random instant message

infidel says:
far beyond the reaches of the intergalactic Justice Patrol a small Kylian vessel lurks ominously in the shadow of a pale moon.
infidel says:
a Kylian officer manipulates a cryptic control panel, states something in chirps and grunts to his commanding officer
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150,000 miles off the port side of the vessel a shimmering light rips open a hole in the fabric of space
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the bow of an immense Kylian mothership slowly emerges through the still-growing rift, massive, bearing dozens of Kylian warships on its belly
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as the crest of the mothership passes through the aperture the shimmering light intesifies and modulates into a perfect circle
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the stern of the mothership passes through, and the rift is finally allowed to force its way closed
infidel says:
ignition sequences begin in scores of Kylian cruisers and they disengage the mothership, their bows maneuvering into trajectories that will carry them in dozens of vectors, each ship cruising a short distance and jumping to interstellar drive and disappearing
infidel says:
terraquads of information stream soundlessly through the black of space between the mothership and the lone Kylian vessel
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the Kylian commander touches a button, acknowledges the transfer and closes the channel
infidel says:
speaking in command tones he orders his vessel to its own course and engages
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aboard the Kylian mothership a Spdeeka diplomat pours himself a vile looking liquid from a clear glass decanter
infidel says:
things were going exactly according to plan
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Diplomancer Shrorft allowed himself a hint of a smug grin as he raised his glass
infidel says:
at first watch tomorrow, the quadrant would be his
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Shrorft's hand went instinctively to the breast pocket of his immaculately tailored uniform, feeling the reassuring bulk of the device
infidel says:
small things can make a man