Who are you?

Humans have a nearly supernatural ability to adjust to new circumstances. They settle into a “new normal” with relative ease, and after a short time find it difficult to remember how they spent their days before this.

Ñuqa.

Boredom often follows. No matter how stressful the actual transition was, or how difficult they found the new circumstances, once they’ve repeated something enough times it becomes boring.

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What are you?

If they don’t get bored, they become stressed to the point of death. Either a human will acclimatize to their new circumstances, or they will completely break. There is no middle ground.

Kanchi

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War began. Not for any particular reason, just prejudice and greed.

Mirror Station 07396 was halfway between two planets. Those planets mutually decided the other should not exist. People on the station were constantly bribed to accept and send packets without logging them, or notifying the final recipient. Some bribes were taken; most were not.

The station, like all other stations, received an upgrade to defenses. Mirror Station 06391 was attacked and its mirror was cracked.

No one knew what a cracked mirror would do to light packets. Everyone suspected it would be bad.