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Nicholas Boothman
His lamp beam landed on a stone block in the center
of the room. Carved into it were the same symbols
from the sky, the geometric shape, flanked by Chaos
(Truth) and Entropy (Lies).
Beside it sat a single, low, black terminal, humming
with reserve power. Not human technology.
Henry knelt before it, placing his hands on the cool
surface. It didn't ask for a name. It asked for a
Diagnosis.
He used the last of his fighting spirit to upload the
raw data of the collapse: the 98% certainty of failure,
the engineer’s paradox, the final, logical suicide of the
military strike. He fed the machine the truth of
humanity’s failure.
The black terminal glowed green. A calm,
mathematical voice echoed in the archives.
"Diagnosis: Failure. Sentient Seed Stock (SSS) Host:
Earth. Localized Sentience: Homo Sapiens. Integrity
Field: Compromised. Stability: Zero. Regulator (7-A)
Activation Confirmed."
The terminal confirmed the cold, external threat:
The Regulator is the code name for the Incubator
Regulator. This planet is a Seed Stock Site, monitored
remotely by the Regents of the Core Galaxy. The prior
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