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Transcript

• Skitter: I don't get it: If your family has all the power in the empire... why do you guys still do the cruddy grunt-work in the Ring?
• Fernando: Because the Ring is where our power comes from.
• Fernando: Look, if you want to control an empire, you need to control transport. And if you want to control transport, you control the Ring.
• Fernando: ... And only we control the Ring.
• Skitter: But that don't mean you gotta work the wrenches. Hire some doofus for that.
• Fernando: No way. Because eventually that doofus sells all he knows to the highest bidder.
• Skitter: But you can't keep the secret forever! Eventually some company's gonna steal a ship and figure it out.
• Fernando: IndústriaGlobo did, once. My great-grandfather sent half the armada to destroy their shipyards until they returned it.
• Skitter: Oof
• Fernando: And during my great-grandma's reign, they tried it again. She had their entire headquarters razed.
• Fernando: ... Got it back the next day.
• Skitter: OOF
• Fernando: And when two officers broke into a Ring and locked themselves inside, my great uncle ordered the captain to fly the ship into a star.
• Skitter: No way.
• Fernando: And later, when plans for a Ring were stolen, he had the thieves ejected into space naked.
• Skitter: Jeez! OK! Point made! I ain't goin' near the dang Ring.
• Fernando: Also, it's like super cold in there. Like, for reals.