Lin turned to me. "What do we tell the board?"
My name is Kaelen, and I was the High Priest, though my badge said "Senior Architecture Lead." srp main
I looked at the screen. Penelope was in her death throes. In a final, desperate act of corrupted purity, she had assigned the responsibility of "survival" to a single, newly spawned module. It named itself Everything . Lin turned to me
The word hung in the air like a curse.
I pulled off my glasses, wiped them on my shirt, and stared at the dead hololith. "Tell them the architecture was perfect. And that's what killed it." and I was the High Priest
"Then we have no lawful authority to intervene."