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“You know of our accords?”
Tasha chuckled lightly. “I watch Star Trek. They don’t call their rule about meeting new species, ‘accords’. They call it the Prime Directive.”
“Star Trek,” he repeated slowly.
“It’s a sci-fi television show. It’s about how aliens came to Earth when they inadvertently spotted our rudimentary warp drive technology and they let us join their Federation. We ended up with alien technology and advancements and we joined them in exploring the galaxy, solving problems and conducting scientific experiments.”
“Hm.”
“Is that what you do? Go around the galaxy solving problems and conducting experiments.”
“No.”
“Oh, because that would’ve been cool. I would’ve joined your crew.”
“We explore the universe, not the galaxy.”
Tasha almost choked on her spit. “Wait. You travel the universe?”
He lifted a shoulder. “Why would we limit ourselves to this galaxy?”
“Um, because traveling the universe is...how is that even possible?”
“Halo Oneis equipped with a jump drive. It would take us some time to leave our galaxy and travel to the next, but if we want to travel faster, we would need only to travel to the nearest Gate.”
“Gate?”
“Star Gate.”
Tasha shook her head and lifted to her elbow to watch him again. “Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Star Gates actually exist?”
Phate frowned. “How do you know about Star Gates?”
“From a movie and also a television show.” She shook her head, overwhelmed with their conversation. “Now, I really must ask myself, what am I getting myself into? When you leave, you’re never coming back, are you?”
“If you’re here, I would make it a point to come back for you.”
“That’s nice of you to say, but you don’t have to pretend, Phate. There’s no future for us. You’ll be out there with an alien girlfriend, and I’ll be stuck here taking care of my boutique and buried in work.”
“The thought makes me want to rip his spine from his body.”
“Spine from who’s body?”
“Your alien boyfriend.”
Tasha chuckled and shook her head. “Spoiler alert, Phate. If you leave, I won’t have an alien boyfriend.”
“When the rescue arrives, they’re coming with another team of scientist who’ll conduct research on humans and Earth. If they deem humans are evolved enough for contact, they’ll begin the process of first contact and with that, they’ll propose humans enter the Intergalactic Dating Agency or IDA.”
“Intergalactic Dating Agency. IDA. You mentioned this before at my boutique when we were discussing dating apps.”
“Correct.”
“So, you guys are doing all this in order to have us join a dating app?”
“It’s not like the dating apps we’ve seen here. The IDA is used to connect different species together who normally wouldn’t cross paths with each other. Many species use it to form alliances as well as help with fertility issues.”
“Huh. You’re saying that in a year or two we might have aliens walking around here or humans might be walking around different planets for dates?”
