Transcript For Strip 747

Panel 1
Moe tells her story to Nicole as Seamus and Murphy look on.
Moe: My family are from the Peru Sector, West Terra. My ancestors have lived in Trujillo since before the Space Age ...

Panel 2
Flash-back scene: an asian gentleman works intently at a console with multiple monitors.
Caption (Moe): Father was a tradesman – an assistant node-admin for the WorldNet, helping manage the major nodes in northwestern South America.

Panel 3
Moe's father is studying one screen intently.
Moe: Father noticed an increasing failure rate in the transmeson routers, and investigated.
Moe: He found that his supervisor was paying discounts to get inferior components while submitting fake purchase orders for quality goods and pocketing the difference.

Panel 4
Moe's father is standing before the desk of a Big Boss, of whom we only see an extended arm and finger pointed at the father. A pair of Enforcer types have stepped forward and are grabbing the hapless man by the upper arms.
Moe: He reported the thefts upstream, following procedure.
Moe: Instead of being rewarded he was accused of the very crime he exposed and transferred – exiled, really, to the Ionian mines. Panel 1
Moe tells her story to Nicole as Seamus and Murphy look on.
Moe: My family are from the Peru Sector, West Terra. My ancestors have lived in Trujillo since before the Space Age ...

Panel 2
Flash-back scene: an asian gentleman works intently at a console with multiple monitors.
Caption (Moe): Father was a tradesman – an assistant node-admin for the WorldNet, helping manage the major nodes in northwestern South America.

Panel 3
Moe's father is studying one screen intently.
Moe: Father noticed an increasing failure rate in the transmeson routers, and investigated.
Moe: He found that his supervisor was paying discounts to get inferior components while submitting fake purchase orders for quality goods and pocketing the difference.

Panel 4
Moe's father is standing before the desk of a Big Boss, of whom we only see an extended arm and finger pointed at the father. A pair of Enforcer types have stepped forward and are grabbing the hapless man by the upper arms.
Moe: He reported the thefts upstream, following procedure.
Moe: Instead of being rewarded he was accused of the very crime he exposed and transferred – exiled, really, to the Ionian mines.

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