@Snowfire, I'm curious about something. You've stated in this past chapter that only unisonbound could do the work to manipulate the broken interface parts. Given Mary's statements about difficulty and scale, can you give us any idea of just how much needs to be done here? I mean, soulspace as it has been stated sounds like a potentially metaphysical realm, which doesn't lend itself easily to 3 dimensional architecture.
A lot needs to be done. You need to actually learn enough to diagnose the various problems, pinpointing where you can repair and where you have to dismantle. Animus has pointed your research teams to technical documentation, and that's going to help enormously, but given that even Mary is struggling to bootstrap herself just to the level of it making sense? That should tell you something about how difficult this will all be.
This will likely end up a shared learning process, as the Unisonbound are going to want to learn as much as they can about what they're about to have to do. But once the research teams are done, and have made the necessary modifications that Mary believes will let them actually run scans on the damaged interface, they'll be able to begin cataloguing the damage. It's important to note here that Amanda can certainly and very easily tell that the system is damaged. They'll even be able to narrow down points of more severe damage, and that
will be useful. But even so, all of this prep is going to take a bunch of time, at least a few months realistically. Only after that's all done will you be able to begin repairs.
Except you can't fix this damage the 'normal' way that Potentials do. In almost all cases across the rebirth of humanity, when damage has been too great to easily resolve, Practice has provided a path. Here, you have to actively deny it, for reasons that I hope the update made clear.
At which point, well, to quote what I said to my tech group?
You'll need to clear and repair extensive, ancient damage inflicted on a system that fundamentally alters the way that certain aspects of reality function. All without damaging the core system, whilst using tools that are both imprecise and actively wilful. With all the practical work falling on a relatively tiny group of people, most of whom will need to be actively coached through what they need to do.
I'm aware that this may not give a full understanding of the scale, but I hope it helps at least some. Further questions are always welcome.
