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<p>“<em>Me?</em>” Günay said, a look of panic washing over her face.</p>
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<p>“Yes, you,” Need An Answer said, voice calm. “You will be our primary point of contact among the phys-side systechs.”</p>
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<p>“But my boss–”</p>
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<p>“We do not want to speak with your boss on these matters,” she said, voice maintaining that eerie calm. “We wish to speak with you. Jakub and the other members of the admin team have agreed after some…discussion. Thank you for joining us. We have a few questions that we would like to ask you directly. Your colleagues are there to provide guidance, and the representatives of the admin team are there to sate their curiosity.”</p>
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<p>“We do not want to speak with your boss on these matters,” she said, voice maintaining that eerie calm. “We wish to speak with you. Jakub Strzepek and the other members of the admin team have agreed after some…discussion. Thank you for joining us. We have a few questions that we would like to ask you directly. Your colleagues are there to provide guidance, and the representatives of the admin team are there to sate their curiosity.”</p>
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<p>“Uh,” Günay said, voice hoarse. “Well, okay. I wasn’t exactly expecting that, but sure, I’ll do what I can.”</p>
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<p>“Lovely. It is my role to organize, not to ask questions. Picking up responsibility sys-side will be I Remember The Rattle Of Dry Grass of the Ode clade, she/her, Jonas Fa of the Jonas clade, he/him, Debarre of his own clade, he/him, and Selena of her own clade, she/her.”</p>
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<p>The four sys-side representatives stood up and bowed. Debarre, I noted, was quite curt in his bow. While my read on weasel expressions was less than perfect, he seemed to be giving Jakub a run for his money on the dourness levels.</p>
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<p>Jakub looked as though he was about to explode, so thoroughly had he lost track of his planned meeting. “Now, hold on–”</p>
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<p>“Jakub, shut up,” Jonas Fa said, sounding chummy, almost fond of the man. “You’re so fucking far out of your element I’m surprised they haven’t filed a missing persons report. You’re talking to an emergency council of a nation 2.28 trillion strong, a nation that you have already been reminded just lost 23 <em>billion</em> citizens. Three of the original Council of Eight are here, meaning you’ve got people more than three centuries old standing in front of you. People who <em>signed</em> the Articles of Secession. Fuck you, fuck your meeting, send the message.”</p>
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<p>The rooms on both sides of the AVEC connection were silent. For all I’d read about Jonas as some massively manipulative political player on the System, out-manipulating even the famously manipulative Odists, seeing him bear down on an individual, sitting just shy of actively upset, was enough to leave me holding my breath. This man, this mover-and-shaker of politics both sys-side and, prior to uploading in the early days of the System, phys-side, was a figure out of myth, a character from the grand stories told in histories and novels. That I had even been allowed to sit in the same room as him suddenly felt wrong. Sure, Marsh had known a few of the Odists through their singing, and Cress and Tule had their relationship with Dry Grass, but certainly none of the political ones.</p>
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<p>Jakub wilted under the weight of his own realization.</p>
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<p>Jakub wilted under the weight of the realization of the magnitude of the situation. He appeared to see, all at once, just how out of his depth he was.</p>
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<p>After a pause, Need An Answer spoke up once more. “The final item that we would like to speak about before we end this meeting in order to discuss our next steps is the ongoing communications embargo.”</p>
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<p>Günay blinked. “That’s not my area of expertise at all.”</p>
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<p>“But do you at least know the current status?” Debarre asked.</p>
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<p>“Well, sure,” she said slowly, as though hedging her words. “Communications to Earth are limited and censored at the moment, and communications between Lagrange and the two LVs are being slowly ungated. I don’t know if those are being censored or not.”</p>
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<p>“Why weren’t they just ungated immediately?”</p>
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<p>“I don’t know the political reasons, but there was also a worry about DSN capacity…”</p>
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<p>“Is there an actual concern about the DSN?” Selena asked.</p>
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<p>“I’m even less of a space nerd than I am an information theorist,” Günay said, smiling wryly.</p>
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<p>Dry Grass asked, “I am assuming that you are gating communications from the LVs under a similar embargo. After all, to their eyes, we disappeared quite suddenly, yes?”</p>
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