Chapter 222: (The War) (2/2)
MANTID FREE WORLDS
WHAT are they doing with all these resources?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
Considering I've estimated they've harvested enough resources to build 4.138 Dyson Spheres, including the creation of the stellar mass, they have to be doing something with it.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TRAENA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Oh man, I just had a horrible thought.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
What?---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TRAENA'AD HIVE WORLDS
What if... bear with me now, what if...
Back during the Precursor War, or right before, they had envisioned this massive, and I mean, MASSIVE project, all dedicated to ensuring that they would be the ones to survive the entropic end of the known universe.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
OK. And?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TRAENA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Well, they go to war, and they turn all their construction and resource gathering vessels into the AWM's we all know and love, right?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
RIGELLIAN COMPACT
Makes sense.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TRAENA'AD HIVE WORLDS
I'm not done.
Now, we know the First Precursor War was pretty devestating. All three sides basically lost, right?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
MANTID FREE WORLDS
Yeah. Basically.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Well, what if they're still working on this grand project. Gathering up all these resources and taking them to be used by their great project.
WHat if that's what's happening?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
Well, we know that.
Is that it, is that you're whole theory?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Yes.
I mean, think about it. What if they're gathering all these resources and delivering them to the place where they'd be refined and used for the Great Project.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
That's what they're doing. Why is this bothering you? We know they're doing that.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
No, no, you don't get what I'm saying.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
Explain.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
What if they're delivering all those resources.
And that's it.
Nothing else.
They've stockpiled over four entire Dyson spheres out there in space, at where this Great Project was going on or was supposed to happen.
And that's it.
For a hundred million years they've just been piling up cigarettes and ice cream into this HUGE pile.
And that's it.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
MANTID FREE WORLDS
That's... terrifying.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
How? It just means they're dumber than a box of bricks. How is it terrifying?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Think about it. The Lanaktallan have repeatedly stripped planets of life and resources, over and over, for a hundred million years. Completely mined away entire solar systems till all that's left is the stellar mass, some gravel, and wisps of a gas giant.
They've dedicated all this work, all this time.
To just stacking shit in the corner, staring at it and rubbing their hands together going ”At last, we will have our revenge.”
Think of the complete, utter, absolute madness of it.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
Oh God.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
MANTID FREE WORLDS
The way the universe works, I'm afraid you may have just figured out their sinister plan.
Stack all that stuff in the corner so they have it in a big pile when the universe, I don't know, suddenly vanishes because of entropy.
They'll still have stuff, I guess.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
That makes no sense.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TNVARU GESTALT
Which is why that's exactly what happened.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---