Why don't you just give me your name, okay? It's all right.
My name is Cassiopeia.
Cassiopeia. It's beautiful. It means fairy queen, doesn't it?
I think so.
Designation?
I'm designated a socialator. It's an honorable profession; it's had the blessings of the elders for four thousand yahrens.
I didn't say anything. I'm just curious about what all that excitement was about back on the barge.
That woman is a member of the Otori sect amongst the Gemonese. They don't believe in physical contact between genders, except when sanctified by the priest during High Worship of the Sun Storm, which comes once only every seven yahrens.
[Starbuck is remembering a card game he was playing before the Galactica ordered battle-stations drill, which had suddenly turned into the real thing.]
No wonder those little buggers are such good card players.
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