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[This is Jaime's first post to the network as Blue Beetle, and the name displayed on the tablet has changed accordingly. For any hackers out there, it can't be linked back to him as he's not actually using his tablet; he's posting directly from his armour.]

Hey. Blue Beetle here. I know that after all this, the last thing we're thinking about is the UE's soldiers, but something's been bugging me. Everyone who was on the distraction team with me, you must have noticed the new soldiers, right? They didn't have anything like them on Elmer's world, and I'm pretty sure that war was an all-hands-on-deck sort of deal. The normal soldiers were really well equipped as it was, but these ones must have been metas. They were stronger, and faster. It was so busy on the field that I don't know whether or not I was seeing ones with different powers or if they all had the same skillset going on, but the ones I noticed could fly and had elemental powers. And they were small. Like children.

[Which is deeply off-putting.]

I'm not sure what their deal is, but consider this a heads-up for what the UE's got in store, and the kind of technology we might find on them. For some reason, I don't think an army full of tiny meta-soldiers is something they just managed to find one day. If any of you ran into them too, I think it'd be good if we could get some sort of list of how much they can actually do. Oh yeah, one last thing. Since we don't exactly have space suits around here yet, if there's any maintenance that needs to be done outside the base, let me know. I'm guessing we don't have a whole lot of people who can breathe out there, and my suit's built for space travel.

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[ Kate shakes her head. ]

No, there has to be a limit. Unless they're siphoning resources from other worlds...

[ Then they may as well call it unlimited. ]

I don't know much about cloning, unfortunately.

Okay, wrong word, maybe not unlimited, but... there's some mixed knowledge on whether or not the masked soldiers are clones, and there's a lot of them.

[Enough to spread across an entire world, to destroy an entire world. He rubs at the back of his neck.]

I'm going to get the info out to people who do know about cloning, see what they have to say.

Do you mind sending a copy of those photos to my tablet? The name's Kate Kane.

Sure. I can send over a copy of the full report once I've got that figured out too. [He looks at her, assessing.]

Why did you bother with going anonymous anyway?

[ Kate shakes her head, not quite sure herself anymore. ]

I haven't figured it out yet.

[That elicits something resembling a short, breathless laugh out of Jaime - though considering the subject matter it's a sound without any humour to it.]

Man, join the club.

You were willing to reveal information to an anonymous figure.

[ She's half teasing, but hey, that can be dangerous. ]

Pfft, everything I talked about on there's totally public anyway. You coulda gotten everything but the pictures just by watching.

[He can't say that he hasn't done the same.]

Probably.

[ She pivots on her heel now, waving a hand. ]

Thanks for the photos.

Yeah, no problem. [He waves as she leaves, taking a seat again and pulling up his news feed with one hand. Behind her, he calls,] I'll be in touch.

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