Upon Vestia: Chapter Thirty-Two

Kooshie wrote:"There must be something like them here," Ethan said. "Something different maybe, but it just seems like there can't be nothing." He sighed. "It doesn't matter though. I should stop bothering you."

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James watched Kay go, then headed off to Armin's room and knocked on the door. "Hey man, mind a visitor?"

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Mourn got quite a few reporters who were satisfied by his response, and decided to look into the mystery of who had originally written the androids' code. Many also decided to approach various computer science experts to audit Mourn's update, as well as possibly attempt to inspect the entirety of the code of the androids themselves.
A lot of others kept trying to ask invasive questions, because of course they did.

Another anonymous message showed up. It said only, [Good work on the letter. We made a good team.]

The politicians Mourn messaged responded with a variety of carefully worded and mostly neutral responses saying that they were looking into the situation carefully, and that there were a lot of people involved in handling this. A few politicians who were known for not really having a filter gave him much clearer responses though, thanking him for reaching out to them, and assuring him that they thought the evidence against MegaBrain was pretty damning. One went so far as to refer to the androids as rightful citizens of the Terran Empire, and said he was disgusted by how slow the Empire was in reaching a decision. He promised to do everything he could to make them hurry up and do the right thing.

MegaBrainTech kept sending cease and desists periodically. They also would probably try to get the sites he’d posted on to take down his posts and files. Hopefully Mourn had chosen sites that wouldn’t comply with those requests.

The other major manufacturers made statements that they couldn’t speak for MegaBrainTech’s practices, but that they themselves only sold non-sentient androids, and would never participate in such unspeakable cruelty.

Kooshie wrote:If Sawna said Ethan wasn't a bother, well, he guessed he could believe her then. He wasn't a big fan of second-guessing people, it got complicated. "Maybe they have a different sort of vampire here. Or a shapeshifter species." Hmm.

Kooshie wrote:"No, I definitely haven't heard of him," Ethan said, shaking his head. "Have your people actually met Aius? Where I come from, slaves have a few minor gods, but I've never heard of them doing more than leaving a bit of extra food or some clothes." And he wasn't sure those stories were even true.

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Yeah, Starr would probably get a ton more questions, but she could probably safely ignore them. Certainly the information she provided would be added to the endless news reports, and people would be fascinated by the idea of someone who had adopted an android. It would keep people talking and thinking, and that was always good.

Kooshie wrote:Ethan nodded. "that makes sense. It seems like a lot of the gods prefer to stay quiet, and maybe that's for the best. You've met gods though?" Interesting.