CogitatorYour knowledge of machine spirits is sufficient to trick the system and subdue it to your will. A false query, a crafty manipulation of the controls — and you get what you want.
Cogitator"...the instrumental terminals have already been replaced, and the material delivery systems are being prepared for divine transformation. The execution of the New Procedure has been delayed, for there are some in our ranks who doubt the words of the Fabricator-Censor and his votaries. And there are some who are not susceptible to the Enhancement Protocol that carries our tech-comrades to enlightenment — may the deliverers of fate be merciful to them. Inaction is death, and I must be returning to our great work. Praise be to the Truth that will reveal the path to the Knowledge shrouded in darkness..."
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Cogitator"...praise be to the Omnissiah, whose might and power transforms dead metal to make manifest the holy visions of the Machine God. The new protocols received at the synod from the great Fabricator-Censor have been executed, despite those who shuddered at the thought of changing a Standard Procedure. Embolden your hearts, those whose inner weakness breeds errors in personal calculations, for the Fabricator-Censor is the conductor of the higher will and the wisest among us..."
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YOU[View the second log data]
Cogitator"...today, at the supreme assembly, the Fabricator-Censor unsealed the vaults of the sacred designs and committed those deemed redundant or heretical to purifying disposal. Today, dozens of Standard Procedures were lost, to be replaced by new ones, which the Fabricator-Censor will deliver to those who demonstrate the greatest devotion to serving the truth... but the data-banks contain no notion of 'Truth' — could there have been, may the All-Knowing One, the Gracious Keeper, forgive me, an error in the Fabricator-Censor's calculations, and he meant to say, 'serving the Quest for Knowledge'?"
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Cogitator"...the instrumental terminals have already been replaced, and the material delivery systems are being prepared for divine transformation. The execution of the New Procedure has been delayed, for there are some in our ranks who doubt the words of the Fabricator-Censor and his votaries. And there are some who are not susceptible to the Enhancement Protocol that carries our tech-comrades to enlightenment — may the deliverers of fate be merciful to them. Inaction is death, and I must be returning to our great work. Praise be to the Truth that will reveal the path to the Knowledge shrouded in darkness..."continues where this line first appears above
CogitatorYour understanding of sacred technologies is not enough to get past the cogitator's loyal guardian — its machine spirit. No matter how hard you try to coerce it, the system remains impervious.
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end of branch
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CogitatorThe cogitator's panel has dozens of breakers, buttons, handles, switches, and other control mechanisms.
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CogitatorYou discover the local data-crypt with contents collected by either previous operators or the machine spirit itself. Using your access, you study the archives stored on this cogitator.
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