This will not go over well. Markus just deployed ground teams and set a delta level travel bar. That’s not going to work for us here. We need to leave, now, planet-side or not. I take a breath; this will be an atrocity, all these lives, millions, gone in an instant. I reach out to Star Fury, I enter the navigation system and bypass the orbit protocol, we will slip straight from the launch bay. 3, 2, 1.

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  I hear it all the way from the guest quarters, the entire crew of this vessel is losing their minds. Screams of “What the fuck just happened!” and “They will make an example of us; we will never live this down!”

  I can’t blame them, we just committed a class two war crime under The Government’s guidelines, second only to complete planet antiparticle collision, unregulated psyche replication, and me, QAIAB.