6 [text]: Though Hardly A Philospher, Czeslaw Meyer Entertains A New Theory

[tiny_schemer]

[The passage is handwritten in small, neat, spindly cursive.]Once upon a time, there was a creature. Not exactly a monster, but nothing like a bird or a fish and definitely not like a human being. Maybe more like an amoeba, hardly something anyone would consider to be alive in anything but the most basic sense. This creature watched other things

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[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

An interesting notion, certainly. Since we do know it is a device, maybe it's run by an Artificial Intelligence?

[Voice]

[tiny_schemer]

That's kind of what I'm getting at. Just that it might have reasons for doing whatever it is it's doing that aren't real easy to understand.

[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

Naturally, if it was something easily understood, we would have solved this whole puzzle by now.

[Voice]

[tiny_schemer]

Knowing why might not necessarily make a difference. Honestly, do you really think the companies would care what the Core wanted - that newcomers would care?

Even if there were a way to negotiate it, I get the feeling people would screw it up.

[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

Human beings, mortal and very fallible, find entities of god-like power difficult to conceive.

After all, isn't that why this island exists? Because the mundane people of this world could not fathom to live alongside beings of supernatural ability?

[Voice]

[tiny_schemer]

If they're so difficult to conceive, why do you suppose people keep creating them?

I don't think it's because they thought they were god-like, they just saw them as dangerous. You know, like the convicts they sent to Australia.

[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

We...desire to awaken the divine within ourselves. They say that humans were created in the image of their Creators.

I don't kn- Australia?

[Voice]

[tiny_schemer]

Awaken the divine, huh? Aren't you a doctor? Do you really believe stuff like that?

--Australia is a land that became a country after England dumped its criminals there and they settled down.

[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

I am. To know the miracle of human design, on the cellular level, as well as understanding the system of the body...and how very little we do know, is to have a finer appreciation for the mysteries of the universe.

I do believe that there are answers and truths beyond our reach, and that something out there with the capacity and luxury of existence that would feel like an eternity to us might just comprehend it fully.

Oh. I see. Like a colony?

[Voice]

[tiny_schemer]

[Answers beyond our reach? Kid, you have no idea.]

But you make it sound so noble and spiritual. You don't think most people try to expand their limits just for the power of it?

Basically, yes. It's kind of known as the colony started by crooks. And Siren's Port is like that too, knowing only its own law.

[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

Some might- most might, but that's...that's just survival instinct. But some just enjoy knowledge and progress for the sake of it.

You think everyone who was put here is a crook?

[Voice]

[tiny_schemer]

I think most people are crooks no matter where they are.

[But Daedalus is right in some ways, even the leader of the immortals was one more interested in the personal pursuit of knowledge than becoming powerful.]

[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

...and it's only a matter of who gets caught at it?

So assuming the core is in fact a sentient entity... whether pitiable for its lonesome existence or not, what do we do with that hypothesis if there's no way of communicating with it?

[Voice]

[tiny_schemer]

Pretty much!

I wonder if they've really tried every way of talking to it.

[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

Well, we saw how poorly designed that cult's attempts to call out to it were.

[Voice]

[tiny_schemer]

Have they tried getting empaths or telepaths to talk to it? Something a little less... destructive?