Ayeka could barely hold her temper in when she saw the Borg King. While the Juraian princess was very grudgingly willing to admit that she had been in the wrong, she did not feel that her faux pas deserved being striped of her clothes. The jury was still out on whether the lack of reaction to her current state was a credit to the Borg King or an insult to her. However, Ayeka was willing to ignore her current indignity to try and talk with her captor. With her hands crossed over her chest Ayeka said, "What are the Borg and why are you in this system. If you know about the Galactic Police then you must be aware that this system belongs to the Juraian Empire."
Ranma was really thankful for Borg nanoprobes and there ability to regulate hormone levels at the moment. Despite what people back in Nerima believe, he did get all of those crude locker room jokes. Playing the naive dunce had simply been an act to help him adapt and survive all of the innuendo that had been a part of his life. Even with being cursed to be a girl, it had always been extremely hard to ignore a naked girl and pretend that he wasn't affected.
With his nanoprobes help his well trained discipline Ranma said, "The Borg have been in this system for almost 16 standard years and this is the first time that we have heard of Jurai's claim to this star system. On what basis is this claim founded on? There is no Jurai military or civilian presence in this system besides yourself. None of the people of the only habitable planet in this system acknowledge Jurai's suzerainty over them."
Ayeka was annoyed that Ranma was wasting time on such a trivial technical point instead of dealing with the here and now. However, she was willing to humor him in the hopes that he would be more agreeable to letting her return to the Ryu-Oh with Sasami. In a slightly aloft manner Ayeka said, "This system belongs to Jurai because the people of the third world are a colony of Jurai."
Naturally Ayeka was surprised when Ranma blinked his eyes and said, "That is false Princess Ayeka. The humans of Earth cannot be a colony of Jurai because the two races are separate. Genetic comparisons between yourself, your sister, the Ryu-Oh's database, and the people of Earth clearly show that the two races are the result of parallel evolution, not of one race branching off from the other. Also, the human genome is not connected to any race that the Jurain people rule or have dealt with before. Therefore, Earth is not a colony of Jurai. So I ask again, what claim does Jurai have on this system?"
For once Ayeka was completely at lost for words. The maps on the Ryu-Oh couldn't be wrong about this system being a part of the empire. Intergalactic politics would never allow for a system to be falsely claimed by any group no matter how large or powerful the group was. Ayeka let her arms fall to her side and she said, "I-I don't know." She then said in a more worried manner, "S-surely there must be a reason why this system is marked as belonging to Jurai."
Where she was or her present state no longer mattered to Ayeka. All that mattered to her was trying to figure out what was going on. If what the Borg King had said was true, then she had unknowingly stumbled across a can of worms that could tear the Juraian Empire in half.
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