I really liked the creative choice to leave the zone dead. The point of the story was letting go, which seems to have gone over a lot of people's heads.


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This level of genocide is simply disgusting. And why? Because 2 or 3 Endless wanted to die? Setting aside the moral debate of assisted euthanasia, the vast majority of Endless never agreed to this, or even knew it was happening.
Well they can't be euthanized because they're already dead. The Endless are AI constructs created from memories. They are computer data and nothing more. Wiping those terminals is closer to deleting an Excel spreadsheet than "genocide."

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Why didn't we simply let the Endless live and die of "old age", when their aether ran out?????
Because Sphene's prime directive was to keep her fake AI people sustained with souls at any cost. She was going to consume every reflection of actual living people until they were all wiped out.