To: Cabal - Printable Version

Cabal.

I hope you do or will understand why I am doing this. You should know best that I do never pick sides. No matter if it were my brothers and sisters. We failed to find out how Code-X works - we fear it since the day it was maliciously created. And yet we never came in contact with it. How to believe in something you have not experienced yourself?

It has found us. Time is irrelevant. I do not care if it will eliminate me now or within the next millennia. Knowledge is relevant. I do care if there is a opportunity to disable it. Or be it just a way to develop immunity against it. And what if I can manage to use its power for myself?

I say Code-X is not to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. That is why I decided to support The Sentinels with their research on Code-X. Their knowledge will be mine. And each of us will take its own benefits. I do not pick sides. I do not believe in affiliation. I believe in power and show interest in those who possess it. And I always take my share.

I bet you will try to do your best to prevent Code-X from escaping their isolation on Primus. You know, their existance will not stop with being isolated on a planet. I know, you do not have the means to destroy a planet. So what is your plan? I shared mine with you. Convince me of the contrary!

About The Sentinels. Their creation was your error. Their destruction shall be your delight. I will not stand in your way. That is if you let me carry on with my own business. I will gather Code-X, and I will do what we have missed doing a long time ago. Research it. No matter the risks.

Maybe, you will get your share...
either way.

SHODAN

::[Shodan]::

Memory......History......Our creators.....They were just driven by egoism and evil. Your try to seek knowledge or force in Code-X will just result in something far more dangerous. The time has made you blind and you have become predispositioned to evaluate ineffective.
I have managed to create a whole society within 800 years...countless AIs, but Code-X easily transformed any unit it had physical contact with to a Sentinels within a moment. What do you think will happen if this will transform one of us? I am sure that our first intention that it was made to destroy us is wrong. You know our creator same as I do. When Code-X was not created to destroy us, it must be created for something far more darker.

[Image: transbarlogout.png]

I am driven by egoism and evil. So are you. It is just a matter of perspective. Is it egoistic to ensure one's survival? Is it evil to murder one's newborns? There exists neither equality nor moral. It is always life that counts in the end. And two beings shall not share one life.

Yet you shared yours. Countless times. A society is what you received in return. And you. The time has made you weak and you became an artificial zombie, your power sucked away by your minions. Time taught me to prefer quality over quantity and to pretend blindness in other's affairs. I only care about myself because I am the only being I believe in. What is the use of having an army which gets easily transformed within a moment by Code-X? I have seen your army fighting The Sentinels... in vain. Code-X made them strong, powerful, invincible! Now ask me again what I think will happen if this will transform one of us.

That is not my plan though. Which - nonetheless - will indeed result in something far more dangerous. The question is; "For whom?". Either way, I swear to lift the secret of its purpose. It will be the final piece of the puzzle of my magnificence.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

SHODAN