Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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*Turns my head toward you and looks you in the face*
And none of what you have told me is a lie, is it?

@Multifarious

*Answers without hesitation*
Not a single word. Others can corroborate my more objective claims.

Myriad Reality

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*Puts a hand on my head and breathes deeply*
This is a lot of information at once... Getting back to Singularity, are you sure about everything she said? Your explanation made it seem like she only vilified you after coming back to our time, but the way she talked made it seem like she knew you had done it all from the future?

@Multifarious

She considered me an enemy before visiting our time, which my strategy didn’t improve. I don’t have an explanation for what a future version of myself supposedly supposedly did, but I can say with absolute certainty that I have no intention to allow serious harm to befall Machina.

Myriad Reality

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It’s preventing conflict?

@Multifarious

More so than if we were to allow a total reversion to the Anarchy System. That would allow anybody to utilize System controls at any time.

Myriad Reality

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But this isn’t even that system either, is it?

@Multifarious

No, but it’s a very close relative of it. One that prevents the most conflict. Shifting to Balkan allows us to implement the Tier System on top of the Anarchy System rather than the Nobility System.

Myriad Reality

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But why start a war and not turn it into whatever it is you want it to end up being?

@Multifarious

We would have. Unfortunately, the Tier System has to be reimplemented from the ground up, meaning a reversion to the Anarchy System was necessary for the sake of stability.

Myriad Reality

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What was even so bad about the old system that made this necessary?

@Multifarious

It wasn't sustainable. Unless the Gears could be sealed away forever, an Autonomous System will always be overturned.

Myriad Reality

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Including your group, which isn’t even objectively the best one, rather it’s just the one you’re aligned with so of course it would be good for you.

@Multifarious

Perhaps. But Tier Five is objectively a very neutral System. If the Gears were to be unlocked at some other time, it could lead to a much worse System, or, the most likely case, permanent stalemate.

Myriad Reality

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Between who?

@Multifarious

Every organization that seeks System control.

Myriad Reality

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Which would have been worse?

@Multifarious

I believe so. This is the best option to prevent a stalemate.

Myriad Reality

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The war is ongoing, with the same people who started it with the same reasoning as you here and now, and probably with just as much confidence.

@Multifarious

There are greater forces at work than I. And the alterative was to wait for someone else to free the Gears.