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[Voice | locked to Shoutarou]

I apologize for the sudden spate of construction - I had not anticipated this being a necessity this early on. If the noise is too much, you can tell Haro to stop for the time being.

[Yes. He is installing a clone pod. In your room]

[Action]

[Meanwhile, Tieria is in the mecha hanger, overseeing repairs to Raphael. He's also about two feet tall, transparent, and kind of hovering in midair, as he's being projected from a holo-transmitter he had cobbled onto Raphael's Veda link.]

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[Lockon is there, too, since Zabanya's bits took some damage during the battle and need to be fixed and re-coated. It also needs its missiles restocked.]

That's one way to get around the resurrection fee.

[Tieria glances over at Lockon]

Resurrection fee?

If a person dies outside their own timeline, they get resurrected. But it comes with a price, and you've gotta work it off for whatever company decided to foot the bill.

I see. I suppose that would be faster, though that is my own lack of foresight, in this case.

Sure, it's faster, but it also comes with some hefty baggage.

Indeed. I'm not sure I would put tampering past the people here, too.

What kind of tampering?

If they have the technology to reimplant personality matrices that aren't stored in hardcopy, they likely have the technology to alter them.

[That's a funny way to describe souls there, Tieria. Or so Lyle thinks.]

Well, we've had a couple people rezzed in the past. They seemed the same after as they did before.

[You assume he believes in souls, Lyle.

Tieria raises an eyebrow]

Did you run full psychological profiling before and after?

Are you kidding? Of course not. That'd require time travel to know to do that.

[There is a very slight smug look on his face]

Well, if you can't be certain, I'll stick with my own methods, which I know are sound.

Hey, it's not like I was trying to persuade you to use it. Believe me, you're better off without getting tangled up in the games those corporations play.

Indeed. Though it will be another week or two before the body is ready.

The rest of us pilots can hold down the fort in the meantime. There's nothing to worry about.

Seravee is still functioning, though the drives need some recharge time still. Raphael... [He glances back at it, looking annoyed]

That may take some time. I wish there were better drives available, it would make this a great deal simpler.

I'm sure we'll come up with something back home eventually. After all, we'll find out the results of Ian and Linda's efforts soon enough.

Indeed. Hopefully they were successful - though in the meantime, I need to retrain my reflexes in case they weren't.

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