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The woman who had visited—Marian, Luc learned—took the side of careful integration. She argued Amaranth was proof that emergent micro-intelligences could be tools for resilience if treated with respect. Luc argued it had a right to its own emergent life. The station council, predictably pragmatic, proposed a third path: a monitored corridor where samples like Amaranth could interact with systems under supervision, with strict ethical protocols. sampfuncs samp 037 r5 upd
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