Archival Science Databanks
Communications intercept. Transmission detected Tue 23rd of Sep 2008 at 11:05 AM by Othinn. Communique follows:
Svanhild
Requirement Set 1
Please... They people here need your help, as do I. The Valkyrjar are hunting... They're merciless! Codes give them power...but with your contributions, I can turn these codes against them. Please...
Requirement Set 2
Yes--pieces of the power sources they use can sometimes be recovered from them. I can put them back together. They will help you...for a time.
Requirement Sets 3 and 4
Their pistols are powerful, but only fitfully. Unpredictability... It was supposed to make them more human--more compassionate...
Requirement Sets 5 and 6
Their white clothes were supposed to represent peaceful intentions, purity of purpose. But in other traditions, white is the color of death...
Requirement Sets 7 and 8
These clear glasses were not developed until after the explusion of the Valkyrjar, but they can be derived from Valkyrja code.
Requirement Sets 9 and 10
The Valkyrjar attack from the heights of these buildings... Their glasses shield their eyes from the sun, while allowing them to see their...victims on the streets far below.
Requirement Set 11 and 12
They see themselved as betrayed. They are secretive... They trust no-one now. Once, when I was very young, they told me of themselves...but that was a quiet time, hiding in pocket constructs, developing their power. When they found their way here, the bloodlust seized them again. It was revenge they wanted, all along...
Requirement Set 13
This dress...? Yes, with the right codes, I could weave another...but I am afraid it would be very costly.
Requirement Set 14
You flatter me. It is possible...but it takes great quantities of information to create this material. Yes, the Valkyrjar were generous to me...once.
After trading for Requirement Set 1
Please hurry! I know them...too well. The experiment failed... Now, death is their only god.
After trading for Requirement Set 2
They believe that their own power sources bring doom upon the bearer... I don't know, but it is true that they draw power from the dead, and death follows their footsteps here.
After trading for Requirement Set 3
This will help you, but remember...killing will only bring more killing.
After trading for Requirement Set 4
Emotions...have a dark side. A perfect Machine is capable of killing countless millions, but derives no pleasure from it--is not driven to do it for its own sake. But the Valkyrjar...
After trading for Requirement Set 5
Now they kill, and kill... To track the dead to their pods, to siphon the power--more power, more killing... Can it only end in complete destruction?
After trading for Requirement Set 6
In the end, the Machines reverted to black; they seem more comfortable with it. Only the Architect still wears white. I hope that means-- But it is foolish to talk of such things.
After trading for Requirement Set 7
Yes, the glasses were finally used by Agent Pace--the ultimate result of the project. I only hope that the ability to feel--to love--does not turn her heart against others, as it has with them--as it may yet do with me...
After trading for Requirement Set 8
Please do not forget us. The Valkyrjar are bent on death--on destroying the Machine power source, one human at a time. It is slow work, even for them, but they are patient, relentless, and...they enjoy it.
After trading for Requirement Set 9
Thank you. Though they are superior, I will not wear those glasses myself... I am already too closely related to Valfreyja and the others. But, like Agent Pace, I am a new generation... Although I was created in exile, I can still hope to correct the errors of the past.
After trading for Requirement Set 10
You see, I am able to fit them for men, as well...even though I have little exerience with males. Most of my existence was in hiding, with the Valkyrjar, and they associated as little as possible with the few programs we found there. They never told me if I had anything that could be called a "father"...
After trading for Requirement Set 11
Have the Machines succeeded? They failed with the Valkyrjar, but Agent Pace, they say, has achieved some popularity with humans. But even she is not like she was at first... Did you notice, she changed after the Merovingian struck her with a termination code derived from the Oracle. She is less open now... I hope that she will not end up like the Valkyrjar. It is strange, too... My mother once told me that, in the end, the Machines had to ask the Oracle for her help with the project...
After trading for Requirement Set 12
They told me the Machines called it "Project B-4032"; they were series "V," the fifth... I'm not sure how many series may have come after them; I think it must have been many, because they were so flawed! The only other surviving result they know of is Agent Pace; they hate her, just for that. They see it all as a sham--using a pretty face to fool the humans into accepting Machine domination. I hope that they are wrong... I hope that the Machines did it to learn how to...to care for others, to feel happiness and love... They see these things in humans, but they have not been able to have them. You don't known how much they revere you...
After trading for Requirement Set 13
Have a care; it is not made for battle.
After trading for Requirement Set 14
If only others understood what is really important in this world...