( Admittedly, Kate is not the go to person for creative solutions in making a hive-mind of murderous robots back off. The pragmatic answer is easier, and it's hardly as though the Null have given her (or any of the city, if you asked her) a reason to try and keep them alive. )
Not sure how we destroy all of them.
( Sorrow's words of just how far the Null empire stretches still comes to mind. It's one thing to defend the city, to destroy the immediate forces coming for them, but there's a whole world of difference between that and destroying the source.
Maybe that isn't possible either.
... Well. She'll have to shelve that worry, leave it at the back of her mind. That's the kind of cynical, paralysing thought which spirals into what's the point arguments and stops action. And she doesn't want to go back to that, not now of all times. )
But we'll try.
( Before, the gods had each other and their people. Now they have... well. These people. These people from such vastly different universes that Kate can't even begin to count them, with powers and ideas at their fingertips that no one else has. Who knows what ideas may lurk in the minds of the other residents of the city? And, well, Kate has to believe they can do more than simply be food for the gods, that there's some sort of difference they can make in this fight, or every bit of effort they've exerted in these last few years would be pointless. )
action;
( Admittedly, Kate is not the go to person for creative solutions in making a hive-mind of murderous robots back off. The pragmatic answer is easier, and it's hardly as though the Null have given her (or any of the city, if you asked her) a reason to try and keep them alive. )
Not sure how we destroy all of them.
( Sorrow's words of just how far the Null empire stretches still comes to mind. It's one thing to defend the city, to destroy the immediate forces coming for them, but there's a whole world of difference between that and destroying the source.
Maybe that isn't possible either.
... Well. She'll have to shelve that worry, leave it at the back of her mind. That's the kind of cynical, paralysing thought which spirals into what's the point arguments and stops action. And she doesn't want to go back to that, not now of all times. )
But we'll try.
( Before, the gods had each other and their people. Now they have... well. These people. These people from such vastly different universes that Kate can't even begin to count them, with powers and ideas at their fingertips that no one else has. Who knows what ideas may lurk in the minds of the other residents of the city? And, well, Kate has to believe they can do more than simply be food for the gods, that there's some sort of difference they can make in this fight, or every bit of effort they've exerted in these last few years would be pointless. )