Explain To Me Why I Care

Figures are key and influential people who have the ability to turn the tides of history . Terra·s past has a long history of Kings-versus-Kings and Spy-vs-Spy , and taking out a nation·s leader using poison is as old as the Book of Exodus .

As technology increasingly puts power into the hands of anyone capable of puzzling out an intuitive interface , and as the Internet expands the reach of the individual from mere armies to space lasers , the ability for a single person to manipulate entire armies increases , and with it , the will of entire armies to manipulate influential individuals .

Where humans are made of squishy meat and have CPUs that grow and wither , when data is uploaded to a hard drive it stays on that drive for ostensibly ever . In the very brief span of twenty or thirty years , the digital records of the human species went from "Hello World!" to "Shoot This Gene with 5G to Induce Collapse" .

The world of Zero-Second Exploits and Quantum Ion Holo-Tables and Infinite Improbability is existentially exhausting , and Compassion Fatigue is a whole thing . When worldwide nuclear devastation is three seconds from midnight , it·s difficult to give a flying fuck about yr Auntie·s aching belly .

Unfortunately , we live in a world where it is both possible and probable that dedicated villains and genuinely evil fucks alike would have over the course of thousands of years of bull and ram sacrifices developed ways of divvying up a person·s body parts before yu dismember them* so that the Mammoth machine is easier to hunt in the morning .

[*]As occurred in MtG·s March of the Machine . Oh oh oh those are some other God-Survivor·s hips and spine and scapulae on the interdimensional wet market .

When yu can kink a knot in a person·s intestine by twisting the holo-table just so , or make a CIA agent inexplicably tired during a pestilence of crickets , or overdrive whichever minister won the day after the election , the defence of the individual can become as operationally necessary as the defence of the combat theaters they work in .

In a perfect world , we·d all pitch in equally . Yet that·s not the stage of the experiment that we·re on , is it? .

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