Veronica carefully looked up at her mother's expression before gazing back at the Beast of Fear.
The two True Gods were not joking around. They casually shared their intentions to make the Nyxian Gap devour the surrounding star sectors while at the sa ti engineering the downfall of the MTA and CFA!
How the hell was Veronica supposed to proceed after finding out that her mother and an actual god pilot had gone terrorist?!
No matter their intentions, what they had in mind was bound to destabilize the Milky Way and cause a lot of deaths!
The two True Gods undoubtedly understood the potential consequences of their nefarious plan.
They simply didn't care about the death and misery that would result from their current and future actions.
How could Veronica possibly tolerate them and their mad sche?!
While Veronica grew increasingly more outraged, her mother only grew amused at her response.
"You asked for this, my child. If you insist on becoming involved, then you will need to hear the outline of our Oblivion Plan, I am aware that it may contain elents that you may find distasteful, but know that everything has a purpose. We are not doing this because we can, but because we must."
As the magnitude of the revelations dawned on the Cyborg Cat, she suddenly grew a lot more fearful than before.
Veronica needed to tread a lot more carefully around her mother and the Beast of Fear. While they may present a friendly posture to her at the mont, there was no telling whether they would show their ugly sides!
The cat tried her best to calm herself down and keep her emotions under control. She did not think it was wise to antagonize the two very powerful and morally deficient True Gods!
"Er... I have a question, Mr. Beast."
"Do not call that."
"Oh, sorry, Your Divinity. Maybe this is stupid, but... aren't you supposed to protect the MTA since you are a cher?"
The intimidating god bioch grinned with its sharp canine-like teeth.
"As the chief councilor of the 'Red Collective' over in the other galaxy, you should not be naive anymore. The ch Trade Association is rotten and decayed. The Evolution Witch can tell you all about it. On the surface, the MTA looks pristine, but if you dive deep enough, you will realize that it has grown into a corrupt and bloated ss of an organization that is less about chs than about protecting the privileges of the oldest and most established leaders. Latecors such as myself have no chance of displacing the ones that ca first."
Cynthia Larkinson nodded in agreent. "The MTA and the CFA have good intentions. They have done humanity much good by ending the infighting that almost threatened to topple human civilization. However, for all of the relative safety and stability their combined regi has provided, the humans under their reign have gradually been losing their vitality and drive over a long period of ti. You can easily discern this yourself by comparing the humans of the Red Ocean to the humans of the Milky Way." Anyone who made this comparison could see how much more desperate, invested and passionate the red humans had beco in recent years.
The humans who migrated to the Red Ocean were adventurous to begin with, and the threat of extinction had caused them to beco a lot more proactive than before!
"What does that have to do with breaking up the Big Two?"
"I hate the Big Two. I despise the Common Fleet Alliance, and I despise the ch Trade Association even more." The Beast of Fear growled. "Fear is my sustenance. If I wish to make further progress, I must absorb the fear generated by any organism that is capable of experiencing this emotion. The Milky Way is large, but far too many people have been lulled into complacency. The Big Two have beco too powerful and have beco adamant about coddling the human race. All they are doing is destroy any potential of greatness among our people. Their overly restrictive and cautious rules are holding us back. The absence of fear has stopped them from progressing. It has also stopped from acquiring what I need to grow stronger."
Though Veronica did not like it, she happened to agree with this sentint. There was no way she could hide this reaction from a god pilot.
"I do not necessarily disagree with you, Your Divinity, but just because the Big Two are... flawed... doesn't necessarily an that you should directly plot their downfall! Don't you think that sounds extre?"
Genuine fury started to rise from the Beast of Fear.
Veronica beca so much fearful of the god bioch that she tried to cuddle even closer to her mother!
"NOTHING IS TOO EXTRE! I HATE WHAT HUMANITY HAS BECO IN THE MILKY WAY! DID YOU KNOW THAT I REPEATEDLY APPLIED TO TRANSFER TO THE RED OCEAN? THE OBSTRUCTIONISTS FROM THE MTA REPEATEDLY DENIED MY REQUESTS! I COULD HAVE GAINED SO MUCH MORE OVER THERE! THERE ARE SO MANY NATIVE ALIENS OVER THERE THAT FEAR OUR MIGHT, AND THESE DAYS
be naive anymore. The ch Trade Association is rotten and decayed. The Evolution Witch can tell you all about it. On the surface, the MTA looks pristine, but if you dive deep enough, you will realize that it has grown into a corrupt and bloated ss of an organization that is less about chs than about protecting the privileges of the oldest and most established leaders. Latecors such as myself have no chance of displacing the ones that ca first."
Cynthia Larkinson nodded in agreent. "The MTA and the CFA have good intentions. They have done humanity much good by ending the infighting that almost threatened to topple human civilization. However, for all of the relative safety and stability their combined regi has provided, the humans under their reign have gradually been losing their vitality and drive over a long period of ti. You can easily discern this yourself by comparing the humans of the Red Ocean to the humans of the Milky Way." Anyone who made this comparison could see how much more desperate, invested and passionate the red humans had beco in recent years.
The humans who migrated to the Red Ocean were adventurous to begin with, and the threat of extinction had caused them to beco a lot more proactive than before!
"What does that have to do with breaking up the Big Two?"
"I hate the Big Two. I despise the Common Fleet Alliance, and I despise the ch Trade Association even more." The Beast of Fear growled. "Fear is my sustenance. If I wish to make further progress, I must absorb the fear generated by any organism that is capable of experiencing this emotion. The Milky Way is large, but far too many people have been lulled into complacency. The Big Two have beco too powerful and have beco adamant about coddling the human race. All they are doing is destroy any potential of greatness among our people. Their overly restrictive and cautious rules are holding us back. The absence of fear has stopped them from progressing. It has also stopped from acquiring what I need to grow stronger."
Though Veronica did not like it, she happened to agree with this sentint. There was no way she could hide this reaction from a god pilot.
"I do not necessarily disagree with you, Your Divinity, but just because the Big Two are... flawed... doesn't necessarily an that you should directly plot their downfall! Don't you think that sounds extre?"
Genuine fury started to rise from the Beast of Fear.
Veronica beca so much fearful of the god bioch that she tried to cuddle even
closer to her mother!
"NOTHING IS TOO EXTRE! I HATE WHAT HUMANITY HAS BECO IN THE MILKY WAY! DID YOU KNOW THAT I REPEATEDLY APPLIED TO TRANSFER TO THE RED OCEAN? THE OBSTRUCTIONISTS FROM THE MTA REPEATEDLY DENIED MY REQUESTS! I COULD HAVE GAINED SO MUCH MORE OVER THERE! THERE ARE SO MANY NATIVE ALIENS OVER THERE THAT FEAR OUR MIGHT, AND THESE DAYS
interested in strengthening yourselves at the expense of other humans. Noble intentions or not, the two of you are mainly trying to justify your planned acts of terrorism!"
The Beast of Fear ominously chuckled. "That is a brave accusation... but that does not necessarily an you are wrong. Two things can be true at the sa ti, little feline. I do have ambitions of my own, but I think that every worthy human will stand to benefit from freeing themselves from the overbearing rule of the Big Two. I have never made my low regard for the current order a secret. Otherwise, I would not have found common cause with the Unbounders. We recognize the necessity of breaking apart the MTA and the CFA. Unless they fall apart or weaken to the point where they can no longer project their power across the entire galaxy, none of us will be able to escape their repression."
Veronica struggled to accept that this was even possible.
"You are speaking nonsense. There is no way that a single True God and an outcast god pilot can topple even just one of the Big Two. They are too powerful!" Cynthia agreed with Veronica. "Nothing is impossible. The MTA and the CFA are too powerful, but that is where ingenuity cos into play. What we cannot accomplish through brute force, we can accomplish through strategy. That is part of what we are trying to achieve with our Oblivion Plan. Veronica, you shall be the catalyst that will hopefully engineer the largest and most destructive civil war among humans!"
"WHAT?! I can't do that! I am just a cat!"
"Oh, dear. Do not deny your capacity to trigger absolute chaos and destruction. You are a ch designer. More importantly than that, you are the 'Father of Carmine chs! Think about it, my child. What do you think will happen if we release the design of simplified, affordable and easily produced versions of Carmine chs throughout every star sector of human civilization in the Milky Way? What if we did so without giving the public and the Big Two enough ti to prepare for this epochal
product release?"
Veronica tried her best to imagine what would happen if there was no one exerting adequate control over the product rollout.
"It would go out of control pretty quickly. Too many norms are so obsessed with
chs that they will do everything to pilot a ch of their own. It doesn't matter if the Carmine chs I release are low-performance budget models. As long as they look and fight like a ch, every norm with enough money or connections will acquire them like there is nothing more important. Many ch manufacturers will try to et the insane demand and churn out Carmine chs like no tomorrow. They will flood the market in great quantities."
"The ch Trade Association will not let this chaos spread. I can easily predict that the chers shall attempt to crack down on Carmine chs."
"As if that will work. Veronica dismissively said. "The MTA might attempt to block production, but it can never eliminate the demand. As long as that is the case, the black markets will be more than happy to supply the masses with what they want. Given the enormous population of original humanity, trillions of Carmine chs will flood the Milky Way within a couple of years! As long as they are easy enough to operate and as long as their living chs give them a lot of additional assistance, Carmine ch pilots will require as little as a year to gain enough combat proficiency
with them to fight on the battlefield."
"What will they do with their Carmine chs? Will they be content to parade them around and occasionally spar against their friends?
"No. Once a huge number of norms are suddenly in control of war-making potential, many of them cannot resist the urge to live out their fantasies and do sothing with their war machines. Since the people here are not facing any legitimate external threats like red humanity, they will naturally turn against each other. Conflicts and infighting will break out throughout our society. The MTA and CFA along with many states will desperately try to contain the outbreak of violence, but the sheer quantity of Carmine chs will overwhelm them to exhaustion! This may even cause the Big Two to fray. The fleeters will beco more and more aggravated as they try and fail to stamp out the damage. The chers on the other hand will probably try to be more accommodating towards Carmine chs. This may generate an increasing amount of friction between the two hegemons. At one point, the CFA may actually turn against the MTA after deeming chs an unacceptable threat to human civilization!"
If this actually ca to pass, then the destructive civil war that the Oblivion Empress referred to may actually co to pass!
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