Trance, are you dead or alive?
Yes.
Crystal clear, as usual.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
She can't tell you.
Why? Why can't I tell him?
Because if you tell him, Tyr will die.
Then, by all means, leave me in suspense.
The Engine of Creation is a myth. It's like the Holy Grail of ancient Earth, or the Wyvern's Hoards of Gehenna Mortis.
Or a restored Commonwealth.
[laughs, insincerely] That's not funny.
He never came back.
But you have a different plan?
My plan is to come back.
That's a good plan.
They're not butchers, just very strange lovers.
Yeah, he's totally controlling, and she's this sexy, shoot-from-the-hip kinda gal. What could they possibly have in common?
Well, Harper always says that opposites attract.
That's just his excuse to meet women. Everyone's the opposite of Harper.
How long has the Vedran been here?
MMaia
Since the fall.
The Fall of the Commonwealth?
MMaia
Since the autumn, nine months ago.
Look, betting my life savings on a game of Yesheedono is a chance I'm willing to take – except against Trance. However, accidentally setting off a nova bomb … isn't.
How do we get people to stop believing in a myth they've believed in for centuries?
By getting them to believe in that other myth.
What's that?
The one about the High Guard captain flying around the universe, making allies, restoring the Commonwealth.
Oh, I don't think they'll ever believe in that one.
Anyone can have their cake, and then eat it. The real trick is eating your cake, and still having it. It's a common mistake.
We did. You could even say we had our cake outside of the box and ate it too.
I have faith in nothing but this: when the Universe collapses and dies, there will be three survivors. Tyr Anasazi, the cockroaches, and Dylan Hunt - trying to save the cockroaches.
I once told Dylan that his mission to restore the Commonwealth is nothing more than an excuse to shape the Universe according to his will. It is. But, in the past two years, for reasons I cannot begin to understand, perhaps I have come to... prefer that shape?
We know – Your willingness to defy the universal odds is a disease that, apparently, we have all contracted.
Are we still outside the box?
Trance, we're so far outside the box, we can't even see the box.
The AIs are machines – they should do as they're told, or be discarded as defective.
They're not machines, Tyr, they're sentient beings, soldiers.
Then perhaps Milla has a point. Perhaps the Commonwealth did treat their AIs as slaves. But you would know better than I.
I can't take the risk that you'll fall apart under pressure.
That would be a mistake. This fellow has already taken it upon himself to perform a dangerous task – not because he was commanded, but because it needed to be done. And, in the end, that's the only test that matters – the test of will… You're a machine. I can't believe I just said that.
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