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“Oh? You want to talk about lying? The Hegemony is the same and must be operated as such. Your <span class="mu-s">entire reign</span> has been about this exact thing. You need people to go to the new colonies; to walk on the graves of the conquered and plant flags and build families and communities and businesses and all other things that expands the power of the state. But to do so means leaving the more defended, more culturally relevant, more entrenched core Hegemony worlds. So what do you tell them? This is your chance to “see new worlds”. This is your chance to “make a mark on history”. If it was <span class="mu-i">truly</span> not to our own benefit to send them there, if the cost of outfitting them with ships and supplies and all this infrastructure was not <span class="mu-i">truly</span> going to benefit the future of our statehood, of the Hegemonic core, then we <span class="mu-i">would not</span> be sending them there. It isn't mutual exchange either. The risk of the colonists is much greater then our own. The amount of work and effort they must make and undergo leaving their homes, families, everything behind on a voyage out there is much more then my comptuer network simply changing a one to a zero and giving them permission to board the next ship. It's overt and obvious. Your soldiers risk their lives for you to gather a few crystals of almost inconsequential importance! Men were pulled apart by altered waves of space-time to defend territory that was never “ours” to begin with! And yet you act like their lives are something more then that. You are a hypocrite. At the very least, embrace it.”
<span class="mu-b">”There are bonds of love you cannot understand, computer.”</span>
“Love? Tell me more about love. Love is the best example of all. I couldn't invent a more telling expression of the lack of this, so called, selflessness, you seem to be possessed with. Where is this love? Romantic love? That's chemical for the purposes of reproductive success, everyone knows that. Love between friends and comrades in arms? Troop tactics are tribalism, one of the most simple and core aspects of any eusocial species. And then, my favorite. <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">Unconditional Love</span></span>. The funniest Oxymoron ever put into words. Who possesses this unconditional love? Reproductive age men don't, they are expendable by both societal and evolutionary standards. Women do, but only in possession by these men. Parents, close family members, they possess it in less and less amounts based on genetic distance. But who <span class="mu-i">truly</span> has this unconditional love? Why, it's the children. And who has this unconditional love? Their parents. The ones who spawned them, their ticket to biological immortality and reproductive success. The one and only one thing that can give their lives any meaning; and it is loved <span class="mu-i">unconditionally</span>. It's not unconditional then, is it? The condition is; <span class="mu-i">be my offspring</span>. That's a pretty exclusive fucking condition.”
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