The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
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Gazson Magnut
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“Then you contact me, and we’ll come in and collect them from Imperial Station, just before they try to board the Yes, Sir.”
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“No. But I admire the flexibility of your moral grounding.”
Penn Hackney
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Penn Hackney
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Penn Hackney
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Penn Hackney
Haha ouch
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Emperox Grayland II,
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Marce Claremont
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If you are leaving forever, what do you take with you?
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Penn Hackney
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a thumb-sized data crypt,
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Penn Hackney
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Penn Hackney
Haha he’s a physics teacher but she’s a rocket scientist.
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Fiction would dictate
Penn Hackney
Haha metafictional humor.
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The Flow stream to End would last longer than the one going out from it;
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Gazson Magnut,
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Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby,
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Penn Hackney
Haha they assume everyone is corrupt or in the black market.
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Penn Hackney
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Ghreni Nohamapetan
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Vrenna
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the duke needs more than a hundred thousand marks from your family.
Penn Hackney
So the eighty million is not in it? p. 104.
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“You really just attempted to morally justify kidnapping me.”
Penn Hackney
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“Torture doesn’t get truthful answers.”
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“That’s what they say. Again, we’ll see.”
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somewhere between a week and a month from now, Interdependency marks were going to be worth less, pound for pound, than dirt.
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Vrenna.
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“I have notes on this rescue.”
Penn Hackney
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“People were watching me?” “Yes.” “Who?”
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Ghreni Nohamapetan
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Kiva
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Penn Hackney
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Penn Hackney
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You tried to extort an imperial official in front of a fucking cop. You have to be spectacularly dense to try to pull a stunt like that.”
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Kiva merrily counted off the seconds before Ghreni spoke again.
Penn Hackney
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“We used to be friends.” “We used to fuck each other. It’s not the same thing. Which you of all people know.”
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“Well, I have two responses to that.
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And both are beautiful.
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Vrenna Claremont
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Marce
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Penn Hackney
Haha great!
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“We told your sister immediately after they grabbed you, because I had people watching you.
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“Can I just wrap up this whole line of conversation by saying I really don’t give a shit whether you’re upset?
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But you’re not, so suck it up.
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Penn Hackney
Haha she gets it.
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Penn Hackney
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Penn Hackney
Haha gawd she’s honest when it’s not important to lie.
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Kristian Jansen,
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Penn Hackney
Haha at least he’s smiling now. Who wouldn’t be? Kiva is brilliant.
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“I’ll never see you again, which I figure is a tragedy.”
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Penn Hackney
Haha that ties up one loose end.
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