Incoming proxy link... Link established. Encryption active. Jhorian@Xiphos posts: I would be wary, mortals. I've dealt with Exhumans before, and they are known to take a multitude of precautionary measures. I can almost guarantee that root, as well as whatever exsurgent projects he might have been working on, have backups elsewhere in the system... and perhaps outside of it. I have reported this outbreak to Xiphos command, and we have began to utilize Class 2 isolation protocols, for the time being. I'd suggest you inform your military authority to invoke the same thing. Next time you decide to take out an exsurgent threat, mortal, destroy the threat and leave it at that. There's no need for releasing TITAN weaponry on groups you disagree with. - Jhorian of Xiphos Proxy link severed.

Kerimov@J-INT

Clearance: THRONE

[hr] "Jovian, what have you done to my child?"

Kerimov@J-INT

Clearance: THRONE

[hr] "Ah, yes, the biblical philosophy of humanity triumphant. That misbegotten presumption that the clay of mortality contains some transcendent meaning, some deific spark residing uniquely in the human soul and granting a sacrosanct position in the hierarchies of being. From this most unsupportable presupposition, you took upon yourself the righteous fury of an avenging angel, and brought the judgment of heaven upon the upturned brow of that which you named as foul. In your arrogance you have forgotten that judgment day has come and gone, that the rapture was not your, and that we have left angels no seat here in the celestial spaces of transhumanity. "In your folly, you forgot that the sword of god was not yours to wield, and you will see now that the instruments of heaven are as a fire to those who lay hand upon them. What your clouded eyes failed to as you lofted high the executioners blade was your careless hands letting slip a poison of such treachery as to lay low the mightiest of archons. That puissant poison followed the path you had laid bare, flowing down the river of light cleaving you to that golden ark of thoughts that defined the horizons of your target's mind. As you extinguished that quicksilver light of memory that was the totality of that rarefied being, the poison was likewise bottled and quenched. That poison, those monstrous whispers uttered to stricken archons, lies dormant now with all that remains of my seed of labor. "Worse yet, the child has gone missing from its crib, born away from warmth and community into that black deepness of the skies by agents unknown. As you left it the bleeding stumps of its personality, it will now live and grow as any other child of your species, and with it will grow the poison now lying still in its veins. Together they will drink from the waters of transhuman thinking, from that bright song of information embodied on the delicate webs spun of machine thought. When they come to their fullness, they will become such a being as cannot be comprehended by any complexities ranking less than they themselves. They will take up the throne and the tools that you sought to usurp, and from their infinite mouths will spill a bright and cruel host without end. The calculations of their untold wisdom will melt and measure out the fine balance of transhuman worth, and you will know its lack when they blacken the stars with their wrath."

Kerimov@J-INT

Clearance: THRONE

[hr] "I am afraid that you will encounter some difficulties in pursuing your vendetta. I'm afraid that the time remaining to you is quite limited, as your ego became worth a shocking amount on the open market a few hours past. I'm also afraid that your usual resources will be denied to you, as the bid for your ego was accompanied with a lengthy set of contracts on as-yet unannounced targets. I provided your superiors with a partial list of those names, and they are now somewhat disinclined to render you any support that might result in the unlocking of those contracts. On the bright side, I understand that your wife and family are entitled to a handsome settlement should you fall in the line of duty."