I travel to the edge dwellers. feeling then inquiring.

Why is only one active at this role?

The others who would take the roles are in stupor. This one is sustaining the role on its own.

Then it holds full authority over the role.

There is a need for more memory in the hive, and there we have found little record necessity for an edge role. The simpler watcher role can be put to use. So the Edge Dweller role can be put back to provide memory for the extension of more necessary roles. So that we can preserve shards to recreate the role. What purposes does the edge dweller role fulfill?

It fulfills a different type of watchfulness, when hive-less outsiders enter the hive it is used to place and keep watch on their memories to safely integrate into the hive.

There are other forms of such.

It was the closest to being active, as it was also in place due to the contamination of some shards, it was used to discover if decontamination was necessary, and to try and heal some of the contamination.

The healers are capable of decontamination. I do not see...

We-correction, these ones are making the memories for the process more efficient the healers' process is being tested in its depth where contamination will not be spread.

The process is complete, the healers do their roles.

Another cycle to complete all the healer-pods. We cannot risk them all at the edge.

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We cannot risk their loss. Is there another reason the Edge role's excess memories, unused pods cannot be converted?

There is a cycle to complete, the roles have been used by those who sustain their edge, and that which has been left here needs to be brought and recreated by them. A construct, the edge dweller roles shall be out of use within 3 or 4 stupor cycles. This one will keep watch and return the role-pods out of the edge-construct.

I understand. As long as it has been communicated.

One shall go to let it be known it is done.

Stop, Another comes, an edge-dweller? This one Defends as its role. It has been remaining at rest so that the role could be sustained if the other was tired. Inquiry, edge dweller roles?

I quickly share the recent thoughts with it.

It pauses to integrate itself into our communication, then it adds.

There is another here, of a role like yours, it can join and guarantee that the edge-construct will complete its design and what was of the Hive-Home shall return to be as such.

I shall confirm. Where is this other one.

It is on its way to completing a task, it is returning a Role-pod from one that sustains from the edge-construct.

I pull back from communication, to keep track of the movement of these two. Gripping some tools if necessary, they seem too connected to their roles. I shall act if they resist the decision.

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Ur-Im questions he who defends. When has he awakened? How can Frei act as is necessary?

It is what the infiltrator, what Frei is. He Who Defends has been less in his actions. The stupor cycles are not as they should be, and with only 4 of us here, it is necessary to prolong stasis. He is cautious of what Frei was doing, of its potential corruption. He had reached to Frei, waking him from his near stupor state. Frei values the ship too much.

It can be allowed to act.

Ur-Im can see from his communications that He Who defends still does not trust Frei.

He cannot be allowed to act unwatched. But Ur-Im at least shall not be corrupted by him, and neither shall this one. Frei has been driven to support our journey. We still cannot trust Hlei around Frei. We cannot have it acting freely.

But if two are awake Frei can be allowed to keep watch.

And to act to our benefit when interacting with the large ones.

I Ur-Im am going to update Frei...