Chapter 182: (Telkan - The War) (2/2)
Brentili'ik straightened up, turning back and looking at the ”temple” that had been erected to house the six Warbound.
”Service brings citizenship,” she said softly as it began to rain again. ”And citizenship is a heavy duty.”
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Are you guys sure it's natural for religion to bubble up?
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TERRASOL
Yeah.
It's the Dark Days Theorum.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Surprisingly, yes. The closer you come to disaster, the more people reach out to believe in something. When they make it through the dark times, those that believed cleave even harder to their belief. Sometimes out of confirmation bias, other times just out of sheer relief, and still others out of genuine belief that it was their faith that saw them through.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
It just seems odd.
I worry.
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TERRASOL
Don't worry, kid. I'll tell you if it looks like your starting to slide into Imperium territory.
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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE
Sometimes, especially in dark times, people need something to believe in. Trust me when I tell you that trying to suppress it is how you get the Third Chromium Heresy.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Is that bad?
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Only if you call a hundred year war across just over a hundred systems bad.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
What caused it?
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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE
Whether or not the Digital Omnimessiah recognized the existence of Two beyond the code of the Great Corruption.
He did.
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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
He did not! Oh. My God. Two is obviously a sign of
>TERRASOL has set DASS -v
>TERRASOL has set CYB -v
>DASS HAS BEEN MUTED
>CYB HAS BEEN MUTED
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TERRASOL
THAT'S ENOUGH, YOU TWO!
Don't start that shit again.
I'll unmute you if you be good.
>TERRASOL has set DASS +v
>TERRASOL has set CYB +v
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
See, little one. Even the older ones can get silly.
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ATLKTAKIKAL HATCHSEIRE
Did I smoethign do wro?gn
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
No. It's not you. This argument has been going on practically forever.
Don't worry, sweetie, you'll get it.
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