[IC] Myriad Reality

[Abominations]

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*Generates a transparent barrier of magic in a box around you*

@Legend

I don’t understand your insistence on violence and restraining. I conducted an experiment which harmed no one, and wish to leave with the info I gathered.

[Legend]

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I don’t understand your insistence on violence and restraining. I conducted an experiment which harmed no one, and wish to leave with the info I gathered.

@Abominations

You appear to have wiped out a myriad of star systems.

[Abominations]

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You appear to have wiped out a myriad of star systems.

@Legend

And?

[Legend]

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And?

@Abominations

That’s a sufficiently serious act of aggression for you to at least be questioned.

[Abominations]

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That’s a sufficiently serious act of aggression for you to at least be questioned.

@Legend

Run the numbers. All the data was there. A lot of inanimate objects were wiped out but you’ll find not one soul.

[Legend]

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Run the numbers. All the data was there. A lot of inanimate objects were wiped out but you’ll find not one soul.

@Abominations

Which is an insufficient defense. It obligates you to an explanation, at minimum.

[Abominations]

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Which is an insufficient defense. It obligates you to an explanation, at minimum.

@Legend

Sure. There’s no issue with that. But not immediately.

[Legend]

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Sure. There’s no issue with that. But not immediately.

@Abominations

We have little guarantee outside of immediacy.

[Abominations]

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We have little guarantee outside of immediacy.

@Legend

Terrorism is not the goal. It’s science. Harming people brings the exact kind of headache we all want to avoid. Think about it. Nothing at all makes sense for us to have just used the weapon to hurt people. Especially when we have affinity with the elements and could do that without such a scale as this.

[Legend]

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Terrorism is not the goal. It’s science. Harming people brings the exact kind of headache we all want to avoid. Think about it. Nothing at all makes sense for us to have just used the weapon to hurt people. Especially when we have affinity with the elements and could do that without such a scale as this.

@Abominations

Nobody has accused you of harming anyone.

[Abominations]

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Nobody has accused you of harming anyone.

@Legend

Then what crime do you oppose me for?

[Legend]

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Then what crime do you oppose me for?

@Abominations

Ultimately, this is an issue of conflicting interests. Our interest is ensuring this device remains inactive, and your interest lies in the opposite.

[Abominations]

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Ultimately, this is an issue of conflicting interests. Our interest is ensuring this device remains inactive, and your interest lies in the opposite.

@Legend

Long term. Perhaps. That’s not even guaranteed. No, I know exactly what this is. The feline there brought you here for standard anomaly procedures. You all came with the intention of finding the unsolicited use of the elements, and stopping it. Well, that use is stopped. Nothing else is happening that should be.

[Audacious]

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Long term. Perhaps. That’s not even guaranteed. No, I know exactly what this is. The feline there brought you here for standard anomaly procedures. You all came with the intention of finding the unsolicited use of the elements, and stopping it. Well, that use is stopped. Nothing else is happening that should be.

@Abominations

I… There’s no way firing off a weapon of mass destruction just on a whim like that is okay.

[Abominations]

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I… There’s no way firing off a weapon of mass destruction just on a whim like that is okay.

@Audacious

You say that because you feel that way. But what powers that be actually have any laws in place against it?
*Shrugs*
You tell me.

[Legend]

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You say that because you feel that way. But what powers that be actually have any laws in place against it?
*Shrugs*
You tell me.

@Abominations

*Raises an eyebrow*
Are you asking a rhetorical or serious question?

[Abominations]

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*Raises an eyebrow*
Are you asking a rhetorical or serious question?

@Legend

That depends on whether you have an actually enlightening answer.

[Legend]

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That depends on whether you have an actually enlightening answer.

@Abominations

The only relevant law on this scale is the law of strength. When you've totaled the combined strength of an entity and its allies, by force they assert their will. And when interests conflict, one has but hope that those in the right carry the most strength.

[Abominations]

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The only relevant law on this scale is the law of strength. When you've totaled the combined strength of an entity and its allies, by force they assert their will. And when interests conflict, one has but hope that those in the right carry the most strength.

@Legend

*Nods*
So that’s the avenue we’re taking then?

[Legend]

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*Nods*
So that’s the avenue we’re taking then?

@Abominations

Not necessarily. But you asked what power structure prevents the action you took, and that approach will lead to the power structure described.