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[unionjackass]

piracy now isn't so different from piracy as i knew it centuries ago

at the end of the day it doesn't matter a bit how the technology has changed as long as your motivations are the same: money, a misguided sense of yourself and the universe, or if you've simply got problems controlling your impulses.

the sorry bit of it is that when one involves oneself in a dangerous occupation there are often unpleasant consequences. those who live in violence will likely meet a violent end and that's that

i realise aside from the bare essentials the contrasts are exceedingly stark but i can't help but be caught in nostalgia especially after having been lost on this accursed floating deathtrap for God knows how long. weeks i assume

if only i could stand on the deck of a rolling ship and feel the spray of water and the breath of wind that hasn't been recycled and pumped from hand-crafted gardens. recent events have made me feel more at home and yet

there is no natural place for a country to be but on his or her own landmass

i therefore should not be adrift in space

and i do not belong here.

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[logicunlocked]

Hey, no, if I'd had a problem with it I wouldn't have told you. I don't really keep a lot of secrets— I am who I am and my past is part of that.

Sounds like you're pretty homesick, though, yourself, huh? Man, I feel for you there. A lot of the time I don't mind being here much but there are times when it really hits me what I lost back home.

[unionjackass]

Y--Yes and no. You see, I don't... exist for the same reason humans do. I wasn't born with ancestors and such. Really, being here rids me of any purpose whatsoever.

[He is very, very matter of fact about this.]

[logicunlocked]

So that's what you meant when you were talking about...what'd you say, that you're a country? I thought maybe I heard that part wrong.

[ Yup, York's becoming a lot less skeptical about these kinds of claims than he used to be. ]

[unionjackass]

[laughs sincerely. the old nation's grin is audible. Conversations of a more frank nature put him in a good mood. An uncommon good mood.]

Yes! You didn't. Sorry if that's outlandish to you, but that's just how it is. Not that I'd consider myself closed-minded about the world--er, universe--but even I'm astounded at the diversity aboard this spaceship.

[a pause. He puffs a sigh.] Words I never thought I'd say. 'Aboard this spaceship', my God...

[logicunlocked]

[ He chuckles. ]

Well, the space ship part is kind of old hat for me. It's definitely different from the one I'm used to, though.

So how does this work, this whole being a country thing?