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[Well, she's here, she's unpacked, and even before arriving at the elaborate underground base she saw at least four people in ludicrous costumes chasing other people in ludicrous costumes while driving in from the airport. She's in the right place.]

[Omeganet, Video]

[Broadcasting on the Omeganet is a red-haired woman in her late 20's, wearing a blue military uniform shirt and a tan beret. Military nerds will recognize the combination as not American even if they can't make out the UN and Canadian Special Forces Command insignia on the edges of the video.]

Good afternoon, Omegafriends. My name is Commander Shepard, and I'm here representing the United Nations Super Hero Intelligence-Finding Task Force.

[She relaxes slightly, as if she's normally used to saluting while introducing herself.]

I'm formally here as an observer, but I've got a few skills that I think I can add to your team. I'll be spending the next couple of days getting acclimated, and if Venture City's reputation is anything to go by, probably foiling a robotic robbery every time I go out for coffee.

And if there's any supervillains tuned in to this, no hard feelings on that part. I just like coffee.

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...I forgot you guys had a spaceport.

Well, until three years ago it was an abandoned cold-war airbase, so you're excused. We've made some major progress in upgrading it, though our older machinery and computers are still housed in the old base structures. Including, as previously mentioned, a certain former hamburger franchise that now contains a lot of magnetic tape reel machines for interfacing with old NASA hardware.

I think I heard about that. Is that where they found the hi-res moon pictures hidden on old tapes?

Yeah, it is. We're actually going through some other old tapes from a few of the old Mars and Mercury probes right now.

Great work. One of the moon photos is my desktop wallpaper back home.

I should drop by and see this place. Is it open to the public?

I can't take any credit for that stuff. Data-recovery isn't my ball.

The Spaceport has guided tours, Monday through Saturday, 15 bucks for adults...

Unless you show up this Saturday, when we're having a free day. Should I put in a word with Mister Kerman to arrange for something special?

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No need for anything special. Unless you can book Chris Hadfield, but I'm about 90% sure he doesn't do tours.

Not on short notice anyways. Nice guy though. I have a signed copy of his book.

I've been meaning to dig up a Space Oddity EP for if I ever get to meet him, personally.

So what is it you do here other than work at the Spaceport? I'm guessing if you're on the network you also do some crime-fighting, or something.

Not a bad choice. I might go for that other single he cut though.

And yeah, Kerbal-X at your service. I borrowed a spacesuit and a jetpack to do a bit of crime-fighting in when I'm off the clock. My superpower is basically 'not dying'.

Probably the most useful superpower there is.

[Probably saves the local space program a ton of money on safety features too, but she's too polite to suggest that.]

Good to meet you, Kerbal-X.

Well, that depends on your definition of useful. I mean, teleporting would be nice to!

But thanks for saying so.