Clash Exodus IC

[Alan Haskayne]

Fourth Day of the First Exodus, Quorum of ship captains, GPF Mothership
Over two hundred people were crammed into a converted cargo bay, most were ship captains, others were admirals or advisers, and it was a damn mess. There were bleachers at the side where people were supposed to sit calmly while the GPF, Hegemony, Commonwealth, and Pirate leaders listened so they could send supplies and engineers out fairly. Captains yelled at one and other, usually passenger liner captains yelling at cargo haulers to turn over their goods. Some yelled about how their ships were armed, and how they refused to be put under the 'oppression' of the Galactic Police Force or Neptunians. The chairman was the Neptunian Admiral, Admiral Yamamoto who slammed a gavel against a desk and cried out "Order! Come to order!" but it seemed to have no effect on the crowd who continued to yell at one and other. Yukiro was part of the crowd as a Representative of the Free Robotic Hegemony, and as such sat in the front, she knew the reason too, their actual leader wouldn't depart his sister's side, even for an important meeting.like this. However as she sat there she thought about what he had told her, she was the daughter of the Admiral, so she was Yukiro Yamamoto, she was going to confront her mother with this after the meeting. For now she just leaned back and watched the meeting, if nothing else it was entertaining.

Yami
Yami walked away from the Quorum, annoyed by all the arguing and muttered "And they call assassination wrong..." thinking about how the captains seemed to do nothing ti help each other and just complained. She walked along toward the mess hall, wanting something to eat quite badly, given that she didn't eat for a while. She wondered if anyone cared that she was out, because it wasn't like anyone let her go, the door was blown off its hinges during the heavy fighting when the ship lost power. She had taken the opportunity to leave her cell, and figured Xiana would be too busy fighting the cascade of system crashes that came from the virus to deal with her at the moment. She found herself a plate and got some shrimp to eat once in the mess hall.

Alex Brisco
Alex worked on one of the exterior hardpoints that was damaged during the fighting, he was an adapt mechanic, but nothing short of the hand of god himself could actually fix the gun turret that was once attached. Instead he chose to do a salvage operation, though the gun was beyond repair he was able to remove things that likely couldn't be produced anymore, like the focusing array. He worked on this to try and keep his mind off the loss of his grandparents, who were a big part of his life before the Exodus. He tried to think of Elisa and the fact there weren't many people left in the known galaxy, and that he should feel lucky that even one loved one survived.

Tabitha
Tabitha Hyperion's ship was docking to the central GPF Mothership, though she couldn't believe what had occurred in the last four days. Luna had been killed off, most of her corporation was destroyed, and the robot who had a grudge against her had survived and was in her fleet. She walked toward the meeting, knowing it was her duty to represent all three Hyperion ships left in the universe. She opened the door to go in and found it instantly repulsive, so many warm bodies yelling at one and other sickened her. She walked in anyway, found her seat, and waited for someone to bring the whole damn meeting to order

Alan and Alanna
Alan sat on a chair at Alanna's bedside, to organics it would look like she was sleeping, but she was in fact facing a total reboot of her core processing systems, which she now had to do every day for around 6 hours. Alan looked concerned and gently sang "Close your eyes, go to sleep, babies in the cradle fast asleep. Close your eyes, go to sleep, babies in the cradle counting sheep. Should I die before I wake, bless me lord, my soul to take." he was certainly not religious and found it idiotic that any robot would be, but lately he found himself praying for his sister, and knew she was religious, so that's why he sung that verse of the song. He looked up at a clock and knew he would stay there the five hours, and forty six more minutes until she woke again. Unless Yukiro indicated his presence was needed to keep ship captains in line on the Mothership.

[Edenecho]

(Hawke)
Hawke sat in the room with all the captains and whatnot, shouting their heads off. He shook his head, thinking that people were idiots. He muttered something that seemed like it was to himself, then stood up. "Order! That means shut the hell up, all of you! We can't work out our problems by yelling at each other, it will get us nothing! We have to stand TOGETHER if we are to survive! Pull yourselves together, and act like people, rather then a bunch of mad dogs fighting over scraps of meat!" He shouted, his voice amplified through the room's comm speakers with Xiana's help.

Xiana knew Yami was out, but just didn't care.

(Faltinmack)
Faltinmack had avoided the meeting, having no interest in being there, nor bringing attention to himself. Not that anyone there would have anything against a non-human, but you never know. He wandered around Hawke's Mothership and ended up in the mess hall. He noticed a young girl there that he was pretty sure he had heard about. He walked over to Yami and asked,"You're Yami, right? I've heard about you. I thought you were locked up."

(Leroy)
Leroy sat in the meeting room. He had been, surprisingly, chosen to represent the Space Pirates. It wasn't his choice. Skandar's parents had chosen him instead of going themselves because Leroy was probably one of the most feared Space Pirates out there, and they wanted a representative that was feared. They also wanted to spend time with their son, rather then waste it at this meeting. Leroy wasn't to happy with it to begin with, but he was even less happy with it now. It was a total waste of time, even if Hawke managed to get order. He just sat quietly, taking everything in and recalling his conversation with the Shark Commando on Narso. He knew what he said was true. As long as humans, or any of sentient race existed, chaos was inevitable. It was the way they were, it was natural. But maybe that wasn't always a bad thing. He knew he would prefer a world with some chaos then a world without it.

(Anniston and Anastasia)
Anastasia and Anniston sat together in the meeting room, staring wide-eyed at the captains around them. They were here because they were the captains of their ship, but their non-fluent English was failing them in all this noise. They glanced at each other, spoke in their language, shrugged, and went back to staring.

[Leslie]

Vittorio and Jodelle
Vittorio was pacing around his room, seeming stressed and worried. All this shit that was happening recently was making him more stressed then usual. Nothing he had done so far was as stressful as what had just occurred. He tried to be strong, but it was easier said then done for him. Knowing that his family was likely all dead now wasn't helping either. Worrying about Jodelle's own mental state and her family didn't help, so everything was just piling on top of him. He figured it wasn't likely to get any easier either, because it would be very possible for things to get rougher for a while, not easier, and he hoped he could keep his sanity during all of this stress.

'Calm down Vittorio" Jodelle demanded in a partly serious and partly joking tone. She walked over to him and grabbed him by the arm to stop him from pacing, then spoke up again. "Pacing around isn't going to help you any. Just relax. I know it's easier said then done, but just relax" She said, smiling at him and taking both of his hands in hers. Even if it seemed like she was relaxed, and relatively happy, inside her thoughts was a whole different world. Her mind was racing with thoughts related to her family, and she had to mentally push back the urge to just cry, to stay strong. There was also anger inside her, but that wasn't quite so bad....at the moment. To add on top of all of this, she was worried for Vittorio, and everyone on the Galactic Police Force Mothership in general.

As soon as Jodelle approached and told him to calm down, stopped him, then took his hands, he seemed to do as she told and relaxed, temporarily. He smiled at her, remembering why he loved her so much. She was always there for him, to make him feel better, to calm him down, and just to generally make him happier. When they had rescued her again, got her back from the Vika, he was so relieved. It took a while for her to get back to her normal self, but he was okay with that, because he at least knew that he would get Jodelle back. There would likely be new bad memories piled on top of memories from her torture, and now this, but at least she was home, and safe. Now he could protect her, and try his hardest to keep her out of the main fight, and safe. He wasn't going to lose her again.

After a short period of time, he started to smile, and look directly at Jodelle. "Jodelle, you are always so good at reminding me why I love you so much" He said to her, smiling at her and making her blush, pushing back the bad thoughts for a moment. He then leaned in and kissed her on the lips for about 10 seconds, before pulling away, to what seemed to be Jodelle's disappointment. Jodelle smiled back at him, and said, "I love you too", and then they just stood there smiling at each other for a boringly long amount of time, for no real reason whatsoever.

Adair
Adair was in her room, staring at a wall, pencil in hand and paper laying out in front of her on a table. She was trying to get her mind off things, of everything that was going on, but it was easier said then done. She figured that the best way of trying to do that was by doing her favorite pass time, but even that wasn't distracting her as much as she'd hoped it would, and she kept zoning out by staring at a wall, or at her paper for a long time. For the most part, her thoughts weren't that bad. There were worries, sure. And lots of sadness for all the people she knew on this ship who had lost their families during the attack, being parent-less like her now. One time during the blasts at Hawke's ship, she had hit her head, but not badly. Pretty much all she did right now was quietly draw something, not doing anything noteworthy at the moment. It was something for Hawke, because she knew that he could probably use anything right now to help keep him happy, if only briefly. Especially after the likely stress at the meetings of the Captain's she heard about, which she automatically assumed would go to pieces pretty quick, because apparently she didn't have much trust in anyone.

Malli
"This is Malli speaking. Anyone out there?" Malli asked into her long-range comm system for about the 50th time, trying to pick up some sign of people still existing in the Galaxy other then her. She had been rather far out when the attacks happened, but still got some news of what was going on. Now, she couldn't get any contact with anyone, even on her longest frequency. At this point, all she wanted was to be in civilization, instead of just flying out aimlessly in space. It wasn't often that she'd rather stay aboard another ship for weeks on end then fly in space for majorly long periods of time. And she knew that if she stayed out here too long, she would run out of gas, drift off into space, then eventually suffocate to death with a lacking of air, and it wouldn't be the most pleasant way to go. Though, she did have ways to kill herself if it came to that, so she wouldn't have to die slowly. Her hope was that Skandar was still alive, and she could take refuge on his ship for a while, maybe actually help people with the likely violence that would ensue, because that was just how humans were, even in a time of crisis where they should be working together and not killing each other off, lowering the limited population down even more. Skandar was really the only person she knew relatively well, even if it wasn't like they knew each other perfectly. Everyone else was just random people she met, and most of the people she had slept with, except Skandar, were a one time thing and she never saw them again. For her, Skandar had been the most 'special' person she had been with, and some feelings that hit her confused her, though she pretended not to think about them, especially around Skandar.

All she pretty much did was continuously ask if anyone was out there, though she changed it to only "Is anyone out there?" instead of saying her name, because she was sick of saying her name repeatedly. What she did was pretty much pause for 15 to 30 seconds between each message, waiting for a response before trying again, continuing for quite some time in hopes of some response.

Alma
Alma was sitting around being bored on Tabitha's ship. She decided against going to the meeting, because she didn't trust Hawke. She figured as soon as she walked in there Hawke would likely arrest her for the murder of a bunch of his soldiers, along with other people, including her own parents. Strangely enough though, she didn't feel good about everything that was going on. At first she expected to be happy about all of these attacks, and the mass death of billions of people. But now that it had happened, she realized she had a soft spot after all, and she actually felt sadness. Sadness for the people who lost so many relatives and family, and the whole crappy situation that was going on in general. Part of her didn't like it, but another part actually felt it welcoming that she felt this mostly unfamiliar feeling of sadness for others. Maybe it was because she realized the future of the human race was actually at stake now, but she had this feeling that that wasn't it, and she actually did feel sad about it. Not that it didn't mean she wouldn't still be ruthless if 'necessary', it just meant that she would likely avoid causing problems and instead help in some way. She thought of the irony of her saving Hawke's life, or rescuing people on some ship for him, instead of getting locked up by him. Though, she figured she would get locked up anyway, even if she helped them, because she 'wasn't trustworthy', and apparently because she didn't have much hope in Hawke giving her a second chance, for whatever reason, since it was Hawke we were talking about. And right now, she didn't even look scary, and was just dressed up as a normal 13-year old girl, mostly because she had no reason at all to look intimidating right now.

Azura
Azura was standing in the meeting room in a corner, listening to all the shouting. Shouting like this was always so freaking pointless in her mind, because it got you nowhere. What did people really expect to accomplish by shouting and yelling on the top of their lungs over each other? That would seriously get you nowhere, ever. Yet here they were, shouting and yelling at each other for no freaking reason as if it would magically accomplish the problems, instead of them all having a civil discussion about what to do.

She had the urge to speak up and tell people to be quiet and act more civilized, but didn't want to get out of line and figured that one of the more 'authority figures' would stop it, and she would just 'keep guard' while everything went on, in case a shooting match replaced the shouting match. And she was right, an authority figure did attempt to calm things down, that person being Hawke. He did it in a rather awesome way, pretty much summing up how they were acting and owning them in the process. She smiled at what Hawke said, but stood her ground wherever she was, and just watched, waiting to see if the people actually mellowed the fuck down and talked civilized or just went back to their pointless, endless shouting match.

[Alan Haskayne]

Quorum of Ship Captains
The ship captains generally calmed down and took their seats when yelled at. Tabitha almost chuckled to herself about how easy that was, she knew they were all scared and for once was thankful she couldn't feel fear. One captain stood up and asked "May I, Captain Dakota Mal of the ship Heavenly Carrier, have the floor?" the Neptunian admiral nodded and the captain said "My ship, the Carrier, has around 1,800 people onboard, we are built to hold 800, and we are only getting food and water enough for 1,600. I would like to submit my requisition for space on other ships to hold some of my people." another captain stood up, Neptunian by the look of her "I, Captain Yukiko Hanara of the ship Rising Sun, will offer space in exchange for GPF marines to control my population, they are breaking out in riots over the minuscule amount of food provided." a Hegemony captain in turn stood up and said "I am captain 50802 of the ship Unending Heresy, I know the GPF doesn't have the marines to police ships, but I offer Hegemony robots to any captain who wishes their assistance in keeping order." Captain Hanara looked over at the Hegemony captain and said "Shut up AI scum, no one wants your fucking robots, we want GPF flesh and blood. In fact I call for all AI to be purged from their computer banks and Hegemony ships put to a much better use carrying organics, or ripped apart and used for repairs." another captain stood up, amazingly he wore a GPF Logistical Corp uniform and gleefully said "The captain of the San Fransico seconds this idea." the Neptunian Admiral nodded and said "All in favor." around 2/3s of the captains raised their hands "All opposed." and the Hegemony and some Neptunian captains voted against it, making a minority. The Admiral then turned to Hawke "The law has been passed, please instruct your tech officers to purge the AI of this ship at once, then we will need all your remaining troops to force this law on.the Hegemony fleet." Yukiro's eyes filled with tears and she cried "No, mommy, please don't let them do this to our ships." the Neptunian Admiral scoffed and shoved Yukiro down saying "Mommy? I gave you to the Hegemony for a reason you freak, I knew you would be tortured, and hurt for your entire life. You know what though? I didn't care, because you are nothing but a freak of nature, and I love AI more than I love you, and I just voted to have them exterminated." she then put her boot on Yukiro's throat and said "Maybe you should just die with your AI friends." Yukiro didn't fight, squirm, or struggle, of all the years she was put through abuse and.torture she had told herself that her parents would be there to rescue her some day, that she must have been kidnapped and that her parents were looking for her. Now that she knew the truth, that her mother just didn't love her, she just wanted to die, she didn't want to deal with life, especially in a bleak existence without hope.

Yami
Yami pulled out her pistol the minute the person in front of her said her name "Right now you have two choices Hegemony soldier, you can either walk out of here and report failure to Alan, or you can die where you stand." she was still fed information about interesting things in the Hegemony and she recognised him. She then sighed slightly as she holstered her pistol "Actually, you don't seem like you want to kill me. I have kinda a sixth sense for that kinda thing. So why are you here? Keeping tabs on me.for the Hegemony? Asking for tips and tricks? Or could it be you actually desire to help me out with my latest mission." she picked up her glass of water as she thought about what she had seen. Salverio and Tabitha torturing Adair, though Adair said Tabitha was innocent, so she just focused on Salverio. The idea he could hurt a child made her blood boil, but she knew it was just stupid that he attacked Adair. She would make him pay for what he did, no one would know what happened, he would just disappear from whatever ship he hid on. Then she would make him see that what happened to Adair would be a walk in the park compared to what a Hegemony assassin could do to him.

Malli
A transmission came back to Malli that said "With stars around like broken glass, showing the painful reflection of a million civilisations dead. Only the one true God may repair this for us, this is Hegemony baseship 1098, we hear your call and will assist if you accept the one true God into your heart and feel his eternal love." the particular baseship was full of the Robotic religious fundamentalists, they were part of a faction who violently opposed Alan, using their warships in hit and run attacks against their 'Heretic' robotic brethren. They were ironically guilty of worse crimes than the Hegemony though, using a wide variety of biological weapons on Suriso, and letting advanced computer viruses wreck entire civilian fleets. Both of the weapons eventually spread to other worlds, which would have killed a great many people if they weren't blown up with atomic weapons first.

[Edenecho]

Hawke sat down again once everyone quieted down, shaking his head. He just kind of listened to most of it. He obviously voted against purging the AI. When the Admiral told Hawke to tell his tech officers purge the AI, however, he simply said,”No.” At the same time, a pissed-off hissing sound erupted from the back of the room. It quickly quieted down, but anyone who wanted to see where it was coming from would have seen two of the race that made Xiana. Hawke stood up again and shook his head,”I will not order my people to commit genocide! I know you're probably telling yourselves that it wouldn't be genocide, because they're not really people, they're machines. That's a load of freaking crap. They think, they feel, just like any organic. It may be programming, but they still think and feel. Now think about it like this. The AI never wanted to commit genocide against organics. Some, maybe, but over all they just wanted equality. If they didn't want to commit genocide....and we do....How much better are we if we resort the genocide when they didn't? And if it wasn't for the AI on this ship, the war between the Space Pirates, Hegemony and Galactic Police would have gone a lot worse then it has! Some of you may owe your lives to her, even if you won't admit it,” He paused slightly before continuing, turning to the captains who had supported purging the AI,”It's because of people like you that the AI have gone to such extreme measures to get what they want,” He said it with venom in his voice. When the Admiral put her boot on Yukiro's throat, he pulled out his handgun and pointed it at the Admiral. “Step back, I will not have people murdering each other for no reason on my ship,” The lights in the room suddenly darkened and turned a reddish color.

(Faltinmack)
Faltinmack narrowed his eyes at Yami, but so slightly that to her it would look like he was just staring at her,”I didn't come here to kill you,” He said. He narrowed his eyes even more and shook his head, crossing his arms,”Would you believe that I just want to talk to you? Do you just assume everyone wants to harm you or use you to spy?” He tilted his head and just kind of looked at her for a bit. “What are you thinking about?”

(Skandar)
Skandar heard Malli's call, as well as the response she got. He walked over to the controls of his ship and replied,”Hey, Malli! It's good to hear from you!” He said cheerfully. He then added more softly,”I'm glad to hear you're alive.” He then perked up again and said,”Don't listen to those fanatics. Stupid god-loving freaks who only offer help to those who accept the 'one true god'. I mean, not that I like to help people, like, ever, but at least it's not discriminating against people who don't believe what you they do,” cheerfully. “Come stay on my ship! You can meet my parents, and maybe some other people. It's crazy how one minute we can be fighting a three way war, the next you find yourself in the same fleet as the two other sides you were just trying to blow out of the sky. In my opinion we should still blow them out of the sky, but that's just me.”

(Leroy)
Leroy was relieved when the shouting stopped, it was starting to give him a headache. He was fairly sure that if Hawke hadn't managed to shut everyone up, he could have. It was one of the reasons he was chosen. He could use fear to get his way. He wasn't so sure he could get away with it on a Galactic Police Force ship though. When it came time to vote on whether or not to purge the AI, he spent quite a long time thinking about it. He seemed split, he wanted them to be purged, he really did, as it would be a big help toward his goal....but something stopped him. In the end he voted against it, not that it name much of a difference. To the rest, he just sat quietly.

[Leslie]

Azura
As everyone calmed down and stopped acting like such assholes to each other with pointless shouting matches, she relaxed some as well, since she was ready in case things got out of hand and heated. Though, if things got out of hand, she wasn't exactly sure she'd know what exactly to do, or who started what, since there was so many people here. As they started to have relatively civil discussions, at least for the brief moment, she listened. She hated how everyone broke out into riots over the most retarded thing. They break into riots because of food rations, which she found ridiculous, because if they used their brains, they should realize pretty easily that they were in a time of crisis, and needed to conserve their food. But nope, they riot as if they can magically give them plenty of food. But as soon as the one asshole Captain said something about not wanting the 'AI scum', she shook her head. If there was one thing she hated, it was someone speaking up for everyone as if nobody wanted the so-called AI scum, as if they knew what everyone wanted. Sometimes, she wished she would speak up, but felt that as more of a guard then a captain of anything except her own personal, 1-seat fighter ship that she didn't really have the authority to add her own part into the debate. She knew Hawke would make the right decision though, and he pretty much put it into perspective of what these Captain's were saying. But she figured that some of the Captain's would likely just completely ignore it and have it go right over their heads, but she obviously kept that to herself. Though, as things got a little more out of hand again, she tensed up again, and was at the ready in case things went downhill. When the Admiral douche bag pushed Yukiro over and started choking her, she shook her head. Did the idiot Admiral really expect to get away with trying to kill someone in front of everyone? Especially in front of Hawke? People amazed her, especially some of the people who seemed to have no brains whatsoever in a high place of power, like Captain's of big ships. Which, sadly, seemed to be a rather large portion of this Fleet they were a part of. At least, in the captain realm. She wondered what the percentage of votes would be in the entire Fleet, if they citizens had a say in the votes. And when Hawke pointed the gun at the Admiral that was trying to cause problems, she stepped beside Hawke and pulled out her own 'side arm', or more like her main gun, but didn't point it at the Admiral. Though, she probably would if the Admiral ended up trying to do something stupid. Like trying to shoot Hawke or something. Part of her was muttering about the fact they'd probably be better off without this Admiral, but she kept that to herself, because she tended to not like when her mind had these darker thoughts that almost, if not all humans seemed to have here and there.

Malli
Malli was glad to have someone pick up her 'distress call', until they started speaking, to which she first reacted by raising her eyebrow at the babble that made literally no sense to her. Then she heard the part about the 'one true God', and she literally felt like hitting her head on something, because she had very short patience for religious zealots, and had no intentions of coming on their ship. As she was about ready to respond, she started powering up her FTL drive, because she though that if she declined, she might be in trouble. Not that it mattered that much, since she was sending off a long-distance call, so whoever she was contacting was a long way. But she was being cautious.

Then a familiar voice came in. Skandar to be exact. "Hold" She said to the religious zealots, then payed more attention to Skandar. "Good to see you too. I thought I was going to die out there from running out of supplies or something" She said to him, letting out a sigh or relief to hear a familiar voice. "Good to see you alive as well. You care about someones life now, do you?" She asked jokingly. Then she let out a chuckle. "Me listening to the religious zealots is the last thing on my mind. I was just about ready to jump away after I told them I had no intention of accepting the one true God, in case, you know, they went a little bonkers" She said, laughing. "You just contradicted yourself" She teased. "You said you don't like to help people ever, then pretty much offered me help" She said, smiling. "But I'll definitely stop by. Can you give me general coordinates of where you are, so I can jump to you? Hopefully without being blown to bits by religious zealots" She said. She laughed, and nodded. "Yeah, though for once I think it might be best that we work together and not blow each other out of the sky, but that's just me. I'm a little less certain about my stance of living life to it's fullest and letting the problems pan out however they pan out at the moment, because times have changed. We'll see, though" She said.

[Alan Haskayne]

The Neptunian Admiral glared at Hawke, and opened her mouth to say something when an older Venusian stood up and said "Commander, we can not commit genocide against robots, the word itself indicates that it can.only be applied to people who are born. Correct me if I'm wrong, but AI are.not born, they are built, so no matter how awful our crimes are, they are not genocide." the Neptunian Admiral glanced at the Venusian and kinda just rolled her eyes and told Hawke "Can a robot love? Can they are for one and other like we do? Of course not, that is all in our genetic code, but we have proven they can hate, that they are jealous, that they display the worst of humanity." she then put her hands on her hips and added "Unless you want to hold us at gunpoint and shoot anyone who steps out of line than I suggest you start.listening to our demands. If I order it we can stop exporting food goods to the fleet, 73% of the current food supply in the fleet is Neptunian, and 100% of the water, so if you don't do as we ask we will starve you out. Now purge the AI from the banks of this ship." one of the captains who Hawke tried to guilt trip by saying AI only acted in self defence cried out "It is our right to deactivate our own robots, and rip apart our owned AI." the man was also Lunan, which was the birthplace of Hegemony AI. Tabitha glanced over her shoulder and said "Let you all stand witness to this, I Tabitha Hyperion, will today declare that all Hyperion built AI be placed in the public domain, and their rights as property of Hyperion Conglomerate struck null and void." the Lunan captain said "Captain of the Sea of Serenity withdraws his vote for AI purge. This makes the vote 63-42, with many cowards abstaining from voting."

Two Neptunian Marines raised their rifles and pointed them toward Hawke when he pointed his pistol at their Admiral. She simply lifted her boot from Yukiro's neck, and waved for the Marines to lower their weapons, which they promptly did. She then spat on Yukiro and.told Hawke "I am.just showing my robot loving whore of a daughter that I quite honestly don't.give a shit if she dies. I wasn't going to kill her, don't worry." Yukiro just curled into a ball, sobbing into her knees. As if her mind wasn't unstable enough already, there was first the attacks, and.then her mother being to worst mother she could imagine. She just wanted to lay down and die, and honestly they should probably call someone in the Hegemony, because their delegate seemed to busy sobbing to pay attention.

(Yami)
Yami glanced up with a sad look in her eyes, she had seen combat, the horrors of war, and knew that she had caused horror and terror in others. All of this was reflected in her eyes as she said "Why do I assume people want to use me as a spy or soldier? Well I could say, my life, my email, my training, pessimism, realism, take your pick, any of those work." she was rather sad today, but that was reflected in negative personality traits. She sighed when he asked what she was thinking about "Killing, thanks to your stupid experiments in the Hegemony I can't think of anything else. I can't be myself, I look at the person who cares for me as a father should and the first thing I think is how to kill him. Would you just get away from me? I don't want to talk to anyone who is part of the organisation who would turn a sweet innocent ten.year old into me." she tried to avoid telling him about Salverio, because she wanted to get to him first. There would be no trial, not even a Hegemony style rigged one. He would just suffer, for months maybe, however long it took him to starve to death, he would die in agony with no hope of rescue, Yami would see to that. She then got up and walked toward the hangers, it was time.to cash in.some favors she was owed and get Salverio's location.

[Edenecho]

"Words can be misleading, they can sound like they mean something while they mean something different. The word itself indicating something doesn't mean it's true. Beside, that would depend on your definition of 'born'. Some AI are created by organics, yeah, but AI can combine code to make another AI. It's different in many ways, as far as I know, but in short, AI can procreate. It may not be close enough to organic 'birth' to you, but it is to me." Hawke said, then shot the Neptunian Admiral a slight glare through narrowed eyes,"Yes, and yes. Hate and jealousy is as much just our genetic code as love and kindness. If they can hate and feel jealousy, they can love and be kind. Your argument doesn't make any sense. Besides, YOU have proof that they can hat and be jealous, but I have seen that they can love and care for each other. Alan loves Alanna, and Xiana and Alanna care for each other." He crossed his arms and looked at her calmly. "You won't starve me out, I have enough food to last a LONG time, AND I have enough to share. You feed the people who support you, I feed the people who support me. I honestly don't think we should split up the fleet like this, but I won't purge the AI, and that's all there is to it. No argument will change my mind, so don't even bother." He gave the dude who was saying it was their right to rip apart their AI and whatnot a death glare. "Do you think it's your right to kill and tear apart any slaves that you own? Not that you own any, just in theory." He kind of wished Alan was here, so he could see how much Hawke was comparing AI to humans.

When the Neptunians raised their rifles and pointed then at Hawke, many of the non-Hegemony/commonwealth captains drew their weapons and stood up as well, pointing them at the Neptunians. Hawke immediately raised a hand and said,"Stand down," In an annoyed voice. Even though he had absolutely no power over most of the captains, they stood down anyway. It kind of showed that he had people following him out of respect, not just because he was superior. He lowered his weapon when the Admiral moved her foot, then, glaring at the Admiral, went over to Yukiro. He gave her a shake, and said,"Hey, I need your help in this," He said gently. He was probably acting more fatherly then Yukiro's parents ever did. "The AI need your support."

While Hawke was busy trying to get Yukiro to get up, Xiana was telling Alan that the Hegemony may need his support. She also informed him that if he were to go, she would watch over Alanna.

(Faltinmack)
Faltinmack frowned slightly, not that it mattered, since you couldn't even see emotion in his eyes. "Hawke doesn't want any of that, does he? He shows you that not everyone wants to use you. But I guess I'm Hegemony." He just kind of watched her for a bit, then said,"I bet there's a way to get rid of that. And before you say there isn't, my people are more advanced in technology then the rest of the galaxy." He didn't say anything when she told him to leave, and he also didn't move. When she left, he just watched her leave.

(Skandar)
"You're lucky you managed to find us! I mean, I doubt you can fit very many supplies in that little ship of yours," He said jokingly. He raised an eyebrow,"I've always cared about certain lives," He said, actually sounding kind of offended. He laughed and said,"Yeah, religious people can be bonkers sometime. Like Saverio!" He gave a slight chuckle, shaking his head,"I said 'Like, ever' not 'ever' there's a difference," He joked. He gave a nod, then sad,"Sending you the co-ordnance now." He smiled in a slightly twisted way,"It doesn't mean I'm going to be nice to everyone all of a sudden, though."

[Leslie]

Azura
Azura continued to listen in silence, and debate stuff in her head related to what was being said. Part of her wanted to punch the Venusian in the face, but obviously she didn't actually act on that thought. There were many thoughts that she didn't act on, and pretty much every single one of my characters didn't act on. Because to act on them would be stupid, and there wasn't really any reason to act on them anyway. As she continued to listen, she felt laughing, because they were talking about how the AI 'display the worst in humanity', and here they were going on about purging the AI, pretty much showing how much they were just like their AI, if not even worse. But, she kept quiet. There was no specific subject that was about to send her over the edge. There wasn't really any subject that did that. If she wasn't here to just 'guard' Hawke, that might be another story. She might at least add something. She really felt like facepalming when the Admiral started threatening to cut off the water supply and food supply. This was when her thoughts that the universe might be better off without the existence of the human race in general. Just because of some disagreement, they were going to threaten to starve them out. It was honestly pathetic. The human race couldn't even work together when the entire existence of the human race was at stake, and she had to just shake her head. To the rest, she only listened, because she really didn't have any thoughts on it.

As soon as the Neptunian Marines pointed their guns at Hawke, her own pistol was out in an instant, and pointed at one of the marines. Her main reason for reacting the way she did was because of natural reflexes. Her natural response to her Commander having guns pointed at him was to point her gun back at the people, in case things got ugly. But as soon as Hawke ordered everyone to stand down, she did so without hesitation. And since the Neptunian Marine's stood down too, she felt more relaxed, but not enough to entirely holster her weapon again. She was still holding onto it just in case. When everything calmed down for the mean time, she just walked over to Hawke and kneeled down next to Yukiro, frowning at how the Admiral had just treated her, and feeling bad for her because she knew she probably felt terrible right now. But since Hawke was busy with her, she didn't try any desperate attempts to make her feel better.

Malli
Malli nodded. "Yeah. There's not a whole lot of room for anything but a place for me to sleep and a place to drive" She said. To the next part, she seemed to feel guilty for what she said. "Sorry, bad joke" She said, letting out a sigh and frowning, but quickly lightened up. She just nodded to what he said about Saverio though. To the next part, she just smiled this time. And when he said he was sending her coordinates, she nodded again, then started looking at the coordinates when she received them. She nodded again to what he said, not really having a particular say in that, then she shut off her communication with the religion zealots entirely. "Thanks for the coordinates. I'll be there shortly" She said, then gave him a quick wave before shutting off the communication.

She jumped to near the co-ordinates, but not right on them, obviously, for safety reasons. Knowing that the fleet she just mysteriously jumped to would likely be paranoid and trigger happy, maybe before even trying communications, she quickly sent out a transmission of "Please do not fire. I am a friendly. I repeat, I am a friendly", and hoped for the best of not being completely obliterated.

Then after a little bit of time pulled into Skandar's families ship. It wasn't often that she came and parked near the same persons ship more then once. She pretty much considered it being at the same place, since his ship was parked on this ship. Though, some of the more major space ships don't count, because she used those for refueling sometimes. And, once she was parked, she just hopped out and waited to be greeted.