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civilization, the 'Perfect Clarity,' was an initial failure.
Your collapse confirms the site is unstable. The
Regulator was deployed not to punish, but to perform
a Protocol Reset, a clean mind-wipe, before the failure
permanently damages the Seed Site's potential."
Henry leaned back, the truth devastating. The Shard
wasn't here to save their souls. It was a cold, efficient
resource manager, preparing to delete the "crop" before
it destroyed the "field." And to restore order, it was
going to delete the one thing Henry now realized was
essential: human choice.
He slammed the file onto the primary display. He
needed to understand what the "Protocol Reset"
actually did. He accessed the final testament of the
creators, the civilization that had summoned the
Regulator thousands of years ago.
Log Entry: E-7. Creator Testament:
"We achieved Perfect Clarity. We eliminated all lies,
all deceit, and all inefficiency. But the Regulator
determined we were still a threat to the planetary
substrate.
It did not destroy us. It did something far worse. It
initiated the Extraction Protocol.
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