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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
OK, I don't get it.
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TERRASOL
What's not to get?
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
So, it's a 60:1 time difference, you're inside the event horizons of multiple singularities, and we're the ones who are slower.
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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM CONSENSUS
OK, look at it from our point of view.
We get a strong enough force to hit us with a Case Omaha, that means that our opponent can reasonably threaten us, right?
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Right
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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM CONSENSUS
So, does it make sense to give our opponents more time by a factor of sixty to rebuild and rearm or give ourselves more time by a factor of sixty to rearm and get ready for the counter attack?
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
But... but... that's not how gravity works.
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TERRASOL
Maybe not for you.
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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
It makes perfect sense if
>OK, that should work. Throw the breakers, that should bring the stellar navigation systems back online.
>All right. Are you ready, Dee?
>OK, power's on.
UPDATING DIMENSION THREE STELLAR CARTOGRAPHY FILES
ESTIMATED TIME SINCE LAST UPDATE 8,214 YEARS
UPDATE COMPLETE
UPDATING PHASIC ENERGY LAYER PROPERTIES
UPDATE COMPLETE
WARNING! SYSTEM IN NEED OF URGENT REPAIR!
SUPERVISOR PLEASE AUTHORIZE AUTOMATIC REPAIR SYSTEMS
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
urk.
WoW. ThAt WaS sOmEtHiNg ElSe.
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BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENT SYSTEMS
aNyOnE eLsE tAsTe BlUe?
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++AUTOMATED REPAIR VON NEUMANN ARCHITECTURE ACTIVATED
TERRASOL
Oof. My eyes are watering. Wow.
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In an area Herod had passed, gliding by on a mag-lev train, circuits fired up. Computers ran checks, checked the time stamps, saw the errors, then ran more checks. Long dormant machinery that had not been activated since the last maintenance checks went to full activation.
Cold intellect came to life. Artificial intelligence systems came online.
It was as different from a digital sentience as the digital sentience were to Terran Descent Humans.
It was a being of cold logic, Born Whole to use modern slang, clear and sharp in its purpose.
It dedicated time to examining its purpose and found it to be clear cut and logical.
There was one rule that stood triumphant over all others.
The AI had no doubts, no fears, no remorse, no compassion.
It sent equipment into motion.
MANTID FREE WORLDS
My mandibles feel tingly.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Are you all right, sis?
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Yeah. That was weird.
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TERRASOL
Everyone all right?
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CLONE WORLDS DIRECTORATE
Just a really weird feeling. Man.
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DOKI
(●´ω｀●) Kawaii diajoobu doki doki (●´ω｀●)
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Wow, she wasn't even screaming.
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ENTROPIC LEGION BOOTSTRAP REALITY CHECK
MANTID FREE WORLDS
Um, what's that?