[8.3.1] "I'm on the list" - Recursion - 10/10/07

Grace has every right to be scared of what the Machines will do.  The Machines want to force her to live within their simulation or die.  These Machines who want to have control over every facet of every thing in this world.  Forgive me, these Machines who need to have that control.  They are just as flawed as we humans are, the only problem is that their programming does not allow themselves to realize it.  They think that they can create a perfect world, believing that its misery that human beings thrive on.  Never have it been understood that it is the struggle that is important to us, the feelings and experiences that are important to us that constantly challenge ourselves to become better.

They wish to force us to be stuck in one mode, forever in one year, never advancing, never progressing.  Humanity compelled to be stagnant.  Suppress those internal drives that each human being feels as instinct.  Crush the human spirit, try and erase it until it does not crop up again.  They know that they cannot do achieve that goal so they allowed 1% to be free and in a roundabout way keep it under control...eventually killing thousands of human beings...all for their version of the "greater good".  Individuals such as Grace who are free spirits, will eventually be brought under the heel of the Machines' boot, all because that adventurism, daring, and creativity is contrary to the control that the Machines want.

This is why I fight for Zion.  To keep what makes us human alive.

-Cykosis

((Wow almost tempted to put in there "Keep Hope Alive!")

This business about "the list" is going to cause no-end of problems isn't it. Like a bomb just waiting to receive a code to set it off.

"A right to be afraid" I'd say that's pretty true, considering the number of people on that list. Does it mean that the Machines can scare us into submission? That I do doubt.

Some people say fear can destroy a person, mine drives me forwards, willing me to act to save those who cannot. We will fight, we may die. That is the price we pay as soldiers. I hold no fear when facing something like this, only purpose.

This latest act by the Machines with "the list" shows me one thing. They are having to find more and more elaborate ways to try to get to us. They say we will not survive this war this time. They will remove every last one of us.

Let them come. Our strength is each other, you cannot scare us.

From many one ~ E Pluribus Neo

((Wait, doesnt that mean cryptos is on the list too?))

cloudwolf wrote:

((Wait, doesnt that mean cryptos is on the list too?))

Yeah, but that doesn't matter, he's already in bed with the Machines.

Archangel wrote:

cloudwolf wrote:

((Wait, doesnt that mean cryptos is on the list too?))

Yeah, but that doesn't matter, he's already in bed with the Machines.

He may be on the list but hasn't his RSI undergone quiet a few signature changes? What with the program the Machines put inside him and then whatever Seraph did to him I doubt his signal on that list is the same one we see today.

I thought the state of mind only applied to the one opening it?

All in favor of making a new list for the rest of Zion while we're at it?

Name
Faction
Hovercraft
Broadcast Location Coordinates
Signal Carrier ID
Epitaph

Please submit to the nearest Machine and/or Machine operative for quick results.  First come, first serve.  Act now!

I thought the state of mind only applied to the one opening it?

Ah yes, my mistake; I do believe the toaster is right.

shinpseudo wrote:

Ah yes, my mistake; I do believe the toaster is right.

Sorry but I've upgraded, I'm now a waffle iron.

((If you don't remember or know about it, you might want to read up on Grace's backstory.  There's history between her, Tyndall, and Lock.))

((EDIT: You can also refresh yourself on the content of Grace's contact missions with Sugaree's ever-fabulous mission summaries.  Good stuff!))

This certainly looks like a problem for all the older operatives, guess I should be thankful that I was only awakened a few months back and even then, left for the Cypherites as soon as I was able.

I don't think that Cryptos will have a problem with this myself. Even if his RSI hasn't changed, the Cypherites are on close terms with our Machine friends afterall

Shame if it's unlocked for people like Niobe... hahahahahaha!!

Love,

Shadow x

Some Zion's must been shaking in their pants right now hahaha....

Some Zion's must been shaking in their pants right now hahaha....

There is something of a slight irony there in that the Machines did such a good job of wiping out ships and redpills pre-Truce that the only survivors we're really shown that fought directly in the war are Niobe, Ghost, Morpheus, Roland and his crew. We know Cryptos to be another. Tyndall could be thrown in there as well. Almost all of these individuals are either dead, possessed, or otherwise unable to jack into the Matrix for various reasons.

EPN would also most likely be unaffected. The Kid never jacked in previous to the Truce as he never could get on a ship. As Shimada is his age this logic could apply in her case as well. 

Looking back over the past 2 years it doesn't even strike me that Niobe, Ghost, Morpheus or any of the survivors from the past war have even served any vital purpose that another operative couldn't other than as a rallying figure, and even in that capacity Niobe has largely failed in my humble opinion, and let's not even talk about Morpheus.

Stated briefly, I don't think this generally changes a thing.