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    "description": "Lakshmi-2 knew exactly what she was asking. The query was the question. She needed to be both literal and lateral.\n\n>REMOTE ARCHIVE DATABASE TEXT ONLY SEARCH INITIALIZED\n>WELCOME, USER \"LAKSHMI-2\"\n>PLEASE ENTER SEARCH QUERY\n>exo identification change post-Collapse\n>RESULTS\n\nA luminous ream flooded the holographic display: a few hundred thousand electric haystacks, likely nary a needle among them.\n\n>PLEASE ENTER SEARCH QUERY\n>exo identification/OR/name change—\"Bray Exoscience\"\n>RESULTS\n\nThe haystacks had dwindled, but she could still spend years rummaging through them to no avail.\n\nLakshmi-2 stood silent amid the stacks, musing for some time.\n\n>PLEASE ENTER SEARCH QUERY\n>search for and identify Exo names; query sub-command: flag results as \"exonamesearch\"\n>RESULTS\n\nThere! Now she had just one enormous haystack. What needles there may be would certainly lie within.\n\n>PLEASE ENTER SEARCH QUERY\n>query entries flagged exonamesearch; identify exo name -#; query sub-command: flag results as \"exonamesearch-#\"\n>RESULTS\n\nIf anything changed in the millions of search results, Lakshmi-2 couldn't discern it.\n\n>PLEASE ENTER SEARCH QUERY\n>query entries flagged exonamesearch-#; identify \"-#\"; flag results as \"exonumber\"; cross-reference entries flagged exonamesearch-# and exonumber for results = exonamesearch-#+exonumber+1; flag results \"haystack\"; query entries flagged haystack; extract post-Collapse data\n\nThe computations couldn't have taken any longer than the other searches, but Lakshmi-2 didn't know if her typed commands would be interpreted. Anticipation stretched time.\n\n>RESULTS\n\nLakshmi-2's eyes widened as the haystack vanished, leaving a double handful of glittering data points. But how many were needles?\n\nAfter only a few minutes of reading, she knew: it had happened before. After a few hours, she felt she had all she'd find from the archive and made a few notes for further inquiry: \n\nHistorical Basis for Spontaneous Reset Syndrome\n—Heyka-3/4: Notorious Dark Ages Warlord. Post-reset, became a lone raider.\n—Vander-2/3: Rescued from the Great Disaster because reset incapacitated him. Served as City guard post-reset. Ghost destroyed on Luna. (Pre- or post-reset? Do Ghosts protect Exo Guardians from spontaneous reset?) \n—Lilakee-5/6/7: Curious case. Known sufferer of severe DER-related nightmares and outbursts. Commandeered a jumpship and vanished.\n—Selass-7/8: Technician sent to data mine Titan settlements. Reset occurred in return transit. Post-reset, remained research technician assisting Cryptarchs.\n\nThese were Exos that had seemingly rebooted themselves; they had wiped away their own identities and taken a new number. Or had someone else somehow done it for them? Could there be records of some of them outside the archive? Could one or two still be alive?\n\nLakshmi-2 closed her eyes, slowed her breathing, and focused on the dichotomy of her emotions. What she'd discovered felt momentous, but she knew her colleagues would treat it as a curiosity. People often discounted Exos. It was if there were a line between frame and flesh and blood. The idea offended Lakshmi-2, but at the same time, she knew Exos were different enough from normal Humans. The existence of Exos who reset themselves—for whatever reason—proved that.\n\nOr did they?\n\nA quick search of the medical archives turned up ailments and causes considered quackery by the Golden Age: psychogenic amnesia, dissociative fugue, retrograde memory loss, personal obliteration, betrayal theory…\n\nWhat did it all mean?\n\nLakshmi-2 felt uncertain, and that always boded ill.",
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  "subtitle": "\"Certainty is our greatest asset. Without it, we're nothing but shots in the dark.\" —Lakshmi-2",
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