[IC] Myriad Reality

[Audacious]

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If they choose to participate.

@Fractured

I think there’s going to be plenty of participation.

[Fractured]

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I think there’s going to be plenty of participation.

@Audacious

If so, that's on them.
*Walks to a nearby table*

[Audacious]

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If so, that's on them.
*Walks to a nearby table*

@Fractured

No promise of power too perilous for the prehensile. Or something like that.

[Fractured]

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No promise of power too perilous for the prehensile. Or something like that.

@Audacious

*Looks beneath a stack of books*
Perhaps, but those beings tend to not last long.

[Audacious]

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*Looks beneath a stack of books*
Perhaps, but those beings tend to not last long.

@Fractured

Emphasis on tend. But an ambition like that doesn’t mean they’re bad people, and I don’t think many deserve what’s coming.

[Fractured]

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Emphasis on tend. But an ambition like that doesn’t mean they’re bad people, and I don’t think many deserve what’s coming.

@Audacious

*Places the stack down*
What do you anticipate is coming that would be such a disaster?

[Audacious]

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*Places the stack down*
What do you anticipate is coming that would be such a disaster?

@Fractured

Wars. It’s not hard to see. The IA already has reports of remote assaults on their territory. Aimed at civilian worlds no less.

[Fractured]

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Wars. It’s not hard to see. The IA already has reports of remote assaults on their territory. Aimed at civilian worlds no less.

@Audacious

Is that unusual for the IA?

[Audacious]

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Is that unusual for the IA?

@Fractured

Actually yes. They prepare such immense defensive measures as a just-in-case kind of thing. Their size is a massive deterrent, and there’s not too much out there that even would threaten them. Under normal circumstances.

[Fractured]

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Actually yes. They prepare such immense defensive measures as a just-in-case kind of thing. Their size is a massive deterrent, and there’s not too much out there that even would threaten them. Under normal circumstances.

@Audacious

I often find that to be a dangerous perspective.

[Audacious]

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I often find that to be a dangerous perspective.

@Fractured

The perspective of being too large to be harmed?

[Fractured]

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The perspective of being too large to be harmed?

@Audacious

Mhm. Perhaps I'm jaded, but those that consider everything a threat typically fare much better.

[Audacious]

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Mhm. Perhaps I'm jaded, but those that consider everything a threat typically fare much better.

@Fractured

Well if they thought themselves immune, such defensive measures would never have been taken. That’s just my perspective of them relative to the rest of Existence within my realm of knowledge.

[Fractured]

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Well if they thought themselves immune, such defensive measures would never have been taken. That’s just my perspective of them relative to the rest of Existence within my realm of knowledge.

@Audacious

In any case, I am quite intrigued that the IA is choosing to engage to some degree.

[Audacious]

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In any case, I am quite intrigued that the IA is choosing to engage to some degree.

@Fractured

That’s actually more complicated than it might seem on the surface. But it’d go against even some of the people I work for lately to talk about such details all willy-nilly.

[Fractured]

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That’s actually more complicated than it might seem on the surface. But it’d go against even some of the people I work for lately to talk about such details all willy-nilly.

@Audacious

*Smiles*
Perhaps you intend to win. If that is the case, I wish you the best.

[Audacious]

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*Smiles*
Perhaps you intend to win. If that is the case, I wish you the best.

@Fractured

I just have standards as far as employment, and respect for friends’ wishes. In the end, I’m not an Alliance soldier or even a citizen. I have no stake in any of it.

[Fractured]

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I just have standards as far as employment, and respect for friends’ wishes. In the end, I’m not an Alliance soldier or even a citizen. I have no stake in any of it.

@Audacious

"You" in this case being the IA, not you personally.

[Audacious]

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"You" in this case being the IA, not you personally.

@Fractured

I see. In any case, if you ever see me on one of these battlefields at all, expect it to be in the form of neutral party field medicine.

[Fractured]

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I see. In any case, if you ever see me on one of these battlefields at all, expect it to be in the form of neutral party field medicine.

@Audacious

I don't anticipate participation on my part. The System acquisition is outside my purview.