Agent Gray and the Smith's Virus

My only concern is the fact that the Machines seem very oblivious to certain things happening within the Matrix. It explains how the Merovingian can keep his power, afterall. If you read up on Exiles, you'll find out that not all of them started as programs but as actual Machines who were marked for deletion and found escape into the Matrix. If that's at all possible, doesn't that explain that the Machines themselves fight amongst one-another? They're alot like humans and that gives birth to how Smith could amass so many followers. Also, he might have wanted to tear everything down and have it rebuilt in his own image. Or he was so devastated by Neo dying, becoming alive, and killing him that he was missing a part of his code.

 He was no longer bound by his programming when something in it was blown away, perhaps even by witnessing a human escape death in the Matrix. But we all know that when he returned it was possible that The Oracle had done something to Smith. She obviously knew what she was doing when she set Neo up to sacrifice himself to Smith. Let's not overlook how precise The Oracle can be when tampering with a System that The Architect is supposedly in charge of. Dissention in the ranks...

 I know plenty of Machines on Vector agree with Smith, but I personally follow Gray regardless of whatever's wrong with him. I answer to Gray, Pace, and our liaisons as they are still the face of the Machines. However, if Gray is infected we can attribute it to the Machines mistakes as they had before. Or something was planted. Or something's just plain wrong, but we don't know and won't know what it is for quite some time. It's the mystery and intrigue and what keeps us a part of the story. Finding out.

E Pluribus Neo = Extremists. They are fighting just for the sake of fighting. They follow The Kid because they have an adolescent mentality.
Zion = Experiencing a cold war, they're always curious of what the Machines are up to. They don't see the enemies right next to them.
Cypherites = Want to sleep and want there to be no chance of someone else waking them up again. Wish this on others as well.
Merovingian = Redpills that don't trust Zion, they turn to the Merovingian because he has the most foreseeable power. He can protect them.
Machines = The Commandos are proof that they don't wish to war with the humans again. They mainly care about stability/power now, so they have allowed Redpill sympathizers to join their struggle against the various glitches that remain since the last instance.

 Remember, there was a reset at the end of the third movie. It's a new instance, but we don't even know if/when the Code of the One will be reinserted. If it hasn't been already. But I don't see that coming along anytime soon because it's anticlimatic. NO PLAYER should ever become The One, and that ruins the goals some of you might have. :p While I find the Anome threat to be corny, it forms and proves my point about the Zion org above. Not from Vector or Recursion perspectives, but the story itself. It's a nice temporary distraction, though. We need fillers before they start throwing in some good storylines. You can't kill Morpheus and bring him back in six months. But people who have played since Beta might actually like having to wait two or three years before Morpheus resurfaces... It suspends disbelief if it's handled properly. Stop asking questions OOC and if you ask the questions IC the answers might be more appealing.

I sound like a RPing carebear.