[ Oh. There's always context, isn't there? He should've anticipated. Stephen sits with this for some time, allowing it to absorb and inform. Granting it the gravity it deserves.
Finally, once he's finished constructing his thoughts: ]
Morningstar isn't the hill I'll die on. I'm watching them just as closely as I'm sure you will be - leaders aren't their people and power has the possibility to corrupt anyone on any level. As I said, healthy skepticism makes sense.
But I've seen first hand the consequences doubt and suspicion have had in their lives. I've been here through every tragedy they've encountered since our arrival. Their biggest semi-legitmate PR nightmare in that time was caused by a few Displaced Morningstar agents going rogue, myself included. A year and no foul play that I've seen.
In that same amount of time we the Displaced have been or been adjacent to the instigation of several large scale disasters. Aside from those, we've involuntarily made both huge and small changes in this world as the result of a shared dream and manifested an entirely new world separate to it in what I can only assume is a similar way. We're a terrifying force, we don't know how to control it, and we're still given the benefit of the doubt.
Let their work be their work. When the attack came, we fought for New Amsterdam. The rest of the world had to fight for themselves and didn't fare half as well, but without Morningstar it would've been far worse.
I understand why you're going to struggle to trust, and I don't expect you to. But it also isn't a fair or accurate to let your experiences of an entirely different dimension of entities void any good that Morningstar do. They're not angels or devils. Their founder aside, they're human beings. Fallible and capable by their very nature of extraordinary greed and cruelty, but also more likely to give a shit about life and work to protect and enhance it than supernatural beings with no place in it.
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Finally, once he's finished constructing his thoughts: ]
Morningstar isn't the hill I'll die on. I'm watching them just as closely as I'm sure you will be - leaders aren't their people and power has the possibility to corrupt anyone on any level. As I said, healthy skepticism makes sense.
But I've seen first hand the consequences doubt and suspicion have had in their lives. I've been here through every tragedy they've encountered since our arrival. Their biggest semi-legitmate PR nightmare in that time was caused by a few Displaced Morningstar agents going rogue, myself included. A year and no foul play that I've seen.
In that same amount of time we the Displaced have been or been adjacent to the instigation of several large scale disasters. Aside from those, we've involuntarily made both huge and small changes in this world as the result of a shared dream and manifested an entirely new world separate to it in what I can only assume is a similar way. We're a terrifying force, we don't know how to control it, and we're still given the benefit of the doubt.
Let their work be their work. When the attack came, we fought for New Amsterdam. The rest of the world had to fight for themselves and didn't fare half as well, but without Morningstar it would've been far worse.
I understand why you're going to struggle to trust, and I don't expect you to. But it also isn't a fair or accurate to let your experiences of an entirely different dimension of entities void any good that Morningstar do. They're not angels or devils. Their founder aside, they're human beings. Fallible and capable by their very nature of extraordinary greed and cruelty, but also more likely to give a shit about life and work to protect and enhance it than supernatural beings with no place in it.
Just keep them human, okay? Please.