Doctor Blue said,"I'll monitor Hathor for problems. ANY, and I'll stop this 'telepathic communion' business cold!" Captain Tkarro nodded and said,"That's fine by me. Narchi, are you ready to record this?" Narchi sat down next to Tall White Lady and said,"Yeppers I've got a special place for the alien thoughts and images we get in the flash drive in my horn." TWL looked over at him and said with a tight smile,"That still freaks me out, that your horn is artificial and it has a flash-drive!" He looked up and chortled,"Not too fine a point--I'M ALL ARTIFICIAL!I'm ready, let's 'mind-dive'?" Dokka Tkarro took a meditation pose and said,"Anytime." TWL closed her eyes and said,"Here we go." At first there was nothing but darkness, than suddenly the image of a different world snapped before their mental eyes like a waking dream or hallucination. Narchi asked,"Captain? You getting this? Orange star in a big nebula? Dry cracked ground? Weird looking alien plant life?" Dokka said, "YES! Yes, I am! Look over on the plains... there are two of the Great Enemy on floating...tendril platforms? And buildings? Homes? And over there...is that form a STARSHIP?" Narchi made to look up ans sighed. "That freaky looking pile of parts that looks like a cybernetic vampire bat? I think so. Any help TWL?" "When Toxic severed the thing's connection to Hathor, it left parts of it's memories inside her mind. I'm dampening these to just dream-like hallucinations so she can get on with her life. It's filled with hate and anger and a sense of justification for being wronged. I'm going to dig deeper if I can." Her voice trailed off. Narchi asked, "I just got a sense of the two figures...'There go other MES'? Is this right?" TWL came back with a,"Yes. It has no sex or sense of self. It buds! It's self-cloning and communicates with other versions of itself through some kind of modulated Voice, telepathy and radio combination. It has it's own telepathic language so alien from ours I can't even imagine what it's thinking, beyond basic emotion." After another long moment of feeling of a cold wind, and falling meteors, the images stopped. Dokka blinked and looked over at TWL,Narchi and Doctor Blue. The doctor said, "She's fine. just like she had a nightmare. She's sleeping normally,now." Narchi said,"One planet in orbit around a new orange star with a planetary nebula. The orbit is at what looks like a 65 to 75 degree angle to the ecliptic plane so that twice a year, they get meteors from the planetary formation. I'm impressed that they kept enough industry to build starships of that size. I wonder what their economy is?" Dokka shook his head. "NO economy. One cloned individual, all alone in a universe, trying like hell...mad as hell...to get out and pay back those who wronged it. That place is like a living hell of desolation and exile. No wonder it's so motivated to destroy us all." Doctor Blue seemed shocked and asked,"Are you a SYMPATHIZER, now? With all due respect, Captain!" Captain Tkarro laughed. Narchi answered, "No he's not. Neither am I. We just understand our enemy a little better now. They are still trying to kill us as dead, so at present, talking is out of the picture. UNDERSTANDING is different than acceptance! Knowing WHY a murderer is killing people is important in stopping the killing. It doesn't make us like the murderer any better." Dokka nodded and said, "This pinpoints his...IT'S address,too. A new universe...maybe half a billion to a billion years in age, and orbiting an orange star in the first stages of forming a planetary halo. What is that? Five or six Sub-Space layers away?" Narchi nodded,"I'll have to check on the math, but sounds about right." Hathor woke, and sat up. "Where am I? I'm...NAKED! AIEEEEEEEE!" TWL and Doctor Blue suddenly had their hands full, as Dokka and Narchi ducked out of the room quickly. --TO BE CONTINUED!--