Civil Servant || Dr.Thorn

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Sender: Thallia Thorn
Recipient: "Civil Servant"
Subject: A front row seat

Location: Newport
Source: Anzao Communications Relay

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My dear friend Civil,

I never thought to se...see a day where you were brimming with such energy. Such joy. With the Lane Hackers sharing a peek behind the curtain, hu...humanity begins to wrestle with the power to fold material reality. Imagine the corners of Sirius we may yet discover! Ponder upon the strife that could be addressed with such ability to warp space itself. Food delivered directly to sites of need. Materials to rebuild projected across the stars in a moment.

Yet... how the portcullis comes to mean nought when every brick is a backdoor into the castle. Blo...Blockades collapsed. Fortifications sidestepped. Supply lines ephemeral. How prophetic Jericho's waking feels with the benefit of hindsight.

How great a day for Hu...Humanity. How terrible it may yet prove to be. All of o...our choices, what we do and who we choose to be, with how we use such wonders will be the making of our judgement by History.

[sighs]

There is something in t...th...the talking with you Civil that brings out such grandiose musings. It is ac...action, not words, that will prove whether they are just that. Despite a personal need for security, I know where my strengths lie and limitations begin. Where my action ou...ought be.

After our last conversation on Bielefeld, I've begun moving kit and materials to Newport with the purpose of se...setting up shop there. Given the local ad...administration have no qualms with it, of course. A laboratory to explore contingencies and countermeasures. A workshop to manufacture them. On my mind were the AI, b...but it seems Kusari's new discoveries may prove a greater threat still.

Come visit. Let us di...discuss all this in person.

...and, I truly hope you downloaded the Hackers data onto a partitioned cluster. They may be sharing with us insight into the extraordinary frontiers of the physical world yet it would be on form for them to add a little extra. If that ad...advice comes a little late, I can try to help but Hacker-ware te...tends to prove particularly tenacious. Might be time to cycle th...those passwords and regen those credentials.

Kind Regards,
T.Thorn
[Insert cool cell name here]

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