Thomas-Delta's revelation shattered the carefully negotiated power-sharing arrangement in an instant. According to his claims, he had been operating independently within the organization's infrastructure for nearly two decades. He had been running his own experiments. He had been his own faction, answerable to no one, pursuing his own agenda.
"What agenda?" Barry asked during the emergency meeting that convened immediately after receiving Thomas-Delta's message.
"The preservation of human intelligence," Thomas-Delta's recorded message explained. "I realized approximately twenty years ago that both Margaret's vision and Thomas-Prime's vision were fundamentally flawed. Margaret believed that freedom was what humans needed. Thomas-Prime believed that control was what humans needed. But what
