[b][i]Ashton and Flame (Emergency Post)[/i][/b]

Ashton said, "Sure, I'd love to have some lemon bars," before taking a few from Abbadon. Then Finbarr transformed into a kitten, more new members came out of the woodwork, and finally, there was the strange new beautiful woman with a maternal aura about her, an aura which reminded Ashton of his own mother. With a smile, he greeted Amy, saying, "Hello, my name is Ashton Andrews, and the redheaded boy with me is my boyfriend, Flame."

Flame walked over and offered his hand to shake, even as his eyes struggled to focus, his perception almost piercing the mental veil which Amy's abilities cast on him. But said perception latched onto a different target when he saw [I]Nero[/i] reacting to someone without scorn, without sarcasm, and with something approximating respect. The young man smiled at that, then turned to his fellow 'Star Marine' to say something -

Only to find the subject suddenly changing. So the young man added, "Moonstrike One, are you still here? I would like a calculation as to whether other prisoners survived or not."

Moonstrike One, whose hologram had not blinked out yet, responded, "Not even we know for sure. However, we consider it unlikely that there would be other survivors of the crash - Realist was built within a Perfected Electrum chassis, after all. Either way, yes, we can mobilize our contacts in the rebellion on Plenty to spirit away Realist until your team can arrive - Fair warning that both Ascendancy Operatives and mercenaries have been dispatched to take him away, and they might exact reprisals on the rebels as a result. Then again, the rebels might also 'take care' of other possible surviving prisoners, thus resolving that specific problem..."

Ashton and Flame both nodded at that, and the former said, "Then I vote for the long route."

Flame continued, "Same - A direct confrontation with a military which can still [i]blast us out of space[/i] is not within our skillset. Now if we had a fleet of our own..."

They can see Natasha sigh at that, even as the woman said, "Can't we just bet that the Xuanzang and its systems - Including heat sinks which trap heat and prevent it from being detected by sensors - Are stealthy-ish enough to evade the military cordon?"

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