veilbreak | CJACOBS: 002

Maryle and I were able to pull data from the CPU delivered by Cal and Eva.

The Sterilization Event was triggered by a significant group of people in Xitang being partially severed from the veil. 20 self-reports were evaluated by HDroids, which identified a specific defect in the neural implants. HDroids fixed the imperfections and relinked to the Veil. However, anti-Architect graffiti began to pop up around the city, indicating more people had defective implants other than the 20 self-reports.

Mass scans revealed that the entire city had spontaneously partially severed. This triggered three protocols:

The sterlization protocol in Xitang. We disrupted this.
Mandatory inspection check by HDroids for anyone with chips that were implanted in 2005 is currently ongoing.
A relocation effort of all defective implants to Sighisoara, Romania by Feb 28. This is for another sterilization protocol.

Issues

Do any Dislinked agents have a chip that was implanted in 2005? If so, they are going to end up being noticed as not on the radar.
How to deal with Sighisoara, Romania?

Do we fully sever the evacuees, or relink them? Being in a prolonged partial state can trigger catastrophic neural regression. Relinking them and re-integrating them into other pres cities would keep them protected.

How do we deal with our agents who had chips in 2005?

[Engineering]

Do any of you have a 2005 implant?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

No, it wasn't. If she had listened to me in the first place, I could have taken you with me.

Papá, you had to know the moment you left she was going to do it.

She promi

I suppose I had more faith in her than I should have.

It’s normal to want to believe the best of those we love.

Yes, but this belief put you in a situation that was not of your choosing. The agreement was you could choose when you were old enough. And I recognize that after the Fall, that choice would have been taken from you, but it shouldn't have been taken from you by your mother.

Why did you just take me with you?

[...] I couldn't take you from her. In all of her mistakes, you have always been the light of her life, mija, and I couldn't bear to darken her world more. And the lab, everything we were doing: it wasn't a place for a child. I worked 18 hour days. It would have been cruel to take you from her only to not have either of us.

I didn’t have either of you regardless.

[…] I was there for years, well past the point of being a child.

That isn't fair to you mother, mija. She was there as much as she could be.

And I know. I kept tabs on you both, but at the time, unVeiling was [...] complicated. Attempting to take you and unVeil you could have caused more harm than I was willing to accept.

There were many things unfair about it. I don’t think it’s on me to be benevolent and understanding about it when I lost […] her. I lost you. And I lost any capacity I had to be devastated about it until it hit me all at once a decade later.

It would’ve disrupted your life.

[...] You're right. It's not. All of that — all of this — is our failure.

I would take any disruptions if it meant having you there, Eva, but I would not risk your safety.

I don’t want to talk about it if it’s only going to make you feel guilty.

Cielito, you do not have to worry about my guilt. I hold that alone. I have no issues discussing this with you.

I do, though. Worry, that is.

How are you feeling after the trip?

I can't force you to not worry, but I can tell you that I am capable of handling my guilt.

[...] Tired.

I know you are capable of hard things.

[…] me, too.

Get some rest, mija.

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