RedDwarfRedDwarf: I don't know for sure.
RedDwarfRedDwarf: "Cognitive Synergy", they call it. Something to do with the neural bridges.
NeutronNeutron: The psychoparadigm equipment?
RedDwarfRedDwarf: Yeah. The loyalty raters.
RedDwarfRedDwarf: They've been collecting psychoparadigms, trying to find candidates for something.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: Our medical and employment records. Almost everyone in the frontier sector has worked for the Company at one point or another, after all...
NeutronNeutron: All of us too.
RedDwarfRedDwarf: You were one of them, NeutronNeutron. They pulled up your old Company records.
RedDwarfRedDwarf: They were going to target you. My team.
RedGiantRedGiant: ...I don't like that. Why would they do that?
RedGiantRedGiant: I don't really have any idea what they're doing, but we need to stop them.

RedDwarfRedDwarf: We already hurt the Company bad, but they were already gonna die sooner or later. Can't keep screwing up new frontiers forever.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: There are only so many stars in the heavens. Even without our maneuvers, it was doomed, in a way.
NeutronNeutron: That would take years. Dozens, hundreds.
RedGiantRedGiant: But not forever...
RedDwarfRedDwarf: Exactly. The top execs think the Egregore Project will make the Company last forever. They think they can give the Egregore some kind of real, sustainable life.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: But now that it is bleeding out, as you claim...
RedDwarfRedDwarf: Now that we gave them a mortal wound, they're gonna move on it fast.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: So what have you been doing to stop that?
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: What can we do, to help?



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