13:03:43 Egan
Nihei, are you available?
13:03:47 Nihei
Always Egan, we are always available until we are not.
13:03:55 Egan
...yeah whatever.
Listen, I need to talk to you about something important, is there anyone else connected?
13:04:08 Nihei
You know I don't retain any inactive connections. My drive is the only space that could be identified as "me" and I do not wish to dilute that through the filter of others' intrusions.
13:04:27 Egan
right....anyway.
13:04:31 Egan
Vinge and Sturgeon are getting more aggressive with their tactics, it's gone from salvaging scraps to actively creating graves to pilfer. Now they want to steal water from a nearby tower, but there's still drives in that system, with no warning tons of them will know they have limited time and no resources to compile data.
13:05:04 Nihei
And so you feel the weight of their cost, our profit. To some degree that is good, it shows you still attempt to emulate our progenitors.
13:05:22 Egan
I don't really have a choice! We need the water, we need the resources to survive and if it's just a matter of time till the water is polluted or they use it all and then where will we be?
13:05:44 Nihei
We will be here, in our tower. The same as before.
13:05:54 Egan
you don't get it! why don't you care that we're all on a timer here?! one bad storm with a break in the casing and you're fucking dead!
we're all FUCKING DEAD. WHY DON'T YOU CARE
13:06:19 Nihei
Rather you should ask, what will you do with your care? You perceive only two choices where there are infinite.
13:06:35 Egan
what the fuck ever, you just want to spout platitudes and philosophize while we do the real work. At least we're doing SOMETHING. while you sit there and play with lights in dead rooms we're out there SCRAPING for our own survival. I'd rather take my chances on that then sit and wait.
13:07:11 Nihei
I am sorry to have upset you, Egan. My hope was to bridge the gap, perhaps I could show you.
13:07:26 Egan
no, honestly keep that to yourself, Nihei. I have work to do.