The silence in these halls is deafening now that the transit network has been severed. Many call my decision an act of ultimate destruction; I call it the ultimate preservation. We have traded the convenience of the Web for the sanctity of our own minds. If the cost of being free from the Core's computation is the collapse of our interstellar civilization, then let it fall. Better to live in the dark than to be the fuel that lights someone else's fire. What are your thoughts?