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>Be member of a species which became interplanetary early in its history due to nearby stars
>Join an organization to help uplift other species near the galactic center and save them from extinction
>You don't actually have sex since you are actually a distributed lifeform like a colony bacteria, except based on a virus.
>While spending time on one of the planets inhabited by an intelligent multicellular life form, you begin to understand the concept they call love.
>One of the members of their species shows a strong interest in you, and you have grown to have a strong preference for their company.
>Your new love interest wants to know all about the organization you work for and the exciting technology your species has been working on.
>You have never had someone who actually listened to you before, and you are really interested in these subjects, so you tend to rant for hours, but your lover listens with rapt interest
>One day there is a huge explosion
>The natives you were working with are torn to shreds
>You search frantically for the first love you have ever had after millenia of living in this universe
>The person who taught you what love is
>You cannot find their body
>Your organization and local authorities begin an investigation into the source of the explosion
>Logs show your lover was the likely cause
>Further investigation shows they weren't even a member of the native species
>They were a member of a species from far away
>Their species is adept at mimicry and infiltration
>Your lover was a spy hired by an interstellar corporation which wanted to steal information and sabotage your organization
>You told them everything they needed