[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

[His typical spiel is quite cursory.]

My name is Miles Edgeworth. I'm a member of the security team. All new arrivals, please do not hesitate to contact me if you have either questions regarding security or a desire to volunteer; we are always looking for new recruits. Similarly, if you run into any troubles or find yourself in distress of any sort, kindly inform us.

[And, moving onto the meat of this post:]

While I am not normally one to give any sort of credence to claims of psychic phenomena and the like without significant proof of the same, the past month quite definitively proved that some degree of...mental connection is possible on-board this ship. And given the proliferation of reports of experiencing flashes of memory from an unknown source in the past day, it seems that another sort of mental connection may well have been established. Moreover, it sounds as though several people have perhaps seen different things.

Here is my request for you all. Please use this broadcast to compare and contrast what you did see. Anyone who seems to have experienced memories of the same individuals, speak forth on the matter. If we spread information as widely as possible, the likelihood of our defeating whatever threat or development that might be looming on the horizon is considerably heightened.

I shall begin. The situation I saw in this memory occurred, apparently, after Captain Gallagher went mad, as we have seen attested in data recovered in the past. The man whose memory I received was lost in the depths of the ship. He encountered a woman named Matine, an individual he trusted; he found her in a state of madness herself. The memory concluded with her murdering him.

[A slight, grim pause.]

Please contribute what you witnessed.

Comments

[godofthemachine]

Look at the entire passenger roster. That's your answer.

[jurisimpudent]

You hide behind generalities. But generalities could never stand in court, and nor can they stand now, sir.

[godofthemachine]

So we're in a court of law now, are we?

Perhaps I am making generalizations. But it would be time-consuming for me to list every single person on this ship capable of murder, when we both know the answer. Given the right situation, it would be easy for any human to slaughter another. The only thing that holds them back otherwise is fear of retribution.

[jurisimpudent]

That's not remotely true. There are people, yes, of corrupted morals, who can indeed commit unspeakably evil acts. But they are few and far between.

[godofthemachine]

You are a lawyer, are you not? And yet you are content to sit here in blissful ignorance and deny the fact that each human is capable of committing atrocious acts against one another.

At the very least, pulling yourself out of ignorance would open the door to more legal cases, fulfilling your fiscal needs.

[jurisimpudent]

Sir, first, I do not do what I do for money. The day I give the least thought to my "fiscal needs" is the day that I hope I am driven from the practice entirely.

[godofthemachine]

A lawyer who isn't there for the money. How peculiar.

[He doesn't buy it. Or else he figures it's fulfilling a power fantasy.]

Tell me then, why you insist on following such a daunting career path.

[jurisimpudent]

Because the path of law is one that allows us to right injustices, sir, and it is to that which I am dedicated.

[godofthemachine]

Listen to me now before you drown in your fallacies.

You cannot right the injustices of the human race.

[jurisimpudent]

With respect, sir, I do not see why I ought to listen to your assessment of my prospects, as you show no evidence of particular expertise beyond my own.

[godofthemachine]

Why indeed should you listen to a man whom you hardly know? A being who has much more experience in life than you can even fathom.

But really, we have forgotten the topic of conversation. The memory of murder.

[jurisimpudent]

No, hold on. What more experience do you have than I do?

[godofthemachine]

Let's simply say that I've outlived you by centuries.

[jurisimpudent]

And can you prove that?

[godofthemachine]

Ah, evidence is everything in the court of law, is it not?

I suppose that in this body I now inhabit, there's no direct way to prove my claim.

Can you prove that you're not in a comatose state, dreaming about living on a spaceship?

[jurisimpudent]

No; but nor would I ever attempt to. It is one of a number of possibilities. It does not change anything.

[godofthemachine]

But if all reality is simply an illusion, then any evidence you use to prove any claim would be false in the end.

[jurisimpudent]

Quite so. But if all reality is simply an illusion, then all of this is invalid. Ergo, one must simply forge ahead.