EPILOGUE
'Mira?'
'Hm?' She said, looking up. 'Oh, Buzz. It's you. Sit down.' She scooted to the side, and Buzz sat. 'What's the story?' Buzz sighed.
'Well, the LGMs are struggling to decode most of the data, but it's going well.' Buzz said. 'So far.' He added.
'I see.' Mira nursed her glass. It was getting late, and her drink was getting cold. There was hardly anyone left in the cafeteria.
'What we've garnered so far is mostly text data. In short, the 'Oid' are some kind of human subspecies.' He said, raising a hand. 'Basically, they also explained the logistics of dimensional travel, and the fact that parallel universes don't necessarily share the same timeline. We assume that the evolved off the human race as an off-shoot species.'
'Green?' Mira asked, with raised eyebrow.
'Not actually.' He said. 'They sent a few pictures. Some of them are blue- and brown- and pink- and yellow-' He counted off his fingers.
'Right.' She said, taking a sip. It tasted horrible cold.
'The LGMs say that decoding the whole disc will take a while, since the information isn't read like our data storage banks. It uses a laser to read information off the disc, a technology that, apparently, is hundreds of years old.'
'Which would explain the weird dates on the nameplate.' Mira said. 'Maybe our present and their present is in a different time era.'
'Could be.' Buzz shrugged. 'Don't know for sure. I'm not actually supposed to tell you any of this, seeing as the information has been classified at level ten.'
'I won't tell if you won't.' Mira said mockingly. 'What else?'
'A crew listing of the CV Baltimore.' He said. 'One thousand three hundred and nine souls, including passengers.'
Mira bowed her head slightly.
One thousand three hundred.
'Damn, huh?' She said softly.
'Indeed.' Buzz sighed again. 'That's all we have so far.' He said.
'How do you think they know English?' Mira asked.
'Well they are human-'
'Oid.' Mira corrected.
'Humanoid.' Buzz said, quickly. 'They probably kept the language.'
There was a long silence. Mira finished her drink.
'So.' She said. 'That's it?'
'Yeah.' Buzz said, leaning back with his hands behind his head. 'That's it.'
'The end?'
'The end.'
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Final note: If you want to see what the Baltimore and her sister ships looked like, go to http://www.furnation.com/oidproject/images/cv.jpg
