Saturn

Saturn is one of the three playable protagonists in Heaven Will Be Mine. She fights to evolve humanity to the next stage, and also aggressively flirts with the other pilots.

Personality
Saturn is "kind of a brat" and very impulsive. She's ADHD-coded, and tends to solve problems for herself in unconventional ways. She almost universally ignores orders and frequently defies them intentionally, but has a surprisingly good ability to plan a successful operation on her own.

Background
Saturn was the reserve pilot for the Interloper Prototype String of Pearls, an "existentially horrifying weapon" produced by Celestial Mechanics. After stealing the weapon for herself, Celestial Mechanics' plans are at the mercy of Saturn's whims and her poor attention span.

She is an experienced hacker, and many of the e-mails in her route are intercepts from other parties.

Early on in her training, she reports that she felt 'special' for being chosen, but became disillusioned as the Existential Threat was not much of a threat, and her talents went unrecognized by the authority. She is even described by Pluto as "the biggest overachiever of [her] juniors."

Saturn's Letter
Nearing the end of the game, the player is shown a sequence of letters from the three main characters, detailing their perspective of the ongoing war in space. Saturn's letter, dated January 30, 1981, reads:

It’s January 30, 1981.

They don’t name it because naming it gives it power, but not naming it gives it more.

It must be in every corner. Behind every door. Far, far away, in the spaces between stars. It is defined and categorized in every human culture and it is deliberately omitted from explicit naming conventions by Memorial Foundation in favor of a euphemism less captivating to the imagination such as "Existential Threat" rather than a specific word that would stimulate the imagination. But a trick like this will not work: in the euphemism is a hollow void that can hold all fears and all possibilities.

Through gravity, humans decide what is real and what is not. But "what is not" does not stop existing. And it, like humans, can decide. It’s the kiss of inverse, everything that humans can imagine, but can’t become. The shortcut to attaining it is to forsake everything that humans already are.

If a bunch of idiots get tricked into going there, it would make a very convenient enemy for Earth. That’s their real fear.

Before that happens, I will tell you a little secret.

Ready?

—Saturn, Celestial Mechanics Test Pilot

Trivia

 * Worst Girls cite characters like Rei Ayanami and Lalah Sune as inspiration, but also want to cross these characters with more bratty Gundam-inspired pilots who don't want to do things according to the plans.

Email Log
On each "day" of the game, the player has the option of reading through emails, of which the player's selected character receives two of at the start of each day, with exception to the final day (day 8), on which the player receives only one last email.

"DAY 1"

SUBJECT: Your Apparent Promotion
ORIGIN: Celestial Mechanics Division Lead

AUTHOR: Iapetus

Good job, Saturn. There’s no point in being angry with you, so I’ll choose to be proud of you instead. I’ll refrain from having you sunk, since that’s counterproductive to our intentions for that unit. You were a reserve candidate after all, so you’ll do fine. Try not to make it too much of a pain in the ass for me.

I’ll have Mercury reassigned to you since he apparently doesn’t have a say in the matter. How nostalgic. The two of you had so much potential. Well, he knows how to do his job at least.

Do your best to not get the String of Pearls sunk—we’ll absolutely wash you out of the biological interface and reassign you permanently if we get the chance, so prove you’re competent enough and neither of us will have wasted our time.

—Iapetus

Division Lead, Celestial Mechanics

SUBJECT: TRUCE ENDING EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
ORIGIN: Native Sphere Mass Communication

AUTHOR: Memorial Foundation Existential Safety

To all members of the former Memorial Foundation Native Sphere Existential Research Division, now known as Celestial Mechanics, this message serves as a formal acknowledgement that this branch has violated our trust and broken the provisions of the 1981 Memorial Foundation Consensus by violating clause 3, the development of a variable gravity engine, and clause 7, installation of a variable gravity engine into the Ship-Self String of Pearls.

Celestial Mechanics will no longer be listed as part of Memorial Foundation. They will be formally re-listed as an independent entity and considered a true Existential Threat by Memorial Foundation Native Sphere Existential Safety. We are still offering forgiveness, so please defect as soon as possible while the appeal grace period is still in effect. Please otherwise expect tidal retaliation for existential endangerment of human Culture.

—Halimede, Princess, Memorial Foundation Native Sphere Existential Safety

"DAY 2"

SUBJECT: Pilot Candidate 007 Mercury Interviews
ORIGIN: Memorial Foundation Celestial Mechanics [EXTRACTED]

AUTHOR: Generation 3 Pilot Intake

Don’t worry, it’s just a checkup.

M: Historically untrustworthy scenario.

It’s just questions, I promise.

M: That’s not really a great way to set my mind at ease.

...let’s just answer the questions, okay, wise guy.

M: ...fine.

Have you experienced a sense of vertigo or loss of balance for a period lasting more than two minutes in the last month?

M: No.

Have your eating habits changed at all recently?

M: No.

Have your—

M: No.

Mercury work with me, please.

M: Why. You work with me.

If I absolutely promise neither I nor anyone else will do anything at all to stop you from being exactly who you want, or from whatever changes you need, will you at least answer my questions?

M: Sometimes. Maybe.

Okay, that’s good enough for me. We’re just curious if it’s a side effect of life in space. Or the educational programming of Dr. Nix. Or, in reference to the behavior of Iapetus—

M: No, that’s backwards.

M: Everyone else seems to get to do whatever they want without limits in space.

M: Why is it weird when I do it?

We want to test for the effects of space alone, so self-induced changes have to be controlled for.

M: Don’t ask what’s in my endocrine system. It’s my endocrine system.

...

M: Fine. It’s testosterone, and I put it there, becuase I wanted it there. Is that enough.

Well. I guess that is what I needed to know.

M: If you promise not to ask me about it again, I’ll give you all the data I catalogued about the changes.

...okay. I get it.

M: You’re starting to get it.

M: Stop treating me like a girl, and I’ll know you’ve really got it.

SUBJECT: Recommended Tactics
ORIGIN: Extracted From Nereid OS

AUTHOR: Ship-Self String Of Pearls Documentation

The String of Pearls is configured for specific outward expressions of gravity (tidal forces). The dissonant rhythm of this reactor makes peaceful tidal communication risky and difficult, be cautious despite the range and penetration this unit is capable of. The electromagnetic conductors have liquified the electrical energy into a corrupting material, a form of theoretical matter that should be used as the primary engagement tool.

As a seducer-saboteur model, the unit’s functions are inherently insidious. Rather than armor, the plastics are infinitely malleable and regenerate. It is safer to take damage head on as an opportunity to infect rather than avoid, but the unit can be contained, restrained, and impeded physically and tidally.

"DAY 3"

SUBJECT: RE: Crucial Information Documents OPEN IMMEDIATELY
ORIGIN: Celestial Mechanics Fleet Main [MISFIRED TRANSMISSION]

AUTHOR: JUNK DATA-[ERROR]

Oh my god. Sorry for getting back to you so late but I was in the middle of a meeting. My phone buzzed so much the director asked me if I needed to take a call. I swear you do this on purpose. I don’t think you really need feedback on your nudes that quickly, even though yes, they’re really really important to me, and I can’t stop thinking about them or getting any of my work done, and my presentation suffered greatly for my lack of focus.

I expect you’re prepared for a little payback? And after I sent you my schedule so that this wouldn’t happen again, even.

Hey. You wouldn’t have asked me for my meeting time so that you could send those to me at the worst possible moment, would you?

I already know the answer to that, so why don’t you tell me this: Why can I never get enough of you?

SUBJECT: 3rd Generation Research
ORIGIN: ERROR [DECODE OVERRIDE]—PARTIAL EXTRACTION

AUTHOR: Celestial Mechanics Candidate Archives

more interested than expected. 05 Saturn and 07 Mercury with the highest results. Still haven’t hit the point of diminishing returns for chemical and implant therapy, but still an order of magnitude below the barometer set by 01 Pluto. Continue combat trials. Defer reassignment to research and supervisory roles. The director’s proposal to personally manage both candidates has passed preliminary assessment and will be deliberated next cycle, wh

"DAY 4"

SUBJECT: Annual Academy Student Rating
ORIGIN: Colony Server Force Extraction

AUTHOR: Memorial Foundation Space Academy Archives

I won’t rate them, they’re still learning.

Given this—Halimede is underperforming based on the expectations that you set out for her. I told you the projections were completely divorced from reality, repeatedly, for this very reason. The authority she may have wielded on Earth means nothing up here.

I should add, because I know you will forget it as early as is convenient, that she is performing very highly compared to her peer group in the specific areas that you seem to consider so highly.

Yes, even compared to your generation 1 Aces. She has the potential to surpass them, so stop asking if she has surpassed the top one yet. I’d prefer to keep those two as separate as possible for interpersonal reasons. Halimede is too competitive and easily impressed to not make me worry about placing her in close contact with the number one ace. Your attempts to put those two in the same room has not gone unnoticed by me. Do you just love drama, Iapetus, or is there something else you believe is more important than the health of our pilots?

SUBJECT: Nix Final Resignation
ORIGIN: Memorial Foundation Evidence Locker

AUTHOR: Special Council For The Prosecution Of Dr. Nix

In these moments, nothing is more painful than being patronized, but you couldn’t even spare me that. I can’t understand why you thought me to be that naive, though—I really did know. They thought a world where the children were together and free and could write their own futures sounded wonderful. We didn’t even get close for them to understand that’s not what they wanted. I knew it from the start. I regret only that I didn’t get further before they noticed.

You are asking for my resignation, but there’s nowhere else for me to go. And there’s nowhere else for those children to go, either. I won’t let you have them, and I won’t let you crush them back to their earthly shapes. What you are asking instead is for me to declare war. So I will do so. And we will see if Earth’s tides are truly powerful enough to crush the new humanity you rejected.

—Nix

"DAY 5"

SUBJECT: Nix Resignation II
ORIGIN: Memorial Foundation Investigative Archives

AUTHOR: MF Celestial Mechanics Research Lead Iapetus

Nix, you fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of pursuing the dream of space. I never sought to correct you; after all, all of the great things you have accomplished are the result of that misunderstanding. You believed that your dream, so universally loved, was loved because we wanted it to come true. This was not the case, of course, even though I think the Memorial Foundation truly believed that they wanted the same as you.

But as the tides of earth turn, they realized in their own hearts that they are not the forefront of humanity’s change, but slaves to its whims. To protect human Culture means to always be at its beck and call, no matter what it becomes. And their dream is one of overwhelming power, that will unlock the last mysteries and cement our authority forever.

What your children achieved with freedom from gravity, we will have the power to determine on our own. I hope you can understand the depths of my gratitude to you for exploring these ideas, that they might one day belong to us.

—Iapetus

SUBJECT: Academy Student Research Records [Mercury]
ORIGIN: Database Leak

AUTHOR: Pilot Operations Manager Europa

Of all the generation III pilots, Mercury is far and away the one best suited to actually be a pilot, to the degree I’d be terrified of giving that position to any other one of Iapetus’s nightmare brats. So there’s absolutely no chance that he’ll be assigned, of course. He really is trying to maximize.

What I want to impress, however, is that Mercury is still someone Iapetus chose personally for the pilot role, when he served himself during the Cold War. Alongside the current second-tier candidate, Saturn. Mercury used to be a lot different—which is obvious. A lot of our pilots used to be a lot different, for reasons only space can explain.

I think reducing it to Mercury’s personal stake is as incomplete a reading as it would be for any of the other pilots in Celestial Mechanics. Some of them even know exactly what they’re doing—Mercury most of all. I don’t think he has petulant grudges against humanity. He’s just very critical.

"DAY 6"

SUBJECT: RE: Let's Run
ORIGIN: %%%Ganymede Intercept%%% DO NOT READ SATURN

AUTHOR: Bridge Information Officer Mercury

I’m completely uninterested in communicating with Iapetus in any capacity that’s not technically. I know my boundaries. But you are very nice to worry. I know you’re not jealous, because you do respect me, but don’t make me worry. It’s what I like about you.

I know you’re worried for me, not about me, and I appreciate that, but I do want to clarify things so you stop asking me about it, even though it is cute, and I do appreciate it. Really. I’m not just saying that. Please don’t hear that in a passive-aggressive voice.

But I’ve been meaning to ask this for a while. Is it okay that I believe in this? It’s imporant to me that you understand that it’s nothing to do with him. So, I worry that means that you don’t understand what it means for me.

I don’t believe humanity needs to be punished. I am fine being human. But I think an important reminder is needed. Not alien in the sense of a foreign other that can bear all of our rage and hatred, but alien in the sense of casting our own features into relief. I think what we see as a result should shame us, but there are many things we need to see.

You’ll probably say you support me and believe in me. Thank you. But you’ll also say that it means something to you, too. And that’s really why I love you.

SUBJECT: String of Pearls Final Specifications
ORIGIN: %%%%%Iapetus Message Intercept

AUTHOR: Celestial Mechanics Ship-Self Design

This is not what we talked about! Not by a mile. You know I don’t actually have a moral compass that does not revolve around what’s cool. So coming from me, just know that it’s my professional opinion that I’m not even sure that this is cool anymore.

Creating a theoretical matter is not even hard under laboratory conditions, and in space it’s easy to sustain it, but the creation of exotic matter like electrotoxins can get really not fun if you aren’t careful.

Since you hate fun, I already know that’s not what you’re after, and you don’t have to level with me or anything, that’s fine. But I do want you to know that this thing is basically designed to degenerate as quickly as possible. The reactor tends towards eversion, and that will require a pilot I really would not want to meet, and a piloting style that no one should ever do. Eventually it’s going to drag the pilot down, and that’s going to be really weird and ugly unless they are immediately destroyed.

Clearly you want that, I mean, you’ve said so, but if they’re going to have so much fun, let me try to convince you that you should set a self-destruct in there. Maybe something cool will happen when she everts and this Ship-Self keeps her anchored in spacetime to mess everything up. If it’s not, don’t you want a backup option?

"DAY 7"

SUBJECT: Why Children?
ORIGIN: Memorial Foundation Space Program Documentation

AUTHOR: Director Nix

They aren’t children anymore, but when they were pilots, they were, for all the obvious reasons that children are more suited to be pilots than adults.

Since the decline of the space program, there have been fewer and fewer waves of new recruits, and the current pilot generations have no successors. Adults are serving as pilots because there are no longer any children in space, and adults should not have to serve as pilots.

It would be cruel to send children to fight a war so that adults don’t have to. Especially as adults have far more powerful tidal forces than children. In their physical and metaphorical manifestation, tides are the measurement of the authority that Culture has over the universe, the light of the soul that turns all impossible things into our dominion.

The gravitational forces of children are weak enough to perceive and engage the Existential Threat without obliterating it instantly, and as a cancer that exerts a subtle influence in the back of our unknowing minds, they are suited to protect us from it.

For this reason, Memorial Foundation has pushed against traditional cultural institutions for engaging Existential Threats with this more humane practice, due to the resiliency of children and detrimental long term affects contact with Existential Threats has on adults in the vast majority of cases.

In some exceptional circumstances, contamination lingers in children. Their gravitational forces never achieve sufficient power to extinguish the Existential Threat without resistance. Without the tidal force to challenge other adults, they remain in limbo, unsuited to anything else.

The remaining small percentage of the original pilot program that continues to reside in space is made of such cases.

SUBJECT: New Eversion Proposal
ORIGIN: Memorial Foundation Central [CLASSIFIED] %%%Extract

AUTHOR: Memorial Foundation Celestial Mechanics

Thank you.

I’m no different from my former colleagues. I think we all want the same thing, ultimately—every one of us. I’d implore you to be forgiving of them, though not of their methods.

Many of us are thankful for the ending of the Cold War. The paranoia and suspicion that accompanied the strength of the Existential Threat in this world, as it fed on the trauma and malaise and discontent of the world after the war.

But I think some of us must have some reservation about the future. In abandoning Existential Threats to address the threats of our home, it will inevitably result in us turning to conflict between humans once more. And in turn, the Existential Threat will thrive.

We are looking for the smoothest, most uncontested future.

I won’t lie. This will not ensure happiness for everyone. In fact, it may be difficult to understate how much it will ensure the opposite for what we will ensure are very few.

But what I’m proposing will ensure the maximum happiness for the maximum number of people.

And what else can we do?

"DAY 8"

SUBJECT: Why Children?
ORIGIN: Pilot Program Training Documentation [Leaked]

AUTHOR: Memorial Foundation Native Sphere Archives

By the end of the space program, with recruitment having stopped almost a decade before the official decommissioning of the space program, all the pilots had become adults. Yet they were recruited as children, and spent the fiercest years of fighting against the Existential Threat as children. Much like criticisms levied at the Scout programs on Earth, it was a motion that Memorial Foundation considered heavily in deciding how to recruit their pilots.

Children have no special piloting qualities, with much weaker tidal authority than adults, who, of course, have the tidal authority to engage other adults. Adults would be stronger more powerfully able to use Ship-Selves. Much more so, the beloved and chosen adults rather than the discarded and flawed children that were chosen.

On Earth, Adults, with much, much stronger tidal forces than children, will destroy the Existential Threat before even comprehending it, and because of this, those threats are able to hide in the world and prey on those who are more weak, such as children, or those who are unchosen even as adults. Those who are strong enough should struggle with other humans, and those who are weaker protect the rest from the trivial threats outside humanity.

Sustained contact with the Existential Threat often exacerbates this effect, and there is a cold twofold reason for delegating who will and who will not confront Existential Threats; children, and the unchosen, bear the burden so adults will not be worn away.

Terminal Interface Logs
Following the completion of each story mission, a terminal interface is shown, detailing status updates and new mission details, as well as occasional text conversation between the player character and another character.

Boot Sequence
Welcome, Provisional Test Pilot Saturn. Your Clearance Is Level 1: testing and maintenance

WARNING: potential damage to cockpit hardware detected WARNING: modifying or tampering with cockpit hardware and/or firmware is strictly prohibited Mercury: Saturn what are you doing. NOTICE: bypass override accepted NOTICE: launch attempt blocked: no handshake with base Saturn: oh hey mercury Saturn: not much WARNING: launch attempt blocked: base handshake spoof detected Saturn: just hacking the OS root of this Ship-Self Saturn: u? NOTICE: base handshake 224%@)(!1$2(!$@FF!( NOTICE: base handshake accepted Mercury: TRYING TO STOP SOME BRAT FROM HIJACKING THE PROTOTYPE, APPARENTLY NOTICE: emergency launch override initiated: prepare for launch in T-minus 120 seconds Saturn: calm down mercury im JUST borrowing it Mercury: I am NOT debating, I am trying to SAVE YOUR LIFE. The commander WILL be furious and he won’t just accept you STEALING the cornerstone project from the designated pilot! Saturn: it's not a big deal, ill have it back before you know it Mercury: This is privileged information but the designated pilot has to launch right this second to get that machine back to Earth before they get here! This is the worst possible time! It couldn't be worse if you planned it! Mercury: Everyone in the system suddenly somehow knows this base's location, and they're heading here NOW. NOTICE: user launch override blocked: denied by base Saturn: oh. wow. weird. how did that happen. NOTICE: user launch override blocked: denied by base Mercury:... NOTICE: user launch override blocked: denied by base Mercury:...YOU PLANNED IT DIDNT YOU Saturn: you forgot an apostrophe NOTICE: base override: remote shutdown in 30 seconds Saturn: no one can prove anything, especially not the designated pilot unconscious in locker 27 Saturn: whooooops looks like they're trying to kick me out huh Mercury: Saturn I KNOW you’re mad but you can’t do this when they catch you it’s going to be so bad can you just PLEASE act like you’re just pranking them there’s still time, I will beg them. Saturn: oh such a worrywort, you've got hours to evacuate to the capital ship, theyll never engage you this far from base, and ill be distracting them Saturn: i have it all figured out Mercury: Except for how you're going to do ANYTHING at ALL to accomplish that with everyone trying to KILL you. NOTICE: base override: remote shutdown in 20 seconds Mercury: Saturn Saturn: try to have a little faith NOTICE: base override: remote shutdown in 15 seconds Mercury: SATURN Saturn: calm down jeez it doesn't take a genius to drive one of these things to the moon, who cares which one of us does it Saturn: or do you think i cant NOTICE: base override: remote shutdown in 10 seconds Mercury: That is not the ISSUE! The commander cares, and you know better than anyone what he's like! NOTICE: base override: remote shutdown in 9 seconds Saturn: iapetus will just have to get used to it lol NOTICE: base override: remote shutdown in 8 seconds Mercury: Saturn what are you trying to prove. NOTICE: base override: remote shutdown in 7 seconds NOTICE: base override: remote shutdown in 6 seconds Saturn: so much mercury NOTICE: base override: remote shutdown in 5 seconds Saturn: but give me a little credit NOTICE: base override: remote shutdown in 4 seconds NOTICE: base override: remote shutdown in 3 seconds Saturn: i have much higher ambitions than just being a bitch ERROR: IFF SEQUENCE MISSING NOTICE: BASE OVERRIDE CANCELED Saturn: i almost got worried for a sec lol Welcome Assigned Pilot. Full Permissions granted. Mercury: Saturn I’m going to die and it will be your fault. Saturn: aw come on Saturn: ill get this to the moon safe and sound Saturn: and let the severance project be complete Saturn: ill be very good, maybe, and do everything im supposed to, maybe Saturn: i know im the second choice but theyd rather have that than nothing right Saturn: very generous of me isnt it Mercury: They will NOT accept that! Saturn: they will sort of have to tho wont they Saturn: if command didnt want me to steal one they shouldnt have benched me indefinitely WARNING: EMERGENCY LAUNCH INITIATED Saturn: let me know when he starts admitting it WARNING: HOSTILE LAUNCH: CATAPULT LOCKS ON: HIGH RISK OF DAMAGE TO YOUR SHIP-SELF Saturn: jeez now theyre just being needy Saturn: mercury isnt it just the worst when someone who doesnt care anymore starts clinging just because you found someone new NOTICE: PREPPING WEAPON SYSTEMS NOTICE: ELECTROTOXIN LEVELS SURGING NOTICE: WEAPONS OPERATIONAL Saturn: so gross lol WARNING: EMERGENCY LAUNCH INITIATED

Sequence 2
083242384320OSROOTCORRUPTION!@!$*!@$

ERROR Mission parameters not detected Mission Results ???? Needed For Gravitational Slingshot Permissions ERROR Navigation shortlist not found ???? >manualinject/Missionresults.txt Mission parameters found! All results perfect and amazing, wow, thank you Saturn. Flight path generating... Fleet Path—Cronus Orbit—Refuel on Planet Ares-Lagrange Colony pass—[CLASSIFIED OPERATION] Earth’s Moon. New Standing Orders coming in... Ares: Guard Celestial Mechanics Fleet Refueling on Ares’s Oxygen Ocean. Ares: Stay out of trouble and do not engage Memorial Foundation troops patrolling in immediate vicinity. Accept Orders? >no Error! Cannot proceed! >Manualinject Accepted! Normalizing gravitational slingshot effect. Prepare for immediate launch to Ares.

Sequence 3
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%OS ROOT CORE REFORMATTING 67% COMPLETE%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

?????Awaiting Flight Path???? InPUT ????? >manualinject/extract/CMflightpath Forcibly extracting coordinates... Coordinates received. Flight path passes through former Pilot training school, Lagrange Colony. Receiving new mission assignments... ERROR—BLOCK FROM SHIP SELF SIDE >manualinject/scanvirus >manualinject/extract 3 Viruses detected and deleted. You have new mission assignments! Colony: Reclaim Tidal Reactor from colony core before Memorial Foundation. Colony: Prevent theft of entire colony by Cradle’s Graces. Accept Orders? >lmao Accepted! Normalizing gravitational slingshot effect. Prepare for immediate launch to Lagrange Colony.

Sequence 4
Root Installation Complete New OS In Operation Celestial Mechanics fleet collecting in the orbit of Earth’s Moon. Request for Assistance Received >Ignore Awaiting Manual Input Of Mission Parameters >"Assist Cradle’s Graces and Celestial Mechanics with the opening of the Gravity Well and changing gravitational constants to make conflict with Earth possible." Mission Created. >"Get in as much trouble as possible with a Memorial Foundation Ace." Mission Created. Calculating Gravitational Slingshot Data from server hack. Ready for launch? >y Accepted! Normalizing gravitational slingshot effect. Prepare for immediate launch to Earth’s Moon.

Chat Logs
"DAY 0"

"DAY 1"

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"DAY 3"

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"DAY 5"

"DAY 6"

"DAY 7"

Terminal Sequence
Iapetus: Well then. Iapetus: I’m quite impressed. Saturn: u dont even sound surprised! Saturn: with how much I fucked everything up Saturn: i thought id get to see you surprised for once Saturn: if you had this much faith in me Saturn: you shouldnt have got so mad Iapetus: I wouldn’t be respecting you very much if I wasn’t prepared with contingency plans. Iapetus: But I’m delighted to not need them. Saturn: haha Saturn: i thought so Saturn: i used to think you knew everything Iapetus: Oh? Good to see you’re understanding the fallibility of your superiors. Saturn: now i understand its because you just dont have any experience not getting what you want Saturn: and you always are sure deep down itll turn out for you Iapetus: You wound me. I’m no stranger to not getting what I want. Iapetus: The world would be a very different place if I did. Saturn: no Iapetus Saturn: not even close Saturn: youve never even come close to "not getting what you want" like I have Iapetus: Forgive me then. If you put it like that, I’m certainly much closer than you. Iapetus: But that’s the reason for this arrangement, of course. Iapetus: You will all get the bodies you wanted so much. Saturn: and earth will have the villain it desires Iapetus: Ah. So you are that clever. Iapetus: What of it? It’s still a mutually beneficial scenario. Iapetus: You and humanity will be so different from each other that you could not possibly understand or communicate with each other. Iapetus: Both sides can fight each other with abandon until the end of time, and never hurt those they love. You will have yours, we will have ours. Iapetus: If you have the will to abandon your own humanity, then abandoning the rest of the human race, who never cared for you in the slightest, should be trivial. Saturn: ah you dont know how relieved that makes me to hear Saturn: you really dont understand Saturn: whether its spite or love Saturn: no way im not sharing this gift

Terminal Sequence
Iapetus: I’m disappointed, Saturn. Iapetus: I expected more from you. Saturn:... Saturn: ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Saturn:ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Saturn: sorry, wait Saturn: that really just is Saturn: the best thing you could have ever said to me Iapetus: Are you sure there’s no bitterness behind that laughter, Saturn? Saturn: you think you can admonish me for not impressing you enough at this point? Iapetus: No sense of failure? Saturn: if you are mad how could I possibly consider that a failure! Iapetus: I was just expecting more. Iapetus: A more cosmic disappointment. Iapetus: A true ruining of the universe. Iapetus: Do you expect me to believe you’re happy with this outcome? Iapetus: Memorial Foundation has such low ambitions. Saturn: You’re underestimating me. Don’t think I wouldn’t pick a future just to spite you. Iapetus: I don’t believe that for a second. Iapetus: What happened to that ambitious person I knew? Iapetus: And finally you have nothing to say. Saturn:are you afraid of what’s coming back to earth that much? Saturn: you really don’t get how satisfying it is to listen to you go on like this Saturn: you Saturn: the mocker of dreams Saturn: hey Iapetus why dont you try being more realistic Iapetus: I have nothing to lose in a return to Earth. Didn’t that bother you to no end? Saturn: i can see how this would truly be the future you fear the most Saturn: you dont have anything to lose Saturn: but when we come back to earth Saturn: are you maybe afraid of what it will gain?

Terminal Sequence
Iapetus: What is this, Saturn? Saturn: the bad ending Saturn: for u Iapetus: You did this. Saturn: aw im blushing. Saturn: i didnt think youd let me take credit Saturn: im still all ears though Saturn: go ahead and tell me all about how i dontt know what im doing Saturn: and how I cant possibly understand the consequences Saturn: it was a little bit of an accident honestly Saturn: but its not like i didnt understand what i was doing Saturn: you knew all along I didnt have any loyalty Saturn: but you thought you could trick me into doing what you wanted anyway Saturn: so should you really be surprised things turned out this way Saturn: you knew it was a possibility right Iapetus: You know, don’t you, that this ending will be infinitely worse for you than it will be for me? Iapetus: The splitting of humanity... very well, I know that’s of little concern to you. Iapetus: What comes next will be true war, and in that, we will be insurmountable. Iapetus: If humanity can’t be reconciled, and the enemy cannot be banished. Iapetus: You will be cut out like a cancer. Saturn: u know im not really an optimist Saturn: i dont have any of that hope for the future Saturn: but you know Saturn: if you were betting on me being spiteful enough to throw away humanity completely Saturn: you can bet im spiteful enough to prove you wrong Saturn: and the world you despise could be real