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sᴏʟᴅɪᴇʀ BLUE ([personal profile] firstroar) wrote in [community profile] exsilium2014-01-11 05:57 pm

xi. voice + text

I have information to share with you all, about information that we lack.

[a pause.]



For as long as we have endured this world, changed it or watched it change well beyond our control, the amount we do know is vastly smaller than what we don’t. Perhaps never will. So it is that our struggles are like...swiping in the dark, feeling out shapes and phantoms we can perceive as guesses at best. Or, maybe better...there are suggestions of light to trace out those shapes, but never enough to be certain. Only enough to strike.

The artificial intelligence we rescued has confirmed there is no exact point recorded for the origin of the United Earth’s ruling computer. It makes sense: History is written and told by those in power. The less we understand about it, so more is the advantage and threat it has against us. As it stands, we don’t know what dire impact we may have caused in altering the world to this state. We don't know how long days like these can last, what is in the works over there.

Regardless of what is chosen for our steps in the future, I believe it in everyone’s interest to know about this machine’s past. AI has offered the chance to piece together the missing history of the United Earth, should we wish it.

[another pause.]

The problem with this is the exact one it seeks to resolve: I can’t tell you what to expect.

The point of focus to start is the very day the United Earth is established, and the records of it are vague at best, pointedly pro-UE throughout. What may be waiting there could be dangerous or not at all.

It’s why this is something everyone should hear and understand. Something everyone can put a hand in, in some way. Powerful fighters, quick-thinking saboteurs, hackers, healers…

But going in all at once, as an army, may not be the best approach. A small number to survey, relay information, and signal reinforcements should there be a need...Which means a greater number waiting on standby for a potential call.

The AI itself can be carried to this point in time by way of one of the diamond drives, and, given the chance to digest as much as it can in that particular point in time...it can clear the path for greater understanding of what was at work to build this enemy.

It means this isn’t a single trip, but the springboard to a number of missions. It’s knowledge to be gained to make wiser choices for the here and now...and tomorrow and yesterday, perhaps. I can’t say what’s right, how much of a hand we should have in this world’s history.

At the least, we can paint for ourselves a better picture of the world we are all trapped in...and, maybe, glean some sense of what kind of impact we make on it, living as we do.

Should you wish to do this, I can give you what little information there is to work with. And that's something that can change and grow.


[immediately following this posting, a text transcription of this entire tl;dr is available to read. all responses by Blue will be VOICE

also, ooc sign-ups]
gevurah: (nice hardware ace)

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[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-14 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, it's not a secret. Lily is rather open about it. ]

Have you met her?

[ A beat. ]

She's got a collar on her neck.
selfequipped: (another concerned face)

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[personal profile] selfequipped 2014-01-16 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Not in person yet. We've been trying to work out a meet up.

Does the collar have anything to do with her training?
gevurah: (payback is healthy)

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[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-16 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Most likely. All I know is she was kept in isolation with other kids. Molded into child soldiers.
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[personal profile] selfequipped 2014-01-16 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[What does she say? She debates over her next words.]

Bucky guessed that you were former military. If that's right, then it must hit home.
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[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-17 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
I am.

Lily's just a kid. Kids should be allowed to be themselves.

[ She knows the reality is a lot aren't, but she can't help but say it anyway. ]
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[personal profile] selfequipped 2014-01-17 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
It's only all right if it's their choice. It clearly wasn't for her.

[She'll stand by any choice, even if it seems strange. She stood by Cassie, after all. But she's inferred that things for Lily started much earlier.]
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[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-18 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Mm.

She's a sweet girl. Least I can do is appreciate her gift, no matter how silly.
selfequipped: (your punchable face loki)

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[personal profile] selfequipped 2014-01-19 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
We all have our people we'd do that for.
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[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-20 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
And I meant it: those sweaters are nice and warm.
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[personal profile] selfequipped 2014-01-21 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
I agree.

[There's a beat.]

As for the mission, your mission, to get back off a cuddly track, I think Loki might be able to help us get out if we want someone. I also spoke to someone named Tempest. Her magic sounds similar to a friend of mine's, but less reality bending.
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[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-22 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ A thoughtful hum. ]

Tempest was one of the mutineers and somewhere in the center of the drama with Jesse Pinkman.

But that wasn't her fault.
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[personal profile] selfequipped 2014-01-23 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
... From what he told me, no one was really right in all of that.
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[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-26 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ A beat. ]

Pinkman?
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[personal profile] selfequipped 2014-01-26 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely Pinkman.

You're one of his many naysayers?
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[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-27 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ She didn't even know he was back. Or if he was ever gone. ]

He attacked Tempest while she was in custody.
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[personal profile] selfequipped 2014-01-27 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
... He might've left out that part.
gevurah: (what is consistent characterization)

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[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-27 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ She doesn't sound too surprised. ]

Took away her magic and there was quite an uproar. No matter what she had done, it doesn't excuse him stealing her powers. I heard it was akin to taking a part of her.

[ She's no magic expert, but she can understand having something ripped from you. ]

The whole thing was a mess.
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[personal profile] selfequipped 2014-01-27 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Some of that he kept in there. [But parts were missing, told a different way, explained differently.]

It sucks, but you won't judge me too bad for trying with him, would you? I've got a bleeding heart when it comes to these types of things. I never learn. [Besides, she'd like to encourage him to see that he can be better, much better, than what he's presenting himself as. Parts of their conversation, the really genuine bits that weren't him villainizing himself and brushing over the details, really seemed to show that to her.

But she's made mistakes before.]


That isn't ... letting him off the hook. Not at all. [It felt important to add, and her tone when she says it means that she has zero intention of doing that.]
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[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-27 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
I think I understand, Kate.

[ Because Kate's heart had bled for him once, too. She even sent a(n accidentally useless) medic over to Jesse's when he was doped up on something after making a breakthrough with the UE's drug.

If he can do good, she only wishes he could stay on that path.

But ever since the mutiny, she's had complex feelings regarding the DITR and many associated with it. ]


Just be careful.
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[personal profile] selfequipped 2014-01-27 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
I will be. [At least she's not running ahead blind with it. It gives her an idea of where a firmer hand might be necessary.] Thanks for telling me.
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[personal profile] gevurah 2014-01-28 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
No problem.