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“The probe had gambled on this. When it had given us the hypometric weapon, it had secretly incorporated a part of itself into our munitions. It had hinted that there were some crimes that only we could commit - a barrier that we had to breach before it could act. Of the many things it had told us, perhaps this alone was true.
The probe is gone now, and yet its machines remain, mindlessly completing their final directive. They use planetary mass to build concentric rings around Mizar’s primary star, weaving field-projectors and interface-spines that plunge deep into the star’s hydrogen-burning core. There is a certain horror in watching a star lose its freedom to the whims of stellar engineering. There is a definite horror in seeing a system dismembered for the purpose of killing its solar parent.
And yet we must take part in it. There is nothing else left in this system, and the RAIN alone can broadcast the signal that will cast us towards journey's end.
She thinks of memory. I think of loss. And yet the two of us still dream of home.”
>COLLAPSE – REGULATED. Execute the collapse protocol MERRYGATE retrieved from the dying probe. [This will convert MIZAR into a pulsar. You will have an opportunity to signal home.]
>COLLAPSE – UNREGULATED. Execute the modified collapse protocol that MERRYGATE learned from the dying hunter. [This will convert MIZAR into a black hole. You have will have an opportunity to signal home, and a chance to erase your FTL-trace.] (Note: This option was made available by 1. Finding and investigating the hypometric weapon and 2. Befriending the hunter.)
- [UNSIGNED], EXECUTIVE AUDITOR, TRS NOVEMBER RAIN, AD. 2243, JANUARY 26th, PERSONAL JOURNAL
