Interview with Rei - Part 8 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 8 of 10.
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Interviewer: So she forgave you?
Rei: Yep. She knew, in her heart, it wasn’t my fault and she was as in love with me as I was with her. Her heart ached because I wasn’t even around. She couldn’t stay away. We made love again and she taught me how to use the Vuduri shower. She got dressed and left and when I was getting ready to leave, that was when OMCOM made his move.
Interviewer: What was that?
Rei: For OMCOM to achieve his long-term goals, he needed two things. First, he needed a Vuduri who was willing to mate a Casimir Pump to a memron which is a capital crime to the Vuduri. Well, he accomplished that by getting Rome Cesdiud. The second thing he needed was a reason to perform this act. So he planted an idea in my head about building these tiny star probes which were really just flying memrons which could communicate using PPT resonance. When the images from the telescope came back from Winfall disappearing, they didn’t have a lot of information. Only that the star dimmed then disappeared as opposed to winking out. It didn’t really get us very far. So that’s when I brought the idea of the star probes. I played right into OMCOM’s hands. The Vuduri bought it, hook, line and sinker because they had come to realize I was able to think out of the box.
Interviewer: What box was that?
Rei: It’s just a saying. The Overmind being a singular intelligence, could only come up with one, best idea and had nobody to debate it. And here I was this disgusting Essessoni who could think of novel things. The only problem was that doing what I suggested meant somebody had to commit this crime and that was my poor little Romey. She is so brave. When the time came, she did not hesitate to offer her services, even though it would eventually lead her to being sentenced to death.
Interviewer: Clearly that did not happen.
Rei: No. I’ll get to that in a bit. Anyway, she built these star probes and OMCOM was able to prove that they worked. They were able to form this lensless camera that could essentially travel back in time to view past events. Everyone, including the Overmind, saw that the concept was valid. But OMCOM claimed that he needed a ton more star probes to give sufficient resolution. So we came up with a solution to build a lot more probes a lot faster. That was when OMCOM decided to hypnotize me and plant some post-hypnotic suggestions.
Interviewer: And why did he do that?
Rei: You know, to this day, I really don’t know. I mean it saved my life and all but I think he did it because he could and he had computed some scenarios where it might come in handy. OMCOM wasn’t evil and some of the things he did to us and for us were beneficial. But I think it was only because it was in his best interest as well. Or maybe he did care. Who knows? Anyway, by this point, the plan was to take the two space tugs and tow my Ark to all the way to Tau Ceti. Rome suggested we use the opportunity to launch the pile of star probes and get me some practice flying a tug. Nobody had an objection. And then that goddamned Estar tried to kill me, us, for the second time.
Interviewer: Second time? What was the first? And what was her motive.

Tomorrow, part 9