Iris Video Transcripts
THIS IS MY FINAL ENTRY, AND I AM LEFT WITH ONE HOPE
THAT ONE DAY, SOMEONE, ANYONE IS AROUND TO WITNESS THIS WARNING
{/IF YOU ARE THAT WITNESS, AND IT SEEMS WE PINNED ALL OURS HOPES ON THIS SINGLE
SUICIDAL PLAN/}
KNOW THAT A THOUSAND OTHER PLANS WERE TRIED AND FAILED
{/MILLIONS OF BRAVE AND HONORED SOULS DIED TRYING TO AVERT THIS TERRIBLE,
DESPERATE SITUATION/}
KNOW THAT ENERGETIC AND TENACIOUS AS LIFE IS
IT HAS AN ANTITHESIS JUST AS POWERFUL
IT IS THAT THING THAT WE MUST OBLITERATE
We may have been fools to think that all intelligence follows
the rules we've set
The Flood is no idiot parasite
NO SIMPLE INFECTION TO BE CURED AND CAUTERIZED
It has a center, a Mind
AND THAT DISCOVERY GAVE US A WAY TO FIGHT IT
BUT WHEN THE MIND REALIZED WE HAD ITS MEASURE
it spoke to us
MOCKINGLY, DISMISSIVELY
It has done this before
ELSEWHERE
HOW MANY BILLIONS WILL DIE BEFORE WE TURN THE TIDE
With every world that perishes, its army grows!
WE'VE TRIED EVERY MEASURE AVAILABLE
RETREAT, ATTACK, DEFENSE, IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE
How do we fight a limitless thing that wishes only to embrace you?
The atrocity we plan, the last resort:
I pray that it doesn't come to that.
I PRAY THAT THE CONTENDER SUCCEEDS WHERE OTHERS HAVE FAILED
The Conservation Measure is the only sweet note in this
discordant symphony we've arranged.
{/It's the only constructive activity in decades of destruction/}
{/Researching the adversary as we protect the worthy/}
We know that the Flood's biology is alien enough that it must be extragalactic
in origin.
But where did it come from?
{/And why did it come here?/}
The anomalous world is in a perilous location beyond the line.
{/The secrets it holds must be preserved/}
{/Plans within plans within plans/}
The inhabitants; these unique denizens, must be researched.
They may hold answers to our own mysteries.
{/What irony that we discovered this treasure, only at the end of things,/}
{/But what fortune that we still had time to save them/}
The thing we built on that world will vouchsafe their lives,
{/But perhaps one day it will be used for its intended purpose/}
If the plan succeeds, and they are saved, it will be a good world.
If the plan fails,
{/And the adversary succeeeds/}
it will remain an enigma forever
{/With no-one left to reclaim it./}
