[10.1.3] I need my Agents, my Architect, and my Machine redpill - Recursion - 4/22/08

**Vaico**

Procurator wrote:

Huh, he can go after New Zion for all I care. Take out some EMPs, or give the Machines an idea how to get around them themselves.

Psion sure was throwing around a lot of references to the hypothesised Oligarchy. Personally I'm not going to make any assumptions about Halborn's upbringing or his position within the colony.

How is it hypothesized? It was even mentioned in the Critical Missions. Halborn and Carlyne both belong to a oligarchy form of government. Which means there is some group however small of extremely powerful beings. Many I talk to think they are remnants of humanity who want both the Machines and current humans fighting so as not to threaten whatever type of power hold they have in the real.

**Procurator**

Yes, I know that, thank you. I call it hypothesised because no one trustworthy has confirmed its presence yet. All we have are scraps of information left carelessly by the likes of Carlyne. We can draw some pretty good ideas from them, but no firm conclusions.