(Lyka discusses her duties being an Oath Keeper and the studies she has to do as well being as she is also a college student. Her promotion meant that she was allowed to study off-planet but return when scheduled to spend time in a classroom setting. She reminisces on a time she’d rather forget when she was in a siege on a third dimensional world and the brutal conditions they faced.) 

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Lyka: yo.

Russ: Kiri monster.

Lyka: nope.

Russ: who is it? Oh Lyka.

Linda M: who?

Russ: Lyka.

Skip: Lyka.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Linda M: do I know Lyka?

Lyka: I don't think we've met.

Skip: hi sweetie, how’s my girl?

Lyka: I’m doing good.

Russ: Linda, Lyka, Lyka, Linda.

Linda M: hi.

Lyka: hey Linda. Okay I suppose I better say what I do.

Russ: yeah.

Lyka: I’m an Oath Keeper, that’s my duty in life. I fulfill the oaths that Sirius made long ago, more I cannot say. Basically I’m in the business of stopping and helping third dimensional planets even though I’m a sixth dimensional being. At the moment I am a student as well as some call me Captain.

Russ: why do you go around stopping third dimensional planets?

Lyka: I don’t go around stopping third dimensional planets….

Russ: oh.

Lyka: we go around stopping the harm that is caused on them or we try to keep the oath that Sirius……you think I’m that buff?

Russ: you said it.

Lyka: oh......

Russ: you said stopping and helping third dimensional planets.

Lyka: okay so I hop out of a spaceship in a spacesuit, I put out my hand and I stop the planet. I push against it and stop it, oh yeah uh-huh, I’m Supergirl.

(everybody starts laughing)

Russ: I'm just clearing it up for Linda here, maybe she thinks you are, I don't know.

Lyka: hey, I'm Supergirl okay?

Linda M: I knew what you meant.

Lyka: uh-huh I may be buff but ain’t that buff buddy. Now being an Oath Keeper means that I get into all sorts of nasty situations. I’m not the only Oath Keeper, I have 90 Oath Keepers that I look after and take care of.

Skip: yeah.

Russ: good.

Skip: you acquired quite a bit of responsibility there young lady.

Lyka: for my tender age, yeah it’s a lot.

Russ: and how are your classes going along dear?

Lyka: I’m looking forward to going back to college next week.

Skip: are you?

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: oh super.

Lyka: yep and I will be gone for another month and then I will be back. I will be bringing back a new platoon with me, rotation.

Skip: question darling.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: is your studies hard for you or do they come pretty easy for you?

Lyka: some of them are hard.

Skip: okay.

Lyka: and some are easy.

Skip: I was just kind of curious.

Lyka: mathematics is not my field.

Skip: ohhhh, why not?

Lyka: well especially what I’m studying at the moment, trajectories, ballistics, diameters, all sorts of stuff.

Russ: don’t you have little things for that?

Lyka: uh-huh.

Russ: we have little things for that.

Lyka: yeah but we have to do it in our heads.

Skip: can I make a suggestion?

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: study history, study your mathematics and your arms and ballistics in history……

Lyka: that’s how I do it.

Skip: it's a lot easier to you.

Lyka: yeah but when we're sitting in the field studying trajectories of projectiles and orbital patterns, yeah they make us do it in our heads.

Skip: I understand that but it comes a lot easier when you find out how it was developed to that point.

Lyka: oh, oh, oh yeah I know, I know and it is easy but it's sitting down and I get to the point sometimes where I have to take off my shoes and socks.

Skip: no, no, no, you're just tormenting me now. That’s the only way I can remember history is do it that way.

Lyka: I don’t have that mobility sometimes, I don’t have the headset that gives me the mobility on. 

(She had been trying to take off Mark's shoes)

Lyka: but anyway, yeah that’s what I do, I keep the oaths that we promised to keep eons ago and unfortunately it means that we get into some nasty situations. We have been known to side with certain parties on planets and we've been known to side against certain parties but whatever means is necessary to achieve peace.

Skip: okay question.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: maybe you can answer me and maybe you can’t. Are we ever going to in our dimension and our planet ever come down to having total peace?

Linda M: no.

Russ: yes.

Lyka: yeah I think so.

Russ: me too.

Lyka: it’s going to be tough.

Skip: yeah it’s going to be real tough.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: do we have a route to go where we can start something in that…….?

Lyka: it’s already starting from what I have learned from watching Kiri and Tia and Leah discuss these things. I see little seeds here and there of harmony but I also feel as they feel on my home planet on Sirius that it is necessary to maintain a force for self-defense.

Skip: yeah.

Lyka: because if you are defenseless, you're soon useless, you’re soon taken over.

Russ: I get the feeling that the Internet is going to help us achieve that point at some time.

Skip: you know I think you’re right.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Russ: I think when everybody on the planet is hooked into everybody else on the planet, borders are going to fall away…..

Lyka: oh they already are.

Russ: communications will be falling away sort of the separatism, religion, all that stuff is going to be a thing of the past.

Lyka: well I see that as a negative the falling away of ethnic identities.

Linda M: I agree.

Skip: I don’t think that.....Russ, I don't think your ethnic parts will fall away but I think that people will come more to understand other people’s ethic beliefs.

Russ: right but you feel more like a one world.

Lyka: yeah, I mean it will be……..what did Omal call it? Humans first, Americans second.

Skip: yeah.

Lyka: uh-huh and that’s the way it should be.

Skip: I agree.

Lyka: that it’s the ethnic identity, it’s……..I’m a lowland girl, Kiri and Karra are highland girls. Leah and Huna are beach bums so I have pride in my ethnic heritage being a lowland girl.

Russ: but at the same time you’re a Sirian.

Lyka: Sirian first.

Russ: well we’re earthlings.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Russ: but how many people think of themselves as earthlings and not Americans?

Linda M: I do.

Skip: not too many.

Linda M: I think of myself as human.

Lyka: uh-huh, human first or earthling first and an American second. I am Sirian first and I am a lowland girl second.

Skip: it’s nice hearing from you again darling, it really is.

Lyka: it’s good that I’m not tired.

Russ: uh-huh.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: now, something else I’d like to ask you.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: you said we should be prepared.

Lyka: it’s always handy to be prepared for trouble.

Russ: we're talking a six-month supply, what do you think?

Skip: six-months for what?

Russ: six months supply of food.

Skip: anyhow, would six months be a feasible…..?

Lyka: uh-huh. Okay, if you’re going to be in a hostile situation you want as much supplies as possible. As soon as that situation occurs, you ration from the get-go because if you don’t ration and you live normally as you normally would, you're going to burn through your supplies far, far more rapidly.

Russ: as soon as you go to your supplies you should be rationing.

Lyka: that’s right. Now, if you’re in a situation where you are cut off, you want to be able to maintain your position for at least six months. If you are in a siege, the longer you can hold out, the more chance you have of actually winning because a force that is camped is subject to all sorts of problems. Boredom, disease….. 

Russ: other forces.

Lyka: other forces, the possibility that a relief force may be coming their way, all sorts of possibilities. In a siege, if you spread rumors to the enemy, you have a better chance of surviving.

Skip: propaganda.

Lyka: you never reveal how many people you have.