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"You wrote a 200,000 word Fleet and Flotilla fanfiction?!"

"When I was 16, yes."

"And then you brought it with you to Andromeda?!"

"Says the guy who brought...what is this thing again?"

"A mamenchisaurus."

"Right. Whatever that is." Vetra put the plastic dinosaur back down with the others on his desk and went back to sorting through the files on a memory stick she had plugged into Scott's personal terminal.

Jaal poured some of the remains of the shattered TV that he was helping Scott clean up into a garbage pail and joined him at Scott's side to look over Vetra's shoulder at the screen. "What is a fanfiction?" he asked.

Vetra turned her head in shock at his statement. "Wait, you've never heard of fanfiction?" she asked.

"No..." he shook his head. "Should I have?"

She looked upon him with pity and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder. "Oh my sweet summer child..." she sighed.

"Sit down. Vetra will learn ya," Scott said before pulling up a chair for Jaal.

"You see Jaal, when someone loves something a lot, they're going to want more of it," Vetra began explaining. "Unfortunately what already exists of that something might be limited. If I want more of Fleet and Flotilla, I only have three versions of the film, a novelization, an episodic graphic adventure video game, a board game, an animated series, a fifteen issue comic book series, and a documentary about its weirdly obsessive fandom to go to."

"...you don't say," Jaal replied sardonically.

"So, when they run out of content for the things they love, they decide to make their own and share it with friends or just anyone who shares their interest in that thing that they love."

"Hence the 200,000 word pornographic Fleet and Flotilla fanfic," Scott interrupted.

"Hey, you laugh, but this 200,000 word pornographic fanfic won 'Story of the Year' on the unofficial Fleet and Flotilla fanboards!"

"Fan...boards?" By the sound of confusion in his voice, Vetra wondered if Jaal was completely lost or if he understood at least some of what she was saying to him.

"Yeah, it's...here, I'll show you." She minimized the screen and brought up something called "Extranet 2.0". A wheel spun as it struggled to connect to the servers located so far away on the Nexus. "Back home we had this thing called the extranet that was accessible to pretty much anyone in the galaxy with a working computer and a nearby transponder. Tann decided that it would be a good idea to set up a similar system here in Andromeda to facilitate communication and the spread of knowledge, but so far it's pretty much just used for sharing fanart and naked pictures of asari."

"To be fair, that's pretty much what it was used for back home too," Scott pointed out.

Finally the wheel stopped spinning and the system connected to the new extranet. It was slow and somewhat unstable, nothing like the established system back home in the Milky Way, but it functioned for its purpose.

"Here. This is a small community I belong to where I share some of the stories I wrote for Sid when she was younger."

"You wrote pornographic fanfiction for your sister?" Scott asked with concern.

"Not all fanfiction is porn, Scott!" she snapped. More calmly she stated, "I couldn't always afford to buy things like books for Sid, so whenever she decided she liked something, I'd write little stories for her and use them to teach her how to read."

"That's actually kind of sweet," Jaal replied. "Might I read some of them?"

"Of course," she smiled, happy to share something she'd written so long ago with a friend. "But I have to warn you that some of them require prior knowledge of the source material."

"And whatever you do, stay away from anything tagged 'My Happy Horsey'," Scott interrupted.

Vetra sighed and rolled her eyes, knowing exactly where this was going. "What is 'My Happy Horsey' and why should I stay away from it?" Jaal asked suspiciously.

As though he were waiting for this moment his entire life, Scott smiled and said, "Let me show you!" He leaned over Vetra, pushing her head forward slightly with his chest, so he could reach the keyboard. After the search completed and the site loaded, the screen was flooded with colorful images of adorable cartoon horses from a popular children's show.

"Aww! They are so adorable!" Jaal proclaimed at the sight of the fanart on the screen in front of him.

Scott leaned forward again and made another search. "Now I'll search for it with the safe search off!"

Down in the engineering dock, Gil was hard at work patching up a few stray bullet holes in the hull of the Nomad. The only sound that could be heard was the hiss of his blowtorch and the sound of a video game coming through the door from Liam's room. He jumped when he heard Jaal shout, "BY THE STARS, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!" all the way from Scott's room.

"Oh god, I'm so sorry!" Gil apologized for whatever he must have just done.