Nemeses

Myriad Reality

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Aren't you just making up what these people will do at this point? Plus, killing them, again, is pretty extreme.

@Session

No. And correct.

Myriad Reality

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How could this one planet have that kind of an impact?

@Session

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*Squints back*
I think you’ve got a poor understanding of our resilience.

@Armed Forces

You both clearly lack an understanding of just how influential a proud and strong people can be. Some civilizations just grow to truly be a cut above the rest. The IA, in lieu of the disappearance of the Tzarians as a concrete civilization, exist as a body that’s simply no more than a few high-tech civilizations that are otherwise weak, who have done nothing more than swear to protect each other and any world they find who might fall under that umbrella. Even as noble as that is, it’s a wide and dangerous range of influence. And one nudge over the edge could threaten more people than any disaster could ever fathom if they were all independent.

Myriad Reality

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And I don't take it you like the idea of it being these guys' problem now?

@Session

*Narrows my eyes*
The power and corruption seeded here carries the weight to force a hand on the IA. If not my hand, then perhaps another’s.

Myriad Reality

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So what I'm trying to piece together now is, what do you get out of striking them down now?

@Session

I never get anything out of what I do, personally. But the reason to act now, is because there exists a mechanism whereby their corruption can seep into Existence and begin to hurt other people who have no right to be subject to it. Admittedly, in this cycle, the circumstances are slightly different.
*Glances to the General*
Instead of finding another world to attempt to enact power over, we see they have been presented an opportunity to be introduced into a melting pot and seed their culture into a society that already rests on a knife’s edge every day.

Myriad Reality

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But if you just remove that from the equation, then the problem solves itself, right? Plus, I don't understand everything you said, but it sounded like you were resetting this world. If you reset them now, we'll be standing right back here faster than if you let it play out.

@Session

Perhaps. But there are boundaries to what I do. I have never, and will never interfere with a world in its development up through the point when it has its first breach event, and I will never partially quell a problem and then guide their development as some god. Every society ought to develop in its own right, and it’s that philosophy that outlines both the line I draw for myself, and for these worlds.

Myriad Reality

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Same as their life stuff? It seems to me that the source of the problem is that.

@Session

The Life Element? Perhaps its presence influences their nature to some degree, but in the end, that lies outside of where I interfere.

Myriad Reality

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Look, I wasn't summoned to this planet to make judgement calls about their character. They brought me here to treat sick people, and I made a promise that I'd find a cure. I think you've probably taught them their lesson at this point, and they'll learn to appreciate what it means to be alive. But killing them would be throwing away any chance they have of learning anything.

@Session

This isn’t the first time I’ve been through this, even here. A Phoenix World like this inevitably resets and rises again in a cycle. These people will be back. What looks like death now is impermanent, truly.

Myriad Reality

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Okay, well, did it play out like this before? They don't have their magic water anymore to live forever, so now they have to completely redo their way of life. That could change everything.

@Session

The lack of the Life Element isn’t enough to change their ways.
*Pulls out an electronic device and tabs through it for a moment*
Let’s see… 337 years ago. That marks the date these people completed a classist genocide by excluding folks from using their elixir until they all aged and turned to dust. Only the wealthy, intelligent, or physically attractive were permitted to live and persist into the utopia they envisioned.
*Looks up at you while sliding the device back into my pocket*
The same people, and the same leadership that made that decision still live on this world now. The same populace that happily obliged. That sound like a society worth making an impression on other civilizations?

Myriad Reality

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Well, first, why do you want to kill them at all?

@Session

Over the course of many universal cycles, some peoples rise up under repetitious circumstances and inevitably grow with corruption within. Sometimes obvious, sometimes underlying, but always harmful to the world at large when they inevitably expand. Once a civilization like this reaches the point of “breaching the multiverse”, as we can call it, I make a call. For the overall benefit to many less advanced, knowledgable or otherwise privileged worlds out there in grander Existence.

Myriad Reality

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I'll put it this way. If I had known this was a combat mission and I wasn't really sick of that cell, I'd have saved it for the pros. But now that I'm here, I've got a duty to protect these patients with everything I've got—
*Extends a cheeky thumbs up and flashes my teeth*
Because that's what doctors do!

@Session

You don’t approach an earthquake and ask it to save its chaos for another day.
*Lowers my crossed arms casually to my side*
I may alter course slightly if you truly believe you have perspective on these people to share that would change my mind.