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Saja: ....so I'm really looking forward to the wedding!
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Rosetta: Thanks for everything, Saja. You and Aunt Marie are really going to make the big day extra special.
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Marie: You two want some cookies? I just baked a fresh plate of them...
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Virulyde: Did somebody say cookies...?!!
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Marie: Oh, it's Mr. Orange Juice. You going to spit on us again?
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Virulyde: Awww.... come on, it wasn't my fault....
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Marie: Pardon me, I need to head back to my room...
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Rosetta: Wait! I need to talk to you about something, Mom!
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Virulyde: ...but what about the cookies...
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Saja: Look. There will be no cookies for you. Don't you ever ring the doorbell, Virulyde?
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Virulyde: Please excuse my egregious lack of propriety, commander. There's urgent business.
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Saja: *sigh*... Very well. What's going on, Virulyde?
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Virulyde: Malachi and I found a girl while exploring the ruins.
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Saja: Congratulations. Maybe there can be a double wedding or...
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Virulyde: No, no... Commander, you misunderstand. We found a severely injured girl inside the ruins.
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Saja: Oh. I see. Go on.
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Virulyde: We brought her back in the ShockShadow and rushed her to the lab's medical facility.
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Saja: You should have notified me sooner. Any rescue missions have to be documented.
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Virulyde: Malachi filed a full report with Dr. Maxwell.
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Saja: How is she... the girl you found?
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Virulyde: She will live but they had to amputate her arm. It was all sorts of infected.
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Virulyde: Oh, and Dr. Karen Maxwell scheduled a meeting with us tonight.
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Saja: Sure. I would like to be filled in on the details.
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Karen: Thanks for indulging this meeting on such short notice, Commander Kabora.
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Saja: "Commander Kabora" sounds sooooo weird. Just call me Saja, ok?
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Dr. Maxwell: The android, Unit #24, recovered an ancient data storage device inside the ruins, Saja.
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Malachi: Actually, I'm the one who found it.
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Virulyde: This is true, everyone. Malachi found it in one of the buildings in the ruins.
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Malachi: Anyway, the girl we found was badly hurt but she managed to destroy a "rapid attack ballistics unit" with her bare hands.
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Malachi: Her. Bare. Hands.
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Virulyde: Even the Virulyde units, such as myself, don't have that kind of strength in emergency mode.
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Dr. Maxwell: Astounding. To be clear, however, she is a human, not any kind of hybrid or android.
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Karen: The only other real physical oddity about her is her DNA. It is completely foreign with no matches to documented bloodlines.
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Saja: What would be a likely explanation for this...?
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Karen: Well, mutations wouldn't account for it. Unless she's some engineered super soldier from Zetsfir, that is...
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Saja: We need to consider that as a possibility. Have any security precautions been taken?
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Dr. Maxwell: She's been unconscious ever since she was brought in. It's impossible to tell what her motives are.
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Saja: I would recommend she be administered muscle relaxers or restrained in some way until we can be sure of her intentions.
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Dr. Maxwell: I... suppose... we could do that...
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Malachi: Commander! Isn't that a bit presumptuous?
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Virulyde: I agree. We shouldn't jump to conclusions. She destroyed that R.A.B.U. in a single hit to protect us!
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Karen: Put me on record as being totally against harming her in any way.
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Saja: Yes, acknowledged. Perhaps I was a bit quick to assume the worst.
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Saja: We should monitor her closely, nothing more.
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Dr. Maxwell: With her strength, may I propose that we enlist her help with defense? Once we ascertain her willingness, that is.
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Saja: When she wakes up, I want to speak with her. After that, we'll see.
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Karen: We will need to prepare an automatic translation device. She does not speak any known languages.
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Dr. Maxwell: That little matter has been solved. I've started analyzing the data on the optical disc Unit #24 brought us.
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Dr. Maxwell: Much of its contents have yet to be deciphered but I extracted enough data to build a language translation library.
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Dr. Maxwell: When she wakes up, have her insert this device in her ear. It will automate translation until she learns our language.
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Dr. Maxwell: In the mean time, I will continue to analyze the data from that optical disc. There is a lot of historical information on there...
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Dr. Maxwell: History... perhaps... from another world in the distant past.
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