Quote Originally Posted by Kirutsuki View Post
And what does Cahciua say to Erenville?

"Everything that lives must one day die, and that which has died isn't meant to return. This is only natural"

There was nothing natural about the calamity that happened. It was cause by a weapon of mass destruction.
You're conflating two separate things here.

The cause of the calamity – of anyone's death – is irrelevant. One way or another, people die, and when they do it is natural for their soul to return to the flow of the Lifestream.

Additionally, Living Memory isn't just some cosmic justice machine for those who suffered an unnatural death in the events that befell Alexandria – firstly, even if that was the original intent, they have long outlasted what years of life were lost to them, and secondly the place is a repository for all people who have died in Alexandria ever since. For these later additions, the use of regulators ensures that they do not die any kind of premature death, so they have already lived a full earthly life and are not owed more.


Quote Originally Posted by Alenore View Post
This part especially annoyed me. Especially with G'raha next to us, who literally went back in time to save people he didn't want to die.
There's a key difference between what G'raha did and what Sphene is trying to do: he is fully aware that the people he left behind are doomed and his only choice (at least as he understood it) was to leave them to their fate and do his best to save people that still could be saved.

Here, our choice is between prolonging the existence of these people who are so doomed they're already dead, and either actively asking to be turned off or completely unbothered by the prospect, versus the actual ongoing lives of everyone else in the universe. There's no real choice to be made, just a grim but necessary task before us.