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[whyarewehere]

[ The post drifts up onto the comms one evening, just a simple line of text to ask a simple question:]

guys, how do aliens know when other aliens are hot?

Comments

[thebioticwoman]

Oh, they can do this with any species. Did I mention that part?

[nofortunateson]

I'm kind of afraid to ask how many species this has been tried across.

[thebioticwoman]

Gonna go out on a limb and say "all of the ones capable of consent."

[nofortunateson]

And they . . . enjoy that?

[thebioticwoman]

The asari or everyone else?

Either way, the answer's "yes."

[whyarewehere]

space is so fucking weird, shepard.

[thebioticwoman]

I didn't even get to the part about the sentient hivemind species that has to talk by puppeting other species' bodies.

[calibrates_big_guns]

Just for my clarification, are you talking about the Rachni or the Thorian?

[thebioticwoman]

[There's a slightly longer pause than usual.]

Somehow I managed to forget there were two.

I meant the rachni.

[whyarewehere]

there were two.

[ He's just... making sure here. ]

why is space terrible in like every universe?

[calibrates_big_guns]

Possibly three.

[Because the Reapers seemed to be eerily on the same page - shared consciousness to some degree if not an actual hivemind.]

[whyarewehere]

garrus i hope you appreciate that i really cannot tell if you're shitting me right now.

[calibrates_big_guns]

I do.

[You can almost read the shit-eating grin.]