I wasn't going to include this...
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:56 am
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Subject: I wasn't going to include this...
Captain,
I went back and forth for a long time on this. I decided against it when I sent the last one, but then I realized that... Well. You'll see.
Chair
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Note by Hive: Captain, I have encountered additional encrypted data within this message. The encryption keys are old enough to be added to my own databanks upon my creation due to our frequent status in the outer regions of humanity's occupied zone, in case we encountered any of the number of missing ships from the war. Below is the unencrypted message.
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Did she succeed? Is she still working on it? Or are dust and echoes all that remain?
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Received:
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Subject: I wasn't going to include this...
Captain,
I went back and forth for a long time on this. I decided against it when I sent the last one, but then I realized that... Well. You'll see.
Chair
*************
Note by Hive: Captain, I have encountered additional encrypted data within this message. The encryption keys are old enough to be added to my own databanks upon my creation due to our frequent status in the outer regions of humanity's occupied zone, in case we encountered any of the number of missing ships from the war. Below is the unencrypted message.
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Did she succeed? Is she still working on it? Or are dust and echoes all that remain?
*************
MPPRMSE wrote: Myung: (COLDLY) I know, in time, you'll pull this out of his data. In time, you'll hear me telling you this.
(PAUSE, 2.3 SECONDS)
Myung: (EVENLY) What you did to him, all of them, was wrong. You took all those men and women, and destroyed their lives forever. You made them meat. Even if they weren't starting to drop like flies, you destroyed everything that made them who they were so you could make them who you needed.
(PAUSE, 4.3 SECONDS)
Myung: (ANGRILY) I've seen the holes you put in their brains! The physical holes! I've seen how you tried to take away every shred of everything that makes them human! I've seen how you tried to make them machines!
(PAUSE, 6.1 SECONDS)
Myung: (EVENLY) But that's where you failed. Everything you did to take away their humanity, and you still failed. You tried to destroy their ability to love, and you failed. I watched him fall in love. You tried to take away their privacy, but you failed there, too. First you never found 23 Zulu, then you gave them their armor. Their new skin. You tried to strip them of any political beliefs that didn't fit your narrow plan, and you couldn't even do that. You tried to take away their sense of wonder, compassion... You tried to strip them of so much, and yet somehow, they found a way to retain shreds of it.
Myung: (ANGRILY) If I were to show everybody what you've done, it would tear the UNSC apart! There would be no insurrection, because there would be nobody to support you!
(PAUSE, 9.7 SECONDS)
Myung: (SADLY) But he wouldn't like that. And not in spite of what you did to him, but because of it, he's everything that is human. His spirit remains, even as I'm watching him die. His courage, his will, his determination... And his love of life. I've heard when he worked for suicide prevention, before you recruited him. And people would die if I revealed everything. And he would die thinking that maybe there was something that he could have done to prevent it. He'll always fight for humanity's well being.
(PAUSE, 2.3 SECONDS)
Myung: (SAD LAUGHTER) I always thought that he wasn't good at communicating his thoughts. But now I understand. He communicates them just fine. He just lives in a world that I pray I hope nobody ever sees again.
Myung: (COLDLY) So I'm going to save him. I don't know how. But I'm going to keep him from being a martyr for humanity. I'm going to help him accomplish his goals. His mission. And then I'm going to save him. From death... (PAUSE, 1.3 SECONDS) And from you.
Myung: (VENOMOUSLY) I could say more about you, but I won't. You'll just file everything away as being within acceptable parameters or a documented issue or something. To think you're more monstrous than the weapons you turned them into.