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At the present time- finding ways to work with or include the Baalathi in your normal industry and power-generation, whilst managing all the interspecies drama, security risk, and the obvious propaganda required given how much the average Jaxtian hates and fears the gas bags... No no, it simply won't do. Best to <span class="mu-i">focus on other matters</span> and leave the defanged Baalathi where they are. Besides, putting some of the Baalathi into Max's atmosphere would infect it with Baalathi, and given their rate of reproduction, it would be impossible to remove them. Better to keep your home system's source of Tritium sterile and reliable; just in case.
<span class="mu-g">“Thanks for coming all the way out here to Xin, brother. I know you're busy right now, what with the vow and all...”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Of course, Kimnan, it's no trouble at all. I hope this isn't about the strange disappearances of the blue Haazar- The colony administrator or an overseer should be handling that!”</span>
<span class="mu-g">“No no, my liege. Come, let us enjoy the new bioenclosure. I hear the air is almost nine percent oxygen now. Perhaps our descendants will be able to run through the fields here totally unaided- though we probably won't.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”...Kimnan, I don't wish to draw attention to your <span class="mu-i">disability</span>, but how are you walking so well unaided?”</span>
<span class="mu-g">“I programmed some MkIII drones to follow me around and make a click when I stray from the path, or when an object is nearby. I only need two or three to echolocate. I'm not nearly as “aware” down here as I am up there, when I'm flying a ship in Hyperspace.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Hah- brilliant! That's my brother- a genius! Please, tell me more about your experiences when you use the Starsight. You've become quite the mystic.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">“...Heh, I thought you'd be mad at me. I had a dream you were threatening to burn me at the stake if I didn't stop spreading spiritualist sentiment.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Could you see in the dream, or was it a blind dream?”</span>
<span class="mu-g">“I could see, yeah. Weird, now that I think about it, I think it was black and white... But dreams are a boring topic. How's your wife? Mine has been putting “safety cushions” on every hard-edged piece of furniture in the house- it's driving me insane...”</span>
