>>5394903The sacrifice of your sharded self shows you something of the Synthemata. You wonder if the drone sword - a Synthemata construct itself - might have been able to damage the otherwise impenetrable hull of Gnadenfrei. It reminds you ironically of anime, of the anime stickers - fighting a mech with a sword. Could the Glitch Gun be used on a mech too? What about that strange modified pink shotgun Praxagora was carrying? Is she really a fake lookalike, was what Haukwode was telling you really true? He seemed to believe it himself. But Haukwode also issued some other commands - he never restored all communication channels, the encrypted team channel connection back to you...
And the Lightning Sea is showing you a very easy and predictable vision of the immediate future, the future that you are helpless to prevent - for even as you override the commands of the deceased formerly Man-Hating Princess Hercules, and take control of her formidable stolen battle-mech Geryon, you can see that when it lands, crashing down upon the now twice-damaged slum roof, the entire spire section you are standing upon will collapse with no time left to move away and escape. The mech will be immobilised, and there is a risk that the shock and shrapnel could detonate the explosive reactive armour - if not the debris, then the ensuing attack barrage from Gnadenfrei afterwards surely will.
