A month. It has been a month since our arrival, and we still were not done. We had to go through layer after layer after layer of stupid bureaucratic idiocy to get ONE STEP DONE! And Anibeli said that it's going at a blistering pace! If only I could shoot some of these-

  No no. Enough of that train of thought. I might actually do it. That would be rather suboptimal considering my objective.

  This only reaffirms my utter and complete joy at not being in charge and having to do this utter dogshit. It's like they deliberately stymie progress! By the dead gods, this task tries my patience. Necron bureaucracy can't be this bad, right?

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  ...On second thought, that might be a bit of wishfull thinking.

  But I digress. A month. In our limited free time, we spend it in the noble levels of the central hive spire. By that, I mean we went to cultured gardens and art galleries. Something Anibeli calls "Posh idiocy and a waste of time." But, being a noble herself, she was expected to do all of said idiocy, and more.

  Sometimes I went with her, other times I was trapped in paperwork. She sometimes brings me news, and sometimes story's of the young of the nobility being daft.

  Ego ruled here, followed by force, apparently. On the few times I went out, I was apparently a hot topic. Anibeli says that she has had multiple offers to buy me. Absolutely insulting.

  In other news though, besides me, the other hot topic is thus. A new stc has been found. Stc, a 'Standard Template Construct'. We have something similar in the dynastys, of course, but for humanity, who basically crashed and burned twice in record speed, this was a big deal.

  Nobody really knew anything, yet still, they gossip and brag apparently. sigh. I just wish for this to be over.