Chapter 383 (2/2)
MANTID FREE WORLDS
That's humanity at rest. That the brainscan from last year.
>MANTID shares behold-2-meme.hol
That's the new brainscan.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
I recognize that! That's an Imperium of Wrath Space Marine!
They're...
oh... wait.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Yeah.
Oh.
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HESSTLA TECHNOBURROW
OK. What is the difference between humans from then and then and now?
It's only 8000 years. They lost psychic ability, now they have it again?
What happened? What changed them?
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CLONE WORLDS CONSORTIUM
That's... that's a question that we really don't want to answer.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HAND
Tell us.
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BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
OK, first, you have to understand. After the Terran-Mantid Wars, humanity was absolutely insane.
While the Digital Omnimessiah had cured Enragement, humanity was in one huge feedback loop.
Even babies were being born enraged again, partially due to the Digital Omnimessiah being assassinated, the Imperium of Wrath, and everything else.
So...
...well...
...they did something terrible.
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LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL
Define: terrible
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HAMAROOSA PINCHING FESTIVAL
HoW TerrrIBLE?
LANAktallan and UNIfied CouCIL terribbbbbble?
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FEDERATION OF PLANETS
Whatever this is...
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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
It wasn't aimed at us, just at the biological Terrans.
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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM CONSENSUS
Overproject Neighborhood.
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PUBVIAN DOMINION
By the Thousand Gods.
They didn't.
>PUB looks at MANTID
They didn't use that on you?
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
No.
On themselves.
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CLONE WORLDS CONSORTIUM
Add in what Legion did. Then the genetic prosthetics to keep psychic abilities from coming back. Then massive cultural shifts.
Add in nanite suppression systems.
And Overproject Streetlights.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
And Daxin, acting as Osiris of the Warsteel Flame, gathering up everyone that it didn't work on and taking them to idiot space.
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LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL
How could they?
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
I understand.
Terrans will do anything to survive.
Anything.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
And some idiot, yet unseen, just undid all of that.
How bad is it?
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AKLTAK FREE FLIGHT
I've watched Terran historical documentaries.
They don't look that bad. I mean, yeah, a lot of them look made up, but how bad are we talking.
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PUBVIAN DOMINION
If this enemy, this unknown xenospecies, reverted Terrans to Pre-Glassing.
It's bad.
Real bad.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Imperium bad?
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
This is prior to the Glassing.
Not by much. To any of us it wouldn't matter.
Nobody's quite sure how long ago.
Pre-FTL.
Pre-Diaispora Terra Humanity.
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PUBVIAN DOMINION
Earthlings.
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>TREA shudders
MANTID FREE WORLDS
You think modern humans, or even Imperium humans will do anything to survive?
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PUBVIAN DOMINION
An Earthling will do whatever it takes.
Individually and as a group.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Let me put it on context for some of you.
All of humanity will be returning to the neural genetic makeup that created Daxin.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
So?
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
When's the next 'ripple' going to downstream?
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Thirty days to the next archaeoneurological reversion .
Maybe less.