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I haven't spent a lot of time here, but I have noticed this trend people have. They get stressed out, and I don't blame them, and then they decide that it's okay to be nasty to each other?

Is it possible we all just stay calm and remember that there's such a thing as manners? For instance, I for one, am sorry I brought up pirates at all. Ever. Never again. I'll keep my big mouth shut.

I'm just saying that this is worse than living in a college dorm, it would really be helpful if we didn't antagonize each other just to prove how smart we are.

Also, who around here keeps pets? Is there a list? A ship manifest of animals? For the curious, really.

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....Spanish?

You got it, chica.

Do you actually speak it?

'Course I do, it's my first language. I'd demonstrate, but the damn nanites sure do love their auto-translation.

Yeah? Mine too, kind of.

"Kind of"? How's that work?

When I learned English, I learned Spanish, too. My mother taught me both.

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, I learned English pretty young, too, back in school. Kinda had to, if I was gonna get anywhere outside my hometown.

Where are you from?

Little town on the planet Artemis called Mesa Blanca. Triangulum galaxy.

And it was colonized by Mexicans?

Truxicans. An' other people, too. Been a couple thousand years since humans left Earth, I guess. Given us a lotta time to get around.

Truxicans.

[But she's laughing]

Yeah, Truxicans. I'm guessin' there's a place on Earth called Mexico, then? That where you're from?

It's where my mother is from.

Aha. Well hey, at least I guessed the Earth part right, huh?

It's a pretty good assumption. I like that Spanish made it all the way out to space.

Lotta languages did. When're you from?

2000s.

You an' half the ship, I shoulda known. Wonder why it likes that century so much? Anyway, yeah, plenty of Spanish in all corners of the six galaxies over three thousand years in your future. It's not goin' anywhere.

We're a charming, dynamic bunch.

Funny how little does change in all that time.

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