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<p>The fox gave em a strange look. <em>“You forgot that May Then My Name was not here?”</em></p>
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<p>Their partner showed up, a cup of coffee in one hand and a (far too large) thermos in the other. “Are you forgetting things again, Codrin?”</p>
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<p>“No, no,” ey said, accepting the thermos with a frown. “Or, well, kind of. I didn’t forget that May Then My Name wasn’t here, just the ramifications of that, that True Name might not have her as a tool.”</p>
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<p><em>“That is more understandable, yes,”</em> the fox said. <em>“Perhaps the True Name here on Castor has diverged from that Legrange in that respect, perhaps not. I suspect that both are disappointed, in their own ways.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“That is more understandable, yes,”</em> the fox said. <em>“Perhaps the True Name here on Castor has diverged from the one on Legrange in that respect, perhaps not. I suspect that both are disappointed, in their own ways.”</em></p>
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<p>Standing, Codrin fiddled with the thermos, ensuring that the lid was a mug when removed — two nested ones, actually — then nodded. “I don’t know how many dimensions she’s thinking on, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if she’d had a cost-benefit analysis on losing her to Ioan.”</p>
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<p><em>“I would not be surprised, no, which would mean that she has planned around that eventuality. I am sure that May Then My Name is keeping an eye on that. Do not let us keep you, though, my dear. Go for your walk. Think about something else. Enjoy the cold, build a cairn around your worries, and then return safe.”</em></p>
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<p>Ey smiled, leaned down to kiss the fox between the ears, then eir other partner on the cheek. “I didn’t know that was possible, but I’ll try. Back in a bit.”</p>
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<p>“I’m guessing you said yes to both the job offer and the fork?”</p>
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<p>He nodded. “It all just sounded so normal. There didn’t seem like anything else to do.”</p>
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<p>“Can you tell me more about both?”</p>
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<p>“Well, she said that she a good deal about the communications and that she’d like me to come help her with the mechanics of that. She’d help me out with resources and I’d teach her what I learn about Artemis as I learned it.”</p>
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<p>“Well, she said that she a knew good deal about the communications and that she’d like me to come help her with the mechanics of that. She’d help me out with resources and I’d teach her what I learn about Artemis as I learned it.”</p>
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<p>“Artemis? Is that what they’re calling the remote…ship? Vehicle?”</p>
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<p>He nodded. “Vehicle, I think. She said they’re calling it Artemis, that I should tag my fork #Artemis, and that those on the ship were either Artemisians or Sea People, which I didn’t get.”</p>
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<p>Codrin leaned back in the seat, thinking. “Sea People might be a reference to something from the <em>Mythology,</em> or it could be a reference to a theory about a marauding group of seafarers during the Bronze Age collapse. There was a bunch of talk about how some unknown seafaring group had sacked much of the ancient near east and northern Africa, leading to the prolongation of the collapse.”</p>
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<p>He nodded. “Vehicle. She said they’re calling it Artemis, that I should tag my fork #Artemis, and that those on the ship were either Artemisians or Sea People, which I didn’t get.”</p>
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<p>Codrin leaned back in the seat, thinking. “Sea People might be a reference to something from the <em>Mythology,</em> or it could be a reference to a theory about a marauding group of seafarers during the Bronze Age collapse. One that had sacked much of the ancient near east and northern Africa, leading to the prolongation of the collapse.”</p>
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<p>Tycho’s eyes grew wide. “Do you think that’s what she’s getting at with the reference? That these are going to be some marauders coming to mess with the LV?”</p>
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<p>Ey shrugged. “Who knows. Probably both, honestly. Maybe there’s even some reference that we’re missing. She’s True Name, there really is no way of telling.”</p>
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<p>Nodding, Tycho scooted back on the bed until his back was to the wall, then brought his knees up to his chest. He looked small to Codrin, somehow diminished after the events of the last…goodness, had it only been a day? Diminished, yes, and younger, though he’d always looked as though he was not yet out of his forties in his well-groomed salt-and-pepper hair and well-kept beard.</p>
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<p>They sat in silence for a while. Codrin could not guess what the astronomer was thinking about, though ey could see his eyes occasionally darting this way and that, as though connecting one idea to another in the air as well as in his head.</p>
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<p>On eir part, ey began structuring the project. There would have to be the journalistic aspect of it, much closer to that of <em>On the Perils of Memory</em> than <em>An Expanded History of Our World,</em> but if the conservative Odists were also involved, there’d likely also be far more observing than researching.</p>
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<p>“Tycho,” ey said, startling him out of a reverie. “Do you know what an amanuensis is?”</p>
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<p>“Like a recorder? Someone who takes notes?”</p>
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<p>“Well, in part, but also someone who thinks about what they’re writing,” ey said, tapping at eir temple. “They aren’t a scribe or a court recorder, but someone there to witness and digest a conversation.”</p>
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<p>“Like a recorder? A stenographer? Someone who takes notes?”</p>
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<p>“Well, in part, but also someone who thinks about what they’re recording,” ey said, tapping at eir temple. “They aren’t a scribe or a court recorder, but someone there to witness and digest a conversation.”</p>
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<p>“Like a clerk?” He grinned. “We used to have one of those for our club, who would take minutes of the meetings and such.”</p>
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<p>Ey nodded. “Certainly closer to that than a recorder, yeah. I bring this up because that will be my job in all of this, but I think it’ll also be yours. Things like the <em>History</em> are all well and good, and I loved putting the work into the writing, but I also really enjoy doing this. I may wish that the things I get caught up in weren’t always so dramatic, but I’ll take what I can get.”</p>
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<p>“What do you mean, it’ll be my job too?” he asked.</p>
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<p>“Just that you will also be witnessing and thinking about this project, and then coming up with ideas related to it to be compiled into a coherent understanding. That’s why we’ll be working together, I think. I’m trained to do this work in particular, but I’ll need your help in making sense of it. I’ll experience it with you as much as I’m allowed, but you’ll have to ensure that I actually understand what’s going on.”</p>
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<p>“Just that you will also be witnessing and thinking about this project, and then coming up with ideas related to it to be compiled into a coherent understanding. That’s why we’ll be working together, I think. I’m trained to do this work in particular, but I’ll need your help in making sense of the science part of it. I’ll experience it with you as much as I’m allowed, but you’ll have to ensure that I actually understand what’s going on.”</p>
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<p>Tycho laughed. “Well, I’ll do my best, but it’s not like I have much experience working with Artemisians, either. I’ll help with the technical aspects as best I can, though.”</p>
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<p>“Excellent,” Codrin said. “Thank you for that. I’ll be managing most of this part, so you won’t have to worry too much about the minutiae, but I figured it’d give you a better idea of what to expect when we work together.”</p>
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<p>He nodded.</p>
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<p>“On that note, lets come up with a basic idea of what’s next for us. We mostly talked about immediate next steps, but it might be a good idea to start thinking on a larger timescale.”</p>
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<p>“On that note, lets come up with a basic idea of what’s next for us. We mostly talked about immediate next steps earlier, but it might be a good idea to start thinking on a larger timescale.”</p>
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<p>“I guess. I’m assuming it’ll be pretty loose, given that we can’t guess the particulars?” He waited for Codrin to nod, then continued. “Then we have a month or so before they reach their closest approach as long as we both stay on our own heading.”</p>
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<p>“Does that mean a month before they upload?”</p>
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<p>He shrugged. “Not necessarily. They can upload whenever they want, so long as our Ansible is on and the DMZ is ready. I don’t think it’s on yet, though.”</p>
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<p>He shrugged. “Not necessarily. They can upload whenever they want, so long as our Ansible is on and the DMZ is ready. I don’t think it’s on yet, though. There’s probably an effective range beyond which the Ansible won’t work well.”</p>
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<p>“Alright. Have we received any further communications from them? Their message said that they had a similar mechanism in place. Is that something we’ll be able to use? Or want to use, even?”</p>
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<p>“No further communications that I know of,” he said. “But True Name said that all communications will be gated through her, and I don’t know if that means that I’ll be getting them or just Tycho#Artemis. Hopefully both, if you and I are to be working on this as well.”</p>
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<p>Codrin frowned. “Well, okay.”</p>
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<p>Ey finished eir coffee and replaced the cup on the cap of the thermos. “One of us will have to work up the courage to ask her, sometime. But for now, is it something you would want to do?”</p>
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<p>“What? Upload to Artemis?” He looked startled by the question.</p>
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<p>“Yes. If it’s possible, I mean. I figure it would just be an instance rather than completely investing. I’d also be curious to hear your opinions on that as well.”</p>
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<p>Tycho tilted his head back until it hit the wall of the hut, staring up toward the ceiling. He sat like that for a good five minutes, during which Codrin remained silent, before leaning forward to pour emself another cup of coffee. “Yes. I don’t know that I’d invest completely, but yes, I think I would. Would you?”</p>
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<p>Tycho tilted his head back until it hit the wall of the hut, staring up toward the ceiling. He sat like that for a good five minutes, during which Codrin remained silent, before leaning forward to pour emself another cup of coffee. “Yes. I don’t know about investing completely, but yes, I think I would. Would you?”</p>
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<p>Ey smiled, though ey felt just how tired ey was as ey did so. “Perhaps. I have attachments here, though. So the Codrin who uploaded — if ey remains a Codrin — would be severed completely from those ey loves. As romantic as the idea of sailing away on some alien spacecraft might be, it’d be painful to leave, even knowing that a Codrin remained.”</p>
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<p>“And if your partners uploaded with you?”</p>
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<p>The thought caught em up short, and several trains of thought crunched to a halt within em. “If they…” Ey laughed, shaking eir head. “You know, I hadn’t considered that, yet. I wonder why? But yes, if they chose to do so, then yes, I’ll go with them.”</p>
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<p>Conversely, would ey be able to argue one way or the other, to convince them to come with em or not?</p>
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<p>“Well, I guess it’s interesting that the two firstrace people…individuals…er, consciousness-bearing systems share a name. Maybe they’re a clade, like…I mean…”</p>
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<p>“Like me?” Jonas said, smirking. “Don’t worry, Jonases Ka and Ko already had their laugh over it. But no, we don’t know that one way or another.”</p>
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<p>He felt heat rise to his cheeks, but nodded all the same. “The rest, I don’t know. They all sound different, I guess. The fourthrace one is the only other one with two names.”</p>
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<p>“We cannot make any real guesses, ourselves,” True Name said. “We have been told that a stolon is a botany term, but that is likely only a coincidence.”</p>
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<p>“We cannot make any real guesses, ourselves,” True Name said. “We have been told that a stolon is a botanical term, but that is likely only a coincidence.”</p>
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<p>“Well, only other thing I can think of is that they ask for confirmation on all actions taken. What are you going to say to those?”</p>
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<p>True Name’s eyes grew distant as, he imagined, she accessed an exo with the response text prepared. “To the first, “We will orient as described and accelerate 0.00014c”. To the second, “Instructions received, integration commencing immediately, estimated time to completion 428 hours”. To the third, “Areas prepared”. To the fourth, “Preparing party, we will duplicate and be ready to send on an agreed upon time”.”</p>
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<p>“Anything for the “We welcome you” or the list of names?”</p>
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<p>“We will repeat the “We welcome you” message, and it will be signed with your name.”</p>
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<p>“We will repeat the “We welcome you” message, and it will be signed with your name,” Answers Will Not Help said.</p>
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<p>He stood up so quickly it made him dizzy. “What?”</p>
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<p>The other three laughed, True Name eventually continuing, “It will be signed “True Name, leadership”. We will send them the complete list of names when it is confirmed. You need not worry, Tycho.”</p>
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<p>He remained standing, swaying slightly and trying to blink away dancing black spots. “I think…I think I need to lay down.”</p>
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<p>The skunk nodded, stood, and took him by the elbow. “You likely do. You have been awake for almost fifty-five hours. We have a room prepared for you.”</p>
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<p>The skunk nodded, stood, and took him by the elbow. “You likely do. You have been awake for almost forty-five hours. We have a room prepared for you.”</p>
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<p>Jonas stood as well, dusting off his slacks, and shook Tycho’s hand. “Welcome aboard. And hey, congrats on first contact.”</p>
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