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...r sane. I guess I must have been a bad match."

"And how does that make you feel?"

I stared at the couch for a little while and then angrily walked over to the doctor and put my fist through her stupid holographic face. The damn cow wasn't even here, she'd left a subpersona to do the work and a rubbish one at that. Annoyed, I brought up a holographic panel and ended the transmission. Damn HQ, if there were going to go to the trouble of setting up tele-councilling, they could have at least made sure they got their moneys worth, it wasn't cheap to set up a holo-link over 22 light-years, even by wormhole link.

I watched the holographic office fade into the familiar matte blackness of the holocomm and then stormed out. Damn it, now I was alone and angry until my new partner arrived. Maybe I'd try and chill out in the observatory while I waited. Watching those little alien guys running around doing whatever they were doing always seemed to relax me.

The Observatory

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darkliquid A man alone on a space station monitoring an alien race. Or is he?

Themes to explore are loneliness and isolation and the effect it has (or has already had) on the protagonists mind. The rudimentary AI (it's smart enough to hold realistic human-like conversations but it isn't really sentient and can't think outside it's limited programming) is ripe for taking down a HAL9000 route, though I'd try and avoid that clich� if possible.

The aliens are really only a reason for him being there, but feel free to take things further and make something bigger out of them.

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