text, un: lucina ( backdated to a day before their escape )

[tolight]

Hello, Audentes. For those of you I have yet to meet, my name is Lucina. I come bearing news.

I have spoken to a Zymandis agent. They are here, alone, and the jewelcomms are what notified her to our presence; she was willing to answer my questions, and in return, asked the same of me. The following is what I learned:

They seem believe that the Timeline is ill; the multiverse no longer has the energy to sustain itself, and will eventually meet its demise. Given this, their mission is to destroy everything, so that the Timeline will be reborn stronger. [ Those familiar with her should know there's a certain level of anger in her tone, text or otherwise. ] At least, this is what their Timeline.exe has told them— not only so, the original Timeline.exe, as well as its "update", were created by the same individual: Theodor Arbatel, their "Leader".

If anything requires clarification, I will try my best to answer them.

( ooc. the thread is here for the curious. while i've gotten a lot of info the thread is currently incomplete, so there may be delays in getting to questions from characters!! otherwise feel free to threadjack / etc. )

Comments

[selfimage]

You did pose the question, you must have something in mind.

[ofobedience]

I suppose what I'm interested to know is this: if this team is primarily concerned with the preservation of life at any cost and regardless of consequence, which is the way they've presented themselves in the past, then if Zymandis are correct in assuming the destruction of the multiverse will lead to it's rebirth and a chance for continuation whilst going on as we are now would lead to the collapse of everything, presumably without the chance for continuation, shouldn't that be what this team wants?

Assuming Zymandis' leader is correct rather than an agent of chaos, of course. But we don't have solid evidence either way.

[selfimage]

In the most simplistic outlook, but the universe is far more complicated than that.
ALASTAIR was conceived in defiance. Preservation of life may be one way to look at it, I suppose, and there would be those on the team that would argue for it. It is, and it isn't. When life continues, there's a choice: change, or don't. Zymandis' goals are so definite, they don't allow for anything but more of the same.
Control is the issue. It's unfortunate.

[ofobedience]

Isn't control always the issue, ultimately? ALASTAIR included. Everything we've done here, all these missions. What it comes down to, in the end, is trying to impose one way of thinking on another.

[selfimage]

Yes.
I suppose the difference is one keeps everyone alive.

[ofobedience]

At least temporarily. Depending.

In truth, I don't particularly care one way or the other. But trying to pin down the motivations of this messy little group of ours is confusing.

[selfimage]

If it was, I'd be a little more concerned.