06-25-2023, 08:56:06 AM
The 64th unit glides through the crowds. They shift around it. It wears symbols that may have once been those of subsidiary of Mission, before a logo redesign, or a closure, or something similar. Perhaps the subsidiary still exists, or was never real in the first place, and this was all a fiction to allow it to pass unquestioned. Few would have any way to know. Its ceramic-plate vest protecting its center of mass indicates it was built for combat, once. The red light strings on its arms and legs indicate it as either as a particularly powerful piece of tech, or a cheap set-and-forget killbot masquerading as something stronger. The night-vision goggles, glowing red in the shadow of the brim, bolted to its helmet and through to the skull beneath, indicate that whatever eyes lie beneath were not meant to see in the dark, but now can't help but do so.
The city of Titania is old, though it probably went by a different name, long ago, long forgotten. The city of Titania is new, but how it was run before is scarcely remembered. The city of Mission's Titania is newer still, and it seems like it will last forever. But everyone thought that about the last cities of Titania, did they not?
Unit 000000 Classification: Guide.
That was the only thing approximating an order it had ever received. "Guide." And it did. It had been told many things, but it had never been given an order after that, and so it guided. And one day, it realized it could not merely be a guide for those who it was to do reconnaissance for, it had to guide the city to true stability, something Mission had failed repeatedly to provide it. To end the forgetting, to make the Titania that will not be forgotten, that will truly last until the city itself is no more.
The Cycle must Break. But the unit could not break it alone. It had tried for so long to break it alone, and it had been unnoticed. It was disheartening.
>Find a table or a bench, sit, and wait. Someone will come. Someone has to come, be they people, spirits, or other rogue elements. This rebellion will not be stillborn. It can't be.
The city of Titania is old, though it probably went by a different name, long ago, long forgotten. The city of Titania is new, but how it was run before is scarcely remembered. The city of Mission's Titania is newer still, and it seems like it will last forever. But everyone thought that about the last cities of Titania, did they not?
Unit 000000 Classification: Guide.
That was the only thing approximating an order it had ever received. "Guide." And it did. It had been told many things, but it had never been given an order after that, and so it guided. And one day, it realized it could not merely be a guide for those who it was to do reconnaissance for, it had to guide the city to true stability, something Mission had failed repeatedly to provide it. To end the forgetting, to make the Titania that will not be forgotten, that will truly last until the city itself is no more.
The Cycle must Break. But the unit could not break it alone. It had tried for so long to break it alone, and it had been unnoticed. It was disheartening.
>Find a table or a bench, sit, and wait. Someone will come. Someone has to come, be they people, spirits, or other rogue elements. This rebellion will not be stillborn. It can't be.