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He sat in the middle. Twelve pillars, each enumerated, surrounded him.
"We waited too long, twice. Every time we came close, Adam found a way to evade us."
"The First Impact was created by God in order to save man. The Second Impact was created by the Angels in the attempt to save themselves from man. The Third Impact was created by man in an attempt to save themselves from the Angels. We are now at the dawn of the Fourth Impact. Now we will see if man can save himself from God. Too much time has passed since the program began, and the return of Adam and the Third Child will be a hindrance."
"I hope the return of the pilot will not affect you in long road ahead."
He remained quiet.
"Even so, the return of Unit 01shall more than satisfy our needs. Since Unit 01 and Adam are now one, then the Angels need not attack. This will be of great aid to us."
"It is not the angels whom we shall worry about. Kerensky's children will try to obtain Adam in order to incorporate it into their ranks. So far their genetic experimentations with their own have proved successful. They have survived for so long and vast improvements have been made."
"They are many, yet they failed to reach us. It took only one Unit with Adam to almost destroy our entire planet. We need not worry about them. We should take care that we are not sabotaged from within, again. That proved to be our downfall."
"Gendou, prepare as planned. Do not make the same mistakes you did a millennia ago. The rest of our discussion does not concern you."
The twelve pillars vanished. Gendou sat in the middle of his office, Evans stood next to him.
"Well?" Asked Evans. "What do you think? I think that for people dead 1000 years, their essence still remains the same."
"They were wrong when they thought that it is now man against God. Neither is it man against the Angels or man, but against himself. Man need not fear God because he has made himself smarter than God, by creating his own version of God. Unit 01 is proof of that. The Angels we do not concern ourselves about, though I know they will let their presence be known now that Adam has returned. But man should fear himself above everything else. In an attempt to copy God we created a god that nearly destroyed humanity. We laid blame on Old Russia, saying it was the Second Soviet Civil War and the use of its nuclear arsenal which wiped out almost a third of our population. And everyone believed us. Even after all those catastrophes, we knew it would occur again, and now it will. We are so selfish, that in our attempt to make ourselves perfect, we destroy our next of kin. The expansion and the creation of the Successor State and the Clans proves how selfish we are. We want to grow, not for the benefit of our own, but simply our own. We kill each other without remorse, without second thoughts."
"If you feel so strongly about it, then why not destroy it before it destroys again?"
"You ask me to stop doing that for which I was born for. In this I have no freewill, nor do I have the energy to assume freewill. That is the problem with what I am, simply born to perform a task."
"And the boy?"
"He is not important. When the time comes, he shall be disposed of."
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Takihiro looked down upon the boy. He still slept, uncomfortably, it seemed. Tubes and sensors covered half his body. Occasionally there was a twitching in the eyes.
"At least he's dreaming." Thought Takihiro. "That's a good sign."
He looked at the boys report.
Names: Ikari Shinji DOB: -- -- ---- ID: --- -- ---- -- Bio Notes: See Commander Ikari Gendou
"What?" Shock immersed him. "They are related? He let a relative of his pilot that machine?"
He sat in the middle. Twelve pillars, each enumerated, surrounded him.
"We waited too long, twice. Every time we came close, Adam found a way to evade us."
"The First Impact was created by God in order to save man. The Second Impact was created by the Angels in the attempt to save themselves from man. The Third Impact was created by man in an attempt to save themselves from the Angels. We are now at the dawn of the Fourth Impact. Now we will see if man can save himself from God. Too much time has passed since the program began, and the return of Adam and the Third Child will be a hindrance."
"I hope the return of the pilot will not affect you in long road ahead."
He remained quiet.
"Even so, the return of Unit 01shall more than satisfy our needs. Since Unit 01 and Adam are now one, then the Angels need not attack. This will be of great aid to us."
"It is not the angels whom we shall worry about. Kerensky's children will try to obtain Adam in order to incorporate it into their ranks. So far their genetic experimentations with their own have proved successful. They have survived for so long and vast improvements have been made."
"They are many, yet they failed to reach us. It took only one Unit with Adam to almost destroy our entire planet. We need not worry about them. We should take care that we are not sabotaged from within, again. That proved to be our downfall."
"Gendou, prepare as planned. Do not make the same mistakes you did a millennia ago. The rest of our discussion does not concern you."
The twelve pillars vanished. Gendou sat in the middle of his office, Evans stood next to him.
"Well?" Asked Evans. "What do you think? I think that for people dead 1000 years, their essence still remains the same."
"They were wrong when they thought that it is now man against God. Neither is it man against the Angels or man, but against himself. Man need not fear God because he has made himself smarter than God, by creating his own version of God. Unit 01 is proof of that. The Angels we do not concern ourselves about, though I know they will let their presence be known now that Adam has returned. But man should fear himself above everything else. In an attempt to copy God we created a god that nearly destroyed humanity. We laid blame on Old Russia, saying it was the Second Soviet Civil War and the use of its nuclear arsenal which wiped out almost a third of our population. And everyone believed us. Even after all those catastrophes, we knew it would occur again, and now it will. We are so selfish, that in our attempt to make ourselves perfect, we destroy our next of kin. The expansion and the creation of the Successor State and the Clans proves how selfish we are. We want to grow, not for the benefit of our own, but simply our own. We kill each other without remorse, without second thoughts."
"If you feel so strongly about it, then why not destroy it before it destroys again?"
"You ask me to stop doing that for which I was born for. In this I have no freewill, nor do I have the energy to assume freewill. That is the problem with what I am, simply born to perform a task."
"And the boy?"
"He is not important. When the time comes, he shall be disposed of."
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Takihiro looked down upon the boy. He still slept, uncomfortably, it seemed. Tubes and sensors covered half his body. Occasionally there was a twitching in the eyes.
"At least he's dreaming." Thought Takihiro. "That's a good sign."
He looked at the boys report.
Names: Ikari Shinji DOB: -- -- ---- ID: --- -- ---- -- Bio Notes: See Commander Ikari Gendou
"What?" Shock immersed him. "They are related? He let a relative of his pilot that machine?"