Line War
“As well as not letting Erebus’s gift of Jain technology overwhelm you and then turn it on the Polity, enough information was transmitted for Erebus to know it was you who destroyed its USER, thus allowing the Polity fleet to escape. For my host it was the smallest diversion of resources to kill your two brothers like that.’ ‘I see.’ After a long silence, Randal asked, ‘So what are your plans now?’ In the cold emotionless place Orlandine presently occupied, she felt no urge to plan anything. How...ever, she was a haiman, and having sought and found the synergy of the human and the machine, she could not totally deny her human side. Still remaining analytically cold, she reasoned that if she verified those images, upon re-establishing normal emotion she would grieve - and then grow angry, appallingly angry. All other thoughts and aims would be swept aside. ‘You could easily be some agent of Erebus sent to manipulate me again,’ she said. ‘Yes, I could.’ ‘How can you help me?’ ‘That depends on what you intend to do.’ ‘If these images really show the truth, then I believe I intend to destroy Erebus.’ But of course she already understood that Randal knew this would be her answer. ‘Okay, that being the case, I can show you in detail how Erebus intends to bring down the Polity.MoreLess
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