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[ Padmé's voice, despite the current situation, comes across calm and gentle. ]

This is Ambassador Padmé Amidala of Maurtia Falls. I would like to introduce to you a friend of mine, Agent Williams, who will be introducing to you an initiative run by Commander Jacob Taylor with the support of my office. Considering our current predicament, the importance of it seems clear.

[To those who know Ashley, she sounds a little younger, a little less sure of herself than she does normally; while she's certainly putting on confident authority, it doesn't come as naturally to her at this age.]

I'm Agent Ashley Williams, and as you might have seen in the news, there's a new experimental pilot peacekeeping group patrolling Maurtia Falls to deal with imPort and metahuman crime and also dealing with national security: Aegis Force. In a world that's had trouble with imPorts before, Aegis Force aims to protect people and have imPorts do some good, by running crisis response, investigations, mediation, and training.

[ Padmé speaks again, a little more sternly. ]

We are guests here, and our effect on those who live here is great. It is imperative on all of us who care about our place in this world and the lives of others to do what we can to help defend them from the threats we frequently pose, with or without our knowledge.

It is my feeling that is possible to do so and to acknowledge that the strain placed upon us as Imports is also great. Being brought here is a precarious thing. But it is not something under the control of the ordinary citizens here any more than it is under ours whether we are brought here.

What is under our control is how we respond, how we help, and how we strive to be something more. If we cannot do that, if we only use our powers to help ourselves or in some cases to hurt, then we have truly earned their animosity.

I believe that we are better than that. And I believe AEGIS can be a proving point towards that.

Thank you, Ambassador. Registered imPorts can sign up by contacting Commander Jacob Taylor for an evaluation. We're government funded, so if you want to do this for a living, you can; otherwise you can set your own hours as a part time volunteer. There are a lot of different roles you can take on depending on your skills, like combat, diplomacy, medical, training other team members, tech, intel, and support.

[The recording goes on in silence for a few moments more, before Ashley adds:]

Also, unrelated, but is there anyone here from the Systems Alliance Navy, and are you missing a female officer service uniform? I didn't recognize any names in the directory on this thing, and it's definitely not mine, I'm only enlisted.

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I think this sounds like a great idea. Do you have to live in Maurtia Falls to participate?

Not at all: Our main jurisdiction is there, but you don't have to live on base. I'm commuting in from Heropa.

Sounds good. ... I should ask as well, is there an age limit? I'm 17 years old, but I have combat experience. Of course, that would be proven in an evaluation, but I want to make sure I'm old enough first.

You're fine. Under eighteen-year-olds are more supervised, though - you'll be assigned a mentor to keep you safe during more dangerous work.

That's a good policy. I look forward to working with all of you, then- provided I pass muster.

[A green scaly teenager shows up on screen.]

I've heard of something called the Alliance! Only I don't think it's the same Alliance, because humans can't enlist in my universe's Alliance.

Anyway, to anyone watching this, I wasn't really listening to any of that, but you should totally sign up because Jacob is awesome.

Yeah, probably not the same Alliance - the Systems Alliance represents humanity.

But I agree, I only met Jacob recently but he seems pretty awesome so far.

Ours represents an alliance between Reptilians, Greys and Whites.

Yeah, he was super helpful when he found me after...I'm not really sure I quite get it, but apparently I'm supposed to be here as an adult and not a teenager?

I don't know what Greys are and we're probably not thinking of the same Whites either...

I've heard there's a lot of that going on - people tell me I should have a few more years on me.

[Which in her current point's state of mind seems unlikely and, to be honest, cruel.]

What are Whites where you're from? Where I'm from they're a species that's tall and pale and they look similar to humans.

Greys are short and grey with large heads and black eyes.

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