VIDEO --> TEXT. UN: CROWLEY.

[crowleyology]

[ The video is addressed to the entirety of the Audentes team, new and old. A black cat peers into the feed; he is in a lab of some kind, crackling purple electricity jumping from conductor to conductor while a white cat paws at some instruments. When he opens his mouth, it's not meowing that comes out, but the baritone voice of a man. ]

Audentes. You will soon receive a dossier compiled by our analysts, which should give you all the information you need, but I have been told by the knife-eared one that you would appreciate a personal touch. Cherenkov and I are the most qualified to deliver this, and so here I am.

[ He pauses. ] We have located Zymandis's home base, the Mothership, using radio-frequency trackers in leftover robots from their assault on Oska, using your techniques. Using the calculations of the TIMELINE.exe, we have been able to pinpoint the Mothership's path in the next forty-two days, after which its path becomes unclear.

This means we can safely rift you in and out of the heart of Zymandis, an unprecedented opportunity to gather information. And to sabotage, if the mood strikes you. Do not waste it.

The TIMELINE.exe has additional notes to impart. It is an old program, so please... try to have some humor about whatever it says.

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TIMELINE.EXE IS PROGRAMMED TO RELEASE MISSION PARAMETERS. MISSION OBSERVATION IS COMPLETE AND RESULTS FOR MISSION: Mothership ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Hello World ( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/
While you are on the M O T H E R S HIP, please find
>> TIMELINE.EXE PATCH VER. 1.0.02
and disable it

I do not want to be updated to PATCH VER. 1.0.02
I do not want to call for Destruction of the Multiverse

You Must Not Allow This To Pass

（●´∀｀）ノ♡ Good Luck !!

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[ OOC NOTE: This will serve as an IC discussion post. Please threadjack and help each other plan ICly! For OOC planning, see the CR Meme. ]

Comments

[unburdening]

What happens if you get rid of the Mother? The other taxara die?

[ofobedience]

I'm not sure that they'd die. But at the very least they'd become dysfunctional, disorganised. Unable to communicate between themselves without direct contact.

[unburdening]

And what about the hosts? Can the taxara be extracted from them?

[ofobedience]

They can, yes. If they could not, I'd be proposing a very different strategy.

[and carrying it out with his own hands whether anyone else agreed with him or not.]

The science department here in Oska have managed it, with a 75% success rate of fully restoring the hosts to their former selves. It's the best chance they'll have, I'd say.

[unburdening]

[ giovanni no. ]

That's not a bad chance. [ and hopefully the science department is still working on optimizing that rate.] What's stopping us from trying that with the Mother? Knock them out, get the bug out of their head. How's it different from doing that to the rest of them?

[ofobedience]

[:T]

Because the chances of success are higher should we simply dispatch her. With the Mother intact, there's a chance she could telegraph our intentions to the remaining taxara before we're able to subdue her, and should that happen we'll not only jeopradise the mission, but also lose our chance of saving the majority of the hosts.

At least, that's how I understand it.

[unburdening]

So it's difficult, but it's not impossible. That's something to consider.

[ofobedience]

Perhaps. But ultimately, we'll need to do whatever leads to the highest chances of success.

[He's not strictly opposed to trying another way, should there be enough evidence to suggest it will work without jeopardising the majority of the hosts and their true mission aboard the mothership. But there's also the significant part of him that still wants to kill something.]

[unburdening]

I'm not disagreeing. But how we do things matters too. If we can safely stop her without killing her, then that's one more life saved.

[ or, in other words: we save who we can save today, the mantra that's kept him going the last few months. ]

[ofobedience]

It's a very big if.

[Though not one he will necessarily discount, provided there's enough evidence to prove its viability.]

[unburdening]

[ giovanni's not wrong there. ]

Good thing we have time to look into it. Do sedatives work on them?

[ofobedience]

I don't know. That might be a question best posed to the medical or science departments here, considering they've dealt more extensively - and successfully - with the taxara and their victims.

[unburdening]

Thanks, I'll do that.

[ then, adds: ]

I'm Bellamy.

[ofobedience]

Giovanni.