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Talking about the Masquerade
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"Why?  When this morning you didn't think magic existed at all?"  She chuckles.

"And yes, we've launched things up.  Tricked some muggle pilots into thinking they were alien spaceships, I hear.  Magic keeps working as far as I hear they've gone - but no surprise; like I said I'm pretty sure it works all the way out to the Moon.  And I've never heard of anyone going beyond there.

"Which doesn't mean they haven't.  I could give a big rant about how mages don't tell anyone about half the things they figure out!" 

She throws up her hands again at the end of that exclamation, again punctuated by leaping flames from the circle around her.

(Her own hypocrisy on that point doesn't even cross her mind.  If it did, she'd excuse herself by saying nobody asks about half the things she figures out.)

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"...When knowledge is power, and power shared is power halved, I can see why everyone hoards it.

"...And I still think you could run that.  The reason I picked s Cubesat as your delivery vehicle is because they're often enough someone's hobby project that they can pass beneath notice.  Hm...  But how do you cover for the unsustainable delta-v...

"Experimental reactionless drive ala - that thing that never panned out?  It would become a mystery, but it would be a mystery.

"Or maybe a malfunction on deployment that sends some smaller part rocketing off.  But they would probably try to track it...

"Or just.  Veil it?

"You'd probably be able to get away with optical camouflage...

"...What do your solutions for comms look like?  Assuming as I am that you must have something that isn't piggybacking off of mundane infrastructure?"

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