Sophia listened with a half a mind to President Loveless' faintly interesting utterance. It was quick and rather dry, like the legendary Saltine Crackers of much older times. Sophia glanced at her roommate and started making a mental list of questions to ask her. Despite Sophia coming knowledge of her partner through Epsilon's excursion, she might as well ask and make conversation. As the President's speech was closing, Sophia was glancing around, her eyes moving to a large bulb of light in the ceiling, out to space, moving back to the data port, before settling back to the wide expanse of space. There was some clapping and a few stray cheers after he was done, Sophia clapped quietly.<br/><br/>Just like everybody else on the ship though, Sophia was caught by surprise when the Emperor was said to want to speak. Her eyes widened in astonishment, but she said nothing, intent on listening to the coming words although she did smirk at Alicia's comment. Sophia was transfixed by the Emperor's smooth and powerful voice, not one to be expected from an old man. His speech completely blew the President's speech out of the water to say the least. Unlike the President's mundane words, the Emperor made his words full of life and description seems natural, as if he spoke in such a manner every day. Quite simply, Sophia was awe-struck and the power in the speech, no wonder this guy is the head of the Tyrends.<br/><br/>“Sophia… Am I going crazy, or did he actually say and make it sound like he wanted us to conquer the galaxy for him?”<br/><br/>Sophia was caught off-guard once more, having been mesmerized by the Emperor's speech. After regaining her composure she laughed, "Most definitely. But then again wouldn't you want to be called Alicia the Space Conqueror?" Her face spawned a genuine smile with the small joke. She glance quickly once more to the  bulb in the ceiling before looking at Alicia.<br/><br/>_____________________________<br/><br/>Epsilon was just the slightest bit impressed. The ship's AI was quite fast when she was alerted.<i>“Nice imagery for the distraction security program. You completely overlooked the alert sent out by your access of the database. Should have left before changing the image.”</i>He observed the chains disintegrate, revealing the true security underneath. Again, most impressive, he had been careless. A slight rumble filled the valley as Epsilon started to laugh. The deep buzz of his voice filled the area, "It feels nice having my art be appreciated and not scorned." Epsilon's form shuddered and disintegrated before appearing again, upright and facing Shakti. "What would be the fun in leaving before I got to meet the...locals?", he said with another rumbling chuckle emanating around the pair. He looked down at Shakti's foot on his path.<br/><br/>"I assume you don't want me to leave considering your obstructing my escape. That is most unfortunate.", his voice taking a slightly sharper edge. The buzzing around them grew even louder, mimicking a swarm of locusts. He reached behind himself to the cabinet doors and sliced with an outstretched finger, shattering the security code. With another slight movement, he plunged his finger into the cabinet, like a mosquito's proboscis into flesh, and set fire to half of the files in there, including Sophia's. He removed his finger, showing the cabinet door to be seemingly undisturbed. "Perhaps in other circumstances we may have been acquaintances, maybe partners but now is not that time." He slapped the cabinet door, placing a basic security code over it. Security wasn't his specialty, breaking it was. His form shuddered again and melted onto the pathway Shakti was blocking.<br/><br/>Epsilon took the path and appeared just in front of the ship's AI. "You seem to be blocking my way.", said Epsilon nonchalantly, seemingly not acknowledging the weight of the current situation. He took a closer look at the ship's AI and again was impressed. "You are well constructed, sister. To use a more human term, you are quite beautiful." The buzzing grew louder as Epsilon grew closer. Suddenly he noticed the eight bracelets on her arms. "And what are these, dear?", he inquired almost innocently. His form suddenly shifted even closer, the buzzing grew deafening. His left hand quickly moved forward and touched the bracelets on her right arm. "Oh my, limiters.", he mused, "If I may ask, what is your designated name, sister?"<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>