Memory

Myriad Reality

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Why do you keep calling these things an experiment? That in itself shows you have a sense of detachment from these things beyond just the goal you've set. But why is it arrogant for you to declare one way better than others on a smaller scale, when you're doing exactly this on a larger scale, and inevitably leaving the same problem to exist in a more broken up manner across smaller scales, all while committing incalculable acts of genocide to inevitably solve exactly nothing? I'm not sure where your shortsightedness stems from, but you can consider me the opposite of convinced.

@Valiance

Which would be tragic, if the future were up to you. I’m guaranteed a victory at midnight, one way or another.

Myriad Reality

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New space faring societies have a right, then, to live without the same fear across galaxies? Lesser civilizations the same for forces beyond their planet, and further still that right extends to primitive peoples and threats from across the ocean? Despite each of these scales of society all holding the same truths about them as multidimensionals?

@Valiance

There are countless dimensions with boundless approaches. It would be arrogant for me to declare one way better than the other. But once you’ve invaded someone else’s experiment, you’ve forfeited your right to your own.

Myriad Reality

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Something they can already do, but collapses the entire foundation of communities who've done so on a scale you've arbitrarily deemed too large.

@Valiance

Far from arbitrary, but an acceptable sacrifice nonetheless. Each dimension has its own resources and the right to live without fear of subjugation by forces far beyond anything they’ve ever encountered before. Tiers are, by nature, oppressive.

Myriad Reality

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This ends none of that. All these things exist on scales below that of universal.

@Valiance

And it gives each unit the freedom to decide for itself the best way to go about achieving peace.

Myriad Reality

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I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt... But that sounds like just about the worst possible thing I can imagine.
*My clenched fist tightens*

@Valiance

Isn't that exactly what you asked for? An end to bloodshed. An end to conquering.

Myriad Reality

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Experiment?
*Shakes my head as I digest it*
So wait, ending interdimensionality entirely?

@Valiance

*Holds out my hands*
Now the pieces come together.

Myriad Reality

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Going to force this to be watched instead of explaining? Hmph.

@Valiance

It should be self-explanatory. I’m going to capture whatever critical infrastructure remains, and once this territory is uncontested, I will use the System to ensure that nobody again interferes with each dimension’s private experiment.

Myriad Reality

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I don’t appreciate the vagueness on the questions that matter most.

@Valiance

One step at a time.
*A black orb, larger than the others, forms in my hand, and I throw it high into the sky*
Servants, go forth and collect contracts!
*Like thunder, thousands of servants erupt from the sphere, landing on the planet with one knee before dashing forward and disappearing into individual portals*

Myriad Reality

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*Narrows my eyes*
How?

@Valiance

By succeeding where my previous selves have failed. Servant, hand me the Control Panel.

Myriad Reality

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And here we are again. In a war, killing people who didn’t ask for any of this, just for this to inevitably happen again when it’s all said and done.

@Valiance

Unfortunately, the collapse was inevitable. Today, I will pick up its pieces and end this cycle. Time deserves its rest.