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The setup on GHIBAL 3 was kind of odd
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There was so much we didn't know about the anomaly, it really kept the scientists busy, and some of the lawyers
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sometimes they had to do research the outposts. there was a minilab for them, with its own coffee maker.
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then, one day...
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lydia showed up
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lydia was one of the lab-scouts. THE fastest jetter i had ever seen
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the scientist-scouts were the elite of the elite.
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and lydia in the lab... her specialty was this unspace stuff i could just barely get the outlines of
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didn't stop me from trying though!
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techs are supposed to ask questions, and she was pretty patient
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and so it rolled on... lab-scouts came and lab-scouts went.
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my own work was pretty interesting, and i had a few side projects
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for a while i had a theory she was showing up more often than her research demanded
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it was tough to tell. her stuff was pretty obstruse. and it wasn't like i was the only lab she stopped at.
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probably i was just projecting
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women! or maybe just people.
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compared to them, circuits were cake.
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maybe her research was about the kind of complexity i'm thinking of
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circuits:on, off, mu. you don't understand something, you set up testcases, you can isolate your assumptions and test them...
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i've always been pretty easy to read
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one time it was near the holiday break. we were talking schedules.
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"had you noticed how often i'm here? i've virtually had to make up a new branch of anomaly wave dynamic to justify my trips here."
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"i'll bet you say that to all the techs!" i said
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no, she hadn't
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