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[Niko has had a little bit of a confusing week. He didn't expect to be asked along on a diplomatic mission; usually not anything he's good at (in his mind). But he came along, figuring he was there as bodyguard more than anything else.]

[But now he's returned, and he wants to check in.]

Hey, ah.... So I just got back. I had to go with Thán for a mission and now he has a new boyfriend for peace purposes I guess. I am not really sure what happened there. Sort of like an arranged marriage? [He's actually kind of suspicious of this whole-matchmaking thing now. He's always disliked match-making on some level, but there is something deeply unsettling about it here. Just how mandatory and committing it seems.]

[He doesn't hate the match he was given, not at all. But he knows there might be people they're even better suited to.]

Look, I am a little nervous about this big business here. Capitalism is shit, government is shit, and is bad enough when taking advantage of lonely people. But I think we are going to have to be sure to be good to the new guy because we saw what happened the last time we fucked up diplomacy.

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Interplanetary things are never easy to properly arrange.

[ Though he doesn't mind at all that it's between two men. Cyrus has seen some shit on his own planet so this isn't the weirdest thing. ]

It went south pretty fast last time, I take it? Sorry I'm new here, you're probably getting this question a lot, but what exactly has been going.

[vengeance_driven]

No, it's okay. I would much prefer peopleask than repeat what was bullshit situation, easy to fix.

We stopped at a mostly peaceful planet, one that had progressed past resource wars. But they accused captains of having stolen from them when they came through before. Whether it is true or not, the captains did agree to leave. Much of the crew acted like idiots to the guy asking us to go. I think maybe if we had not, we would have had time limit greater than four days.

But the captains didn't leave when they were told. So the people of the world tried to make us leave. They pissed off a member of the crew who, when is angered, can smash through whole buildings, and the buildings there were mostly glass. The ship was damaged, and the reaction from it caused the planet to be destroyed. Only the people who escaped with us and on the escape vessels survived.

That would not have happened if we had followed a simple request, or if more of us had been kind to the representative saying we should leave.

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[ Well damn. That sure is one way to mess up PR on a whole nother level. Cyrus is silent for a while thinking it through in his head. Most of the planets he's ever been to were either being destroyed and basically on the brink of entire annihilation. He's never had that pressure of keeping an entire planet safe until recently, so he can only imagine what it must feel like to bring about its destruction. ]

Damn. That...that's a bit worse then I imagined. [ His voice is tinged with uncertainty. ] So we definitely have to be careful on this planet. There's no telling what would happen if word got out about that last occurrence.

[vengeance_driven]

It may be out, which makes it much more important. There were survivors. Ships full of them, now searching for new homes.