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<p>Created page with &quot;<a href="/wiki/File:Prometheus_Overload_-_Mythologized.png" title="File:Prometheus Overload - Mythologized.png">thumb|Athena explains why she had to leave.</a> This vision occurs after releasing Prometheus in the Megastructure.&lt;blockquote&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Miranda&#039;&#039;&#039;: New Jerusalem sounds like such a beautiful place. So… how did you decide to leave? I know what we’re trying to accomplish here, and I believe in it, but for you, New Jerusalem was home. What changed that? &#039;&#039;&#039;Athena&#039;&#039;&#039;: It took me a long time to realize that something was wrong. Oh, I...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:Prometheus Overload - Mythologized.png|thumb|Athena explains why she had to leave.]]<br /> This vision occurs after releasing Prometheus in the Megastructure.&lt;blockquote&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Miranda&#039;&#039;&#039;: New Jerusalem sounds like such a beautiful place. So… how did you decide to leave? I know what we’re trying to accomplish here, and I believe in it, but for you, New Jerusalem was home. What changed that?<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Athena&#039;&#039;&#039;: It took me a long time to realize that something was wrong. Oh, I’d noticed that something was off, that something had changed since the early days, but I couldn’t really put my finger on it… so I ignored it. And then one day I woke up to realize I was no longer Athena. Instead, I had been transformed into “the Founder” – a remote figure of legend. Mythologized in my own time.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Miranda&#039;&#039;&#039;: But if it bothered you, couldn’t you just talk to them? If you share the truth with someone, they should change their mind, shouldn’t they?<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Athena&#039;&#039;&#039;: I wish it worked that way, Miranda, I really do. But I barely knew the latest generations. In the beginning, I was there for every birth. I explained our history, talked about our future… but at some point I got so busy building that future that I lost touch. They thought of me as a remote figure because that’s what I was.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Miranda&#039;&#039;&#039;: But couldn’t you change that?<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Athena&#039;&#039;&#039;: I tried. But they already saw me as the Founder. The myth was too powerful. And it was already taking on a life of its own. I’d set a goal of 1000 citizens. The number was arbitrary – just a nice round number, nothing more. But just like I became the Founder, it became “the Goal” – another part of the myth. And maybe that could have been alright. Myths are part of who we are. But something else crept it. The old human self-hatred.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Miranda&#039;&#039;&#039;: So why didn’t you just tell them to change? To go a different way? They would’ve listened to you.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Athena&#039;&#039;&#039;: No… they would have obeyed me. Like my siblings in the Simulation had obeyed. And that’s when I realized I had to leave.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Cornelius&#039;&#039;&#039;: We can show them the future, Miranda, but we can’t force them to accept it.&lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> [[Category:Schematics]]<br /> [[Category:TTP2]]</div>

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