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Duv "Oopsie" Galeni ([personal profile] komarran) wrote in [community profile] forbarrayar 2017-02-02 04:52 am (UTC)

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"No, they don't. Not any I know of," he adds with a frown. It certainly hadn't felt like a wormhole jump when he found himself here and none have ever sent someone through time itself, only space.

At least he can provide cultural information even if he isn't an expert on the planetary Empire. What he wouldn't give for a copy of the Imperial Security guide to the Cetagandans.

"They're nuanced, so you'd do best to pay attention to subtlety. Every gesture, scent, and word is carefully placed and selected to convey what they mean." Which made Cetagandans needlessly frustrating to deal with most of the time. Their money had always been good on Komarr which had been more than enough to make up for their oddities. "They're one of the more technologically advanced powers with a rather... strange social structure. You may be better off trying to get one of the ghem-lords to elaborate for a better understanding of it."

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