Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/Idle Hands II
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- 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]