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intro post!

Who: Ulaz and you!
Broadcast: Video Fleetwide
Action: SS Caprine
When: 1/20

[As if waking up on a strange ship alone wasn't enough when Ulaz knew he shouldn't be there, now he was on yet another ship. This really was not funny. His attempts to try and get information through hacking had been poor at best and he was no closer to figuring what had happened.

He had learned one thing though; he did not like confetti. It was not amusing in the least.

He'd been pretty much silent so far - if being a Blade had taught him nothing else, it was how to make as little noise as possible. But now he doesn't really have a choice]

Can someone explain what is going on here? First I was on one ship and now another, neither of them where I should be. This must be a joke.

[And why does he say that? Hmm...]

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They're called the Reapers. Or, at least, that's what organics call them. They're a race of artificial life whose directive is to eradicate organic life every fifty-thousand years. Long story short, they were made to control a population and, as with most A.I.s, they grew beyond their initial programming and even turned on their creators.

They invaded to destroy civilization and harvest the people living in the galaxy. We were the first cycle to actually stop them.

[He had to cling to that. He couldn't actually know beyond what the Catalyst had promised, but he had to believe he made the right choice or he didn't have anything left.]

So they were created by an overly large society that didn't want to have to decide on its own how to limit their population. Having an automated machine decide how to control the population takes the fault from their hands for having someone die.

Congratulations on being the first to stop them.

Something like that, though I think they saw themselves over it all, not that they'd have any guilt for it. Honestly they were a bunch of jackasses, I got to talk to some who'd managed to stay in hiding for hundreds of thousands of years.

But thanks. It wasn't easy, a lot of people still died. But I think it'll be better.

Of course. That is the way of a tyrant, no matter what form. They are immune to the damage they cause or so they believe.

Unfortunately the sacrifices of some will gain the freedom of others. Those who lived are better off and those who perished should be properly remembered.

It sounds like you might know a thing or two about that kind of situation.

We are fighting our own war back home. Emperor Zarkon of the Galra is a tyrant who only seeks power and it doesn't matter who is in his way. Entire planets can no longer remember a life before being conquered by the Galra. But there are those risking their lives to bring down the Galra Empire, to bring peace back to the universe.

[So he's getting some lessons about the Galra right now!]

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