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Ulysses "Your actions have carried strength. If you speak for the two-headed bear, I'll hear your words. Even if I will be the only one to hear them. If you believe it should not die this day... then answer me why."
Rhodane "Your tapes prove you've walked the Mojave, yet learned the wrong lessons."
Ulysses "Comes down to perspective, how far one's walked, and what they've left behind. If you challenge this moment, let's hear your perspective. If my words are all you have, let's hear them."
Rhodane "Who are you, who do not know your history?"
Ulysses "That question... either you walked the Big Empty.. you found the last of the holotapes. The words are mine. Whatever... "answer" you think they hold, you're wrong. It was a question, nothing more."
Rhodane "The question reminded the ones you spoke to of their purpose, why they cared."
Ulysses "I spoke those words in anger, and I did not expect an answer. All was lost... I thought it was the end. Past their graves of failed technology, they cared about the flag they had followed... and the people beneath it. Even with them dead and gone. But there's no answer in that. I do this because I care, because I believe it must be done."
Rhodane "You said in the logs yourself that technology's a dead road. These missiles will solve nothing."
Ulysses "Those are my words. After what happened with the Brotherhood... talking with them. Then with the rulers of the Big Empty. But it was their philosophy that was flawed - their weapons, used with new perspective... Those weapons can be used to kill a symbol that has already proven itself wrong."
Rhodane "Any symbol deserves a chance to defend itself, by words or acts - not... this."
Ulysses "As you defend it now? Nothing can prevent what comes. The missiles will launch. These questions - your words, or mine - what do they matter to you."
Rhodane "I believe destroying the symbol is never the answer. Changing it - that's something else."
Ulysses "It may be... that as much destruction has been written in the earth here... One buried this place, yet it lived on between us. One may build it again - build others. Your history has proven this, here. There is truth in your words. But even if there is hope in change... it may not matter. The Divide still stands against us."
Rhodane "The Divide? What do you mean?"
Ulysses "Our enemies gather outside... shadows of the bear and bull... they will have found their way in, just as you did. It was always my intention - in case I could not kill you, the marked men would flood this place, cut off your escape. If we cannot prevent what comes, then let us make our stand here. Two couriers, together, at the Divide."
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