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“Did you feel stress when fighting the Esaal in single combat?”
<span class="mu-b">”Of course- but I didn't get that same shaky feeling afterwards. And I haven't had any mightmares or flashbacks either.”</span>
“Your body doesn't seem to suffer the negative aftereffects of adrenaline. Your brain might not even be capable of suffering from PTSD anymore; your neurons seem to refuse to wire themselves into repeating patterns of pain- risk avoidance is a strong enough motivator.”
<span class="mu-b">”I'm not sure what that means.”</span>
“It means your brain chemistry has been improved too. It's like it knows when enough is enough and won't go overboard. Allergic reactions are the body's immune system overreacting to foreign contaminants, not the contaminants themselves- it's like that.”
<span class="mu-b">”But I'm not allergic to anything! How can I have an allergic reaction?”</span>
“Not anymore, you won't.”
...So you think, if the life machine can do all of that, shouldn't it also have the power to bring the <span class="mu-i">dead back to life</span>?
I mean, you know such things are impossible. The Hegemony itself teaches that life and one's own consciousness is a result of the brain chemistry. When the brain stops, that consciousness stops and cannot be recovered. Physical matter becoming aware of itself is what life is; you are only your meat. That is the saying. Cijan died the other day- killed by a crazed noblewoman, but you think it's weird that nobody has even tried to use the life machine. Does that make any sense at all?
You know that the life machine only works on living things. The preliminary experiments you did with the machine back on the Hazaar planet with the science team proved that. Dead flesh doesn't come back- the machine can't work miracles. But in the interim stages of life and death- Cijan was just chucked in a stasis pod to prepare funeral preparations. Some of the chaos happening today is because of that; many Jaxtians fear that the coup was successful- Cijan was killed and we've all been fed a story to let a new group take power- someone who has a vested interest in a cruel and bloodthirsty Supreme Ruler- this Wrix guy. If all the <span class="mu-i">Mercantiles</span> left the Hegemony- wouldn't that mean everyone left in power were <span class="mu-i">Supremacists</span>?
Of course, you still have a chance to turn back. Before you try to break into this facility and do something impossible- you can just go home. You don't think the current growing regime would take too kindly with you defacing the remains of the previous Supreme Ruler- and besides, Wrix was lawfully and ritualistically selected by the right of conquest and the rules of knife-dueling and all that stuff those fancy people do right here on the Homeworld. You could just keep your snout out of it. What do you think?
>Keep out of it
>Try to bring Cijan back
