Session

Myriad Reality

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Has anyone ever told you that you wear desperation on your sleeve? Anyone not at risk of being thrown in a cell would be far more hesitant toward a group who turned out to be elitist and genocidal.

@Nemeses

I am desperate, chief. But not because I'm scared of going back to jail—afraid that ship has sailed. Once I've agreed to cure someone, it's my responsibility to do everything within my power to make that happen.

Myriad Reality

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You would use the actions of this one woman to shift the judgment of them all?

@Nemeses

One woman's all I got. But if she's representative of all these people, then there's no way they're all bad. There's something redeemable in them, and that seed can shape their entire future.

Myriad Reality

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So they grow full of spite for the grander world instead? No. If this is the route you’re choosing to come from then I take it you have nothing to offer in terms of redeeming qualities in these people. They may as well try again. Return in a future era.

@Nemeses

By the time I got here, these people were almost entirely dead. The one person I spoke to was kind and willing to admit her mistakes. She did a 180 to help me help them all. I don't know what kinds of worlds you've been to, but that takes guts, and not the kind of guts most people have.

Myriad Reality

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If it were the definitive truth I were making observations about, that would be true. The potential exists for rotten people to ruin existence for a lot of people, and not just potential, but a historically proven record of past behavior and tendency. No one has to bear the consequences for that that won't need to, now.

@Nemeses

Okay, but what if it's not this people? What if it's their children, or their children's children? There's a new path for them now, and it doesn't have to be this way.

Myriad Reality

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No. And correct.

@Nemeses

Deciding that they'll infiltrate the government and corrupt it is a pretty wide leap.

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Nemeses

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

Myriad Reality

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*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.

@Nemeses

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

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Nemeses

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

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Nemeses

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

Myriad Reality

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

@Nemeses

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.