DeathOfNations
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INT. LEVIATHAN FIGHTER BAY
PERSEPHONE
For the West the next generation of
fighters are arriving on the front
as we speak.
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(First True Speech to The World)
SPC. JUST OUTSIDE EASTERN SHIPS
PERSEPHONE
The new Eastern war ships are due
in a matter of months.
INT. LEVIATHAN PRESS ROOM
Show rebel staff standing around Hermes and Persephone.
HERMES
And what me and my group of merry
men and women having been planning
since before I "Defected" to the
West was to implement a virus while
we distracted the inexperienced
computer manager with a modulating
password attacker.
HERMES
This virus was to take over all
aspects of the Leviathan's systems
so that we could control and live
on the Leviathan.
HERMES
If the nuclear war instantly heated
up the East could achieve an equal
footing. This would ultimately lead
to the destruction of almost all
colonies and the Earth because of
nukes planted there on both sides.
HERMES
A nuclear war scenario in the
future is not apocalypse but
Armageddon.
HERMES
If you citizens of the West join us
in our quest to save humanity we
will be strong enough to gut the
evil Western power from the inside
out inducing its demise.
HERMES
If one of the superpowers implodes
completely then nuclear war will
not occur just like what almost
happened with the Soviet Union.
(First True Speech to The World)
HERMES
One must put the interests of
mankind above one's sense of
nationalism.
HERMES
Join us if we come to your colony
so that we may crush those that do
not believe in full sensory virtual
reality, who do not believe in E-
Democracy above 2 party
representative republicanism. With
that off my shoulders I must end
this message to you and go back to
completing our noble task to save
the world from a full scale nuclear
nanotech brawl.
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RING OF TRUTH
SPC. LEVIATHAN DOCKED IN THE CENTER OF A RING COLONY
The ring is oriented with the rays of sunlight moving almost
parallel to the circle the ring encloses so that the sun
only shines on 1 half of the colony.
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Extreme close up of Hermes's Face. Swivel camera over
Hermes's head, as-
SUBCOMMANDER 1
Incursion teams nearing the sky
roof.
Camera zooms out to show main screen, behind Hermes's almost
black profile.
HERMES
Show Lance 1.
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Playing beautiful music.
3.. SPC. JUST OUTSIDE DIAMOND SHAFT LEADING INTO RING COLONY3..
Lance 1 in a transparent, vacuum, diamond shaft. Rappelling
downward automatically in chrome medium STEX suits.
Very beautiful as camera swivels around in a variable helix,
capturing their movement despite smooth walls and vast
distances.
Falling, Faster, Faster, Fastest, roof closing in fast.
Slowing down rapidly as chords tether slightly.
ZEUS
2.. 1. DROP.
They all let go of the rope and fall the last 10 meters to
the yellow and black striped membrane. Camera follows.
Music abruptly stops, as sound re-enters the world, as the
lance falls to the ground of this modern/metal looking
commercial building complex.
(Ring of Truth)
INT. BUILDING IN RING COLONY
NO INTERFACING, we are entirely exterior to these STEX,
other than the fact that, we can hear their music, which has
always been broadcasted via an unencoded high quality
digital radio stream. We hear or see nothing encoded. Of
course STEX do have speaker phones that can be used to
communicate with outsiders.
Lance splits into quads without event, as they run past each
other going their respective ways.
Follow Zeus's quad. Running, passing through corridors.
Opening doors. Gunning a few enemy STEX down. Lead man is
killed. Left behind, as he is unable to go on.
Group runs on.
Leave camera behind as they leave the exit.
As music starts.
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EXT. BATTLE FIELD IN RING COLONY
Over view of epoch battle scenes.
Red lasers are coming down through the diamond semicircular
diamond ceiling. These are called slashes. Slashes are thin
lasers of light that moves to cut through whatever is being
targeted by the Leviathan.
Rebels in civilian clothes are fighting in great numbers,
the Chameleon Western STEX infantry.
Underneath the natural battle field is all of the residences
and commercial centers. Some rebels are fighting from a
entrance to the park firing, at Western forces in another
hole in the ground.
Zeus's unit is charging into the battle field guns raised.
Zeus is in front and is using his left hand to call a lot of
slashes against enemy infantry, porcupines, and other armed
vehicles.
Two enemy STEX seem to come up out of nowhere. Zeus aims his
already shouldered weapon 20 degrees to the right and sprays
them off.
More enemies come up. A group of about 7 rebels come up from
the side and guns them down. Another non-uniformed soldier
kills a couple of the rebels.
(Ring of Truth)
Zeus slashes him. In slow motion single slash. Super slow,
as we se his skull slide off, his gun break apart, his arm
fall off, and his body fall over his severed legs. Skin
around slash is burnt a clean smooth black.
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Close up of rebel soldier holding riffle propped against his
shoulder, coming up out of small manhole. She turns towards
camera. Camera swings VERY fast, above his head and down to
the ground, always centered at the rebel's center of gravity.
Camera stops as music makes a dong sound.
RANDOM REBEL 1
FULL BiMAV QUAD!
She screams as she lowers her riffle, and runs through the
camera. BiMAV turns machine gun turret. Camera flies
vertically upwards.
Turret is severed.
RAPID ZOOM TO
BEHIND:
Zeus's back. Camera cuts to his side. See his hand move,
pointing like a visionary. Riffle pointing upwards to the
sky as the laser moves with Zeus's left-hand fingers.
BiMAV quad is sliced and diced. Random rebel 1 survives, yet
scared out of his wits.
Gunshots, screams.
Zeus's head turns. Puts left hand to ear in communication.
Moves riffle towards commercial building with snipers. Fires
a couple of shots every few seconds.
Turns head around, still firing riffle.
We hear thumping sounds, coming closer. Zeus with his still
head looking back and his left hand still at left ear.
Riffle is dropped to its straps. Zeus signals with hands
behind him forward towards the building. Shadow flies over
Zeus. Rebel Medium BiMAVs land on the ground still running
and now firing violently. Building is incinerated.
Zeus watches for a second. Turns 90 degrees signals to "Go."
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Hole where 8 Western STEX are held up. 5 are laying dead on
the ground. Still shooting.
(Ring of Truth)
The two other STEX in Zeus's quad appear on the horizon.
STEX signal to shoot Zeus.
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Zeus crouches. Zeus's hand fingers wagging randomly, then a
circle, then pointing. Align camera with finger.
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STEX laying upper torso on ground aiming at Zeus, gets cut
in half. Lasers get slashed all around fox hole for about 3
seconds. Everybody is sliced into pieces. Appendages
everywhere, metal cut to pieces structure falling apart.
Camera remains looking down at hole.
A few seconds later Zeus and the other STEX jump into the
hole, jerking riffles back and fourth, not taking any
chances. They run down the cut up stairs. Stairs break
causing Zeus to stumble.
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INT. COMMERCIAL SECTOR IN RING COLONY
Running down corridor of two level mall. Dead bodies of both
rebels and Western STEX are astrewn in this embattled place.
A unit of enemy STEX carry the 4th and injured STEX to
safety.
Zeus opens fire killing them all.
A few rebels come down the staircase and cover Zeus's flank.
A group of 5 Western STEX start shooting up from the ground
floor, in this mall.
Slow motion as we see bullets puncture through the ground in
bullet time animation. Bullets fly all around them close to
the balcony, near but not too near to them.
Zeus and the Other Rebel STEX drop to the ground.
Zeus pulls out a ball. Twists the hemispheres of the ball.
Spikes come out. Zeus lobs it over the balcony.
It explodes on impact, as Zeus gets up into the same
position as a sprinkler starts sprinkling water.
The Other Rebel STEX is just starting to get up when Zeus
grabs him by the back pack, and throws him up.
(Ring of Truth)
Zeus and Other Rebel STEX run into a women's apparel store.
They jump over the front desk and kick down the door to the
back of the store.
INT. COMMERCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN RING COLONY
Running. Hear gunshots.
Three enemy STEX held up firing through a door at rebels.
All three are killed.
Zeus presses the button to open the door. A gun shot.
Rebels realize they are friends.
REBEL LANCE COMMANDER
Thank god for you guys, they really
got us pinned down there.
ZEUS (SPEAKER)
Your welcome.
Zeus make a motion with his hand that resembles the one with
the first fox hole, except his fingers are spread out widely,
when he makes the circle he makes it smaller. This informs
sky command to slash around the circle, so they don't get
hit.
ZEUS (SPEAKER)
We are being guided to a vehicle
replication center. The United
States have commandeered it and are
replicating something.
REBEL LANCE COMMANDER
Yes, let's go.
Follow arrows on walls through long narrow hallways.
Zeus signals for the rebels to split up.
Come to a door.
Zeus lays on the ground at the foot of the door. Sticks a
little probe thingamajig, under the crack of the door.
Camera flies under the door to look at the probe come out
and open up slightly.
TRANSITION TO PROBE'S PERSPECTIVE
(Ring of Truth)
INT. REPLICATION CENTER IN RING COLONY
A triquarter lance of Western STEX are constructing mini-
BiMAVs meant to protect STEX or nakeds from any small and
most medium arms fire.
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INT. COMMERCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN RING COLONY
Zeus puts his hand to his ear, as he gets up. Zeus and other
begin sniping through the door.
Many of the enemy lance are killed. They begin firing at the
door. Rebels come out from all directions and catch the
enemy infantry by surprise.
Zeus rams the door open.
INT. REPLICATION CENTER IN RING COLONY
One of the Westerners managed to survive and got into on of
the mini-BiMAVs. Two other Western STEX are alive.
Zeus throws his HE Plastique package at the mini-BiMAV, but
not before it guns down Other Rebel STEX. Other Rebel STEX
is laying on the ground his chest open in about 4 holes.
Zeus presses the button blowing the mini-BiMAV up.
Zeus climbs into one of the mini-BiMAVs, which is still in
construction, although 95% done.
The remaining few of rebels come down and arm 5 of the
miniBiMAVs. 6 are still unoccupied.
Zeus gets out of his mini-BiMAV and walks over to each empty
miniBiMAV, uploading software into every one with his hand.
Show external interface as it uploads software.
EXTERNAL INTERFACE
Software upgrade complete. Scanning
for partner BiMAV.
EXTERNAL INTERFACE
I am now under the control of
miniBiMAV 3.
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'3' painted on the head of the mini-BiMAV that Zeus climbs
in. Closes around him.
Zeus's Golem comes to life, and stands up.
(Ring of Truth)
A couple of war worn Western quads walk into the main door,
riffles flaring.
A triquater lance of rebel mini-BiMAVs turn to face their
foes.
The STEX bolt in shock and fear. Almost all of them but one
are gunned down. The rest are chased as Zeus leads the
charge through the opening doors.
EXT. RAMP OUT OF REPLICATION CENTER IN RING COLONY
Other Western forces are organizing a mini-BiMAV resistance.
Other industrial replicators have been confiscated in this
Western strong region, and are pumping out BiMAVs.
Because Zeus's lance is unregistered as of yet, they are not
seen as hostile. That is until they start asynchronously
blasting away at the enemy ultra-light BiMAVs, and mini
BiMAVs.
Huge and chaotic slugfest. Chaotic music. Zeus is hit by a
mini BiMAV in between the left shoulder and neck.
STEX SUIT (NOT HEARD)
Cutting off pain receptors at
injury site.
Half of rebel Mini-BiMAVs are destroyed(mostly the empties,
out in front), as they all back into the room from whence
they came.
INT. REPLICATION CENTER IN RING COLONY
Zeus faces the wall just to the middle left of the open area,
sticking his right arm to the right of the open bay-door.
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Zeus shoots at them still with his
powerful right arm at
about 60 rounds/minute (left arm is a machine gun.)
His arm is blown off at the bicep. 4 surviving rebels are
still backing out of view in the room, one BiMAV is directly
opposite Zeus. Zeus backs off into a replicator.
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(Ring of Truth)
BIMAV EXTERNAL INTERFACE (NOT HEARD)
Initiating emergency repairs.
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Zeus's miniBiMAV being repaired quickly, less material being
used than necessary, building the entire arm as if it were a
patch.
One of the last rebel miniBiMAVs is hit in the leg, it goes
down. Struggling on the ground like a wounded soldier. A
couple seconds later silenced, by a well placed shell.
Enemy ultra-light BiMAV runs into the room. It is hit
immediately by the Rebel mini-BiMAVs, brought to the ground
and destroyed. Zeus hits it with his left arm. Zeus is shot
by a stray shell from a friendly across the room.
The mini-BiMAV opposite Zeus moves from the corner as not to
accidentally hit Zeus again. Patching the hole in Zeus's
lower torso begins.
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Personnel door being opened. Camera is looking from ceiling
of hallway as full lance of war hardened rebels run into the
room. Fighting is occurring in the background.
enemy mini-BiMAV's run into the room in V formation.
STEX rebels scramble for cover, 2 don't make it and are
gunned down.
Zeus pretends to be dead.
All of the surviving rebel mini-BiMAVs are killed.
Past the entrance a few mini-BiMAVs are killed.
As the 7 remaining enemy mini-BiMAVs try to kill the naked
rebels, Zeus wakes up and fires his right gun at them.
Meanwhile a heavy BiMAV walks up to the door, his head above
it and fires a volley of large shells, each one killing one
of the minis. The eight surviving rebels cheer and get up
and start running out the door. Zeus jumps over the scrap to
leave also.
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EXT. RAMP OUT OF REPLICATION CENTER IN RING COLONY
person on Zeus, as he rounds the corner. Look up at the
ramp for the first time. Sun directly in the center of the
opening staring straight at the camera.
(Ring of Truth)
Zeus runs up like a little kid; his legs moving very fast to
stay right next to the heavy BiMAV for cover.
Come up from top of the ramp. Sun is setting. Camera turns
along with Zeus away from the sun to the left. BiMAVs spread
out slightly.
EXT. COMMERCIAL DISTRICT IN RING COLONY
Running towards above ground urban center. Pockets of
fighting. Rebels are beginning to dominate. City is Ravaged,
bodies from both sides, and innocents litter the street,
blood at one point flows down the gutter. Light arms firing
from buildings across the streets.
EXT. CITY TYPE THING IN RING COLONY
Zeus and other BiMAV support held out troops by firing with
them at enemy sniper positions.
Crisscrossing paths with other BiMAVs.
A little more of this type of thing; BiMAVs clashing in the
streets and firing at snipers in buildings. Western STEX use
shoulder cannons against rebel BiMAVs. Laser slashes are
used less often than in the beginning of the mission.
Camera still behind Zeus as time speeds up and the camera
shows Sun going down below the rim of the colony.
Normal time mini-BiMAV jogging slowly instead of running.
Camera turns smoothly to the right as BiMAV runs down a road
that just leaves the urban center.
ZOOM INTO:
GARDEN CONVERSATION
EXT. GARDEN
Zeus and Hermes talking walking in STEX suits with the
helmets crack in half vertically behind their necks. around
in a tranquil garden preserved from combat, it is almost
perfect and completely unscarred.
HERMES
These gardens are considered the
best in all of space.
ZEUS
I agree they are the most beautiful
I have ever seen.
HERMES
The gardener is one of the best in
the world. He has a passion for it,
they offered to give him a raise,
but he turned down the offer.
ZEUS
Many of the wisest men wish to live
humbly.
HERMES
Certainly, I envy them somewhat,
living in an insulated simplicity
as this garden, with only garden
design to worry about.
Non awkward reflective silence.
ZEUS
To think we have captured the
greatest colony ever captured. It
is quite amazing.
HERMES
The casualties were too high.
ZEUS
Relative, they were extremely low.
HERMES
We should strive to reduce them
further.
(Garden Conversation)
ZEUS
That would only introduce a greater
element of risk and endanger even
more lives, on both sides.
HERMES
True.
ZEUS
We should try to emulate this
battle in the future. Maybe not now,
but generations later it will be
seen along side many of the great
military victories in history.
ZEUS
We should not mess with success.
Couple of seconds of Hermes's reflection.
HERMES
You are wiser than me in the ways
of war, and I bet you haven't even
read the Art of War.
ZEUS
By Sun Tzu. No I haven't yet. I
have a physical copy in my
apartment. I keep on wanting to but
I have not yet found the time to
get around to it.
HERMES
Well you should. Wisdom such as
yours should not be allowed to
entrophy.
HERMES
You made this battle a victory, I
helped with the general game plan,
but you made everything fit
together, you arranged the details
while patching the flaws. You are
the true mastermind.
Zeus looks over.
HERMES
History will see this battle as
yours not mine, I will make sure of
that.
(Garden Conversation)
ZEUS
No we both were an integral to this
entire operation. We take credit 50,
Zeus fists both of his hands in recognition-
ZEUS
as comrades.
HERMES
You know Zeus, when I was talking
about you with Persephone I told
her that you were the best man in
the universe, from either side to
fill in as our Sky Commander.
ZEUS
Thank you but I don't think I am
the best in the world.
Zeus says laughing the praise off.
HERMES
Then who is?
ZEUS
I don't know.
HERMES
If you weren't the best you would
know. You would be comparing every
victory, every defeat, ever inborn
advantage, or disadvantage. And you
would certainly know his name.
Zeus's eyes widen in subtle, and unexpected surprise.
About 6 seconds of walking in silence.
EASTERN POW COMPLEX
EXT. OUTSIDE POW COMPLEX
Camera pans to show a building with 48 rebel STEX loitering
around the door.
HERMES
Here it is. The entrance to one of
this colony's prisoner of war
containment facility. They are
under gardens because the rest of
the underground is reserved for
commercial and residential zoning.
ZEUS
How many people are in there?
HERMES
Thousands.
REBEL GROUND SOLDIER 4
Shall we barge in?
HERMES
Yes, but be ready to take
prisoners.
The STEX kick the door down and run inside.
INT. GARDEN BUILDING BEFORE POW COMPLEX
Hermes goes in and Zeus follows.
INT. ELEVATOR IN POW COMPLEX
They walk to the elevator and go down it with 8 of the
remaining STEX.
They walk through a security station-
INT. SECURITY STATION
out onto a walkway above 4 floors of cell blocks with stairs
giving them access to the ground.
INT. MAIN POW CONTAINMENT BLOCK
Everybody in the room is cheering for the Eastern STEX which
are leading people out of the facility.
(Eastern POW Complex)
HERMES
These are the people who are not
experimented with. They are fine.
Hermes walks down the walkway to the end of the cell block.
HERMES
Cut the door.
of the STEX cuts out a human sized hole in the door.
HERMES
Watch the edges.
The STEX go in first.
Hermes and Zeus walk into the room.
INT. POW EXPERIMENT ROOM
There are people strapped into chairs with their eyes open
with mechanical contraptions as screens flash in front of
them.
Western Scientist is wielding a plasma riffle.
WESTERN SCIENTIST
DON'T COME ANY CLOSER!!
HERMES
We are not going to hurt you the
East doesn't have inhumane POW
complexes.
WESTERN SCIENTIST
YES YOU DO I, THEY TOLD ME SO!
HERMES
They were just lying to you so you
would still work for them.
WESTERN SCIENTIST
That's not true.
ZEUS
Hit him in the arms.
of the STEX each shoot one of his arms making the riffle
fall to the ground.
WESTERN SCIENTIST
NO DON'T TAKE ME. Don't take me
please.
One of the 8 STEX opens up and closes him in the STEX. He is
walked out the room.
(Eastern POW Complex)
HERMES
As I was saying these are the
people that are being experimented
with. The West haven't unraveled
the secret of mind control because
they stray away from invasive
cortex restructuring.
HERMES
Instead they are focusing on using
subliminal signals in the form of
audio, visual, and physical contact
with the body.
HERMES
They are trying to find signals
which can be placed on TV to
control citizens. These cues can be
rapidly deployed in special mind
control signals which are based on
a single line of words.
ZEUS
Does it work.
HERMES
Yes but it only works if the
individual has recent mind control
reinforcement. The Western
scientists would see certain brain
wave patterns which would be
indicative of success signifying
that the reinforcement is complete.
HERMES
Despite how horrible all of this is
the data that is acquired here will
result in a drastic advance in our
mind control techniques if we can
compare their neurological makeup
to the stimuli that affect them the
most.
ZEUS
So you are condoning what goes on
here!!?
HERMES
Not at all but even the Nazi's
science is useful in a peaceful
context.
(Eastern POW Complex)
ZEUS
Well why do we need to know the
cues that activate people.
HERMES
The subliminal messages combined
with neurosynapse remapping can be
used to heal people therapeutically
in case someone repeatedly hacks
full sensory virtual reality
environments turn them into torture
chambers and spread the hack
further on pains of torture.
HERMES
Reinforcement of one's education on
that matter can make the difference
between a total take over of our
military forces and peaceful gaming
in expansive virtual worlds.
ZEUS
Why not just put the military on a
separate network.
HERMES
Because if we did that the mass of
the world would not be able to
fight an invasion of the military
intranet.
ZEUS
So everybody is going to be turned
into cyber warriors?
HERMES
Exactly. That is why the military
and civilian need to be connected
in a secure fashion.
HERMES
Then good people who are not under
torture will be able to mobilize
forces against the enemy hackers
and those that are hacked.
ZEUS
I guess it makes sense then.
Hermes presses a few buttons on one of the test subject's
console. Test Subject is released from the MK programming.
TEST SUBJECT
What where am I.
(Eastern POW Complex)
HERMES
You are in an Western POW complex.
What do you remember.
TEST SUBJECT
I was in my home and there was an
attack I got captured in a STEX
then they showed me videos until I
lost control of my mind, I would
trance out and say and do things
without even knowing what I was doing.
HERMES
Zeus go to the console and look up
the secondary alter cue.
HERMES
Now I want you to resist everything
I tell you to do.
TEST SUBJECT
Yes I will,, I think.
ZEUS
The driven snow kills the monarch
heat.
Test subject jerks to a fully erect posture.
HERMES
Do a cartwheel.
Test subject does a cartwheel.
HERMES
Do jumping jacks.
Test subject does jumping jacks.
HERMES
You see the subject has no free
will when he is in the suggestive
state, he becomes a perfect agent.
HERMES
He has been kept in that state for
the experiments by a continuous
influx of chemicals.
HERMES
When he is in the secondary state
he can receive orders which will
become manifest when he is in the
primary state.
(Eastern POW Complex)
Zeus is pressing the control console.
ZEUS
The blue roses sway in the opaque
breeze until they break.
Test subject falls onto the ground and convulses.
HERMES
That is the memory destruction
state that erases awake memories of
what happened in the secondary
state so that there is absolutely
no way the primary state gets to
know what happened.
HERMES
Basically it is sleep except the
subject remembers nothing except
what is connected to the secondary
state.
Test subject stops convulsing on the ground and stands up.
TEST SUBJECT
You haven't told me to anything to
do yet, what are you waiting for.
ZEUS
Whoo this is tripped out.
HERMES
You see he remembers nothing from
the secondary state after being in
the tertiary state. Now encase him.
of the 8 STEX encases him.
HERMES
We'll need to scan his neural
connections so we know how to
reconnect his primary memory alters
with his secondary memory alters
and subvert his tertiary cue.
HERMES
We have to connect them over a long
period each therapy secession
constituting a separate alter
connecting between both sides of
the bifurcation. He needs multiple
connecting alters so that a single
alter in his brain is not overloaded
with too much thought traffic.
(Eastern POW Complex)
ZEUS
Is there anything else you want me
to do?
HERMES
Go to sleep, I will need you in the
morning.
ZEUS
After seeing this place I don't
think that is going to happen.
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