[h1]Elias Winzer[/h1]
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[code]TREVOR - Attack’s over
ELI - Casualties?
TREVOR - 145 dead total, rest got away
TREVOR - SG pulled out before the authorities got too close
ELI - Fuck.
ELI - You still have reads on their activity down there?
TREVOR - Yeah but I don’t know for how long
TREVOR - They’ve been getting a LOT of new techs on board lately
TREVOR - Starting to pick up on the piggybacking
ELI - Think they’re preparing for something?
TREVOR - Think they’re just gradually upping their game
TREVOR - Not gonna be able to get you info for much longer
TREVOR - Gotta keep my ass out of the firing line
ELI - I get you. Just stay safe.
TREVOR - Gotcha man
TREVOR - Tell godzilla I said hey
ELI - Sure.[/code]

Eli put his phone away after speaking with his contact Trevor Norton. One of his oldest confidants, since his time with Somniatis. Eli once expressed the possibility of getting him a job aboard the Promise, but Trevor turned it down on account of his belief that ‘they’re just gonna outmode all the humans eventually’. A thought that, for a while, Eli shrugged off as nonsense.

But here’s the thing.

The majority of [i]human[/i] workers aboard the Promise were techs, tram workers, storage lifters, PR guys, etc. The menial stuff, out of sight from all the big shot power instructors and pioneers in medical, technological, whatever fields. Collectively, they were a perfectly capable workforce, filling in all the roles that metahumans weren’t interested in or meant for.

Then Zoey happened.

Over the last four years since she came online, there had been a [i]very steady[/i] increase in employee cutbacks, reorganizing of section managerial operations, those sorts of things. And the majority of those cutbacks were on regular humans. The Board was slowly, [i]slowly[/i] filtering out those positions and combining them into Zoey’s programming - as an experimental AI, she needed to take things gradually. But a point was steadily being reached where, in theory, she could run the whole damn station on her own.

And Eli was concerned that his position as student profile and power development manager was in line with the same fate.

But as always, he did his best to push the thought out of his head.