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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> Oh, it was boring as hell. I’ll send it to you sometime.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> If you would like.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> I will not read it.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> Also, hi. Good evening. Have a good day?</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> Also, hi. Good evening. Have you had a good day?</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> That was also boring as hell. I keep going for walks or trying to read or whatever, but there’s only so much here to keep myself interested when I based most of my life on my job.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> That does not sound healthy.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> Can confirm: not healthy.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> Ey is here, but in heads down mode. It can get frustrating sometimes, because when ey gets in that mindset, ey will not be able to fork effectively. If ey does, the fork will just spend all of eir time whining about not being at work.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> Like me, huh?</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> You said it, not me.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> Anyway, I called you up to ask you about something that you have mentioned a few times so far. Do you have it in you to answer some questions?</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> Anyway, I messaged you to ask you about something that you have mentioned a few times so far. Do you have it in you to answer some questions?</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> Sure, why not. My first meeting is in the afternoon, tomorrow, and it’s just a weekly safety briefing. Talk my ear off! I could use the distraction.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> Yes, you certainly could.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> You mentioned that there had been sabotage attempts. We were surprised when we heard that initially, but it had been in the middle of some other conversations that we did not want to derail, so we have been holding onto it until a time when there was not much else going on. Can you tell us about those?</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> Oh, sure.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> There were two big ones and one small one. You heard the small one, which was that tech knocking me off the edge of the torus. The other techs out there with us tackled him and tied him up in his own tether to bring him back into the station. One of them suggested just ripping off his suit there, but it was a reaction out of anger, and it’s hard to stay angry out in space, so they did the right thing.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> There were two big ones and one small one. You heard the small one, which was that tech knocking me off the edge of the torus. The other techs out there with us tackled him and tied him up in his own tether to bring him back into the station. One of them suggested just ripping off his suit there, but it was a reaction out of anger, and it’s hard to stay angry out in space when you’re all terrified of dying anyway, so they did the right thing.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> He was brought inside, taped to a chair (there used to be a security station for when the torus was a hotel, but it was repurposed at some point), and then confined to quarters until the next shuttle could come pick him up.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> How did he even get in there to begin with?</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> As far as I could tell, just lying really well. It was his second EVA, so there wasn’t exactly much time to suss out if there was anything up with him.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> As far as I could tell, just lying really well, or perhaps it really was just a spur of the moment act as he argued in court. It was his second EVA, so there wasn’t exactly much time to suss out if there was anything up with him.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> It’s weird, though. You have to have an MSf to even do EVAs here, and even just getting into that program, not to mention getting a job out here, requires a lot of psychological testing and the like. He must have been pretty good at lying.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> You said that he was sent back to Earth and charged. What were the charges? How did that work?</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> I don’t know too much about it, honestly. I know he was charged with attempted murder and there was a whole flurry of articles about how the case was groundbreaking as the first attempted murder in the vacuum of space. He was convicted, then probably sentenced to jail.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> Well, one of them was here station-side, and one was back planet-side. The one up here was when one of the mechanics (who don’t need an MSf) had smuggled up some type of plastic explosive in their luggage. I think it was actually the fabric lining of the case, something where thin strands of explosive were coated in plastic and woven just like one normally would. It was powerful enough and its target small enough, that even just that suitcase lining would have been enough to do the trick.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> They tore out the lining, rolled it into a rope, and wrapped it around a portion of the launch strut extrusion factory. It was about six years back, and the arms were already about 2800km long, so if the explosion had wound up actually causing enough damage, the stress of the arm would have torn the station apart, and likely taken the System with it.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> WHAT</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> That seems like an awful important thing to not know as the sys-side launch director, Douglas.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> It was all hushed up by security (brought back up after my little incident on EVA). I wasn’t allowed to tell you. Sorry, May Then My Name.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> That seems like an awfully important thing to not know as the sys-side launch director, Douglas.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> It was all hushed up by security (brought back up after my little incident on EVA). I wasn’t allowed to tell you after the NDA. Sorry, May Then My Name.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> Did they give you a reason for keeping it from us?</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> They said it had political undertones because of the articles of secession. “No other governmental entity shall declare war on or attempt to destroy the System.”</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> They considered it an act of war?</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> Then why are you telling me now?</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> Well, our conversations are off the record, now. Besides, if I’m going to upload soon, it’s also relevant to me in the same way it is to you.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> Well, alright. How were they caught?</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> That’s the weird thing. They turned themselves in. The cloth bomb had been in place for about a month, I guess, and they grew a conscience in that time, so they brought security over, admitted to what they’d done, defused the bomb, and let themself be sent back planet-side.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> That’s the weird thing. They turned themselves in. The cloth bomb had been in place for about a month, I guess, and they grew a conscience in that time, so they defused the bomb, brought security over, admitted to what they’d done, and let themself be sent back planet-side.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> Which actually brings me to the other big sabotage attempt. Apparently, they were working with a collective who were really unhappy with the launch overall, so there was also a suicide bombing at a launch facility during a tour which I guess was intended to take out the control room before it could be used for the next supply run.</p>
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<p><strong>Douglas:</strong> Cloth bomber struck a deal with the government for a lighter sentence (probably like my attacker received) for acting as an informant and ratting out the organization before the rest of the planned bombings could take place.</p>
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<p><strong>May Then My Name:</strong> Less immediately threatening to us, but still, that is terrible. Do you know why this collective (is this like a group, or is there a deeper meaning?) felt so strongly against Launch?</p>
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<p><em>One more walk around the station,</em> he thought. <em>Then I’ll get to bed. January can’t come soon enough.</em></p>
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