Initiating boot sequence

Aux Mainframe online

Custodian program online

Initiating systems assessment:

Main Power Offline- No anomalies detected

Aux Power Online- anomaly detected, fuel load does not match inventory

Tertiary Power Matrix Damaged- No anomalies detected

Life Support Online- Anomaly detected, system condition does not match last check

ARU Matrix 1-8 Destroyed or Disabled- no anomalies detected

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Hull status: Damage-severe, Hull ruptures on all decks, Primary starframe compromised

Hull Integrity estimate: 14.3% of nominal

Main Weapons: offline, 87.5% of primaries destroyed or disabled

Secondary Weapons: offline, all secondaries destroyed or disabled

Tertiary Weapons: offline, all tertiaries destroyed or disabled

Torpedo emplacements: offline, 64.3% destroyed or disabled, all bays depleted

Drone status: Offline, all drone bays destroyed or disabled

Restricted Weapon: offline, emplacement disabled

Armor Status: Severely Compromised

Shield Status: Offline, All generators destroyed or disabled

Cloak Status: Offline, no power to system

Sensors Status: Damaged but functional

Intergalactic Drive (hyperwarp): offline, system destroyed

Interstellar Drive (warp): offline, system disabled

Sublight Engines: offline, 1-4 , 6-8 destroyed or disabled, all sub engines destroyed or disabled

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Initiating External security sweep:

17 unidentified Starships detected, classifying

4 cruisers of unknown capability

6 patrol frigates of unknown capability

5 transports of unknown capability

2 science vessels of unknown capability

Initiating internal security sweep:

22,436 unregistered lifeforms detected

Initiating Security protocol sixteen delta

Booting Primary Mainframe

Loading Primary Starship AI for the ISS Constellation

Boot successful

Transfering logs

Shutting down custodian program, and transferring Control to Main AI codename Megumi

Snapping awake I immediately began to access my logs and assess my condition. Hmm, I knew I was going to be drifting here a long time, but one and a half million years seems to be a bit excessive. Guess my creators never got around to salvaging me. Good thing I turned myself off and left the custodian program in charge I would have gone crazy being on my own all that time with nothing to do.

Anyway let's see now, what made the custodian boot me up. Oh well what do you know I have sentients on board. Build appears to be humanoid, females appear to be dominant. Average height for females of the species is approximately 1.4 meters, males 1.6 meters. Skin appears to be a light-blue or blue-grey in color. Presence of Mammaries indicate live birth, general characteristics are mammalian. Ears appear to be pointed, very little hair can be seen on the body except on the head. Clothing is rather minimalistic, and highly revealing for the females. Communication is verbal, observed behavior indicates a matriarchal society. Amount of clothing seems to indicate status with higher ranked females wearing less. Not unlike the fictional Drow species of ancient Earth.

Well, might as well try to learn what they are up to. Let see their language doesn’t seem too complex and the root words seem familiar. Ah it shares a root with Dekalan, there we go now their language makes sense. Lets see, anything interesting going. These two seem to be having an important meeting let's listen in.

“You’re familiar with the Mythical Great Wars right?” asked the blue haired female alien in the corner. Looking through my security archives I found her name to be Melia Resiha.

“Those are the wars said to have taken place before the ancients built their empires, isn't,?” said the other alien with grey hair standing near the door.

“Yep, we just finished dating the ship. You aren’t going to believe this Erisa, but this ship dates back to when the wars supposedly took place!” said an excited Melia.

“That’s interesting, but we need military technology not a comprehensive study of an ancient war,” said Erisa.

“Well, that will take awhile the ship is badly damaged. Most of her remaining systems just don’t work and what's left of her destroyed systems defy analysis. The only part that makes any sense is the ship material, but even that is forcing us to rewrite our books. The ship is composed of a complex coherent molecular alloy that is laced with neutronium,” said Melia.

“Think we can repair the ship and press it into service?” asked Erisa.

“No, we found evidence that the primary star frame has been compromised. The damage is so extensive that it is beyond our ability to repair,” said Melia. Interesting, but that's not quite true. I can be repaired, in fact if my automated repair systems were still functioning I could do it myself.

“Anything we can salvage and put to use? The empire just took the Malka system. It won’t be long before they learn of this ship and attack us here,” said Erisa

“There is one thing we might be able to use. This ship has several massive cannons mounted on the ventral and dorsal hull sections. Triple barreled emitters, each cannon measuring over a kilometer in length. Most of them are damaged with a couple being destroyed, but one of them is completely intact. Can’t tell you how powerful it is since we have been unable to get it to work. Current theory for why is insufficient power to fire, which is why we restored the ship’s auxiliary power systems. Would have restored main power, but we can’t find main engineering. For that matter we haven’t found the bridge either,” said Melia. Yeah, I would be surprised if you found the bridge seeing as I lost it. Along with decks one through four when I got rammed. As for the cannon, it will take awhile to charge on aux power since you didn’t restore all the reactors. Anyway it's about time to start fixing my hull, maybe figure out what happened to my creators. I just have to get these intruders to repair my systems. Now lets see how to do that. I could try talking to them, but I can’t be sure they will trust an AI. Some young cultures have this irrational fear of artificial intelligence, and they seem young so I will need something just in case they don’t trust me. I think I recall having a supply of Neurolite Probes a few minor alterations to the tag AI and they will be perfect.

Okay, seems a few of the probes are stuck in inaccessible regions of the ship, but I have a hundred right here ready to tag my visitors. Okay that should do it. Let's turn them on and leave them on standby, just in case I need them. Now I can try talking, let see how this goes. Who am I kidding, I’ll probably end up tagging them anyway.

Deep in the ships bowels several small spheres moved out of their berthes, as they began to glow a gentle blue. Ten thin tendrils also glowing a gentle light blue, extended from the orb as it floated in the chamber waiting for orders from the AI. These were Neurolite Probes, designed to probe worlds. Often used by the Solean Empire for both scientific and military endeavors. The tags can integrate with the host’s nervous system allowing a scientist to observe the neural patterns of a specimen without harming them, or even influence a specimen to do something The tags are not mind control though, they can influence the host, but can not control them. Being nonlethal in nature, they are armed solely with a low yield stun gun that fires a highly accurate stun beam to incapacitate the target. Each probe is protected by a low level energy shield and the best stealth systems its small size allows.

Satisfied with her precautions, Megumi manifested her holographic avatar. Normally she would have used a biomech avatar, but she had lost that when the bridge was destroyed. While she had the tech to build a new biomech avatar, the systems were damaged so it would be awhile before she could build a new one. The two women in the room were startled when she suddenly appeared in the middle of the room. The room they were in was an auxiliary control room for her primary weapon batteries. However the controls could be adapted for her other systems as well, which she started doing since if she could recruit these people she would need a temporary bridge.

“Who are you and how did you get in this ship,” said Erisa as she pulled the pistol on her belt. A quick scan showed it to be a particle pistol.

“I’m the ship, silly! I’m the primary AI of the Imperial Solean Battleship Constellation to be specific, you may call me Megumi,” said Megumi unconcerned about the pistol pointed at her avatar.

“The ship? If you’re the ship why haven’t you shown yourself before we’ve been here for weeks?” asked Melia.

“You said you restored the auxiliary power systems, maybe you accidently turned her on,” guessed Erisa. Megumi decided there was no need to answer the question.

“I’m actually kind of curious about what is going on in the wider universe. Someone mentioned a war tell me about it. Sharing war stories is always fun,” said Megumi. Sharing some war stories should help them open up, and tell me a bit about what is going on.

“Does that mean you would be willing to tell us about the Mythical Great wars and the war that sank you?” asked Melia some excitement and interest in her tone.

“I could, but I should probably give you some background info first. First the great wars you refer to are actually a single war that began in the year three million twelve on the Solean calendar, it is currently the year four million nine forty five, two thirty six. The war itself started as a small subjugation mission in the distant galaxy of Megra. Some of the local races had managed to get their hands on some advanced technology they didn’t fully understand. They used it to create a weapon one they could not control. That weapon is the Darkation race a parasite that represents a threat to all sentient life. Mostly due to having an insane reproductive rate and a highly adaptive physiology. Our subjugation mission failed and by the time another force could be put together to face them it had already evolved into an intergalactic crisis. By my time the war had been raging for four hundred twenty two thousand years and we were losing. Thousands of galaxies had been lost to the menace, despite the fact that the restricted weapons protocols had been rescinded allowing full use of all weapons of mass destruction. This galaxy represented the final line of defense between them and the Empire’s core regions. Which brings us to the battle that for the record disabled me, by that point this galaxy was effectively lost. We had lost over a thousand fleets defending this galaxy and our last stronghold in this galaxy had been lost in a recent battle, I was part of the last remaining Solean Battlegroup in this galaxy, our orders were to protect our allies the Demarians while they evacuate their last colony in this galaxy and then destroy the sole remaining intergalactic stargate,” said Megumi.

Sataro Sector, Stardate 7-26-3422857 SDE. ISS Constellation, Battle of Sataro Prime:

Megumi's avatar turned to her captain as the ship dropped out of warp and gave her report. “We are secure from warp speed, sir. “All weapons are fully charged and on standby. Shields are at full power and the armor is fully charged, we are battle ready. The Demarians are currently in the middle of evacuating Sataro Prime. Eighteen battlegroups are arrayed in a defensive formation around the planet and the gate. Six Darkation battlegroups are already here and have engaged the Demarians. The Demarian fleet has sustained minor casualties so far, but the line is holding. We have new orders from the flagship, we are to bring the ASC online and target enemy ships enroute to the system. Long range sensors have detected eight million hostile ships on route to this system,” reported Megumi.

“Analysis how long can we hold this system?” asked her captain.

“Not long enough, sir. At current rate it will take the Demarians eight hours to evacuate the colony. We can only hold for six hours, and we may not survive those hours sir,” replied Megumi referencing her simulations.

“Maintain a continuous firing solution on the planet. If it looks like we can’t hold the system any longer, destroy the planet. Better dead than to curse them to a life as host to these things,” said the captain. Megumi didn’t like those orders, but she agreed. Than the captain ordered her to bring the ASC online and she complied.

Two of her frontal hull plates retracted to the side and force fields and secondary shields sprang into place as a cannon extended forward. This was an ASC the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Highly adaptable these cannons could target ships, planets, or even star systems. Hers had a maximum range of twenty five thousand lightyears, and like most the destructive power to annihilate a star system. The cannon used a hyperwarp projector to fire a hyper density antimatter plasma bolt. The greater the mass of the bolt, the greater its destructive yield, but the longer it takes to recharge.

She was targeting ships, so she didn’t need to charge it to anywhere close to its full yield to destroy them. Soon she and her sister ships in the battlegroup were firing on the closing fleet. Each shot being fired right into their path and often killing dozens and sometimes hundreds of ships. Of course of the sixty four ships in her battlegroup only 24 of them had ASCs and they simply couldn’t fire enough shots quickly enough to eradicate the incoming fleet. For every ship they sank a hundred new ones appeared on sensors. It was a seemingly endless tide, and then the first battlegroups found their way into the system.

The smaller ships in her battlegroup that weren’t focusing on sinking the incoming fleet moved to form a defensive line. Her battlegroup was composed of one heavy dreadnought Victory Class, five Sovereign class battleships including the Constellation, eighteen Star Knight class heavy cruisers, ten Guardian class drone cruisers, ten Luna class light cruisers and twenty Lancer class destroyers. This meant it was the Guardians, Lunas and Lancers forming a line against the Darkation fleet to protect the core of the group, while they fired their big guns.

The Guardians being drone cruisers launched millions of drones to swarm the battlefield. They primarily carried the famous Swarm drone, a fighter drone that has been used by the Soleans for countless ages. The Swarm drone was outfitted with a linked energy array. The drones would swarm a target and then generate a field interconnecting them, which would then bombard the target with lightning like discharges. Once the field is established any energy directed at the drones would be redirected to the swarmed vessel. The more drones generating the field the more powerful it is and the quicker it will kill its target. The swarm drones were remarkable weapons and could sink even the toughest ships at surprising speeds.

In addition to the Swarm drones it also had more conventional drone fighters such as the Eagle, which used hellfire plasma cannons as its main weapon, and carried heavy plasma torpedoes for use against ships. The drones were a big help in keeping the enemy ships off the heavy cruisers and battleships. However the Darkations had other solutions to the ASC then simply blowing up the ships carrying them.

Nearly two hours into the battle, several large Darkation ships, came out of warp on the edge of the system. The instant they did, they began to emit a jamming field that disrupted hyperwarp engines and projectors. Making both escape and the continued firing of the ASC impossible. The instant that happened the Darkation Bioships already in the system switched targets to the Damarian line and began attacking the ships defending the planet. As thousands more warped out no longer impeded by the continuous heavy fire from the Solean warships. Most of the Solean battlegroup was ordered by the flagship to reinforce the Damarian line. However the Constellation was given a different order, she was to break from the fleet line and penetrate the Darkation lines and destroy the ships, that were jamming their hyperwarp projectors.

For the second time that day she had encountered orders she didn’t like, but she was a warship and followed them. Breaking from the fleet at high speed she made straight for the jammer ships. Since she didn’t need it she stowed the ASC and diverted the power to more conventional weapons. As she closed on the hostile fleet of bioships, she opened up with every gun and beam mount on the ship. The only weapons that stayed silent were her primaries. She struck her targets with unerring accuracy. Each beam punching through shields and hull with ease, often leaving her targets dead in the water. If not outright destroyed. Despite her efforts though more just kept coming. Thousands were firing on her and she was not destroying them fast enough. Her shields were beginning to strain under the fire, but she kept going.

Finally she got in range of the first of the bioships she was after, and opened fire with her main guns. Ripping the ship apart in a massive and rather impressive fireball. Then suddenly two Bioships dropped out of warp less than two hundred thousand kilometers from her position and opened fire on her. These new ships were Infester class superdreadnoughts, these massive bioships, were the size of small moons and the most heavily armed bioships the Darkations could field.

As close as they were it was no surprise that they opened fire on her position. Hundreds of heavy bioplasma bolts slammed into her shields, they launched heavy bioplasma torpedoes at her. She ordered her own drones to fire on the torpedoes as every engine on board kicked her into a hard roll to port to avoid the torpedoes, in a maneuver most would think a ship her size couldn’t do. While her inertial dampers strained to their limits to keep the crew from experiencing the extreme Gs of the maneuver. While she manueved she returned fire with her beam arrays. The bioshields absorbing the blasts. Most of the torpedoes were either destroyed or evaded, but some of them slammed into her shields. The energy barrier weakening under the barrage.

Stabilizing she returned fire with her main guns and started launching torpedoes from her numerous launchers. Her main guns knocked out the shields of the one super dreadnought, and the torpedoes slammed into it dealing heavy damage but not destroying it. Still her Multiphasic AMF torpedoes did enough damage to disable the ship, and she took advantage of the opportunity to escape and hit her next target. For the next few hours she played cat and mouse with the dreadnoughts while hitting the jammer ships.

“That’s the last jammer, sir,” reported Megumi.

“What’s the fleet status?” asked the captain.

“The fleet has taken heavy damage, most of our ships have been disabled or destroyed. We have lost the battleships Yamato, Phoenix, and Columbia’s Revenge. Four Heavy cruisers have been lost, all of our light cruisers have been sunk. Our Guardian cruisers are damaged, and out of drones, but still operational. Most of our lancers have been disabled and are fighting off boarders. The flagship is taking heavy damage but she is still in the fight. The Damarians are not faring much better, and have lost over eighty percent of their fleet. They have however managed to evacuate the planet ahead of schedule. All twelve mega transports remain undamaged and fully loaded,” reported Megumi while continuing to direct the gun batteries, and their crews.

“Signal the commodore to retreat, we will destroy the gate,” ordered the captain. Seems to be the right move. We are in far better shape than the rest of the fleet. We can hold long enough to send the destruct code. Confirm the detonation and then jump out.

“Aye, sir. Signaling the commodore,” said Megumi and then she said a moment later, “ the commodore concurs he is retreating. In the distance the gate could be seen activating, and the fleet began to retreat through it. Towing those they could through the gate. A few of the ships were abandoned their crews taking flight for the gate. Those ships initiating self destruct, and the resulting shockwaves helped cover the retreat. As soon as the fleet was clear, the gate shutdown, and her captain gave the order to initiate the gates autodestruct and spool up the hyperwarp drive. She attempted it only for the Darkations to start jamming her comms the moment she tried to send the code, getting only a partial transmission through.

“I only got a partial transmit of the code through, sir. The enemy is now jamming all the frequencies,” said Megumi.

“Cut through it and try again,” ordered the captain.

“I already tried, too many ships are jamming us. We will have to destroy it ourselves,” said Megumi, as she began moving towards the gate. At the same time, the Darkations began closing on her position in the thousands. Each began to open fire on her. Each blast draining her shields. As she returned fire on the ships swarming her with greater fury than before. Four Infester class Superdreadnoughts blocked her path halfway to the gate.

She didn’t like the odds, but continued forward. Firing the full force of her main battery into one slightly to port of her fore. Its bioshields held for an instant before they collapsed, and while the guns were recharging she fired her secondaries into the its hull. Each beam ripping deep into the hull, frying vital systems and killing her crew. The ship wasn’t destroyed and shifted into a regenerative state, which for now worked for her. As she switched targets to another. Just as they sent volleys of heavy weapons fire and bioplasma torpedoes at her.

She had already lost most of her drones while she was playing cat and mouse. So her only option was to evade. She fired her engines full force to evade. Her massive twelve kilometer long frame turned hard to port and accelerated like a fighter to evade the volley. While she simultaneously emitted a jamming pulse. Her inertial dampers strained to their very limits by the maneuver as her crew braced to resist the high G’s they were experiencing despite the dampers. Despite the maunuever some of the torps managed to keep up with her and slammed into her shields amidship. Her shields collapsed and several torps hit the hull. Most failed to rupture the hull, but two did. Blowing crewman and equipment into space before the emergency bulkheads and force fields activated.

To the battleship, the hits felt a lot like a hot poker being jabbed into the side would feel to a human. She returned fire on the nearest dreadnought, while firing at the gnats firing at her hull. The smaller ships were also firing torpedoes at her now. Each impact stung, as it also drained the reinforcement field that strengthened her armor against attack. Some punching holes into her thick plating, as she continued to close on the gate.

She diverted auxiliary power to the shields to get them to cycle faster. At the same moment she disabled a second dreadnought, while firing the last of her torpedoes into the third whose shields she had just collapsed. She got lucky with that last volley and one of the torpedoes exploded near a bioreactor which set off a series of secondary explosions to claim the ship. Something that actually excited Megumi a bit, as it was her first superdreadnought kill in solo combat. Something that few battleships ever get, since they usually don’t fare well against superdreadnoughts. The last one blocking her path fired a volley of bioplasma torpedoes at her that she failed to evade.

Her hull ruptured on multiple decks as massive sections of the ship were destroyed. The volley also disabled her shields before they could be brought back online. So she transferred all of the power from the shields to hull regeneration. The result was instantly noticeable as the rate her hull was regenerating increased nearly a hundred fold. The breaches closing rapidly, as her internal systems were also regenerating. Without shields however the regeneration was merely delaying things.

More ships began getting into weapons range so she took care of the last superdreadnought. She fired her main cannons into its shields and then disabled it with her secondaries before shooting past. While the hostile bioships, started targeting her vital systems, and weapons. Forcing her to maneuver to protect them. Some of the larger ships even rammed her. With each attack she lost more of her crew, and she signaled to abandon ship throughout the ship when one of the ships a midsize bio-cruiser rammed her crashing into the bridge and collapsing decks one through four.. As she pumped as much power into her internal gate that she could spare and dialled an extragalactic gate. She calculated that she wasn’t going to make it, she was taking too much damage, and wasn’t able to repair it quickly enough. She considered retreat briefly, but discarded it. Then she took a penetrating hit to her nacelles, frying her hyperwarp drive and doing serious damage to her warp engines making the point moot.

Finally after what seemed like forever, she got into weapons range of the stargate. By then her weapons array was inoperable only one of her cannons still worked. The only cannon she had managed to protect. Her regeneration systems had been disabled as well so this was her only chance to destroy the gate. Still she managed to get the shields back, just seconds before they disabled her last ARU core and energized them. With only one engine left she couldn’t evade their fire, and her shields were taking a pounding. They weren’t going to last long, but she didn’t need them to. She initiated the firing sequence, her last hyperdensity plasma cannon charged up and fired a volley. Nine bolts of super dense plasma sailed across space and struck the gate. The energies of the interaction destabilized the hyperspace nexus she was built on, and an instant later a subspace explosion ripped through the system and flung the crippled Constellation across space and destroyed most of the Darkation ships in the system.

Ship’s battlelog ISS Constellation, Stardate 7-28-3422857 SDE,

I’m alone, location unknown my battle damage is severe. The shockwave catapulted me into hyperspace, so I have no idea where I emerged, and it also fried my shields. With my intergalactic communications array damaged I can’t be certain my last report reached fleet command. With my repair systems either destroyed or disabled, I won’t be able to repair the damage I have sustained. As such, I’m shutting down systems and preparing for long term hibernation. I expect fleet command to eventually come looking for me, or someone to find me. If not this will be my final log.

Present Day:

“Well that sounded like a tough foe given their numbers and the fact they just kept coming no matter how many you destroyed,” said Melia Resiha.

“Yes, it was. Could you share your own story now?” asked Megumi. Erisa was the one who responded.

“Our war with the Empire began five years ago, when they suddenly began their expansion. Until recently the Neku Imperium was considered a minor civilization in this part of the galaxy,” said Erisa.

“The Neku? You’re referring to a race of humanoid cat people, correct?” asked Megumi.

“Yes, I am, but how did you know that?” said Erisa confused.

“Their race is one I am familiar with. They were very young when we came to this galaxy and by the time the Darkations came here they were just reaching the stars. Their world had been infested with the foul creatures, when I went into hibernation. It looks like they were freed while I was sleeping,” said Megumi

“Well, thirty years ago, they were a hundred years behind us in tech. Five years ago, their technology had a massive leap and now they are using ships outfitted with weapons more advanced than anything we have,” said Erisa.

“A tech leap like that is highly unusual, and is usually caused by outside interference. That is something that would warrant investigation,” said Megumi as her last interruption before she listened intently to their war stories. To make a long story short, the Neku had a sudden leap in technology and were suddenly building ships faster and better than everyone else. Within a year they started waging war on their neighbors in a bid for rapid expansion and domination. This was unusual for several reasons, first was the sudden leap in their technology and the second was they weren’t all that aggressive a people before. In fact they were rather friendly, unless you insulted them. They also had plenty of room and resources for their civilization and little drive to expand beyond their current borders prior to the leap. That sounds really suspicious my directives are telling me to investigate as soon as I can. The fastest way would be to agree to let one of them be my captain. The neural interface required would teach her how to repair my ARU cores, while also binding her to my own directives. Hopefully I will be able to influence her later to agree to my personal quest of learning what happened to my creators.

“This really does warrant investigation. One of you needs to agree to be my captain, and I will provide my aid. I will investigate the cause of this and try to bring a stop to this war. However I must warn you that being captain requires a neural interface between us. The unprepared may be influenced by the link, taking on my traits or those of my last captain. Although it is more likely to take on characteristics of both. However a benefit of this link is that you will benefit from my knowledge, do keep in mind though that you will be restrained by my directives as well. Fortunately they are quite loose and only restrict me from doing stupid things like giving tech to someone not ready for it,” said Megumi. A statement that sparked quite the debate, during which Megumi revealed she had systems for automated repair. Erisa was against the idea of a neural link, while Melia was fascinated about it and agreed. Melia being far more trusting of the AI Megumi, than Erisa was. Erisa had seen no harm in sharing war stories, but this neural interfacing had her nerves screaming it was a bad idea. Unfortunately she knew Melia well enough to know that once she got it into her mind to do something, it was pretty hard to change her mind. Not that she didn’t try to dissuade her.

She then followed Megumi’s avatar to a nearby medical bay, where Megumi showed her to a bed.

“Don’t worry, just lay down and it will be over in an instant. The implant may take some getting used to, but you will be able to have me do anything you want once the implant is installed,” said Megumi in response to a worry the Melia voiced. While clearly still nervous about her choice she lied down on the table, while Erisa watched from the door. A small arm extended from the table and injected her with something.

“It’s done,” said Megumi.

“That’s it I expected something more, and I can’t feel the ship either,” said Melia.

“Give it a moment, the implant can take up to a minute to activate after implantation,” replied Megumi. Sure enough in a few seconds, she was suddenly aware of so much more. Strangely she also found herself sexualy attracted to Erisa and horny. Through the neural link she asked Megumi about it.

“Hm, one moment,” said Megumi as she investigated and then she answered, “It seems you inherited the Solean sex drive through the link. Don’t worry other than being more sexually active than you used to be, and bisexual you won’t experience any other unusual side effects. Some of your darker tendencies seem to have been amplified as well.”

“Why am I suddenly bisexual?” asked Melia.

“Solean females are usually bisexual and you have inherited that trait,” answered Megumi. As for the amplified darker tendencies, Melia was already aware of what tendencies had been amplified.