"Well, hello, world. I'm still the me on Titan. The me aboard Pumpkin is still a little busy right now.

"I, uh, kind of violated some spacecraft safety regs when I altered Pumpkin outside of normal maintenance, when I re-mounted the drive. They're not going to yank her spaceworthiness certificate, given that there's enough publicity being shone on this whole thing that they're willing to accept 'I did it to avoid dying' as an excuse... but they want me to inspect every last thing you can imagine, and then some, repeatedly, for the rest of the trip, and then do their own inspections once I finally get back to the Solar System and dock.

"Unrelatedly, one detail that may be of interest to our viewers is about Val's state-of-mind. According to our highly-paid analysts, the odds are very high that she's an upload... and that she took a canon. Specifically, she had an unchanging, fixed belief something along the lines of 'Singularities are bad'... and she'd had that part of her mind set to be read-only for years. Maybe since the em-pocalypse itself. But human brains didn't evolve to have neurons act that way, and even we uploads still rely on regular neural architecture. Over time, her canon... leaked. Or something. Without a copy of her handy to directly analyze, we're dipping deeper into guesswork for any details."

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"Dee, now that all the excitement is over, there's still one thing I want you to tell me."

"... Yyyyeeess?"

"What secret did the me in the Kawaiikoma keep from this me?"

"Ah. That. Well... it's about those Titanian body-suits, the black ones."

"What about them?"

"We are live-vlogging, you know."

"I don't care. Lie to me if you want. Just tell me something."

"... Alright. The suits are black because their colour-code is zero-zero, zero-zero, zero-zero. That is, they reflect no red light, no green light, and no blue light."

"... And?

"... Oh. Oooh. So the me in the fully biologically accurate dik-dik and griffon-"

"Yep."

"But the me in the Kawaiikoma-"

"Yep."

"So, wait, is that how you knew-"

"Yep."

"And they all just... don't talk about it?"

"Well, not to non-Titanians, anyway. Mostly. I think we're at least half Titanian by acclaim, by now."