094 | [Video]

[with_discipline]

Science has been my area of interest since childhood, but I do find the history of other cultures to be of great educational value. With that in mind, I would prefer any such future lessons to be less interactive. [Yes. This is said extremely dryly. No, she doesn't expect to get her wish. OPEN LETTER TO THE ADMIRAL, the undercurrent of which is, he's a dick.]

[Private to Trip]

You compared us once to Romeo and Juliet. Do you still feel that way? [She is vaguely amused about this whole thing. Vaguely.]

[Private to Snape]

It's been a good deal more than an hour. Are you still upset you suffered a coma over this breach?

[Private to Slade]

What happened to you during the breach?

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[with_discipline]

I see. And competition is the basis of your entire culture?

[truth_is_cold]

Essentially, yes. Though I know it's not one shared with others. Yours is modelled after logic, yes?

[with_discipline]

Yes, it is. We accept logic over emotion.

[truth_is_cold]

An admirable mindset. [Robot-man approves.]

Competition is a way of self-improvement to us. Not only physically, but mentally. I regularly play go and other strategy games. It's also the basis on which men are chosen as mates. The more you win, the more likely you are to be found to have good genes.

[with_discipline]

Then, more than competition, you act to ensure the best possible life for your progeny.

[truth_is_cold]

We do. Absolutely the best. The honor of fatherhood is the greatest title, and the mother to be respected for her strength.

[with_discipline]

I see. [She wants to study his people. :|] Your culture is fascinating.

[truth_is_cold]

[He likes his culture himself, and in his time it was pretty awesome.] The Augments you mentioned. You said "attempt". They no longer exist?

[with_discipline]

That's correct. There are embryos kept in stasis, but the majority were killed during the Eugenics War.

[truth_is_cold]

Was it a war designed especially to destroy them? [That seems sad. Poor little babies.]

[with_discipline]

No. The Augments were intemperate; many had dangerous tempers, and high ambitions. They sectioned large parts of Earth to rule; eventually, the humans rose up against them.

[truth_is_cold]

It seems as though we were fortunate in the time we kept to our own world. [This is why his genetic reincarnation ended up an isolationist.] Those genes, did genetics ever advance to a point that their errors in temper could be corrected?

The first 4,000 of us were engineered. We had no boneblades in the beginning. It was a mutation that was encouraged.

[with_discipline]

[A beat] After the war, such engineering on Earth was outlawed. There were some who may have been capable of correcting those flaws, but it is doubtful those laws will be repealed.

[truth_is_cold]

It seems unfortunate. Children that were cared for enough that someone went through the trouble of designing them, but condemned to never see the light of day because correctable genetics or externally manageable behavior.

[with_discipline]

They very nearly seized control of Earth. I believe most humans believed them to be genetic aberrations. The ones I came across were certainly dangerous.

[truth_is_cold]

Then I'm doubly glad Dr. Museveni created us independently of Earth. [Something he's going to need pointed out to him later, when he begins to exclude all of his people.]

[with_discipline]

It was quite fortunate for your people.