Chapter 48

***This article contains spoilers.***

## Highlights

* Irillith creates a video loop of her guest room and then hacks into their system and downloads their video footage using a childlike AI.
* Calara beats John in training. Jade acheives new forms. Rachel presents her research on Jade. Dana presents her reinforced Maliri and Etherite crystal compound
* Irillith watches footage of the team having sex, girls transforming, sex, Calara healing, sex, Jade's pulsing lights, sex, Mael'nerak research, sex, and more sex.

## Summary

Irillith chooses to stay on Deck 4 in a guest room and created an audio and video loop on a holo-pad she hooked to her right vambrace. She then hacked into their system and downloaded their video footage using a childlike AI.

Despite Irillith's personality, John can't help but feel attracted to all Maliri women, and Irillith makes him want to break her, and make her submit. Despite knowing how dangerous Irillith and Edraele are, they just made John feel amused, like they're just children acting out.

Irillith watched video footage.

* Ready Room cams 01-03 composite: Alyssa giving John a blowjob (Irillith was appalled she'd let a man degrade her like that.)
* Firing range cams 01-02 composite: John giving Alyssa tactics and basic training.
* Alyssa fucking John
* John having anal sex with someone else
* Calara healing serious injuries in days
* Dana going from scrawny to busty and healing scars over the course of two weeks
* Jade and her pulsing, bright lights

Calara finally beats John in training. Rachel studies Jade as she trains, now able to mimic new shapes quicker.

At lunch, despite Jade gesturing Irillith sit by her, she sits by John, at the opposite end of the table. Afterward, Rachel steals \*requisitions Irillith's DNA from her glass, as she notes that Irillith has the same body shape as the rest of the girls. That means the girls could have been changed to be like the Maliri, rather than like Alyssa.

Irillith doesn't know why she wants to look attractive to John, but rationalizes it away.

Dana presents her reinforced Maliri and Etherite crystal compound, formed into an XR 75 railgun barrel. She took the reinforced crystal formula that the Maliri use for their crystal armour, then mixed it with Etherite crystals to form a new compound. It’s a lot more robust than the base Maliri version. The Maliri crystal is about six times more resilient than standard Titanium plating, and by adding Etherite crystals to the mix, it makes it even tougher and psychically responsive. Though it'd take forever to manufacture with Dana's current equipment, the new super crystal would be best for making body armor, though Alyssium would still be the best for the ship armor. Reshaping works, but since the Maliri crystal won’t liquefy like Alyssium does, reshaping it is difficult.

Irillith watched video footage of them:

* Having sex
* Chatting on the bridge as they annihilated a huge band of pirates and a Kirrix hive-ship
* Having sex
* Having more sex

Jade shows off her new forms:

* Eight-limbed octopus with green limbs
* Snake covered in dark-green scales
* Green-furred monkey
* Dark-green spider (Rachel doesn't like this one)
* Rhino

Rachel goes over her research:

* Jade is unlikely to develop psychic powers like Alyssa, because Jade's psychic powers are hard-coded to make her shapeshifting more authentic and believable.
* The same with telepathy; Alyssa bonded with Jade easier than Dana and Calara.
* Practice isn't making Jade more powerful; John does, by feeding her cum.
* The behavior modifications of Nymphs are the most complex of the gene-coding the Progenitors used.

Irillith is called to the bridge as they were intercepted by Maliri ships that Irillith identifies as House Ghilwen, the large one being a battleship armed with Nova Lances. Irillith hacked the cruiser about to come into interdiction range with the childlike AI, tricking the cruiser’s central computer into performing emergency maintenance of their drive systems. That forced them out of hyper-warp while the diagnostics were engaged.

Irillith stopped attending meals, too wrapped up in watching the video footage.

* The Drakkar attack, healing, Jade's tiger, and Progenitor-John
* Calara's gunnery
* Alyssa being a talented psionicist
* Rachel's research into Mael'nerak
* Their acquisition of the technology for the ship’s Sensor Array. (Irillith was none too pleased.)
* More sex