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Transcript

• Taneel: Ah, Orla! How'd it go with the Jinyiwei?
• Orla: I... could find no local station office, ma'am.
• Sebastián: Oh you wouldn't, my dear, no. No-no-no.
• Sebastián: All the posted officers came down with a rare, excruciating form of tinnitus.
• Sebastián: Something to do with their Jinyiwei cochlear implants. Very strange.
  Thankfully, they seem to have recovered back on Earth.
• Sebastián: So we hear.
• Orla: But--
• Sebastián: Fernando!
• Sebastián: I have two gifts for you before you go... and a gift for the captain!
  First, a texting device.
• Fernando: Oh. Um. Thanks, but my implant can already text.
• Sebastián: Not like this. The Nyx have been working on this little trick for decades.
• Nyx #1: It will have had a single, suspended photon, quantum entangled with another here on Du Fu.<be>They will have sung together, when one sings alone.
• Sebastián: Yes-yes-yes. Very handy. Yes-yes-yes.
  When the chips are down, you may send one very short cry for help... and we'll make sure the cavalry comes running.
• Fernando: Entablement?? How did they solve the---
• Sebastián: Second! I offer you one of the empire's best-kept secrets: the coordinates to McBride's Wormhole.
• [coordinates read:
  65939.44
  67.25472
  2345.611
  ]
• Sebastián: If our collective plans fail spectacularly, and everyone we trust is dead... then you will find no safe harbor.
• Sebastián: You will be a marked man throughout the western spiral arms of the galaxy.
• Sebastián: But! Perhaps you can find peaceful last days through that magnificent wormhole.
• Sebastián: ... Just run, run, run away. Yes-yes-yes.
• [Taneel stays silent for one panel]
• Taneel: Well! On that inspiring note: What was my gift?
• Sebastián: Why, some top-of-the-line M-Wave cannons!
• Sebastián: .... So that he does not need those first two gifts.

Trivia

• This page is called "So We Hear"