>>6339871Integrating the agents would've been high-risk/high-reward, to the point where I might've rolled for how it turned out. The "good news," from humanity's perspective, is that there's way more humans than there are agents, agents are self-sustaining / don't compete for limited resources, and agents are large but physically weak (skinny, fragile) and relatively pacifistic (they don't have a thirst for blood; even Management's atrocities resulted from clinical indifference instead of a desire to see human suffering). The "bad news" is that the vast majority of agents have zero exposure to humanity, the vast majority don't speak an intelligible language, and most of them didn't picture [i:lit]sharing[/i:lit] the Bright Epoch, though they could be convinced otherwise, especially once they saw that humanity worshipped the Herald as well (lol). Most likely things would've been slow and rocky, with xenophobia on both sides, but if the roll went well enough most of the agents could've downloaded primers on human language and culture and integrated well enough. (The stragglers would've holed themselves up inside of Satellite, now crash-landed in the ocean, and not come out.) If they did integrate in this way, they could've introduced their advanced technology to human metaphysicists, which would've led to a new age of mutual flourishing... and an improved Recharlottizator 2.0. If the roll went poorly, though, they might've all shut themselves inside Satellite and refused to change one bit. We don't know, and we never will!
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