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[An unrecorded discussion aboard the LFS Venturelust]
[Somewhere in the Grand Hall]
Participants: [Dillan [DIL], Iyana [IYA], Kijik [KJK] "High-Marshal" RYQUO-44 [RYQ]]
 KJK: "So, Dillan. Remind me again, why Forty-Four even allows you to talk about this stuff?"
DIL: "Now, *that*, I can't tell you."
IYA: "Lord above- Do you two ever stop talking about classified information?"
KJK: "If Dillan wasn't so good at dodging questions, we wouldn't be talking about anything."
DIL: "Y'know. For once. I'll agree with you outright."
IYA: "Someone get a camera... Get a room, you two."
KJK: "Iyana, you must be the only Lilim on the ship with no sense of humor. You know that? Your time with those Wandering Veterans on Ushott-III really dulled your head."
IYA: "All they do down there is go on combat-patrol! I swear- something feeds that planet bad ideas. Everything down there wants to eat you."
DIL: "...Wandering Veterans?"
KJK: "A group of Rag-tags that we picked up from that Skylight planet. Apparently Fourty-Four owed them a favor after they bargained some anomalous Material for safe-passage off-world."
IYA: "Nail on the head right there... Effectively all of them were more than ready to hitch a ride."
DIL: "...Was that the group of roughnecks that looked like old-Earth Tech-War Veterans?"
KJK: "Yup. All- what. Two-Thousand of them? Wild to me that they just wanted a ride off that stinkhole planet."
IYA: "That number is inaccurate by the way."
DIL: "And you scold me for discussing classified info..."
IYA: "Oh shush. You humans are all so finnicky."
KJK: "Tell 'em, cousin."
DIL: "Speaking of... I'm probably the only Non-Lilim on this ship to have clearance higher than both of you."
*BLINKDRIVE TELEPORT-FLASH*
RYQ: "Stop discussing classified information, the lot of you."
IYA/KJK/DIL: "Sir! Yes Sir!"