“David Matchworth, are you dreaming?”
“He cannot hear you Sir. Any attempt to-”
“I know, Patriarch. It’s not my intention to antagonize the damned… and besides he came here without incident. For that he gets my respect… But Hetch.”
“Yes Sir.”
“Make sure he wakes up.”
“... Understood.”
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“Hetch, you cannot be serious.”
Synchronization at 1%
“A convicted criminal inside of a Goliath?”
“As punishment.”
“He murdered a fellow Patriarch!”
Synchronization at 2%
“Which is why he is being transported to the first Michael we have ready while he’s sedated.”
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“That’s not good enough and you know it.”
Synchronization at 6%
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“That’s not our decision.”
“It should be! No way this asshole considers being given a fucking Goliath an actual punishment. Why are we rewarding him the highest honor? Why are we sacrificing what precious few mechanized officer deployment units for a man who belongs in a cell? “
“You know why!”
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Synchronization at 10%
“How long will this take?”
“Fifty Percent of the synchronization needs to take place onboard one of the ARKs, so an hour. The rest is purely neurological, Captain.”
“I say we drop him now.”
“The N.O.A.H needs him alive.”
“Why?”
“Politically if we cannot control the department we lose the running of it to someone else.”
“The Council is insane. Matchworth is one man. We’ve demoted him and now exiled him. He’s nothing to us. Dead.”
Synchronization at 15%
“He doesn't just represent N.O.A.H. But the opposing side of a faction. The man he murdered wasn’t alone, there are others who want to… start the process.”
“To sue for peace.”
“Yes… The Council agrees, for now, that peace isn’t happening. That we have the resources to win this war without deploying nukes or using some bio agent that’ll leave the planet uninhabitable for another 100 years. But that’s for now.”
Synchronization at 17%
“We could lose N.O.A.H to the Council? Is that what you're saying?”
Synchronization at 18%
“We can lose it to the Samsons.”
“Those are-”
“Our creations. Yes. But a human face to this war might not be politically viable. Patriarch Stewart is already a martyr to his faction. If we execute Matchworth, without giving him a chance at redemption…”
“That means the conflict may be out of our control.”
“Yes. The Council thinks that any participation in this conflict is a taint upon the Utopia. And the longer this war last the more they fear what we learned from it. The Samsons are a natural, expendable resource, that can be safely disregarded once the fighting ends. And if they can’t do it… well there are some already offering a more humane approach that doesn’t require total victory.”
“I should just crash the fucking plane.”
Synchronization at 25%
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“Final checks remain green, Captain”
“Any final words you got left for me Hetch?”
“The safety on the Goliath's weapons are still fully engaged. The Samsons will stay behind to make sure the drop goes smoothly.”
Synchronization at 49%
“He shouldn’t be able to wake up.”
“Neuro-link induced coma will shock him back at 75%. Strap him in tight and keep the turbulence low.”
“Roger that. Let's dump this trash and go home.”
Synchronization at 50%