“When we nudged Cursion into experimenting with Eunice,” Ash said, “we understood that we’d be destabilizing… — William Gibson
“When we nudged Cursion into experimenting with Eunice,” Ash said, “we understood that we’d be destabilizing them…By now, destabilization has tipped over into dysfunction.”
“They were functional enough to mount an attack,” Wilf said.
“They’re not strategists,” said Ash, “though they assume they are. A fully functional, strategically sound opponent would be a greater threat, but without posing the sort of unpredictable danger they currently do.”
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