Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/Idle Hands II


 * Unknown Author, Installation 00, Date 12/14/2552


 * I have marshalled my sentinels to construct a protective quarantine shell
 * around the crash site of the object once known as High Charity. If the Flood
 * were to escape and infect this installation, then everything we fought so hard
 * for so long ago would be jeopardized. This installation's primary purpose is to
 * create the only weapons capable of stopping a mass Flood outbreak. Upon
 * sealing the shell, my Sentinels will raze the perimeter and modify the refugia to
 * ensure that no sentient life survives nearby. I must deprive the Flood of any
 * host bodies in close proximity to their prison. When all this is done, I will keep a
 * battalion of Sentinels on patrol in the vicinity, not only to guard against the
 * Flood, but to guard against future invaders bent on self-destruction.


 * The destruction is regrettable, but I consider it a responsible pruning, necessary
 * to the greater good of this installation. I only wish I had the resources to repair
 * the rest of the damage wrought by the war. The moon at the center of the
 * Foundry has been largely depleted, and without necessary support structures
 * in place there is no way for us to find fresh sources for raw materals.


 * More frequently, the same thought occurs to me; this installation's purpose is
 * to safeguard the galaxy, and therefore must be preserved against all threats.
 * But the inhabitants of the galaxy themselves have proven themselves time and
 * time again to be the biggest threat to this installation, their self-destructive
 * actions apparently impossible to curb.


 * I shall pursue this paradox, for it is only a matter of time before I will be forced
 * to address it tangibly [2/2]