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[firstroar]

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[khajidont]

Yeah. [Jaime leans forward, resting his elbows on his knees. His gaze drops back down to the floor once more, more of a thoughtful gesture than one meant to obscure his feelings or his expression.

What do they do from here? Before now, doing the right thing has always seemed so easy. That is no longer the truth, and there are two huge ideas that loom at the forefront of his mind, neither of them particularly palatable.]

What do you think we should do with this?

[firstroar]

Build on it. We don't know enough yet to take action. We don't know how dependent these people are on the systems that have altered them. We don't know if they can even survive without them.

[he pauses, thinking. this is pulling all of his current concerns to the light. things he's reluctant to offer to others, but...must. he knows.]

Our greatest weakness is our lack of knowledge. We need to learn more about our enemy, and not only in this respect.

We don't even know the origin of this system, and not knowing is a terrible problem.

[khajidont]

[Blue's answer is a lot more long-term than what he had been thinking of. His thoughts had simply been on recent events: the clones, the nuke, Exsilium.]

That's what you were getting at before, yeah? When you were asking everyone about what they'd do if they could just pull the plug on the UE's AI.

[firstroar]

[he nods.]

The enemy knows we have the technology to find that point. To change it utterly. It's the finding it that could become one of our greatest tasks.

[khajidont]

We could use trial and error, I guess? Every time we go back, learn a little more, get a little closer to when they decided that they needed something that extreme? Not to mention the why they decided they needed it.

[He still can't wrap his head around it, around Exsilium's past. Even trying to sort out time travel in his head gives him a headache, and the more he thinks about it, the more misgivings about it he's beginning to have.]