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Space amaliens (try to) recruit Samaria
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The oracles were not actually expected to come back in person.

One of them does anyway, though. She has wings of her own and thought it best.

A servant shows the oracle Alleluia to the guest quarters where the visitors are staying.

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Lucien is on his data pad trying to figure out the minimal amount of help that Samaria needs to get trains, just in case he can't get them to accept more help.

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Knock knock.

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Lucien answers the door.

"Hello?"

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It's an angel woman in maybe her early forties. "Hello. I am the oracle Alleluia," she says.

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"Oh! Hi! I'm Lucien, Captain of Starship Bridget."

He's happy to meet an oracle! Maybe this meeting will be more pro-ductive than the previous one was.

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"I would like to speak with you alone and in private. Is this agreeable?"

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"Without my chief of security?"

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She eyes the chief of security. "I assume you trust him implicitly."

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"Definitely."

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"With information and judgment as well as your personal safety?"

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"Yes. He's my chief of security because I trust him to be reasonable and make good decisions even in tense delicate situations." 

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"Very well." She leads them to - the music rooms, actually.

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Lucien and Kurm follow.

(Lucien is a bit less tense given that Kurm can join - it narrows down the possibilities of what this could be about to be safer and less immediately dangerous.)

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She picks an empty music room at random and shuts the three of them in.

"You must stop asking about the spaceship."

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"Um."

Well, that's confusing!

"That's likely a thing we can do but I'd need to understand why."

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"Why? The spaceship isn't bothering you, so far as I'm aware. You can just let it be."

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"Well, absent a claim to possession of the spaceship we'd likely move on to exploring and attempting to establish control over it so its technology can be studied and used."

"But we want to make sure that no one is going to be upset before we do that. That's why we've been asking about it."

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"You can't have it. But it would also be best if you also did not go around asking."

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"Um."

This is clearly a sensitive subject.

"Backing up a bit, do you have all the context about the Borg?"

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"I have what the messenger told me."

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"I'm not sure what that was. Would you be okay summ-arizing what you know? Or I could go over the si-tuation from the start again."

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"You are having a vast war with other offplanet powers, who are very dangerous and unlikely to overlook Samaria as too backward to bother with. You still can't have the spaceship."

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Well that's a decent summary at least.

"... can I ask why?"

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"Not just to satisfy your curiosity."

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