<span style="color: #8000ff">“They were polite to me before, but that was because they wanted information from me. Now that I want something from them they may not be so kind.”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #336600">“I understand, they are your rules. If the devices are too advanced or no longer compatible with your current equipment just let me know, I based their design off of what I saw in your laboratories.”</span>She looked between the two speakers and winced, then offered them a sadder smile.<span style="color: #336600">“We don’t know. Our civilization is fractured into various clans with different specialties. But civil war and corruption have obscured our history and destroyed our records. We know how we first came to be, but we don’t know any of the specifics. And we can do just about anything with some clans being more specialized in some aspects than others. And I’m an outlier because I’m… I’m a story for another day.”</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>