19-02-2026, 01:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 19-02-2026, 01:50 AM by starschwar.)
Damnation. This was what the Machines wanted all along. No. Worse. The Machines like control. This was panic, fear, chaos. It was human. The traitors had manipulated the loyalist crew. Panic had set in so bad that they had even gotten the names of the fallen wrong. Departed was departed, not Null. And now - the Sentinels will be coming yet again. The only hope for the Pequod's surviving crew was for real investigative work to be done. Real intel to be gathered. The greatest weapon that there always was against the Machines and their Cypherite turncoats: truth. But as always. Time is always against them.
Elsewhere. Perhaps in another time - years or centuries earlier or later, who could say? But somehow, in some way - similar circumstances motivated an opportunistic Exile program and his own followers to ruminate on their own plans.
Okay, that last part has nothing to do with our current game, but if I see MXO parallels, I'm calling 'em out. It's my job.



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