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[Locked to... Marco, Rachel, Tom, Eva, Ax, Iniss, Aftran, Schmuz... did I miss anyone? Also, bendytimed to whenever it makes sense for the Trojan Horse pilots to all be back.]

I understand that you all have something in common.

You're certainly under no obligation to speak to me. I understand that many of you do not trust Security with information about yourselves or the events that occurred in your world -- and I am part of Security.

On the other hand, I should probably mention that thus far, the crew member who has been the most helpful in providing information about the Yeerk-human conflict has been Iniss. If there are any details that you feel Iniss might have left out in his explanation, now would be an excellent time to provide clarification.

I can meet you in person or talk over the Omnicomms, whichever is more convenient for you.

[Locked to Howard]

I'm back. You didn't get into any trouble, did you?

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Oh, come on, it was just a friendly greeting. So, no headway on the regression disease?

And a lot.

...I really think they should have given me more missiles.

None yet. We're going down some avenues but there's so many freaking variables. We're just floundering in the dark hoping we're researching the right stuff because we don't know if it was Stacy, the Ohm, some jerk on XaXing, a crew member, a random accident, a sickness or whatever, not to mention no one's actually bothering to tell us anything useful. I mean, we don't even have any idea if it was intentional or not yet. Or contagious.

You would. Okay, rephrase: what was the coolest thing you blew up?

You mean someone is withholding the information you need, or just that no one infected can tell you anything useful?

Well, they had a Leviathan and a Node there, and some Firebugs. And a lot of Shrikes. I guess the coolest thing would be the Leviathan, but it was the Quarter that took that out.

If we knew what we were looking for I could answer that question. But the patients are keeping secrets and that makes it hard to tell what we don't know, obviously, so we can't like, go test all the food from XaXing. At least we've mostly narrowed it down to XaXing. If it isn't Stacy having an aneurysm or something.

I don't know what any of those things are, but cool.

Why would they keep secrets that might help diagnose their illness? Don't they want to remain alive?

...The firebugs shoot fire. I'll get Fuyu to show you a picture sometime.

Because they're all paranoid. I don't know. It's stupid to me too.

How does that even work in space?

You know, I think I'd rather give up a little information about my eating and sleeping habits than deage out of existence. But that's just a personal preference.

Well, fire can exist in space, under certain conditions. I'm not sure how the Firebugs work, though. And considering that half the crew apparently throws physics out the window with their powers...

You'd think, right? But no. And then they don't seem to get why we find them suspicious.

You wouldn't have much time if it hit you, would you, Zou? Since you're like, two.

But there's no air in space!

Perhaps the disease is affecting their prefrontal cortices.

Yes. Which is why I hope not to be infected. Although if I was exposed, I'm sure it would be too late at this point to do anything about it. If it affects Synthetic Humans.

Hmm, well, keep in mind that fire doesn't necessarily need 'air' to burn -- it needs oxygen, and enough heat to cause the chemical reaction. The problem is that in space, the oxygen would rapidly dissipate, leaving none available to fuel the reaction. However, it is possible to create solid rocket fuel containing the required chemicals... but no, I don't think that's the way the Firebugs work. Not when the Ohm have psychic powers.

Nah, I think they were just stupid to start with.

If it's a disease, which it might not be. It could be a magic spell or a time flux or something. Actually, we're leaning that way.

That's way more science than I ever got in school, so I'll defer to 'psychic powers'.

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