The madness is required to access the power and to make it work effectively. The Hood is just a high-functioning madman.




SHe's havce to be assessed a sa dancer to herself or others before she got the room. Residential psychiatric care is expensive."

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Where you get into irony territory is that the Psychic Samurai may just have a partial ability to take over the Hood's job, since she's used to seeing visions. She would have to get used to way more of them coming in much faster, but she just did that when the Parodyverse was collapsing. The hardest part for her is she likes to remain grounded somewhat, and she would have to give that up.

The Hood really only sees current consequences for past alterations. He may even be doing those alterations to see what happens and then reversing them, on an instinctive level, all the time. Anyway, his multiple-personality origins seem to be required to interface with the abilitiy and the Asylum.

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Certainly the temporary portals that EEE generates are expensive to make. ITC's more permanent gateways are vastly expensive investments out of EEE's financial league.

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Imagine if you had to build an entire ship around one of those gateways because of the power requirements and stresses involved. And if you don't know what exists where you're going, you could be throwing one of those expensive ships after another into a pointless and destructive journey.

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Not to mention that the Alliance is aware that if they grew their technology independently and without interference, and it's so advanced, it's only logical that there's another "Alliance" in the next galaxy over, and they could be even more advanced. They could be making a violent, conquering, highly advanced culture suddenly aware of their existence.

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Which means, of course, if they explore the next galaxy, they have to do so in a stealthy way that is difficult to trace. Attempt to observe them at a distance first, and see how they behave and what they're capable of. Which is even more expensive, because they're using all those resources for something that might not produce profit for decades or centuries.

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We pick up what Liu Xi is up to in the very next chapter. She's certainly not looking to join Kahn in his cosmic suicide. And she did have access to those Xander-craftings.

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Now that she's out of that hole, though, she can give Exu his elements back. If she can successfully negotiate with the Dreamer first.

Out of that dimension, she has no Doomherald to return the matter to. This may be a problem later.

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I just realized that if I follow the curve of these large story arcs year-to-year, my prediction has pretty much come into play that each successive one has been more powerful and causing more damage to the Parodyverse.

Peril creep.

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Meanwhile, Faite's personal story arc is she's trying to rejoin humanity and bond with, and better understand, new friends that she made two-or-three story arcs ago.

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The conclusion might be that the office holders like Lisa (and maybe the minor ones) might start to wonder if Faite is getting distracted and not doing her job.

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Yes, that does sound like a tie-in. Maybe.

There's another wrinkle about the PV's condition due in UT#360.