Sol IIIα/Luna
"Luna, hear my plea, let me find the birthsphere!" "Amen!"
On Lunar Warrior
"We know they want to find 'the birthsphere' with almost religious reverence. Do we know anything else of this?"
"We know almost nothing, they were severed from us a century ago, and evolved on their own, quite a bit. These clones..."
"It's not just me, it seems."
"No, certainly not, it shivers the skin!"
"They're rather proud of them, saying they prevent a general mobilization, which they say, considering the number of foes they're facing, would be quite in their disfavour."
"I want to talk about something else... Did you notice how they asked us not to broadcast our ident code?"
"I did, but what of it."
"I asked them what was so objectionable about Lunar Warrior, and he would not say, I pressed him asking if he objected to warrior-ships not being clones..."
"And?"
"He said that couldn't be it, since he was replying from 'Immortal combatant'. But he didn't answer my question directly, either."
"You think you know?"
"What if what they found objectionable wasn't the name, but its provenance? That we come from Terra, Luna, Ares, Sol Hyperion Invictus or Mars, or whatever they're calling it this week."
"Oh."
"Did you notice how they're 'terran this' and 'terran that'?"
"Yes, but I didn't think it was the crux of their objection, you may be onto something..."
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