Olek Taks groaned.
"Oh, no," he said. "Not again."
"What's not again?" his superior asked, looking across the office.
"What do you think?" Olek asked. "We've gone viral. Again. Space Thunder is the number one trending topic."
Miles Hark rubbed his temples.
"Of course we have," he said. "Is it too much to ask that it's because of our latest update?"
He paused, amending his statement.
"Is it too much to ask that it's because our latest update is something people actually like?"
"Of course it is," Olek replied. "Number two is 'leak' and we're seeing all the usual memes again."
"All right, what is it this time?" Miles asked, going back over to his chair and leaning back with a creak of adaptive servos. "What was it last time, anyway?"
"Last time was the Tie Advanced, wasn't it?" Rocomora said, not looking up from her screens. "Someone complained that we hadn't correctly assigned shield strength values and posted the entire technical manual for the thing."
"No, that was the time before last," Olek told her. "Last time was the Incom T-65, the X-Wing. That time it was the manufacturer's documents, someone was arguing that it should be killing off TIEs one on one because of its better all-round stats."
He shook his head. "I'm pretty sure someone got fired over that one. Or arrested."
"Am I getting mixed up?" Miles said. "I thought the last big argument was over the AT-TE and that wheel droid."
"No, that was months ago," Rocomora told him. "Easily. That guy was saying that the later model AT-TE walkers from RHE had the point defence system, and after eighty posts of flamewar he put up internal GAR documentation showing it. Even though we'd specifically only included the early model AT-TE precisely so we didn't have to include the PD system for balance reasons."
"So… one of the clones, right?" Olek asked. "They must have been the leaker!"
"Yeah, but how are you going to tell which one?" Rocomora asked. "They all look alike!"
Miles groaned.
"I hate how often we have to have this discussion," he said. "So what was it this time?"
Olek was scrolling through the forums, now, and he clicked – then winced.
"Uh," he said. "It's about campaign mode."
"Oh, no, not the persistent campaign mode," Miles said, putting his head in his hands. "This is going to be about the gungans again, isn't it?"
"Worse," Olek replied. "Some poster or other said that there's no way the Empire should be losing any planets, because if they lost them they'd just blow up the planet."
Miles laughed.
"What, really?" he asked. "What kind of nonsense-"
He stopped.
"Oh, no," he said. "Oh, no. You're not saying…"
"Yep," Olek agreed. "He posted complete technical specifications on this giant kriffing battlestation that'd take a week to cross on foot, accompanied by a picture of the thing. And now the thread's growing at three pages a minute."
"Why is it always us?" Miles demanded of the air. "Why don't the idiots at Galaxy of Spaceships have to deal with this?"
AN:
Let's be honest, this probably would have happened.