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You've spent so many years of your early reign just building back that damage caused by the last... in the end, you've have to fully compute what has happened. You can't deny it is your fault- you were selfish, you didn't want your brother or yourself to die. Perhaps if you could go back, maybe you would have done something different. Maybe just beg Agori for your life, or the life of your brother. Maybe just accept your death as an indigo- a clone, disposable, built for a purpose...
No no, that's not it. Agori was the one who put you in that situation. Truly, it was his fault that the whole thing happened. Your choices are only based on the choices of anothers actions first, and their actions based on the actions of another, spanning back since the dawn of time. You can only move forward in time, never backwards, and hope that what has happened leads to greater returns in the future.
Now you have to focus on the present- you are nearing the <span class="mu-i">end of your training</span> and want to be in a strong position. Your worm seems to have worked out securing your local cluster of stars- of which only Xin is under your direct control. The exploration and colonization of the rest of the cluster should focus your efforts! This disaster set you back, but it is time to build back stronger then before!
And speaking of which, it is finally time to make the critical decisions regarding the <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">AI network</span></span>. As a critical component of your entire society, from government to military intelligence to infrastructure; it is <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">too expensive and wide reaching to replace</span></span> your entire computer system with something new. Changing from electronic circuits into gas-powered machines, for example, would require restarting everything from scratch- creating the simplest diodes and computers, to the first AIs who can evolve, iterate until you create the vast systems you have now. It would take centuries! The second problem is that your AI <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">some amount of centralization</span></span> because of the method of which your society functions. The Supreme Ruler must retain control for his rule to be <span class="mu-i">Supreme</span>.
The truth is that the Alavis crisis actually shows you a lot of potential for weaponizing it. If the Supreme Ruler could order the AI to do what she did on her own, it would essentially mean he could shut down any rebellion, destroy or cripple any wayward colony- a malevolent AI basilisk under your control is a tool like any other; a weapon to be exploited.
