Petal was a little taken aback by Darclight's outpouring of confidence in her. She rubbed the back of her neck and kicked at the ground, embarrassed, "well shucks. I don't know about any of that, but I wish you the best of luck. CHESS was big enough that you, well you sort of got circles, you know? Anyway the people I hung around with thought of you guys like our little brothers, sort of." She gave the armorsuit's arm a playful punch, "that means I'll feel better seeing your team back in action again. Like maybe the family business isn't in so much trouble."<br/><br/>"El Contador used to be a bad guy, he manages my 401(k) plan now," Petal mused when the subject came up, "back when he turned, they treated him like a defector from a hostile country. But that was special because he sort of<em>was</em>a defector from a hostile country, that was back when supervillains took over Bolivia, and also, his powers were mostly harmless. I don't know how it would work in this day and age, but I expect that yeah, it'd be an uphill battle. Still!" she clapped her hands, smiling brightly,  "we do these things not because they're easy but because they're hard, right? Who did you have in mind?"<br/><br/>"Quantum Entanglement Communication," Auxilia tapped her head, putting on a pair of glasses that might have been obligatory for giving explanations, "particles whose states are linked no matter what the distance between them is, so the transmission of information is instantaneous. I'm basically a living faster-than-light communications network. I think that's part of the reason I don't bump up against the limit for distributed intelligences - I'm not a clone or even properly a hive, I'm me, and there's no lag on updating what 'me' is. QEC is sort of important for interstellar communication as a whole, but as far as I know, nobody had ever figured out how to put it directly into someone's brain."<br/><br/>She smiled sadly, fondly, "then the old man did it on accident, to fulfill his twin fantasies. Mad scientists, sorry Tabs, are brilliant sometimes and complete idiots sometimes, but sometimes they're the biggest idiots when they're in the middle of being brilliant. One of you has probably discovered the formula for universal happiness and is using it to run a really amazing toaster."<br/><br/>She leaned comfortably into Tabs as the catgirl squeezed her, "oh, you have<em>no idea</em>how nice it is to be back and multiple again. For instance, I can do this," it would have been something of a stretch to return Tabs' squeeze, so another Auxie-drone snuck up behind Tabs and hugged her from behind, "I honestly don't know how people manage having only one platform, you have to constantly be worrying about where you are and what you're doing, always running from place to place and making hard choices about what to prioritize. Then there's forgetting people's names and faces because you don't have space for the information. Accepting that you can't love everyone even if you want to."<br/><br/>She looked from side to side to make sure there weren't any minors in earshot, "having to use your own hands to masturbate when you don't have any toys handy. It's impossible!"<br/><br/>"Oh!" another Auxilia handed Kanina her ice cream and smiled brightly, "I don't have to pass anything along. If it's just clingy fans looking for you, I guess you wouldn't be interested in tracing where the queries have been coming from...?"