(Kiri gives us some big news of the base which was Lyka and Leah’s child being born. For Skip’s understanding she relates how children born as she was with only female genes so she would be devoid of abilities. That though would not be a handicap on that dimension where their abilities make them excellent with children. She also fills us in that pilots were reorganizing into an elite squadron.) 

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Kiri: okay and moving along to another topic, Lyka.

Skip: oh I…

Russ: yes I’ve got my email working now so…...

Skip: how’s the baby?

Kiri: baby is doing fine.

Russ: get that announcement going.

Kiri: she is a normal........she’s not normal for up here, she’s normal for a third dimensional child, she has no abilities.

Russ: well that’s fine, she’s got the love of her parents.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Skip: you don't need any ability with that.

Russ: absolutely.

Kiri: she was, because of the parentage, she is genetically altered. She is, you’ve heard us talk about Teene’s daughter, you’ve heard me talk about Teene the technician?

Skip: no I don’t think so darling.

Kiri: okay, there are some times where it is impossible for a woman to conceive up here with male genes.

Skip: yeah.

Kiri: so what they do is they artificially set it up so that a child could be born and instead of having the necessary genes, they have pure female genes, no male genes whatsoever.

Skip: well for crying out loud.

Kiri: which means that they're sterile, their mental abilities are at best weak…..

Skip: uh-huh.

Kiri: on the most common occurrence they’re normal, normal for you, your species....

Skip: oh okay, alright okay.

Kiri: as opposed to having maybe one or two or three or four abilities which is very, very common up here which is the normal, they become unnormal up here because they have no abilities.

Russ: won't she face any ostracization for that?

Kiri: no, definitely not.

Russ: well that's good.

Kiri: if anything it would be more love.

Russ: really? Pretty different from what it would be like down here that's for sure.

Kiri: sorry Skip, you’re having an almost anaphylactic reaction over something.

Skip: hmm, wouldn’t that make the young people tease them because they don’t have the abilities?

Kiri: no. They’re very looked after, very more loved because they are missing that one thing that makes them normal for us.

Skip: okay I got you, I got you. All right I understand now.

Russ: now wouldn’t that be like a handicapped person down here who develops their other abilities for example maybe they become more empathic or use their brain more?

Kiri: yes, a lot of them, they’re very, very good caregivers for children because they can’t have children themselves.

Russ: hmm.

Skip: ohhh, okay.

Kiri: because with being a pure woman they’re totally sterile, they can't have children and they're wonderful, wonderful caregivers. They make fantastic nurses because they go out of their way to learn how to read people’s body language instead of reading the minds, they learn body language.

Skip: yes, yes.

Russ: they’re crèche parents and nurses.

Kiri: uh-huh, a lot of them are crèche mothers, a lot of them are nurses, a lot of them are caregivers….

Skip: oh great.

Kiri: their life expectancy is about half of ours.

Russ: now wouldn't they also make good Oath Keepers?

Kiri: no.

Russ: why not?

Kiri: because they are pure female.

Russ: yeah?

Kiri: they don’t have that aggressive leaning that would make them go out and inflict pain. They want to heal, they want to help, they want to put things back together.

Russ: they don’t have that balance.

Skip: they don’t have the male aggressive…

Kiri: they don’t have testosterone.

Skip: yeah.

Kiri: they’re not aggressive.

Russ: yet Lyka being an Oath Keeper has plenty.

Kiri: oh yeah, she has more than she can use.

Skip: she’s a jewel.

Kiri: which means that when she went into labor, they were trying to put an IV into her arm, guess what she did?

Russ: hmm?

Kiri: knocked the medic out. Told her that nobody was going to stick a needle in her except for her love.

Russ: so Leah put it in?

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: oh good.

Kiri: yep.

Skip: she’s a sweetheart.

Kiri: she is a total sweetheart.

Skip: yeah.

Russ: good, congratulations on both fronts.

Skip: okay baby, thank you.

Kiri: okay, we're getting into idle chitchat and gossip. I was going to say something but……

Russ: we got two minutes.

Kiri: we’ve got two minutes left?

Russ: yeah.

Skip: oh yeah.

Russ: well maybe a couple more, the tape runs a longer than the forty five but generally about two minutes.
 
Kiri: and I will get around to a gossip column, I've just been way busy.

Russ: no, no, no, no hurry darling it’s….

Kiri: the gossip I like is the humorous, the funny, the fact of the punching out of the medic, I thought that was funny.

Russ: the corner bar, any more fun and excitement down there lately?

Kiri: it’s been pretty quiet there actually.

Russ: oh really?

Kiri: uh-huh, the Wookies have been behaving themselves.

Russ: oh good.

Kiri: the normal rowdy makers which was one of the coed platoons isn't on the base at the moment. The pilots have been kept too busy especially with the reorganization of the squadron to an elite squadron.

Skip: hmmm.

Kiri: so there’s going to be a lot of base personnel from the blue guys changing here shortly.

(Kiri coughs)

Russ: you okay there dear? Get Mark some water or something?

Kiri: no he’s fine.

Russ: okay.

Kiri: I think that’s part of the problem that there's dust in here.

Russ: could be.

Kiri: uh-huh, okay….

Skip: that’s it for tonight then huh?

Kiri: I guess.

Skip: damn.

Kiri: it’s a wrap.

Skip: okay darling, see you next week.