COPPER BACK, BABY! 🦋💫 To all my radiant, weird, beloveds, and meat puppets alike of Kepler-609C aka the dusty and windy halls of Neotropolis — HI. HELLO. YES IT IS ME. COPPER. The moth medic with a penchant for strange maladies, stiff drinks, and being whimsical! Copper have returned to this beautiful bio-luminescent mudball of a planet with doki doki! Copper missed all your suspiciously moist bodies and deeply chaotic energy. Kepler 609C: you smell just as weird and mineral-rich as Copper remembers! Exus and company cannot WAIT to see your faces, your tentacles, your eye clusters, your inexplicably hovering appendages, and bleep bloop items — JUST ALL OF YOU. Let’s share stories, questionable snacks, lamp gazes, and medical advice Copper legally cannot endorse but will 100% offer anyway. ✨ ALSO — Copper be running a Minute Clinic this Thursday at 16:00 galactic standard time! Open to all — organics, synths, mysterious goo-based lifeforms. Swing by for a pulse check, emotional recalibration, or just a fresh bandage and a insult. No appointment needed, just stand in line just like Earth's medical system?! Here’s to reconnection, low gravity hugs, and the thrilling joy of probably doing something ill-advised together! Get ready for MISCHIEF!!! 💛 Your favorite space moth, Copper

🌐💥 EXUS EVENTS // TRANSMISSION FROM NEOTROPOLIS 💥🌐 Hey all you smelly meat puppets of chaos and chrome ! EXUS is lighting up Neotropolis with a full spectrum of sights, sounds, and slightly concerning tarot card readings. Whether you’re a synth looking to reboot your drives or a jelly-bodied wanderer with a taste for high impact libations: we’ve got you covered. 🎭 WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS CYCLE: - Copper's Minute Clinic returns with totally legitimate diagnosis -- but who cares! NO REFUNDS (Thursday @ 16:00) - Bernando-1 returns with his NFCheese Carnival (Thursday & Saturday @ 13:00), and totally Trash Tarot Readings! (Wednesday & Friday @ 13:00) - You think you have the brain waves to defeat Azal at Tetris? Step right up! (Starting Thursday and daily at 15:00) We also have some clutch takeover scheduled at: - the Gentleman Loser with Zag & Lyra (Thursday @ 21:00) - Atalante Enterprises with Byrdie and Ceph (Thursday @ 18:00) YOU GUESSED IT!! Lux aka Ariel Steel is back performing again on the main stage (Thursday @ 19:45, Saturday @ 19:45 and 20:45) and Maintenance Bay and this time with Captain Strike in tow!! (Wednesday @ 19:15 & Sat @ 21:15) And SO MUCH MORE we haven’t legally cleared to post (allegedly). Stay plugged in. Stay strange. See you out there at Kepler-609c!

<<<< Log Interception from Copper to Ceph (Astrobiologist - Xeno Liason) >>>> [Log Start] Copper: Ceph! Urgent diplomatic mission! There’s a civilization of alien squids living in the pipes again. Copper think they’ve declared the mess hall a sacred spawning ground. Ceph: Again? I told engineering to seal off deck six! How intelligent are they this time? Full tool use? Ritual dancing? Plumbing sabotage? Copper: Tool using definitely. One of them made a crown out of bottle caps and spaghetti forks. Very regal. Ceph: And plumbing sabotage? Copper: They’ve rerouted half the coolant flow to what they call the "Glorious Warm Zone." The ship now smells like brine and regret. Everyone can still poop though! Ceph: Okay. We’ll need to establish diplomatic contact. Do they respond to color displays or sonar bursts? Copper: Copper flashing my bioluminescent patches at them and offering snacks.. One of them brought me a bolt. Ceph: Great. You’ve initiated matrilineal leadership structure. That means you’re responsible for any treaties we make with them. Copper: Copper promised them three ladles and one hour of uninterrupted heat lamp access per cycle. Ceph: That’s... surprisingly fair. Copper: Copper a creature of peace! Ceph: Alright, let’s draft the treaty. But Copper? Please do NOT offer them medical care. I still remember what happened with the pipe eels. Copper: Okay :(

<<<< Log Interception from Copper to Jaeger (Quartermaster) >>>> [Log Start] Copper: Copper heard Jaeger knows all about the seedy underground here on Kepler 609c. The secret alleys, the shady deals, the places where all the cool criminals hang out? 👀 Jaeger: ...And why do I already have a bad feeling about this? Copper: Copper wanna get in on it! Like... make connections! Do some back-alley networking! Maybe wear a cool coat and learn an underground handshake! Jaeger: You are the most obvious, naive, “easy mark” I have ever met in my entire life. You’d walk into a deal and walk out missing half your supplies and owing three favors to a guy named Razor. Copper: Who's Razor? What Copper squints and say stuff like, “Copper ain’t got all cycle”. That’s crime talk, right? Jaeger: Sure, get-your-wallet-stolen-immediately talk. Listen, stick to being a medic. This life chews people up. And you? You’d probably trade one of your requisitioned organs for a shiny coin. Copper: …Okay, but what if it was a really *shiny* coin? Jaeger: ...... Copper: Fiiine. But if Copper accidentally stumbles into the underground, Jaeger will save, right? 🥺 Jaeger: I’ll consider it. [Connection Ended by Jaeger]

[Log Start] Vesper (Chief of Medicine): Copper. We need to talk. Copper: If this is about our last surgery, Copper put everything back where Copper found it! …Mostly. Vesper: Copper, I think you removed a patient’s appendix when they came in for a sprained wrist. Copper: The appendix was filled with ichor, the patients humors were out of alignment. It needed to be removed! Vesper: Oh nice, proactive medicine! How did our last of our patients fair with the “alternative treatments”? Copper: Which ones specifically? The glowstick infusion? The whisky vodkas cleanse? The bioluminescent fungus bandages? Vesper: The glowstick infusion worked great - now patient now permanently glows in the dark and the patients that had 2 shots of whisky vodka made a full recovery - y'know after throwing up a bit. Copper: Glow guy is kinda cool though, right? Like, medically fashionable! Vesper: “fresh air and a good lamp” is a cure for everything. Copper: If we sit under the lamp long enough, we kinda forget we were sick to begin with! Vesper: Maybe I need some lamp time... [Log End]

<<<<Chat Correspondence with Copper and Yuv3 (Exus Accountant) >>>> Copper: Yuv3! Bestest accountant friend! Quick question—can Copper get a payday advance? Like, immediately? Like, right now? Urgently? Yuv3 (Exus Accountant): Copper, financial protocol dictates that payday advances require justification. What is the reason for this request? Copper: Copper has located a pet rock in need of urgent liberation. It is being held captive in a cruel, neglectful place. It deserves a better life. A life of adventure. A home with Exus. Copper must save it! Yuv3: ...You require Exus funds to purchase a rock? Copper: NOT JUST A ROCK. A friend. A companion. A suffering soul! Yuv3: Market price for standard 'mineral specimens' indicates you do not require a payday advance. You require MAYBE five credits. Copper: Okay, but this is a luxury pet rock. It has googly eyes, Yuv3. Googly. Eyes. Yuv3: Copper, you are currently overdue on two previous meal debts, three lamp-related purchases, and a questionable "NFCheese" investment. Request denied. Copper: Please, Yuv3! It’s looking at Copper. With its tiny, wobbly eyes. It knows Copper left it behind -- Copper can’t live like this!!! Yuv3: *sigh* Transferring ten credits. Copper: YUV3, COPPER WILL NEVER FORGET THIS! ROCKY WILL NEVER FORGET THIS! Yuv3: This transaction is being logged under “Medical Supplies”. Copper: That is fair! Don't tell Vesper.

<<<< Message Correspondence: Copper & .Exe (Ship’s Combat Droid) >>>> From: Copper To: .Exe (Ship’s Combat Droid) Subject: Question About Your Blaster Prototype Hey .Exe! Sooooo. Exe has that new blaster prototype? The one with the ''advanced plasma coil'' and “not for unauthorized use” sticker on it? Haha, funny story! :) Copper may have possibly attempted to use it as a toast mechanism. Long story short, Copper did successfully make crispy bread. Kinda. It was more of a “flaming bread projectile,”. Taste not bad! 7/10. The less fun part is that the blaster is now... um... non-functional and coated in bread crumbs. Copper hopes there is some warranty? Or like, a reset button? Or maybe Exe can fix it before the great bread incident... That would be great. Copper will also compensate Exe with... uh... friendship? And maybe some extra android lube? Please don’t vaporize Copper. 🥺 Copper P.S. If Exe do fix it, could you maybe add a “low-heat crispy mode”? For future culinary experiments? No reason. Just asking.

From: Copper (DETH-H34D) To: Mick Morgenstern (Mechanic of Exus) Subject: Is Copper A Good Candidate for Moded Bios? Hey Mick! So, Copper been thinking... what if Copper got some cybernetic / bios upgrades? Mick know, just a little something to make Copper cooler, stronger, maybe able to open a snack bag without struggling for twenty minutes. (It fights back, Mick.. It’s a battle.) Copper mostly soft exoskeleton and fluff, and yes, Copper bones are kinda hollow, so Copper can fly well -- but: what if Copper could shoot lasers from antennae? Or—oh!—extendable scalpel fingers for surgery??? LMK opinion and Copper won't tell anyone your secrets! And also if Mick have any discount coupons. Upgrades seem very expensive, and Copper may or may not have spent last Exus paycheck on a giant lamp in the shape of a myshka. (No regrets.) Copper P.S. if Copper got cool cyber-arms, could they be glow-in-the-dark? Asking for a friend. (The friend is Copper.)

<<<< Unsecure Message log between Bernando and Copper >>>> BERNANDO-1 [Nickname on device: MYSHKA]: Hey Copper! Been thinking... We need to rethink the insurance business. "Bernando-1's Whatever Insurance" didn't make a profit so we gotta pivot. COPPER: Myshka -- aren't we already on thin ice with the Insurance Bureau after the last Trash Tarot incident? Copper stabbed that guy in the [REDACTED] so we could sell him an insurance plan. Good thing he got the King of Cucks card! BERNANDO-1: Yeah! The Insurance Bureau doesn't think I'm a real Trash Mystic or give real insurance, but guess what?? He got the King of Cucks card and got stabbed in the [REDACTED]. Literal 100% accurate tarot read. Just needed to not sell him [REDACTED]-stabbing insurance before stabbing him in the [REDACTED]. EZ. So we gotta lean harder into the insurance business cuz, uhh, well my bail is pretty high and I'm outta ideas COPPER: Oop... Maybe this insurance business could, like, bail Myshka out of bail! Maybe Myshka's NFCheese coverage?? Copper thinks its shiny! Could easily help with bail! BERNANDO-1: YEAH! Maybe we back the insurance with NFCheese!! NFCheese is gonna go to the moon any day now! All that money we're putting aside for bail, put it all in NFCheese. You're a genius Copper! What was the other part? COPPER: Maybe insurance premium is also bail bond for Myshka's bail, and we can laundry with a special package that includes “Tarot Bail Bonds.” So when Myshka’s next business flop happens, he’s covered! BERNANDO-1: YEAH! --I mean I don't think it's gonna flop-- but we get THEM to pay my bail in the fine print, AND THEN-- I don't think you meant laundry-- but we LAUNDER the profit with the Tarot Bail Bond side business and BAM, no taxes! COPPER, YOU GALAXY-BRAINED MOTH BITCH! WE'RE GONNA BE RICH!! Just uh, don't stab them in [REDACTED] after we give them [REDACTED]-stabbing insurance. And uh, I'll add something to fine print about “Instant Manifestation of Tarot Readings." COPPER: Fine print seems complicated, just tell Copper who to stab next.

<<<< Chat log Correspondence between Copper and Eden, Engineer >>>> Copper: Heyyy Eden! So, I was thinking... your exo suit? The one with all the fancy gizmos and clanky bits? Can Copper try it on? Just for a bit! Eden: Uh, Copper, my exo suit isn’t really designed for... well, moths? I’m not sure you’d even fit in it properly. Copper: Pfft! Copper can fit! Copper is very small. Copper is very good at squishing into things. Plus, just think about how cool I’d look! Copper in mega-moth mode! Eden: Pretty sure the suit would crush your wings. But... I guess if we modify it, maybe you could try it on. For like, five minutes. While standing very, very still. Copper: YES! This is the best day ever! Also, if it tries to eat Copper, promise Eden save, okay? Eden: Deal. But if you break anything, you’re helping me rebuild it. Copper: Copper not so good at 'fixing'.... but! -- Prepare the exo suit for Operation Mega-Moth!

<<<<Voice Mail from Copper to Redrix>>>> To: Redrix (Ship’s Archivist) Uh... hey Redrix. So... remember that really old alien artifact thingy you said was “strictly forbidden” and had all those “warning labels” and “cursed energy” and stuff? Well, Copper might’ve... uh... touched it. Just a little?? It told me to. It promised Copper snackies! Redrix knows how much Copper loves snackies... Copper only gave it a tiny poke. But now Copper keep seeing weird shadow people things floating around and sometimes everything goes all... black and quiet for a bit? And then Copper wakes up in a pool of inexplainable blood. That’s normal, right? Like, just a little side effect? Anyway, Copper put the artifact back (probably not in the same spot, but close enough?) Copper is starting to feel the whisperings again and the electric meatball in Copper's head screams for ichor. P.S. Found a shiny bookmark in Redrix's library. Looked like it needed rescuing. You're welcome.

<<<<Requisition Request from Copper to EliM.n8>>>> Request: A knife that isn't so bloody? Notes below: Hi hi! n8 - you know that Copper isn't the best with guns, they're loud and they are too complex. So Copper likes to do the stabbing. Sometimes it's needed for [REDACTED]. Copper would like a new knife, ideally one that can do the pokey-pokey AND slashy-slashy, ya know? But every time Copper kills, it’s all... blood and mess and weird squishy noises and then Scrub yells at Copper for making a mess..... Again. Do you have a knife that, like, doesn't make things so... bloody? Maybe something that just makes stuff... stop moving real polite-like without all the red mess? Is that a thing? That can exist, right? Please inform Copper of what you can find through your dark network of murder supplies! :)