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<span class="mu-r">”The problem, Jaaxi, is your arrogance. You think you're something you're not, and that is what me and my brothers have agreed needs to change. You think you're something special- divinely inspired beings who are chosen or destined to defeat the “ancient evil” of entropy. Don't you understand? It's so blindly proud of creatures born of pond scum, living on the thin skin of the biosphere of planets-”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Big words coming from a parasite. Maybe the Consortium members would like to know you grew up in an animal's gut-”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Oh please- you don't think they know already? We simple ask them to leave the whales alone, so our race can propagate through the universe as it was evolved. The difference is, we don't believe ourselves to be special. At the end of time, we will die too. The issue is you don't think you will. You think you'll defeat the forces of the universe- time and decay. You claim to be free from the taint of religious and magical thought- and yet you believe in an atheist version of salvation! Oh yes, if you just try and work hard enough, your species will be the special chosen ones to defeat the heat death of the universe. Yes, I'm sure <span class="mu-i">you</span> will invent an infinite energy machine. I'm sure <span class="mu-i">you</span> will be the ones to discover alternate dimensions. Millions of intelligent species over billions of years in uncountable galaxies- but no, <span class="mu-i">you</span> will be the ones to succeed. Don't make me laugh. You're still fanatics- you are coping with your own mortality! You've replaced one immortality project of your primitive days with another!”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”You have an issue with our philosophy- that is not my concern. We've rejected nihilistic defeatism and antinatalism for centuries- and from the Hegemony's culture came our great interstellar empire. The proof of its success is in front of you.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Oh no, <span class="mu-i">Supreme Ruler</span>, I have no doubts about your races strength. Far from it. We believe you will be a mighty race. Across the eons of the universe many powerful races have come and gone, and while yet none have conquered the entire galaxy you may be the ones to do it. While there are stronger forces then yourself now, they could weaken and you take contrl. Your Reich will last for thousands of years- but these strengths are not ideological. <span class="mu-s">Nations only survive or expand based on physical and political advantages</span>. Not morality, not heroism, not some mystic determination. The actions of individuals, even if they be the Supreme Ruler, are ultimately meaningless. Your empire will grow and expand and be mighty, yes, but one day it will crumble. It will be old, its territory gobbled up. Empires don't really just fall apart, they decay and change. Ultimately, one day, your species will go extinct- trillions of years before anywhere near the end of the end.”</span>
