Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Lady_Silvermoon]

I repaired by suspension by accepting that Sphene was in the end just a friendly interface put on a rigid machine. Even if the other Endless had a limited sense of free will, she had none. Just a friendly face hooked on a AI system built to do one thing only.

Except that she didn't only do one thing. She visited her people. Cared about their lives. She implored Zoraal Ja to make peace with his sister which goes directly against her needs. If the Turali make peace with Alexandria then they'd have to find other people to kill for lifeforce. She's only doing that because she LIKES Wuk Lamat, she can impede her own plans because she likes someone. Even after she deleted her own memories Wuk Lamat managed to reach her causing her to partially restore herself.

By the time Sphene has decided to turn to the Dark Side, Zoraal Ja has just used up the soul banks and killed a bunch of her people meaning the system is becoming bogged down by memories of the newly dead with no lifeforce in reserve. That's why she's so desperate. What program have you ever see get desperate? Sphene was never just a program.