It was all laid over what seemed to be a galactic map of the entire Milky Way. Like it was some kind of planetarium sky theater, but for someone in command rather than a mere show. All the room had in the very center was a large array of terminals surrounding a chair. Also surrounding the chair we
“Why?” “It is a matter of lifespans,” Raijin interjected. “Promises are more easily broken when no-one remembers a long-distant past. Anki could easily design a ceasefire. But it would only last as long as people remember the accord in the first place. “But I exist, as does Freya and Azrael and so
“How can the solution possibly be… whatever you’re doing?” protested Freya. “Do you honestly believe that constant conflict makes us stronger? That’s ridiculous!” “You of all people should understand how bodies work,” Anki retorted. “Our physical bodies are constantly at war with the galaxy around
“Would you like to see what I have collected?” “I’m not interested. Instead, tell me, did the Engineer ever mention Godeater? Or really anything like Godeater? I’m sure he has, since he has seen much more than all of us. Would you enlighten us?” Anki was silent again, but only for a moment. “Of c
Negotiations were over. Almost. Raijin peered through the countless lines of code splashed on the screens all around her. And she saw that Anki wasn’t bluffing at all about updates and losing control and whatnot. That was a real concern. It actually was enough for them to just barely slip into th
Raijin sank down into the vast sea of circuits that ran the entire station. Her nanite swarm spread all throughout the core as her own consciousness mingled with and reviewed the various intelligences that ran it. And although this was all something she had done hundreds, if not thousands of times b
She quickly noticed that each of the biomes grew larger and larger, almost imperceptibly. Their growth was subtle at first. But when she reviewed their storage allocations directly, found that their boundaries expanded at a constant rate. Raijin realized that the planet itself expanded in concordan
Outside the station, the many thousands of previously aggressive ships had long since descended back down to the station itself. They all dipped down into the nanite pool they came from. And there, they were all quickly dissolved and redistributed back into the pool itself. Once they were all gone,