Ancient Birthright

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don’t get along very well. My father insists that Team Lead Doosa personally come to our quarters to adjust the VH units at least once a seven cycle. Father told me that a man of his position needs to have only the best, most experienced tech available service his VH units. I offered to do the adjustments, but he insists on TL Doosa.”
    He touched the actiplate, next to the hatch of his family’s cabin, and Saigg followed Renna into the main room. His parents lay together on the couch sipping sweet drink.
    Saigg placed his hand on Renna’s arm, “Mom, Dad, this is VH Tech Renna. She’s the genius who solved a troublesome problem we were having with the last few transmissions we’ve gotten from Earth. She’s a VH tech from mid-ship and recognized that my entire team and I were making a wrong assumption. I invited her in for a cup of sweet drink and cakes.” Saigg’s face was deep red at the tip of his nostrils and faded through amber and into a dark green at the jaw hinge, the color display of a courting male.
    Saigg rushed on, “Dad do you think it would cause problems if I asked for Renna to be assigned to my team? We have all the scientists we need, and the theoretical areas are covered, but I realized, after what Renna pointed out, we don’t have any souls with practical growthware application experience.”
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    Caraa and Jamz looked at each other and then at the hand Saigg kept on Renna’s arm.
    Jamz winked at Caraa so Saigg couldn’t see him. “Do you think your team could keep a VH tech fully occupied? VH repair techs seem to be hard to get. It’s been sixty-cycles since a tech tweaked the VH in here. To ask to have a VH tech reassigned to support just your team seems a little frivolous.”
    Saigg’s face showed his disappointment as he crossed to the food dispenser, VH displays, like much of the technology on the ship, and even the ship itself, was a soul-designed, organic construct, bioengineered for a specific purpose. He pressed the actipad for two cups of sweet drink, and a green cake. He turned to Renna. “Which flavor cake would you like?”
    “The yellow with black flecks is my favorite.” Renna turned to Jamz. “I could service the VH screen in here if it is giving you problems.”
    “No Renna. Saigg brought you here as a reward, not to work on our VH screens. Take off your equipment and get comfortable,” Jamz said.
    Saigg pressed the pad for her choice then took the dispensed food and drink to the main room and indicated Renna should take a seat in one of the two chairs facing his parents. She removed her equipment harness and placed it next to the entrance hatch.
    I was right, without the equipment harness, she’s beautiful. The curve of her legs and the way they blend into her tail is exquisite.
    Renna returned to the chair and gracefully settled on to it before sampling the cake Saigg offered.
    “I’m sorry. I should have properly introduced you to my parents, Renna, my parents, Command Prime Jamz and Ops Prime Caraa Garuu. This is Renna...I never did ask you your clutch name.” Saigg said as he took the chair next to her.
    “It’s Feuua, Renna Feuua.”
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    Saigg sat staring at the lovely Renna. The conversation not registering on his pheromone befuddled brain.
    Jamz asked, “Renna, what do you think about Saigg’s idea of having you join his research team?”
    Saigg listened through a haze as Renna explained, “After seeing the condition of the VH unit in the meeting room, I think I would have enough work to keep me very busy. Assuming the rest of the VH displays in that area are in the same shape. I could improve the response and resolution just by debudding the core processors. If the core processor throws buds, it takes a lot of display energy out of the screen. When the scientists bioengineered the VH units, they managed to suppress most of the reproductive responses. But over time buds do erupt.”
    She sounds nervous, almost babbling. I wonder what’s made her

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