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A scenario so unfortunate that even preparations for the worst didn't foresee it count as great candidates for being called "worst case", I have to say.


What other countermeasures did they prepare?
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It was also never expected to be uprooted and moved so readily. No, nothing of the sort. We can call it a combination of circumstances we thought impossible.


I see. A worst-case scenario, then?
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Stopping it as in rendering it inoperable? Sure, that was done. The issue is there was never a concern for the creator to return from the dead and reclaim it.


Mm. And no means to remotely disable the system or track it, regardless of who chose to reactivate it?
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The tower is one large, nigh-untraceable weapon of mass destruction. It's incredibly concerning.


And your people haven’t discovered some way to stop it in the intervening years?
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Silence. He took his tower and went totally off the grid.


From what I understand, that itself could be worthy of concern.
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Would be news to me if it had. But I guess that depends on how out of the loop you are.


No word on Garsun’s activities either?
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Difference being one timer’s expiration will be explosively obvious. The other could slide under the radar. I plant to shift my bets as it becomes more and more likely for Akora to return.


On the subject of timers, has anything else noteworthy transpired since my withdrawal?
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That all depends on Akora. That timer could very easily be incredibly short and neither of us are the wiser.


Simultaneously, Ridge’s timer depends on your unknown adversary. We may have no time to spare whatsoever.
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No need to rush much... But I may need to put finding Ridge on the backburner soon, as much as it hurts.


In order to contend with the Hidden Elements debacle? Ridge’s situation may be more temporally urgent.
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As long as the dominoes don’t grow larger.


Indeed. We seem to be facing a number of slow timers. That condition provides us time to consider and act, but withholds from us the luxury of stockpiling resources and information indefinitely.
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