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I predict this will be a self-indulgent shippy meditation on power and responsibility but it's honestly hard to predict these threads
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"That's so cool!"

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"Isn't it! There're probably more programs but I just wanted to see if it worked, first - "

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"Amazing. - how does a ship like this work."

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"Man, I dunno, I guess the sails catch the wind and move it in the direction of the wind, and if you want to go against the wind it's a lot slower and you have to do complicated things with the sails. We could ask the crew. Dunno if they'll help, but they can't, like, hurt us, it ought to have safety protocols installed."

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"Can we get entangled with them?"

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"They're... holograms? So I would guess no but I don't actually have any idea."

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He walks up to someone and asks for a sailing lesson.

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A lesson in sailing! Why, everybody on a ship ought to know how sailing works! He'd be happy to show him the basics.

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Cool!

 

(This does create debt.)

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Well she's not actually sure what else to do in this simulation.

"I'm gonna head out and see if anybody else needs anything, okay? Think at me if you're done and can't find your way out."

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"Okay!"

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She wanders around for a bit until she successfully finds the automatic door and heads outside.

"Hey everybody! I can summon things from Star Trek! - is anybody here a person who can appreciate this."

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"I'm appreciating."

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"Good! We have a holodeck now. 

"Anybody need anything, while I'm here?"

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"I think there was some interest in contacting the father of Imrainai's baby."

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"Cool. Are you ready to do that, like, now?"

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"I - can?"

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" - so is that a no, or - "

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"I - should probably get it over with."

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"All right. This may or may not work."

She attempts to summon the biological father of Imrainai's baby.

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And a new person appears. 

He's an old man, maybe seventy, much darker than Imrainai, wearing a green uniform jumpsuit with some lines of clustered dots that look like they might be some kind of writing system. (Those who know Confederate One will recognize them as a string of numbers.)

He blinks at them.

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"Um. Hi. I'm - sorry, uh, there aren't any Alteri here, it's safe. I don't think they'll notice you're gone, it's - his world should be paused?" she asks, looking at Elizabeth.

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"Yeah, as long as anybody from your plane is here it ought to be paused."

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She nods and looks at the ground.

"I'm 97816 Tellari. From Earth space. Originally from Yahi. I'm, uh - I was impregnated on the orders of House Tellari without notice or knowledge, and then flung across the universe to these other aliens who think that it is very important that fathers be informed of the existence of their biological children, and that's, uh, you, so, uh - this is me informing you."

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He frowns.

"Do you need anything from me?"

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