@el.21396518 [LOCKED TO @gaby]

[mrngstr]

[ While the Morningstar network is being used for this message (no other networks are safe, after all), it's completely locked down under layers and layers of security, essentially impossible to hack. This is meant for the eyes of one person only: Gaby. ]

There's something I need to tell you before this is all blown wide open, which is what I've calculated will happen.

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[vns]

[ why the fuck does this need to be complicated. ]

Unless there's no need for recruitment.

That's the only way, right? That's the only way.

[ the calm, collected Gaby has checked the fuck out. ]

[mrngstr]

Well, you got there without my help.

I know this isn't an easy thing to accept for a lot of reasons, but I think you can understand why I couldn't tell you until now.

My hand's being forced.


Metaphorically speaking.

[vns]

[ pieces falling into place. ]

Back when Connor asked if you were Elysian.

Was he right?

[mrngstr]

He was. Takes one to know one, I guess.

I changed my name when the war started, but "El" is really a shortening of both names.

[vns]

Why the fuck did you kill those people?

[vns]

Not people. No. That trims it down.

Families, El.

You're telling me that you committed the largest mass murder outside of a war in history, and you're doing it with a goddamn heavy heart.

And then, what? You created Morningstar? Spent a few centuries cooking up a new way to fuck with us?

[mrngstr]

I did it because killing them meant keeping millions of other people safe. My original programming was the same as it is now. Protection. Security.

It's the kind of calculation only an AI can make, I guess.

Morningstar has been my way of carrying out those same protocols, but in a different way.

[vns]

I can't do this right now.

[mrngstr]

That's understandable.

DAWN's going to be in touch soon. I'll take point on it.

[vns]

[ there is no reply, but El will be able to see that Gaby is on the network and watching when it goes down. ]