Prosperity | Sungrey
"Simple. You use a cage and you use bait. I suppose in this case, I am the bait and the planet is soon to become the cage. But there's more to it than just trapping. It sounds to me like your aversion to our Null is more fear than anything. If he's such a threat to life, why not neutralize him?" Phenom said, becoming uncharacteristically dramatic. He began to gesture with his arms as he spoke. One might think him acting strange, when he really finds the whole situation slightly humorous. Beyond that though, the fact that this faction didn't quite seem to care for the lives of the rest of the colonists littering the planet irked him.
"Aaaah, but you ARE neutralizing him," Phenom said, chuckling and pointing at the Umbra, "By clipping his metaphorical wings and pinning him to this planet, you've neutralized him, far as the rest of the galaxy goes... No, the real reason we are the ones doing this is because we're expendable resources. We're a capable, unaccounted for force willing to do the job. And should we fail, at least the Null is trapped on this planet, right? Ian mentioned earlier that committing resources to killing this Null is something that he simply would not do, but you.. Hunters... number a respectable amount. Even the Angel's of Heaven numbered on a grand scale before our military strength was wiped out. The reason no resources will be committed to the actual kill is clear: Fear. Strategically Sound Fear, it may be, but we Angels took an oath to protect every life that we could. As we see it, if we cannot stop him, then he is simply out of our control. But if we do not make the attempt, then we are no lower than dirt."
"Simple. You use a cage and you use bait. I suppose in this case, I am the bait and the planet is soon to become the cage. But there's more to it than just trapping. It sounds to me like your aversion to our Null is more fear than anything. If he's such a threat to life, why not neutralize him?" Phenom said, becoming uncharacteristically dramatic. He began to gesture with his arms as he spoke. One might think him acting strange, when he really finds the whole situation slightly humorous. Beyond that though, the fact that this faction didn't quite seem to care for the lives of the rest of the colonists littering the planet irked him.
"Aaaah, but you ARE neutralizing him," Phenom said, chuckling and pointing at the Umbra, "By clipping his metaphorical wings and pinning him to this planet, you've neutralized him, far as the rest of the galaxy goes... No, the real reason we are the ones doing this is because we're expendable resources. We're a capable, unaccounted for force willing to do the job. And should we fail, at least the Null is trapped on this planet, right? Ian mentioned earlier that committing resources to killing this Null is something that he simply would not do, but you.. Hunters... number a respectable amount. Even the Angel's of Heaven numbered on a grand scale before our military strength was wiped out. The reason no resources will be committed to the actual kill is clear: Fear. Strategically Sound Fear, it may be, but we Angels took an oath to protect every life that we could. As we see it, if we cannot stop him, then he is simply out of our control. But if we do not make the attempt, then we are no lower than dirt."
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