Interview with Rei - Part 6 of 10

As Steve Fisch and I get the scripts ready to sell Rome's Revolution as a streaming series, he asked me for a lot of background information that I did not have. So I took some time out to interview Rome and Rei. Here is Rei's interview, part 6 of 10.
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Rei: The result is where we are today. His new way of thinking allowed him to predict the coming of the Stareaters. And he deduced that MASAL was still alive. And that he needed more computing power to figure out more stuff. All of this led to him realizing he had to manipulate Rome and me to get him what he needed, a planet-sized mass of Casimir Pump-based memrons.
Interviewer: How did he accomplish this?
Rei: He computed all chain of events that led backwards to a singular act. And that act was getting Rome tossed out of the Overmind. They call it Cesdiud.
Interviewer: And it worked?
Rei: Yeah, it worked. You have to understand, here I was, this dope from the 21st century, flung into the 35th century and I quickly learned I knew nothing. Less than nothing. Everything I thought I knew was wrong. I met this girl, Rome, she was really cute but kind of cold. Everything around me was bland and dull. But the Vuduri technology was incredible and nearly incomprehensible. When I was growing up, I read a lot of science fiction, speculative novels, and I guess that kind of got me ready for what could happen in the future. So maybe I was a little better prepared to accept all the changes. But the people! Everybody hated me without ever having met me.
Interviewer: Why did they hate you?
Rei: It wasn’t me personally. It was everyone from my generation, the Garacei Ti Essessoni, we were responsible for the near extinction of mankind and ruining the Earth. Plus the bozos that created the Ark program sent one Ark full of soldiers and criminals back to the Earth to try and conquer what was left. Those were the Erklirte, the Ark Lords. My people had a long and sad history and the Vuduri resented us.
Interviewer: Clearly that is not the case today. What changed things?
Rei: Well, Rome took me to her room and put these bands, called Espansors, on our heads so she could read my mind, me being mandasurte, mind-deaf and all. But when she went in there, she saw all the things I described to you. The ruined Earth. She saw who I was at the core. And I got to see into her mind as well. She is a really and truly a wonderful girl, a wonderful woman, who was tortured her whole life by having to act one way but feeling another. Something happened. The bands unlocked something in her. She pushed against their restraints so hard that they malfunctioned. She was able to penetrate my essence, down to my very soul. And I got to do the same. And to our shock and delight, despite that fact that I had come 26 light-years and 14 centuries to meet her, we found out we were soulmates. We were destined to be together. At that instant, she became the love of my life. And today, I love her more than ever. She is so good and earnest and smart and caring. You will never find a finer specimen of humanity than my Rome.
Interviewer: That sounds very nice.
Rei: It was for a short time. But old OMCOM had plans for us. I am not embarrassed to say but the end result of the experience is that we made love and fell asleep. When we woke up, Rome was cast out. She was so distraught; she threw me out of her room and it was clear she never wanted to see me again. Can you imagine, you find the girl of your dreams, your soulmate and boom, she wants nothing to do with you? Boy did that hurt.

Tomorrow, part 7