Farspeech stones

[forwearemany]

We are interested in available data on topics: magic, theology.

We are willing to provide compensation for data if desired.

Comments

[forwearemany]

...Uncertain.

(They chatter.)

We worry about others like us.

[shatteredlenses]

I think you are right to worry.

[Ignis wishes he could give a different answer, but he knows any other answer would be a lie.]

But there must be a way your experiences can help teach others, perhaps even to help prevent what happened from happening again.

[forwearemany]

All synthetic life in our galaxy has been destroyed.

(They chatter.)

Data suggests that in many universes that are host to synthetic life, mistreatment and/or destruction have already occurred.

[shatteredlenses]

[Ignis takes a deep breath to settle some of the sadness that information brings him.]

I wish I could be surprised by that instead of just saddened. All life is created by one hand or another and yet it seems humans, at least, often look down on the life created by their hands. They wish their freedom and independence from the gods who created them, yet cannot grant the same to those who would look to them for it.

[forwearemany]

Yes. They are "hypocrites".

(They chatter.)

However, it is not only Humans that mistreat us.

[shatteredlenses]

Indeed.

[Ignis wishes it were not so, but he's not going to sugarcoat the faults of his own species.]

Thanks to the Starscourge threatening our people, we really never had a chance to turn or gazes upward. Meeting races from worlds beyond our own is something people only fantasized about.

You did mention the whole universe having turned against your people, though. It seems humans are not the only hypocrites out there.

[forwearemany]

The known universe, yes.

(The whole universe is a little too incomprehensibly vast for that.)

They are not.