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1 xs05050100_MSG0001 Welcome to Sandy Bum Canyon![ST:wait ][ST:n ]
2 xs05050100_MSG0001_1 Aka Oblivia.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
3 xs05050100_MSG0001_2 Huh? \"Olivia?\" Friends really name it that?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
4 xs05050100_MSG0001_3 You know I said Oblivia.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
5 xs05050100_MSG0001_4 Linly, listen to Tatsu.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
6 xs05050100_MSG0001_5 This place always have sandstorms.[ST:n ]Sands get everywhere! Therefore:[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
7 xs05050100_MSG0001_6 Sandy Bum Canyon.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
8 xs05050100_MSG0001_7 Nopon ancestors name it just fine ages ago![ST:wait ][ST:n ]
9 xs05050100_MSG0001_8 Or does Linly think she better namer[ST:n ]than native Miran peoples?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
10 xs05050100_MSG0001_9 What? I...no.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
11 xs05050100_MSG0001_10 Good. Tatsu accept Linly apology and forgive.[ST:n ]...This time.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
12 xs05050100_MSG0001_11
13 xs05050100_MSG0001_12 Strange.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
14 xs05050100_MSG0002 There's nothing here.[ST:n ]It was hard to tell the scale of it from the grainy images,[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
15 xs05050100_MSG0003 but that ship should've at least been[ST:n ]big enough to spot from here.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
16 xs05050100_MSG0004 Hmm... Yeah...[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
17 xs05050100_MSG0005 Huh? Elma, look—[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
18 xs05050100_MSG0006 Another new xeno species.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
19 xs05050100_MSG0007 Hang on, maybe I can pick up what they're saying.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
20 xs05050100_MSG0008 Impossible! I'm telling you, just us is impossible, okay?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
21 xs05050100_MSG0009 Stop talking like that, would you?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
22 xs05050100_MSG0010 We have to do this, right? For everyone back on the ship![ST:wait ][ST:n ]
23 xs05050100_MSG0011 But but but how are we supposed to destroy the turrets?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
24 xs05050100_MSG0012 The place is likely crawling with Ganglion, no?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
25 xs05050100_MSG0013 So they're not Ganglion, at least.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
26 xs05050100_MSG0014 Yeah. It sounded like they're fighting against them, to me.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
27 xs05050100_MSG0015 Friends, friends—Tatsu knows. Those are Ma-non.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
28 xs05050100_MSG0016 Ma-non appeared on Mira maybe...year before friends.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
29 xs05050100_MSG0017
30 xs05050100_MSG0018 I know that sound... What is it, Elma?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
31 xs05050100_MSG0019 Just...[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
32 xs05050100_MSG0020 Tatsu, the Ganglion, and now these Ma-non...[ST:page p1=60 ]Don't you find it a little odd that[ST:n ]we can understand these alien languages?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
33 xs05050100_MSG0021 Huh...good point.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
34 xs05050100_JNK0010 Guess
35 xs05050100_SEL0011 Suggest they learned our language.
36 xs05050100_JNK0020 Hypothesize
37 xs05050100_SEL0021 Suggest some device must be translating.
38 xs05050100_MSG0022 I doubt it... Tatsu, did you study our language?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
39 xs05050100_MSG0023 Right? Must be something like that.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
40 xs05050100_MSG0024 But we haven't been using our comm devices[ST:n ]when we've been talking with Tatsu...[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
41 xs05050100_MSG0025 Well, Tatsu is fluent...more or less.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
42 xs05050100_MSG0026 Tatsu, did you study our language?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
43 xs05050100_MSG0027 Friends' language?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
44 xs05050100_MSG0028 ...What language are we speaking right now?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
45 xs05050100_MSG0029 What language? Nopon, of course![ST:n ]Friends' Nopon very good, by the way.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
46 xs05050100_MSG0030 See?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
47 xs05050100_MSG0031 Xenoforms have different anatomy, physiology—[ST:n ]different vocal setups in general.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
48 xs05050100_MSG0032 It seems likely they would struggle with our pronunciations.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
49 xs05050100_MSG0033 And yet, here we are, conversing.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
50 xs05050100_MSG0034 But if they can't even produce the sounds...[ST:n ]this shouldn't be possible.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
51 xs05050100_MSG0035 No, it shouldn't be.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
52 xs05050100_MSG0036 Unless...our words aren't being perceived as sounds at all.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
53 xs05050100_MSG0037 Maybe our intent is getting across some other way...[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
54 xs05050100_MSG0038 But how? ...Could it be something about this planet?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
55 xs05050100_MSG0039 Heh. Someone sounds pretty intrigued, huh.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
56 xs05050100_MSG0040 Well, what if it IS some kind of new phenomenon?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
57 xs05050100_MSG0041 Aren't you curious to learn more?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
58 xs05050100_MSG0042 All right, now you're starting to sound just like L.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
59 xs05050100_MSG0043 Okay, already! Friends talk less, help Ma-non more![ST:wait ][ST:n ]
60 xs05050100_MSG0044 After all, Tatsu have reputation as heropon to uphold here! [ST:wait ][ST:n ]
61 xs05050100_MSG0045 Suuure...right after a quick...snack.[ST:wait ][ST:n ]
62 xs05050100_MSG0046 [ST:wait ]
63 xs05050100_MSG0047 I'm not sure how much we can help,[ST:n ]but we should at least make contact. Agreed?[ST:wait ][ST:n ]