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[dualreaping]

[So he's figured out how this tablet works now, so started reading back a bit. One thing has mostly caught his attention, so here he is.]

A lot of you seem adamant to abstain from offering your loyalty to the initiative, which...I understand in the sense that they are strangers just as much as the United Earth.

But should the claims of their forces attempting to raid your own home world be true, it would have disastrous consequences for the people you know still there. Is that worth the risk?

Or is there something else I'm missing here?

[C'mon people, he suspects he's missed something important. Give him some deets.]

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[salvagedsoul]

[For the moment Kaworu is just gonna ignore the fact that this guy looks like a talking skeleton of some kind.]

That would only be so if one has some desire to protect the connections he has to his home world.

My connections are here with me, and so, I don't care.

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[dualreaping]

[Made potentially even more strange should he notice the name of the poster is "Death".]

And should these..."connections" of yours return? What then?

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[salvagedsoul]

From what I understand, our world has already ended, or will end.

So still, I don't care. It would be futile to worry about them for long if they were sent back.

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[dualreaping]

Nothing to lose...

I can understand that.

[Though...]

Are you from Earth?

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[onemoredeath]

I find no need to fight them when it comes to protecting what is mine. [ He is going to use a vague answer. And yes, he doesn't seem afraid or anything towards you, Death. ]

I too find it strange there is so much hatred towards people that are cornered are grabbing what help they can find in all the worlds.

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[dualreaping]

And so what do you protect? Yourself? Avoiding the conflict entirely would be the best way to do so in that scenario, I suppose.

But I've read several posts from the past where the idea of forming a rebellion of some sort was put out. It seems ridiculous considering the initiative are key to the transports being sent home in the first place, should anything happen to them would it not doom everyone to be stuck here forever?

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[onemoredeath]

I am no warrior and I refuse to make someone protect me when others need more help.

There are various theories concerning that, however I agree that we need to organize ourselves into better units for what conflicts we may face. Unfortunately, that sometimes goes with the thought of rebellion.

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[skennen]

[Ah, a subject right up his little alley. Also, nice mask there, stranger. ... He hopes that's a mask, anyway.]

They are more than strangers - they are slavers. They have used their machine to steal people from their homes and their times, and then they insist those people, their prisoners, fight for them. What choice are we given?

As for their claims... I would not think it below them to craft lies in hopes of inspiring fear and obedience. Even if what they say is true, would it not be better then to leave us to our homes, that we may defend them?

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[dualreaping]

From their perspective, it actually makes more sense for us to do as they ask; should time be rewritten as they desire, the United Earth would never get the idea to invade other worlds in the first place or have the means to do so. It's two birds with one stone.

Have they forced people to take part in missions? Even those not able to defend themselves?

[A genuinely curious inquiry; he realizes he sounds a little pro-initiative right now, so he's trying to tone it down a little. His loyalty is just as removed as everyone else's, really. Maybe even moreso.]

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[skennen]

So they say, but as with their other claims, it is difficult to believe. I have heard they have little control over the machine they use to bring people here. They do not even know who they are enslaving. How then do they presume to change history in such a way that the end result is exactly what they envision? Who is to say their meddling will not strengthen their enemies or give rise to others? Who is to say it will not have serious consequences, either for this place or for our lands? How do they know what precisely they should do to alter the past favorably, and how can they expect us to see out their plans when they assemble us at random?

... Even if they have some means of ensuring their victory, and against all odds no harm will come of it, that does not justify how they are building their army.

[There his tirade comes to a grudging end. For all that he is against the Initiative, he doesn't consider himself against those who would help them. That is their choice. But after the events of the past two weeks, he finds so much more fault in what their captors do. Griping and grumbling up a storm.]

I have only been witness to the last two missions so I cannot say for certain if they do or not. It seemed as though everyone was made to attend the missions, but I did not see the Initiative force participation in the tasks given to us. Still, many people were put at risk simply in being transported to mission locations.

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[phaseshifts]

Well look at you...

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[dualreaping]

Something the matter?

[phaseshifts]

[He's got a boyish hiccup of a giggle.] Not at all! You're Death, hm? [Someone skimmed the comments - this was interesting enough for it.]

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[maiinframe]

[The voice answering is very soft and raspy from disuse, with just the faintest hint of a lisp at the ends of certain words.]

Denizenth of home worldth should submit before the Empire. Resistanthe ith futile and only prolongth suffering.

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[dualreaping]

[Well, there's an interesting response..]

Empire...you mean the United Earth?

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[maiinframe]

No. System meanth the Alternian Empire. Ith user unfamiliar with the Empire?

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[sacrificar]

There is little of value, where I am from.

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[dualreaping]

Is that so? And where exactly are you from, then?

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[sacrificar]

Hueco Mundo, though I do not expect you to be familiar with it.

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[bittertears]

I'll assist the Initiative if it means it'll end this bloody war, but my loyalty is something they'll never obtain.

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[dualreaping]

Offering to assist goes hand in hand with some amount of loyalty, even if it's not a lot.

A complete lack of loyalty would mean no assistance at all I'd say.

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[bittertears]

Assisting them will bring an end to this bloody mess we've all found ourselves in. A mutually beneficial exchange, which they should be rather grateful for.

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[shortcaptain]

They're not the people I want fighting my battles.

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[dualreaping]

Your battles? Do you take this war against the United Earth personally somehow?

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[shortcaptain]

That's what the Initiative wants from us, isn't it?

[ A beat. ]

There has to be somebody to blame.