Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Lady_Silvermoon]

They also have VR, which living people can enter, like we did to fight Sphene and I'm assuming their VR can run on electric and doesn't need to run on human souls, so even allowing the Endless to exist in VR given 90% of them are stuck on servers anyway due to the aether shortage would have been a better idea than murdering everyone until the universe runs out of people.

So yes, I do think the combined knowledge of all the people who owe the WoL a favor could have solved Sphene's problem, because Alexandrians are the dumbest scifi civilization I've ever seen. They don't even password protect the terminals which anyone can walk up to and wipe out a swath of their populace and there was a time when the living were in Living Memory, what if some kid walked up and accidentally took out the Aero terminal? The ziplines had more security than the terminals keeping everyone up and about.

Even Sphene admits that we possess new knowledge that might be able to solve her problem in a less stupid way. It's just that Zoraal Ja offed a bunch of her people and so she had an influx of dead coming in and needed life force NOW. But even if we could just shut down the programmed imperatives controlling her, I think even that would have given us the time to solve Preservation being the worst programmers and dumbest designers in history.

And if it didn't and it did come down to a fight to the death which in turn caused all the servers to go down, at least we tried. Because that's what heroes do. They at least TRY not to wipe out entire civilian populations.