13-02-2026, 10:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 14-02-2026, 12:43 AM by starschwar.
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"So. Here we are. This is what it has come to. Some of us have fallen victim to the allures of illusion. We all made our choice a long time ago. Red or Blue. And despite our enlightenment, some of us believe there is a way back to the comfort of ignorance. The motive is obvious. The opportunity - any of us could have made this happen, save our freeborn Operator. The Machines have no use, nor anything to offer those who cannot jack in. What we need is to make use of our greatest gift - the very awareness that led us all to awaken in the first place. If we give in to paranoia - we will destroy ourselves before the Sentinels even find the Pequod. This is no Detective Story. We know each other well enough - some more than others. We know ourselves. So. Who? Who wants to trade the fight for freedom for a bowl of Tastee Wheat and the threat of Agents for the comforting fear of the Y2K bug? We're warriors. We're supposed to be better than this. What happened to us?"



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