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[14thcommander]

It's Hange, Hange, Hange! Were you looking for me? I'll get back to you posthaste. Or when it's convenient.

[ communicator & actionspam it's all good ]

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[14thcommander]

[Does she believe in him? There's a lot of good in Betelgeuse, but also... she just worries. Hange would not have picked that moment for him to graduate.]

It's - hard to explain. There's so much that could go wrong! There's things that are dangerous here... I don't want you to get messed up. But you'll never succeed at it if you don't try, and part of your eventual success might be some failures along the way. It's complicated.

Of course you can talk to me about it if you want though. I'm here for you.

[beejfu]

I know. I know I know. Some days I just wanna demote myself. But that wouldn't be fair to Loki and I LIKE the guy. I wasn't expecting to like him so much.

[14thcommander]

I'm glad you like him! I think that's good. I think it's important for a warden to find something they like about their inmate.

Anyway - I can't always be here to guide you. I'll have my own inmate again eventually. But I'm here for you, for brainstorming and coming up with ideas, and talking about problems, okay? And for being friends, and the band...

[beejfu]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Hey, can you tell me about your world some more? Like I don't know if I'd fit in there or not.

[14thcommander]

That's hard to do, because I don't doubt my world will drastically change after I relocate us to a new planet. And I myself... might not stay there permanently. I'd like to imagine my people won't need my help, eventually.

[beejfu]

Gotta let the baby birds leave the nest, huh?

Where would you go? Back to Earth?

[14thcommander]

I'm not from earth, so there's no going back. Either way, I'd want to go someplace different.

[beejfu]

Would you go alone?

[14thcommander]

I already told you you could come with me! And truthfully, I hope I'll be able to stay connected to at least some people here...

[beejfu]

Oh!

[he gives a relieved grin]

I thought you just meant to wherever your people were headed. Whew. Thanks.

[14thcommander]

No.

I'm expecting my time with my people to be full of hard work. You're invited along, naturally, but I'm expecting you to be understanding of me having a lot of demands on my time if you do... and hopefully given ten years or so, I'll feel alright about leaving them be.

[beejfu]

You think they'll be happy you picked them up and moved them into space?

[14thcommander]

We're moving to a new planet! But no. I think we're letting ourselves in for a lot of inconvenience and struggle and hard work. But they won't be dead, and we won't be eradicating anyone else, so it will have to do.

I'm also thinking about asking the Admiral to just move us to a replica of the planet we're currently on.

[beejfu]

Oh, look at you! The old bait and switch. You did learn some trickster shit from me after all!

[14thcommander]

Heheheh.

[Yeah! The thing about that one is, it's not really what Hange wants to do. It's the safe option, sure... but they could go anywhere! Somewhere amazing, somewhere new...

On the other hand, this is for her people, not for her.]

Yeah. So that might be a promising option. We'd know what's edible and what's not, where mineral and metal deposits are - at least some of them - the weather patterns, game animals and how to catch and prepare them...

[beejfu]

Plus, you get rid of all the outside assholes who wanna do you harm and if any kids dare each other to go beyond the borders, they're not gonna start any international incidents.

Leaving you and I to go running around the galaxy.

[14thcommander]

I still gotta say and help people get settled - we'll lose a lot of infrastructure. Unless I literally have the Admiral swap the land, and he agrees to do that...

[beejfu]

Yeah, why not? Just pick it up and move the whole section of land. Copy/paste.

[14thcommander]

It sort of depends on what the Admiral says must be a separate deal! I have to make this one stretch as far as possible.

[beejfu]

Yeah.

Hey, you want me to proofread? All demons have to take contract law courses. Standard Hell 101.

[14thcommander]

Oh, yeah. When the time comes. I'm still sort of in the idea-generating stage.

[beejfu]

It's a great place to be in, isn't it?

[14thcommander]

Ha haaa... usually I'd agree, but I can't wait for this one to be settled.

[beejfu]

But hey! At least with me graduating, the pressure's off for you a little bit, right?

[14thcommander]

It's true. The broad sweeps are done. I just need to work out the details to maximize our success now.