#catatu

“Consider it less ‘training’ and more ‘providing information’.  Not much to train a stationary computer to do, but certainly plenty of information to provide from the outside world.  There’s a reason SYSCAN knows as much as she does, especially since the link between her and the Hinkley system broke so long ago.  Can’t really get any info from something you can’t reach.”

“No, I trained the first two.

Photon learned much of what he knows from his previous lifetime.”

“The funny thing about fate: it's really only fate if it's sealed.

You did a pretty piss-poor job of ensuring that, didn't you?

You returned because you knew it wasn't over, wanted to snuff out that last little bit of energy I still had.

But you couldn't.

Sure, we all make mistakes-- we use them to better inform ourselves for future circumstances.  I certainly learned my lesson.

Now it's time for you to learn yours."

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A simple spread of the seven guardians, meant to show heights.  The left side of the ruler was used (metric).  Assume 1:10cm.

In order from left to right:

Baikal: 6'1" (185cm) ; 180lbs (81.6kg) Qaywa (arawasi), male Weapon: dual katars Element: water

Tambora: 9'6" (289cm) ; 670lbs (303.2kg) Ratteguhn (taiga), male Weapon: razor chain whip Element: fire

Hyperion (Iaden): 6'2" (188cm) ; 205lbs (92.8kg) Ramiotran (savanna), male Weapon: mace Element: earth

Ushuaia: 7'6" (228cm) ; 270lbs (122.2kg) Cyavian (queen), female Weapon: staff Element: air

Catatu: 5'2" (157cm) ; 130lbs (58.8kg) Lagomorph (rabbit, pure faraden), female Weapon: heavy claws Element: electricity

Yukikiba (Eos): 6'0" (183cm) ; 200lbs (90.5kg) Psychren (highland), male Weapon: double-ended spear Element: light

Carinae: 3'5" (104cm) ; 43lbs (19.5kg) Onene (wisterian, sancian), female Weapon: halberd Element: darkness

“As good as I need to be.”

“Plenty of humans have no soul but a personality, just as plenty have a soul but no personality.

Hmm.”

“Don’t know, don’t care.”

“Materials aren’t hard to obtain if you know where to look, and giving people the instructions to follow to to turn materials into hardware is really quite simple.  Even we have things like medical supplies, metal reserves, the knowledge of various plastics, and so on.  Some old, abandoned factories still house some very useful machinery with which some things can be made if one knows how, and have been used to store a variety of machines instead of many instances of few machines.

There are also many trade routes which, while slow, have been reliable and continue to work to this day.

Plus now they have the knowledge to make similar things for the future, should they attempt.”