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[cadiastands]

[Did it take Mira like 20 minutes to enter a username because she expected the system to assign her one and then froze up in fear of doing it wrong when she had to choose it herself? Maybe.]

If someone is qualified to teach me the proper rituals for the use of these devices, I would appreciate it.

[tl;dr Mira, despite being from a space empire in the 401st century, thinks there are animist spirits inside her phone and terminal that will get mad and refuse to work if she does the wrong thing.]

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[yondu]

Startin' to gather I'm the severe minority in most places. Funny, seein' as how Terrans are in mine. Is that what you are?

[He holds out his hand for the second bit of help.]

Let me see your phone. Gonna show you how to lock an' unlock it.

[cadiastands]

I'm Cadian, not Terran.

[The Imperium of Man is so old and so sprawling that calling humans by their original homeworld hasn't been a thing for basically all of recorded history, and Mira corrects him like someone saying they're from Boston, not New York.]

I know how to unlock it. The instructions are right there on the screen.

[A little huffy--she's a layman, not an idiot. (Let's not talk about how many tries it took her to figure out what "swipe" meant.) Still, she unplugs the phone and hands it over.]

[yondu]

Well, glad you got your priorities straight.

[He boggles briefly, before showing her the phone again.] Not talkin' about just swipin'. I'm talkin' about goin' into settin's and doing passwords and prints an' stuff. That way if someone steals your phone, they cain't read all your private conversations.

Not like the government isn't doin' that already but you don't want your average Joe or Dick takin' a peek at your daily schedule.