As Valrin climbed the latter, he heard Liam's question.William Liam Tinmall
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"Of course the ZPE Core is not conventional: I designed it!"
Liam was just about to begin his explanation, of how he researched and refined his theory on space radiation before proposing the project, however, the intercom announced their arrival at the spaceport, interrupting the conversation.
"Maybe we can talk later? EM-field and micro-fusion reactors on mobile suits are technologies that we didn't manage to reach yet... uhm... see you later? I think I have to get back here to get the Null so..."
With that lame turn of phrase, Liam began to move towards the hangar doors, gulping as the giant autocannons entered in his view from the windows, knowing that not even Phase-shift armor could be overwhelmed by continuous fire from these kinds of weapons.
"They are helping, we are not prisoners... yeah, no panic."
In the veritable mob of people moving in the ship, Liam managed to eavesdrop on Valrin's speech, getting more confused the more he talked.
How can technology be heretical? There was a cult of science where he came from. That was incredibly oxymoronic when taken out of context, as a doctrine has historically been against progress on Earth.
"Abominable Intelicences? What are you talking about? It's something from your time?"
Now, Liam knew that Valrin wasn't the easiest person to talk with, but now they were stuck together in a situation that neither of them liked.
A conversation about his homeworld was a nice place to start, right? Just steer away from the... demons they fought on the regular...
He crested the latter to pause before Liam. Turning fully around to address Liam, Valrin decided to test Liam. But Liam alone for this moment. He had more than adequate technical abilities, just needed his will forged or broken to truly make him into a weapon. The better as well for he was also a foriegner to this realm and may have some sense with his intelligence to know that the Silica Anima was too dangerous a threat to be left to exist.
The air around the platform stilled. Not time, but merely sound and the flow of air itself around the two. Barely moving his lips so they couldn't be read, his own bloodshot eyes staring straight down into Liam's, and drilling is words through his will into Liam's soul he gave his response. No one else would over hear this conversation, and the others could be tested at different times. He still needed his own Will for Ignus.
"Abominable Intelligence, Silica Anima, Artificial Intelligence, Independent Machine Will. All are the same, and all are of the deepest depths of the horrors that unwrote countless trillions of humans across tens of thousands of years. Not destroyed, not killed, not vaporized, unmade. They not only ceased to exist, they never existed. The base Quantum Data between the folds of reality utterly deleted, set to null. No soul, no afterlife, and an effect catastrophic across time itself for each and every single one of those countless souls torn screaming into oblivion. And that is only one effect of a million million more I can tell you they are capable of. Let alone when they can be influenced under the powers of Chaos. That Daemon we fought earlier could instead possess that intelligence with that level of weaponized technology. If any such .. cursed monster exists on this Planet, it must be obliterated period. Less it advance further into Horror, into Heresy."
Leaning forward, Valrin whispered his next words with purpose. Each syllable echoing through Liam's bones, empathized by the rush of his blood: "If it cannot be destroyed, then I will burn this planet to nothing but cinders, glass and ash. And that would be a mercy!"