Grey Lines
Jan19
She’ll get that other 50 points soon enough.
↓ Transcript
Ixil
Peach! This is kidnapping!
That’s outside all scope of our peoples’ agreements!
I hope you wanted a shooting war, be-
Peach
Oh? But I have you on record saying you’d welcome any opportunity for a tour of this ship. Well, here’s your opportunity.
Ixil
Sure! But I wasn’t expec-
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Ixil
Wait, that was a secure message to Homeworld! How long have you been tapping our comms?
Peach
You might ask WHEN have we not been able to. So you’d need to change your encoding. Or maybe I just know you well enough to know you’d have said such a thing, and you’d be changing codes when you don’t really need to.
Ixil
Lol lol lol! OK. Fair prank! One hundred points to you!
Peach
Two hundred. Easy.
Ixil
One fifty. No more. And the tour has to include your engine rooms. I have a bet saying the hyperdrive can’t fit anywhere but the secondary hull.
Peach! This is kidnapping!
That’s outside all scope of our peoples’ agreements!
I hope you wanted a shooting war, be-
Peach
Oh? But I have you on record saying you’d welcome any opportunity for a tour of this ship. Well, here’s your opportunity.
Ixil
Sure! But I wasn’t expec-
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Ixil
Wait, that was a secure message to Homeworld! How long have you been tapping our comms?
Peach
You might ask WHEN have we not been able to. So you’d need to change your encoding. Or maybe I just know you well enough to know you’d have said such a thing, and you’d be changing codes when you don’t really need to.
Ixil
Lol lol lol! OK. Fair prank! One hundred points to you!
Peach
Two hundred. Easy.
Ixil
One fifty. No more. And the tour has to include your engine rooms. I have a bet saying the hyperdrive can’t fit anywhere but the secondary hull.
Have to say, this feels bizarre even for this series.
both Gina and X are looking at each Peach with either askance or awe. Think X will be having words with Peach about flippantly offering tours of her ship without asking first.
Eh, end of the day it is an Orion ship, just in a different skin. Not like it’s a highly classified,super secret thing. Al least for the Greys anyway.
As I recall it’s Ace’s ship. Maybe he should have final say in who gets to see the engines.
You know what I mean. It’s mainly the same Orion/Dilmun Ptui! tech the Greys are already familiar with, just rearranged and reskined, not an “ultra-classified burn before reading and kill yourself afterward” thing.
Ace is technically the legal owner, but the Orions are leasing it from him (or rather from his trust fund), so unless that lease is revoked, it’s their ship to run as they please. He is not in command here.
Orion Scents of Humor! Called it.
Don’t smell anything funny, they all just had a wash (unless it’s the Grey)
Are we maybee seeing the grey that tampeted with Peach research paper?
Wait, did Ixil actually say ‘lol’? o_O
Or maybe their laugh just sounds like ‘lol’
Sounds like.
Just checking 😀
I like this guy already.
Idly curious if Ixil realizes who’s standing behind him.