NARRATOR: The Commodore's villa, Jumpstar Prime...
UNUIAYYA: Hello, Commodore.
CDRE TAGON: Hello Mayor. What fair winds bring you to my porch?
UNUIAYYA: Our researchers have located a world forge. They require an armed escort while they investigate it further.
CDRE TAGON: Winds of war, then.
UNUIAYYA: I suppose that's fair.
CDRE TAGON: Is this forge thing in contested space? Does somebody else already have their flag on it?
UNUIAYYA: The survey drones have not seen any flags.
UNUIAYYA: But once word gets out there will likely be flags aplenty. The artifact is extremely valuable, and scientists are leaky.
CDRE TAGON: Scientists don't have to be leaky.
UNUIAYYA: But the spread of knowledge is much like osmosis.
Valuable information moves from an area of greater concentration to an area of lesser concentration.
CDRE TAGON: I had a chem class once.
Osmosis requires a semi-permeable membrane.
UNUIAYYA: The metaphor is not perfect.
CDRE TAGON: It gets better if you put the scientists inside hermetically sealed bags.
UNUIAYYA: That does not seem to be better for the scientists.
CDRE TAGON: Breathing bag-air is probably better than breathing the winds of war.