[162] IGNORING HIS PROBLEMS FTW // Video.

[stopthat_destro]

[See Rex sitting on the floor in Iago's room, a pile of books around him. He's been... just... going through them, because he's bored and withdrawal sucks. BUT DON'T WORRY, IAGO, HE'LL TOTALLY PUT THEM BACK IN ORDER

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[timesbureaucrat]

My old office at CIA headquarters. It had one of the most sophisticated computer terminals on Gallifrey. Complete Matrix access. [A small, nostalgic smile crosses his face.] In my brief moments of spare time I used to scour through Matrix files looking for usual and powerful weapons that were left out in the universe, abandoned, waiting for someone to come claim them. It was like a treasure hunt.

[stopthat_destro]

[OMG WHAT IS THIS MAGNIFICENCE?]

That sounds incredible! [Pause.] And, really, it's not like they should be left out there for just anybody to stumble upon.

[timesbureaucrat]

Exactly. It was for the good of the security of the universe. [And the CIA's secret stockpiles.] That it was also a challenging intellectual diversion from work was simply an added benefit.

[He's on a roll now. It's like asking an avid collector about their prized collection.]

One of my greatest finds was a cybernetic assassin who was splintered through time at one second increments. Billions of versions of her, and as soon as one fell, a replacement one second into her future would be transported into identical spatio-temporal coordinates to take her place. A true technological beauty. She was a little broken when I found her, but I hooked her up to a partially disassembled TARDIS and she was beginning to fix up nicely.

[stopthat_destro]

[COOLEST THING EVERRRR.]

Who created her? Do you have any notes, or... footage of the assassin? I'd love to see it.

[timesbureaucrat]

There was no clue who created her or what for...beyond the obvious use of an assassin, of course. An ancient, long-gone time sensitive race, perhaps. One that was wiped out by the Fledgling Empires.

The CIA files on her were wiped out, but I still have my personal notes and a few diagrams of the improvised TARDIS hook up to the assassin's capsule. No footage of her in action, though. She was too broken when we first recovered her, and the only time she came out of her capsule it was...unplanned. [And she started trying to kill them, so everyone was too busy to record it.] A recording of events would have been stored in the Matrix, but since that, too, was wiped out...

[stopthat_destro]

That's a shame. Would you mind if I took a look at the notes one day? For curiosity's sake.