Thank, Greenie. Glad you liked it.

The reason for the long dialogue was that I was trying to squeeze an outline of all my ideas I had for the story into it as quickly as possible, before I forgot about them. All the story elements I wanted are referenced in this segment, kind of setting the ground rules. It refers back to everything that happened before this moment, and sets up the stuff I intended to come next. Had I continued it, this section would have been rewritten, removing a lot of detail and leaving more mystery to be unraveled as the story went on. For example, the fact that the leader of the other group is Dr. Mrs. Caldwell probably would have been removed and instead reveled to Reid when he meets her in person. And later the fact that her lover is Dr. Caldwell's former best friend, maybe even the fact that this group is splicing, and that they have a whole tribe of islanders on their side, would have probably been saved for Reid to discover on his own as well.

DuracellEnergizer said:

C3PX? Is he a relative or replicant of yours?

C3PX was this really cool former member here who I always really liked. Hands down the coolest member these forums has ever had! He left the forum some time ago. When I decided to stop lurking and start posting, I decided to take a similar name, make up some story about how I am him and had to make a new account because I lost my password, and pass myself off as him. Everyone seemed to buy it easily enough, so I just kept up the charade. Shhh, don't tell anyone.