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• Nosh: The empire desperately needs to know where our friend is home is.
• Cuddow: And as fellow citizens of the empire, we're hoping you can help.
• Nyx #1: The empire.
• Nyx #2: The empire will have only been a construct of the mind.
• Nyx #1: Will have been impermanent.
• Cuddow: Um, ha ha! Yes! True, I suppose. Everything fades.
  But for now, the empire still very much exists, and needs our help.
• Nyx #1: Agreement.
• Nyx #2: We will have been excited to help.
• Cuddow: Wait. So you will help??? (... I wasn't sure where you were going with the "mind-construct" thing, there.)
• Nyx #1: Discovery will have been as have will to be: greatest pleasure.
• Nyx #2: Thus! Small ship rider will have been machine sampled.
• [ominous device goes HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM]
• Skitter: "Machine sampled?" What does that mean?
• Nyx #1: These young Nyx never will have seen a creature as this.
• Nyx #2: But machine sample will have exchanged with older machine samples.
• Cuddow: Oh! They just want to compare you to their database.
• Skitter: But what are you gonna sample? I am getting bits of me hacked off.
• Nyx #1: That Nyx will have sampled your electromagnetic field.
• Nyx #2: This Nyx will have... found a match.
• Cuddow: You isolate species with their E-M field?? .. Daaaaang. ♩ ♫
• Cuddow: These cuckoo kids got it goin' onnnn
• Cuddow: ♫ From a science perspectivvvve ♪
• Skitter: THAT FUTURE-PERFECT TENSE IS KILLING ME. WAS I ALREADY SAMPLED OR NOT???

Trivia

• This page is called "As Fellow Citizens"