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Otto Octavius ([personal profile] sciencesquid) wrote in [community profile] songerein 2022-05-31 05:20 pm (UTC)

[The implication that it would affect him at all hadn't quite made its way through his addled mind yet. Ferran's words are what cement that if the containment breaches entirely, it won't just be the warehouse that gets destroyed. There's no telling just how much damage it could do when unleashed, nor how much of Reverein would still be left standing afterwards. So he struggles to rid himself of the fog in his mind- to gain some clarity. He shakes his head roughly]

You can't... It's self-sustaining now. The reactions will keep cascading. [That's the whole principle of a nuclear fusion reactor- to mimic the sun's almost endless fusion chain. Unlimited power contained for humanity to harness, or so it should've been.] But it's not going to stabilize, is it...? The only way left is to...

[The words won't quite leave his mouth. His life's work. All those years, all that effort, all those sacrifices. People have died for this to succeed. ...No, that's not quite right. They died because Otto wouldn't accept failure- it's not the same thing. It's all his fault.]

... Destroy it. Not just the machine- the sun itself. Drown it.

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