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//---- Source: Omni Station

Spacers cloning at Omni station dicovered themselves walking across a picket line this month, as a protest descended on H.E.T.E. facilities.

//---- Images of swarming nanites accompany the transmission, the microscopic machines forming buzzing images of protest slogans and heart-rending images.

"Everyone deserves to live, darling!" said the protest's organizer, a diminutive Elgan by the name of Eiphy. "Cloning is a universal right, absolutely universal! H.E.T.E.'s callous greed drives honest spacers into debt, families into mourning, and makes crime rates skyrocket. It is unbridled capitalism at its worst - our very lives are the product. It's GHASTLY!"

When asked about the protest's goals, Eiphy continued, "We demand nothing short of H.E.T.E. offering free basic cloning for every sentient being in this sector. Rob the moguls blind with pointless upgrades, enhancements and priority treatment, but don't hold our fabulous bodies hostage!"

//---- The transmission cuts to a scene of bemused and baffled spacers wading through the nanite swarms to exit H.E.T.E.'s facilities.

Bystanders seemed sympathetic to the protesters, with one Jin by the name of Kalex even offering, "I'll try not to give them any more business."

"This movement will only continue to grow," the protest's organizer declared. "Today Omni, tomorrow Danica, then Reynolds, then Crossings, we'll protest across the entire sector! We're going supernova. H.E.T.E. may be big, but we're bigger - we're billions strong."

When asked if the billions count included nanites, no futher comment was available.

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