"It's substantially easier to scramble a signal than it is to unscramble it. That's just the nature of entropy. I don't think the chip system is going down till the Sylphid do."
Elma breathes an entirely unnecessary sigh, her simulated Mim still taking in and processing air because she expects it to.
"It seems like it would be so easy to make peace with them and find a satisfactory way to allow them to reproduce without needing to kidnap victims... but so long as they have the power, why should they change? Unfortunately, so long as everything we know is true, it'll take some serious blows to their infrastructure and society before they're willing to come to the table."
At that, she glances at Tech out of the corner of her eyes.
"Incidentally, if you can access anything while you're in there... I'd appreciate some verification from the Sylphid side of things to corroborate what we've been told."
Elma puts the odds that they're being deceived by the Witches at around 10%, and that the Witches themselves don't have the whole story at 25%. Not numbers she's prepared to act on, but some certainly would go a long way towards reassuring her.
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Elma breathes an entirely unnecessary sigh, her simulated Mim still taking in and processing air because she expects it to.
"It seems like it would be so easy to make peace with them and find a satisfactory way to allow them to reproduce without needing to kidnap victims... but so long as they have the power, why should they change? Unfortunately, so long as everything we know is true, it'll take some serious blows to their infrastructure and society before they're willing to come to the table."
At that, she glances at Tech out of the corner of her eyes.
"Incidentally, if you can access anything while you're in there... I'd appreciate some verification from the Sylphid side of things to corroborate what we've been told."
Elma puts the odds that they're being deceived by the Witches at around 10%, and that the Witches themselves don't have the whole story at 25%. Not numbers she's prepared to act on, but some certainly would go a long way towards reassuring her.