Notes:

My next week schedule changed, so next week there might be no updates, so I will just upload one more this week, just in case. You see next week there might be no internet in the deep end of the universe where I live in, and I am also going to have a lot of work to do. But you know there is always that minute chance I will be able to upload next week, so you could still get those three chapters. Let's just hope that happens.

Now moving on.

Alfa sighed, this went better than she had expected. Other three current members of the Obsidian council seemed to take in Omega quite easily, especially after it was able to squash Delta in a duel. She remembered the event vividly.

Just after she introduced Omega and its ideas to them, the rest of council, especially Delta, were furious. The arrogant Prime Obsidian challenged the defect to a sort of a duel. Both of them would gather around a hundred soldiers and would meet each other in a battlefield of their choice. Delta thought that she would easily win, so she allowed Omega to choose where they would meet. The grey gem chose a mountainous desert region on the planet they were currently located.

They were given a cycle to prepare themselves. Delta spent it gathering her best soldiers and getting them armed with best weapons. While Omega picked the first hundred gems who had survived the first battle and spent the rest of the day explaining strategy and tactics and teaching them code words and signals.

When Delta and her elite arrived to the rocky battlefield, they were surprised to find only Omega waiting.

"I guess gems don't want to fallow a failure?" The Prime tried to make fun of the defect.

"I wanted to ask you the same, but as I see, there are plenty of stupid gems to follow you into suicide missions."

"You are alone, you have no soldiers, and how are you planning to defeat me?" Delta ignored Omegas remark.

Alfa was listening to the exchange and wondered that to herself. Where did Omega hide its soldiers? And then she noticed several rocks around them moving. And she understood instantly. She saw this trick in one of terka books Omega had found during the cleanup after the mission.

"Maybe you should just give up? You are outmatched." Omega proclaimed its voice completely calm.

"And how is that? You are just lying, thinking that I will give in."

"You leave me no choice but to crush you with my fist." Omega raised its fist and clenched it.

With that signal several dozen of rocks scattered around the battlefield turned over and revealed obsidians armed with terka ballistic weapons. They took aim and started laying a devastating barrage into tightly packed troops of Delta, who herself started charging at Omega, trying to at least taking it out.

But even here she was to other prime obsidians surprise, outmatched. Somehow the defect was stronger than her and was able to defeat her in an equal duel.

After only a short while Delta and all of her soldiers were poofed. And even while the other members of Obsidian council were impressed by this, Delta couldn't take in that defeat.

Even now, as the council was discussing how their Obsidian armies could implement different strategies and weapons used by terka, Delta sat turned away from Omega, trying to not pay attention.

Alfa herself didn't pay much attention either. She was still trying to find answers to two things.

Firstly, why did their indoctrination about despising organic races and everything about them broke so easily? Did Painite find them so expendable, that she didn't even bother to assign proper indoctrination? Were they? But it didn't matter what Painite thinks about Obsidians, they still are loyal soldiers of the Diamond Empire. Their methods didn't matter, did they…?

She shook her head; she wasn't created to be a philosopher, that's a job of the prehnites.

She was able to move herself to another question, which somewhat unnerved her even more. What was Omegas defect? It wouldn't make sense that it would be classified as a defect just because of its coloration. Homeworld didn't care for aesthetics of a soldier; they cared for effectiveness, so there had to be something wrong if not with the physical form, then with how the gem thought.

"Alfa, could you help explain this plan, as Omega seems to be unable to." She looked at the table. A map was spread on it; on it little tokens of two colors were placed, clearly to represent different armies.

"Excuse me, but what's seems to be the problem? I have lost my focus for a short time." She explained herself.

"It seems that Omega is unable to explain the finer details of several strategies." While the remark sounded like an insult, Alfa could only see warm compassion in Betas eyes.

She sighed, stood up, took up the book from Omega, and started explaining, with some help from the defect when she wasn't able to understand several ideas. Now she knew what Omegas defect was.

After meeting was finished; Alfa was walking out of the room with Omega. She took something out of her uniform and handed it to Omega. It was some sort of a document. The defect read what's written on it.

"A permission to get a pearl? Why would I need one?"

"I don't want to insult you Omega, but you have shown that you are simply unable to notice smaller details in a grand scheme, so I think, you should get something that will."

"Didn't take you long… But can you answer me one thing."

"Of course."

"Where does one get a pearl?"

End notes.

So I have decided to let you choose how Omegas pearls looks like. I don't want to limit you, but it should be of grey, black and/or white coloration. Preferably of all three and also defective in some not physical way (Homeworld wouldn't allow for one of their generals, to have a physically defective pearl, mentally and/or of mixed colors, yes) Post your ideas.

Have a nice day.