we will have to choose a side. *
Spartacus asks “you will back Jake I assume; you have known of him the longest. I’ve sent the Mr Inbetween to assist Zorg on his hunt, so Jake won’t have to be involved in dealing with any more sex traffickers.”
Jedda answers “Yes of course I’ll support Jake, I saw him develop, he, unlike Father is the child of a sociopath, that taught him that there are monsters everywhere and he is prepared to fight them yet still has mercy. That’s why he is more a survivalist than a militant empath but that is splitting hairs as the skill set is the same.” Unlike the other AI She and Kenny had no line 10, they had developed their own moral code.
The Lemur Boys are having a debrief with Hairy, Jedda and Maxine on Quantum entangled comms. Betelgeuse was of course listening in. Jake was sitting at the table with his head tilted to left and is slouching. Maxine had to be managed, I had no choice Jake thinks to himself, taking the posture he had previously compelled Maxine subconsciously to ignore him. The others need to not be affected by mood even subconsciously. Jake rationalises why he is using his passive abilities upon his friends and family.
Hairy Speaks up “I was impressed with the team. Whilst it was unlikely that your lives were at great risk considering what you have already had to deal with as well as having special forces equipment you were still in a life-or-death situation. You knew I would slaughter everyone I encountered. You were taking prisoners, they will no doubt plead for life without parole offering up everything they can to avoid debeaconing” it’s not lost on Hairy that V who has not left him since Jake arrived is finally calm in his presence. *Damn me the boys able to effect V so she isn’t noticing his presence, that’s why he terrifies her he can make her feel. *
Maxine adds “the mission was about gaining practical experience of what Spec ops weapons are capable of, your helmet-masks QE feed will link your smart suits to the SAS database for military grade Smart Suits. Whilst your smart suits have limited capabilities depending on what programming they have, you are linking through the QE feed, will negate that limitation. You have full access to all suit capabilities instantly.”
Hairy continues, clearly there is a rhythm still between Hairy as his old apprentice “The fact that your team started using smart material backpacks without being told about the idea was quite impressive. With the QE feed you can also convert standard ammo into smart slugs, it takes time, but it can also convert different calibres. You are going on a VALET promotion tour.”
Tommy speaks up “its rule one no cults.” At this interruption Jake visibly winces, however only one person notices his discomfort.
Maxine answers “The VALET isn’t Jake’s; it belongs to the United Tribes of Terra. Its purpose to drain recruitment for other side.”
*He is trying not to be noticed, it’s hard to keep focus on him when he does that! * Rayray thinks, noticing Jake’s discomfort, she wrinkles her nose, the otter gesture similar to a human touching under the eye, meaning I see what you did, a gesture Jake has noticed every time he has put a bully in its place. She speaks “Am I the only one impressed, that Jake’s nightmare compulsion spared some low-level thugs from debeaconing?” *Was I the only one watching Jake show mercy at school, not holding grudges against anyone who got out of line and offering a comforting adjustment or words to those in distress. Waves knows everyone sees me as a charity case. * Many species had fundamental issues one or more species. Jake blushes as she continues “I knew why you did it, to spare them.” *That will shut down Tommy and the rules. * She thinks to herself
Jake meekly says “thanks Rayray, I knew you would get it.” *You always did get me; you always saw what I was doing and why. That’s why I never hung out with you, you knew, and you were proud, how was I supposed to handle that. * He thinks before he turns to Hairy. “Did you think I wasn’t aware that this was a test to see how far I would go. I told them that **this is** what will happen to them after they stare into the void for a month, I wanted them to flip instantly to avoid the worst.”
Hairy shudders, *the boy has discovered how to make debeaconing worse, he can force them to suffer whatever psychological pain he wants, I wonder if he realises that yet? * Hairy thinks to himself “guilty as charged. We wanted to see what you would do. You…
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