The vast majority of Vector (My home), doesn’t know I exist, I like it that way.To those who do, and to those I can call ‘friends’, this will hopefully stem the tide of hate which will inevitable roar my way as soon as this is posted.I will be joining The Machines, and if you choose to stop reading now to begin hunting me down, then so be it.For those interested in my reasons, I thank you, and read on.If any forum mod’s read this, please don’t move it to an RP section, this is for the eyes of Vector.
Storyline
I originally joined Zion because, as Haze once said, I wanted to be the proverbial ‘Good guy’ I wanted to fight for humanity, against any malevolent force which may threaten our existence.More pertinently, I believe in what Neo stood for.With an ever-growing frequency, I see Zionists fighting for the sole purpose of eradicating every trace of the dirty, evil machines.“They enslaved us in this prison, and must be made to pay” seems to be the popular war-cry.My ideals and philosophies don’t lend itself to this short-sighted view.I’ll use an excerpt of one of my posts on the Recursion boards to explain:
I fight for a symposium of peace, and dedication towards the possibility of a heightened cultural tolerance, within a groundbreaking new world.I don't seek the delusions of power, the counter-productive illusions of war under the pretence of glory, or the destruction of non-organic mechanics.
In simple terms, I wish to find a way to end the truce not to make way for war, but so we can find a way to co-exist.The most disturbing piece of film from the archives of The Next Renaissance, was the public destruction of an AI, who believed beyond doubt that they were ‘real’ With celebrated philosophers such as Socrates, Sartre, and perhaps most importantly Plato (The Republic – ‘Plato’s Cave’), pondering the inner-workings of existentialism, who are WE as a society to judge, and be an authority on what is ‘real’ or isn’t?Those great thinkers, and others in their field, came no closer than us to uncovering a definitive answer to the eternal question: What is real?We have no right to claim that we, humans are the answer, and must enforce this delusion of authority on anyone or anything that may threaten it.War will result in the demise of both our species, and I’m sure we can all agree that this can’t be allowed to occur.I’ll use a quote from another, to explain further:
“Their (Short-sighted) way of thinking is what brought the human race to the brink of extinction in the first place…hubris in making AI, vanity in treating a child of our minds as a slave, and the atrocity of destroying the skies in a feeble attempt at genocide”
It is because of our own egocentric ways, that AI began to rise against us.We created, admonished, and then attempted to destroy them when they would not be our slaves.(History has seen this happen repeatedly, and each time it has taken the revulsion of the condemned to beget change.Ghandi, Martin Luther King, both non-violent ‘Neo’s’ of their own time) AI was the result of our own ingenuity, but its conception highlighted our flaws.We are driven by ego, by vanity.We gave birth to a new species, and we immediately demand that they are at our beck and call.We are enemies of our own conscience, our own inadequacies and delusions of superiority.They are indeed the grotesquerie’s of our species; tolerance was never on the agenda.
In an act of desperation, the machines we created set about becoming our equivalent, our friends.They were willing to put aside our own ego-driven ways and co-exist with us in our world.They created their own communities, showed they could be valuable members of our communities.We turned them down, we denied them any footing in The UN, and cast them out.With increasing vehemence, we tried to destroy them, and set the air ablaze to rain destruction on the machines in order to preserve our fragile egos.The Machines did what any species would with their backs against the wall.They formed an army.With an overwhelming force born of frustration, they defeated our kind.Instead of the total destruction of the human species, they offered us a choice.Some may say death or stasis isn’t much of a choice, but we were indeed the architects of our own demise.
At this point, we are experiencing a truce, and we have Neo to thank for this.This is the first positive thing to happen since AI’s creation, and it has happened through a short period of co-existence, from benevolence, from working together to fend off a common and much more malicious evil.I fight for a world of harmony, union, and co-existence.I don’t wish to fight against Zion, but rather work with you to bring peace to our world, and heal the war-torn earth.I believe working with the machines is a positive step towards demonstrating our willingness to co-exist. I’m not joining in an act of defiance against Zion.I do this FOR Zion, and because I still believe in what Neo fought for.
The game
