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 Systems' Out! of [[The Sunspot Chronicles]] - Next: [[Chapter 2: Growth]]<br>
-''copyright 2020, the Inmara of the Ktletaccete, all rights reserved''<br>
+''copyright 2020, [[Inmara Ktletaccete|the Inmara of the Ktletaccete]], all rights reserved''<br>
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 “Amazing,” said Jural.
-“I wonder if there is a limit on how many can confront at a time,” mused Toost.
+“I wonder if there is a limit on how many can cofront at a time,” mused Toost.
 “I don’t know. I forgot to ask it,” Myra said.

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 “Oh, yeah.” Ketta interrupted, “Breq told us all about that.” And then keh mustered up some energy to half exclaim, “cofronting!”
-Sometime, long ago, humanity finally reached for the stars. Or, interstellar space, at least. Our motives for doing so are lost to time or classified records, but what we do know is that our ancestors used nanotechnology to transform a large asteroid ino the 400 km long spacecraft we inhabit today. There may have been others, but if so we are not in contact with them. The nanites now lie mostly dormant in the soil of the Garden that lines the interior of the vessel, and we are told that we are now many generations into interstellar space. The ship is piloted and managed by the Crew, which keep themselves sequestered from the rest of the population, the Passengers. And, in theory, the genetic diversity of humanity as we see it today is in preparation for eventual planetfall some day in the future. Though many say that day will never come. The ship was named the Sunspot, and whoever contributes to these stories after mine is invited to add them under the title the Sunspot Chronicles.
+Sometime, long ago, humanity finally reached for the stars. Or, interstellar space, at least. Our motives for doing so are lost to time or classified records, but what we do know is that our ancestors used nanotechnology to transform a large asteroid into the 400 km long spacecraft we inhabit today. There may have been others, but if so we are not in contact with them. The nanites now lie mostly dormant in the soil of the Garden that lines the interior of the vessel, and we are told that we are now many generations into interstellar space. The ship is piloted and managed by the Crew, which keep themselves sequestered from the rest of the population, the Passengers. And, in theory, the genetic diversity of humanity as we see it today is in preparation for eventual planetfall some day in the future. Though many say that day will never come. The ship was named the Sunspot, and whoever contributes to these stories after mine is invited to add them under the title the Sunspot Chronicles.
 The interior of the ship is a cylinder, divided into 40 square regions, five regions long and eight regions in circumference. Each region is marked with a spoke that connects it to the central plasma tube that carries our daily sun.
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 As I said, people of similar neurotypes tend to cluster and become friends, allies. Even before they’re consciously aware of their similarities. It happens again and again.
-Toost, one of the Pembers was in control and pointing at the Flits, “You don’t have Breq with you. Again!”
+Toost, one of the Pembers, was in control and pointing at the Flits, “You don’t have Breq with you. Again!”
-Ketta looked up and away from Toost,” We don’t have our tablet. Our tutors don’t need our tablets to be with us.”
+Ketta looked up and away from Toost, "We don’t have our tablet. Our tutors don’t need our tablets to be with us.”
 “In the park they do.”
-“Breg can use your tablet,” Ketta pointed out.
+“Breq can use your tablet,” Ketta pointed out.
 “You always do this,” admonished Toost.

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 Ralf interjected from the folds of Morde’s cloak, “Uh, that wouldn’t be advised, boss.”  I silently concurred, it wouldn’t.
-“Whatever,” Morded dismissed it.
+“Whatever,” Morde dismissed it.
 “You’d think,” Tetcha observed, “with everything on the Sunspot so carefully designed, we wouldn’t have problems like body dysphoria.”
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 “Oh, wow! Oh,” Jural took over the Pembers, “Those wouldn’t need to wait for our skulls to stop growing.”
-“Oh...” Ketta echoed the vocalization of the moment, also lost in thought, then keh noticed the Pember’s switch, “Hey, Jural. Good morning.”
+“Oh...” Ketta echoed the vocalization of the moment, also lost in thought, then keh noticed the Pembers' switch, “Hey, Jural. Good morning.”
 “Balmer’s going to flip,” Jural nodded toward kihn.
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 Tetcha’s jaw actually dropped open in disbelief. Xe was prone to speculation and believing in many wild and improbable things, one of which was an understandable and common skepticism of the Crew and their motives, so I didn’t find xyr reaction unsurprising. “Really? Doesn’t this feel kinda weird to you?”
-“Every cell in my body is saying this is the next step we take,” Morde said, emphasizing the words to denote her implied meaning, referring to their earlier discussion.
+“Every cell in my body is saying this is the next step we take,” Morde said, emphasizing the words to denote hir implied meaning, referring to their earlier discussion.
 “Your magic,” Tetcha said.
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 Morde turned to Tetcha and took xyr hands. “I will go where you go, Tetcha,” sie said, looking hir partner in xyr eyes. “My senses tell me this is OK and right, but I won’t do it if you don’t want to.”
-Tetcha took a quick breath as if to take, then stopped, breathed out xyr nose and started over more slowly, “Are you sure it’s your magic, and not your dysphoria talking?”
+Tetcha took a quick breath as if to talk, then stopped, breathed out xyr nose and started over more slowly, “Are you sure it’s your magic, and not your dysphoria talking?”
 Morde looked down at their hands, then back up to Tetcha’s eyes and held them for a second. In a low, sombre tone, sie said, “It’s both.”
-I’d known about Morde’s sense of intuition for a long time. Ralph had consulted me about it, in fact, wondering if I’d had any students who experienced the same thing. I hadn’t. We didn’t think much of it, other than it was just sharp enough to catch our attention.  And Morde had always downplayed it. Tetcha made more of it than anybody else, and we honestly didn’t think it was going to play all that much of a part in this decision. But here we were witnessing the entire friends group letting it guide them.
+I’d known about Morde’s sense of intuition for a long time. Ralph had consulted me about it, in fact, wondering if I’d had any students who experienced the same thing. I hadn’t. We didn’t think much of it, other than it was just sharp enough to catch our attention. And Morde had always downplayed it. Tetcha made more of it than anybody else, and we honestly didn’t think it was going to play all that much of a part in this decision. But here we were witnessing the entire friends group letting it guide them.
 Well, that and their own adolescent excitement.
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 I proceeded to direct them further into the woods where we might not be interrupted by other Passengers enjoying the park.  As adolescents, they were under our charge, their caretakers playing less of a role in their lives. We tutors were the responsible parties. But, by the laws of the ship, our students were officially in control. Their consent and their autonomy was paramount. Is still paramount. As is yours. As is everyone’s.
-In a short time, with mostly meaningless and redundant exclamations, questions, and replies, we found ourselves all lying in a circle on the forest floor, with our students’ heads in the center, their feet outward like the spokes of the Sunspot, and our tablets between each of them, near their ears.
+In a short time, with mostly meaningless and redundant exclamations, questions, and replies, we found ourselves all lying in a circle on the forest floor, with our students’ heads in the center, their feet, tails, and other lower appendages outward like the spokes of the Sunspot, and our tablets between each of them, near their ears.
 Time to cover my bases. They’d already consented, but they needed to know what they were getting into. I reassured them that they could interrupt me and back out at any time, right up until I would tell them it was done. And even then, there should be a way to reverse it. The nanites were very flexible in their use, and noninvasive.

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 That all said, statistics and records do not seem to indicate that Morde’s dysphoria was the result of hir divergent body type. There are people who look very similar to Morde who do not experience this dysphoria. And there are also people of a very different body type that do.
 Dealing with that dysphoria and treating it is something that has become part of my life’s work, actually, and I will address that further a bit later. Suffice it to say, Morde was not the only one within this friends group experiencing it. Sie just may have had the most severe case of it I have encountered yet. Ketta was feeling it pretty bad this morning, too, as evidenced by xyr mannerisms.
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 “None of my headmates would let me leave without our tablet,” Toost replied.
-“We have an agreement,” Ketta recited, obviously repeating words xe had said before. “On my days, I get to not wear clothes or carry stuff. It’s an accommodation. Tomorrow or the next day, whomever is fronting does what they want.” keh looked meaningfully at the Pembers, “You don’t have days. You have…” keh frowned and emphasized the next word as if it was hard to pronounce, “sentences.”
+“We have an agreement,” Ketta recited, obviously repeating words keh had said before. “On my days, I get to not wear clothes or carry stuff. It’s an accommodation. Tomorrow or the next day, whomever is fronting does what they want.” keh looked meaningfully at the Pembers, “You don’t have days. You have…” keh frowned and emphasized the next word as if it was hard to pronounce, “sentences.”
 “Yeah, but you do switch involuntarily sometimes. I’ve seen it,” Toost said.
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 “Yep,” Ketta actually smiled a little. A half smile, “But also, the Pembers were saying Metabang confirmed that your avatar will feel like your body and it can be whatever you like, so…”
-Without changing expression, Morde seemed to float up and forward a little, as if lifted by this though, but hir voice didn’t reflect any emotion, “Yeah, Ralf told me about that much. I can’t wait. I could stay logged in all day on days like this.”
+Without changing expression, Morde seemed to float up and forward a little, as if lifted by this thought, but hir voice didn’t reflect any emotion, “Yeah, Ralf told me about that much. I can’t wait. I could stay logged in all day on days like this.”
 Ralf interjected from the folds of Morde’s cloak, “Uh, that wouldn’t be advised, boss.”  I silently concurred, it wouldn’t.

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 “About twenty words ago,” I replied, “yes.”

Chapter 1: Initiation - Revision history

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