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＠Nemo
After fighting a few battles here, it's clear these waters have far more enemies than we've seen before.
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＠Osakabehime
Yeah, this is on a whole different level. The entire area is just crawl[line 2]uh, swimming with enemies, big and small alike!
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＠Osakabehime
That said, we haven't seen any sign of that super huge ship since we first ran into it. Maybe it's, like, the lord of this area or something?
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＠Nemo Professor
I'd like to make a counterargument to that assertion.
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＠Nemo Professor
Ms. Goddess and I have dissected and researched dozens of these void enemies, and it's clear they're not animals.
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＠Nemo Professor
If anything, they seem to be more like spring-loaded toys; they are exceedingly simple creatures which only move in response to stimuli.
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＠Nemo Professor
Big or small, they're still basically nothing more than slightly advanced marionettes.
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＠Nemo Professor
So I can't imagine how beings like that could think, strategize, acquire sociality, or produce some kind of lord that could command them.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Hold on, Professor. Is it not true that even exceedingly simple parts can comprise complex mechanisms?
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＠Nemo Professor
Well sure, but if that was the case here, we'd be seeing a void trench ecosystem with a lot more diversity.
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＠Nemo Professor
By which I mean, some of the enemies we've captured would have to react in different ways to different stimuli.
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＠Nemo Professor
But so far, we've only seen creatures who ambush targets, and others who hunt down whatever they detect, which isn't nearly enough variety.
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＠Nemo Professor
That said, we are starting to capture pinging enemies too, so I won't deny it's possible that they could be mutating, evolving, and innovating...
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＠Nemo Professor
But at the moment, there's still nowhere near enough behavioral diversity to suggest a leader unit.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Hmm... In that case, there is only one possible answer.[sr]Care to guess what it is, [%1]?
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？1：...Somebody's controlling them?

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Correct. Hehehe.
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？2：...This is all just a dream?

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...I could never have imagined you might say...that. You do know there is more to being clever than merely saying something surprising, do you not?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
In essence, if we assume that these enemies are not acting on their own accord, but rather at the direction of another, everything makes sense.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Indeed, this would perfectly explain why these creatures appear to be puppets: because they ARE puppets.
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？1：...
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＠Nemo
But that's still just speculation, right, Goddess? Truth might often be stranger than fiction, but not always.
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＠Nemo
...At any rate, since that giant ship could still conceivably attack at any time, we'll need Osakabehime and Yang Guifei to keep an eye and ear out for it at all times.
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＠Osakabehime
Guuuys! We're under attaaack! Yu-Yu just picked up[sr]some pings while she was on break, and now we've got[sr]a bunch of enemies headed our waaay![bgm BGM_EVENT_80 0.1]
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＠Nemo
Dammit, speak of the devil!
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？1：Guess that means the combat team's up.
？2：This looks like another job for the penguins.
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＠Mash
Right! I'll do my best to guide everyone while on standby. Ready to deploy at any time!
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