Kit Bashir“Wait, you’ve always had a name?”
“Pretty much”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I liked being your ship. Our ship.”
Smiting is time and a half, or double time after sundown on your antesabbath. If you’ll be wanting fire *and* brimstone there is an OSHA surcharge.
“If you didn’t charge overnight why are you here? Take a sickie!”
“S’all good, the cafe installed a fast charger. Nothing wakes you up like 350kW across the nipples.”
“Wait, you charge via the nipples?”
“Figure of speech, dah-ling”
❝They’re not born with daemons in this world; they must be Chosen. Some days I wonder what—or if—I was thinking when I Chose.❞
Now there’s this enormous heckin’ U-Warp parked in orbit blocking half our comsats. #BonusPanel
Newsgroups: soc.fraud, talk.slow
Subject: Re: PSA scam alert
Slow Zone NOC Announce bot wrote:
> There is an Excessively Multi Posted fraud
[snip]
Yeah, does not explain why nobody from Sol, Barnard or Van Maanen has posted for a month. One system is happenstance, two is coincidence, three is…well it’s not just a net partition this time. I’ve done the math.
You’ve still got to cut it down to 3:05 if you want to get played in the mortal realm, but. #BonusPanel
A small number of botgirls, combat dolls and other mechanoids remain conscious within the solar system, fitted with Personal Transcendental Adjustment collars which isolate their cognitive environment; these devices are naturally highly restricted technology. #BonusPanel