Fractured

Myriad Reality

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What research could you need to do on places like them, for as long as your organization has been around? I can’t imagine there’s any more to learn that you don’t already know.

@Audacious

In some cases, experiments with unethical origins that our ethics board would reject.

Myriad Reality

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Sounds like we’ve got a few friends in direct competition with that goal of independence.

@Audacious

We have some degree of tolerance, particularly if there is research interest. But consider this: If large swaths of Existence are dependent on one organization and that fails, every dimension that would have otherwise succeeded is also ended.

Myriad Reality

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But you do have to get them dirty from time to time, surely. Existence is a big place.

@Audacious

Of course. But our mission is dimensional independence, so our typical job is preventing Tier Fours from disrupting that. We ensure dimensions have the ability to succeed or fail on their own merits.

Myriad Reality

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Is that part of what you look for when you do your Tier Fiving?

@Audacious

We will generally not resort to resets unless a dimension has destroyed itself. Our principle is to operate hands-off.

Myriad Reality

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I just can’t imagine crowd reactions when you’re given the idea that immortality is real and attainable, but they can’t have it for the greater good.

@Audacious

Which is also why dimensional resets can be helpful.

Myriad Reality

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I wonder how a society with access to immortality would react to the idea.

@Audacious

Some fail, some adapt. There are many factors.

Myriad Reality

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Or even the circumstance. Of many societies depending on death like that.

@Audacious

It's an important component of many cycles.

Myriad Reality

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*Blinks*
Wow, hadn’t thought of that, actually.

@Audacious

It isn't a pleasant outcome to think about.

Myriad Reality

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Well, I have the luxury, of course. I’d like to think I look a but younger than I am. It’s just that a lot of people don’t get it.

@Audacious

I suppose it would collapse societies rather quickly.

Myriad Reality

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Yeah. Most people just don’t get the luxury.

@Audacious

At your level? With your medical technology, it seems like a simple matter.