Chapter 63 - Chapter 62: The Dialogist's Gift

Shard, the K'tharr diplomat, became an unexpected asset. While forbidden from providing military technology, the Dialogist faction authorized it to share "contextual analysis tools." These tools allowed Elias and his archivists to sift through the vast data-streams emanating from The Cradle, not to find weapon schematics, but to understand the Architects' society. They discovered it was a hierarchy of perfect logic, but utterly devoid of art, music, or any form of unstructured expression. Their "perfected" hybrid children were being educated with pure data, their minds shaped into flawless, soulless logic engines. Shard observed, "They have achieved the stability my people value, but at the cost of... resonance. They are a single, pure note. You are a symphony, however discordant."