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Understood. Some kind of communication network would be useful if we can reestablish contact with interested parties.
A network with no risk of compromise. At least for a while.
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A network with no risk of compromise. At least for a while.
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I see. In other words, no concerns.
Not beyond those that would be a given.
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Do you have any indication that someone else from that era survived?
A couple of long-lived doyens are from roughly that age, but I’m not terribly sure if they match up perfectly. It’s hard to say, since there were changes even at the top of the hierarchy in that time.
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Perhaps. Your people dealt with Garsun once already.
A long time ago. I will grant that almost no one from that time is still around, but I believe it makes little difference.
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Do you trust your colleagues’ capabilities on that front?
I trust them to handle things as individuals who I see as either as capable as I am, or moreso. And I trust the system that's held the ideals and principles of our side of Existence the same way they've held things together forever, and I lastly trust that if I am explicitly needed, that I will be communicated with. We run a well oiled machine, even though you've peeled the curtain back at a bad time.
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I’m wary that he’ll take advantage of the predictable response. Surely Garsun isn’t foolish.
It's circumstance dependent, certainly. Historically, he was an eager experimenter. His main concern is whether he can do something, not whether he should. I'm not a part of the organized effort to retaliate against him, at least for now, but if I was, that's something I'm confident enough to plan around.
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Unless it’s a trap, and he aims to wipe out your entire strike force at once.
Using his own magnum opus as a lure doesn't quite strike me as a likely occurrence. But I can't call it impossible, I suppose.
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And if he activates the tower remotely?
Then he won't be there to defend it when the cavalry arrives. Besides, the tower needs an operator. In terms of functionality, it has to have an operator like a pilot in the cockpit of a plane. I suppose he could always change that, but I don't see why he would do that.
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Are they prepared for an entity of Garsun’s caliber, who also knows he will be hunted once discovered?
They're prepared. Garsun is a disgraced doyen from an era long past, but even if it turns out that his era was more capable than ours, he's only one master against many. If we're not ready for that, we were never going to be ready for it.
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And do you all have the means to respond in such a circumstance?
Responding to unaccounted for elemental anomalies is one of the primary jobs in the industry, you might say. I know you have some experience with that; the initial excursion to Garsun's Tower was one such mission.
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