Sentient Worm

Zariman - part 1

Zariman – part 1

"Anet, Margulis, what are we looking at?"

Margulis looks up from the Grineer computer she's working on, "A pile of crap that offends every iota of engineering and research training I've ever had."

Anet laughs, "Tell us what you really think."

Margulis growls, "Do you want to do this? I mean, they don't even have the decency to include implant access to the computers. Everything has to be done through these terminals. Not even the Corpus have fallen that far. Then whoever designed the system seems to have never heard of an organisation tree, or any sort of file structure."

Anet laughs again, from her own computer, that she's leaning against, "Margulis, have you forgotten that you're not Orokin anymore?"

"No, I can hardly forget now can I." She holds up a hand and allows it to take on a less human appearance for a moment.

Taylor shakes her head and goes back to guarding the door, meanwhile Anet giggles, "Then why are you trying to access the computer like an Orokin?"

Margulis huffs, "I'm not, didn't I just explain that it doesn't have any systems for interacting with implants?"

"Daughter, you are a Sentient, not an Orokin. Why do you persist in ignoring that part of yourself?"

Margulis slams her fist on the keyboard, "I'm not ignoring that part of..." She trails off as she looks down at the keyboard, "Oh, I am aren't I. But..."

Anet walks over and puts her hand on Margulis' shoulder, before initiating a join, much like a parental hug. In the join she sends over the memories of learning the Orokin way, and their hope that Margulis would have been doing the same thing for the Sentient way of being. Along with that she can't help sending a sense of exasperation with Taylor for not learning more about being a Sentient too. As they separate, Margulis looks down at her hands and deliberately lets go of the form she's so used to. As she does, her body expands out until it's finally the full size it's supposed to be. Connecting to her mother wirelessly, she regards the computer, "This isn't all you meant is it."

What she gets back is an image of herself in the gardens of the Dojo learning how to terraform. With a sigh, she turns back to the computer and invades it in seconds, and only a few moments later she's located all of the interesting information and downloaded it. It will require further perusal later, but it looks like they have the location of the Zariman anyway.

As the sound of an alarm goes off, Ordis connects to them all, "This has become an extermination mission. Find everyone that saw you enter the secure area and eliminate them."

All three of them share a glance before Margulis forces herself down into her humanoid form, and picks up her weapon.

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"Daughter, daughter, you must..."

With a mental flick, Anet turns off the incoming call as she turns her attention back to the gardens with Taylor and Margulis, "Taylor, you need to consider what happens to your plants and animals once they die, otherwise your eco system will fail almost immediately. Margulis, while a world of bacteria and fungi is very stable, you need to include insects, mammals, and reptiles in order to fill your brief. Remember your biology and geology lessons."

Hunhow's face briefly appears in a message window again, "Daughter, we need to..."

Taylor loses control of her human form as she tries to balance her garden so that it only needs a single energy input to remain stable, "Gah! This is harder than it looks."