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]