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by Zeebop

Chapter 65

> Humans are social animals; most humans need some level of social interaction for their continued mental health. Isolation is one of the key punishments in the human justice system for this reason. When the first criminal human hosts were supplied to brain slugs, the hive minds...

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Chapter 66

> Brain slug beauty standards are based on chemical cues rather than sight, nor are brain slug hosts primarily aroused by visual or audio media, though they understand this can excite humans. When attempting to initiate sexual relations, brain slug hosts will sometimes literally...

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Chapter 67

> The World Soul is as close to a binding identity for brain slugs, brain bats, and related species as can be imagined; a common channel of information which, in its fullest expression, acts as a hive mind of hive minds, an emergent intelligence of god-like complexity. Imagine an...

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Chapter 68

> Brain slug hosts prefer sex when brain slug hosts equal or outnumber human partners, and in rooms with clearly accessible exits and with mirrored surfaces. The latter enables both the brain slug's eyespots and the host's eyes to keep track of their partner, a double visual conf...

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Chapter 72

> Every single sapient extraterrestrial species in the Exodus has, at some time or another, been a brain slug host species. For humanity, it was the equivalent of finding out the new person interested in you has a hundred exes, and they all have stories.—*Slug Sutra*, chapter 7...

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Chapter 75

> Brain slugs have a concept, translated into English variously as *familiar* or *sexpet*, though there are deeper connotations. In various environments, brain slugs have discovered sapient organisms whom they value for production and companionship more than they desire a new hos...

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Chapter 76

For the refugees of the Exodus, the apocalypse had already happened. They lived in the aftermath of the end of everything they knew. Their home worlds, their native biospheres and cultures, were lost to them. They landed on a strange world, outnumbered, outgunned, with limited re...

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Chapter 79

> Consent means many things to many different cultures across many species. From the sparse historical records available, it seems clear that some cultures were willing to sell people to the brain slugs to use as hosts; others sent condemned criminals to the brain slugs as a form...

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Chapter 80

> Humans have dreamed of first contact for over a century. Yet when it happened, there were so many who were scared. They saw refugees as threats, or worse, strategic advantages over their enemies in their own petty, bullshit conflicts. Politicians can be imaginative in all the w...

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Chapter 83

> Many died. They are still dying. The integration of extraterrestrials into Earth's ecosystem and human systems is ongoing. Already, more of them have been born on Earth than remain from the initial group of refugees from the stars. More arrive—latecomers, from more distant poin...

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Chapter 86

> The hive mind is not careless. It rarely intends to hurt individuals. Yet it can, and does. It is too big, and they are too small. In its plans for the future good of the hive, the species, and the world, the dreams and feelings of a single human being are often overlooked and...

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Chapter 90

> The great epidemics that ravaged the globe after the Exodus were blamed on the extraterrestrials. This was, in part, correct. The spacefaring species had been dealing with the contact and conflict of different microbial ecosystems for generations; they were both wary of Earth's...

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Chapter 94

> Seacouver, located in the Pacific Northwest, became a locus for ETs who wished to integrate into human culture, due to a combination of accommodating climate, proximity to two brain slug reservations, and political culture. Greater infrastructure investments have been made to a...

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Chapter 96

> Fear is a survival instinct, easily perverted into bigotry. Some politicians seeking momentary advantage tried to rile their constituents against the "alien menace." William Martin was one of the first and loudest. His wife Meara died in their home and became host to a ghola; t...

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Chapter 97

> Ramen is best with clean water and fresh ingredients, but do the best you can with what you have. > —1,001 Ways to Cook Ramen "How are you speaking to me?" Mel asked, facing those strange, deep eyeholes again. "And what is a rishathran?" "Microwave auditory effect," Denis s...

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Chapter 98

> On Prince Edward Island, a colony of Rhizomats has been growing for nearly a decade. Humans on the island were initially hostile to the new neighbors, but the Rhizomats' unique architectural embellishments and integration into the local ecosystem have proved a boon to tourism....

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Chapter 99

> To seek the proper balance of flavors in a bowl of ramen is to seek the proper balance of life. Time, temperature, saltiness—there may be no perfect bowl every time you get hungry. But there is always the best bowl you can make at any given moment. > —*1,001 Ways to Cook Ram...

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Chapter 100

> The secret history of the Exodus has not been written. It may never be written. Ghola kill squads. The Etherling invasion of Guam. The High Colony on Mt. Everest, which has systematically removed every trace of human existence from the mountain. These are things we know about....

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Chapter 101

> Miracle spice is an extraterrestrial food additive cleared for human consumption. It has the effect of inverting the way humans interpret capsaicinoids, the main component in the spiciness of peppers. The effect has been described as like sucking on an ice cube dipped in pure m...

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Chapter 102

> The first hate crime against a Rhizomat was a cause for celebration in their community. The Rhizomat was a scrounger: old, bloated, in constant pain, and dying. The sudden, violent by a pair of young, bigoted human men armed with baseball bats released a toxic cloud of...