Log 001 | Audio (un:NINES) | Glory to Mankind!

[idealog]

Hello! I'm 9S, and I'm testing out the capabilities of these devices we've been given. I'm just looking at some technical stuff so, uh, feel free to disregard if it's not your sort of thing.

I know we've all lost our homes recently and that's pretty rough to deal with, but... if you wouldn't mind, could you tell me if you came from Earth? And if you did, what did you like about it?

[ A beat. ]

You can do that if you're from somewhere else too! Earth's the only planet I had experience with before coming here, but I'd be happy to hear about other worlds as well.

[ There's more than one way to gather information. ]

Comments

[idealog]

My unit, yes. We were androids designed specifically to help fight in the war, so we had our own base of operations orbiting Earth. We could deploy to anywhere on Earth that we were needed, so it's not like we were there very often.

[fakers]

I see. Sounds like you were wrapped up in something more troublesome than I realized.

And this war... did you win? Or does it still continue, even now? [ a pause. ] Or at least, before all this.

[idealog]

Oh, it was a whole lot of trouble.

[ Understatement of more than one millennia, he's sure. ]

I... don't know. Things had changed recently, but then the Storm came. It's hard to say if anyone was really winning.

[fakers]

[ fighting an endless fight and never even tasting victory... well, he knows what that's like, but it's still pretty sad. ]

At least that no longer matters now, then.

[idealog]

... Yeah.

[ He doesn't miss it. ]

I don't think this place could be any worse than that.

[ Feel free to blame him if he just jinxed it and now everyone gets caught in an endless war. ]

[fakers]

I hope for all our sakes, you're correct.

[ he doesn't believe for a second you are, though. olympia definitely has enemies... and that's not even counting the greater threat the natha are tryin gto combat. ]

Regardless, be careful.

[idealog]

[ He can't totally shape his optimism, even knowing such a great threat is coming after the Natha. He's not ready for all that war again. But he's not entirely alone. ]

You too.