Conjunction: The Unfinished Hope
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Those who know true hope are the ones who stand on the brink of the abyss of despair.
Those who have already fallen in can never hope again, and those on the precipice are more hopeful than anyone else.
Thus, those who are cornered create things that will save them.
It might be beliefs that speak of the salvation of the soul, lives that carry their wills to the next generation... or beings that can shatter the encroaching despair.
Long ago, in the age of what was now known as the “pre-ancient civilization,” there was a weapons plant deep within the mountains that eventually became part of the Quartierlatin County.
It had equipment for mining resources, turning them into materials, extracting energy from the earth, and producing Prism Soldiers. Everything inside was advanced enough to work without human interference.
Despite this, there were people inside.
They were in the deepest depths of the facility, developing the most important thing within.
Standing behind fortified glass, they used remote-controlled manipulators to bring it further to completion.
Suddenly, the automatic door to their workroom opened, and a man walked inside, accompanied by a small child.
“Sir?” one of the workers asked. “Why did you bring your son here?”
“We completed the core yesterday, didn’t we?” he replied. “I want to show it to him. It’s the hope that’ll save our world... and all the children of the future.”
As they had that exchange, the boy walked up to the glass wall. The thing beyond made him gasp in amazement.
“Dad, is that the thing that will protect us?”
“It is. Acra-Vesta will save everyone,” his father replied.
The clockwork sphere behind the glass was the weapon’s artificial intelligence block. It would eventually be shielded by a frame and hull, completing it as a weapon.
This anti-incarnation weapon, as it was labeled, had the groundbreaking ability to develop and produce its own parts, as well as the equipment that would create them.
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