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•  CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE S.M. AND THE M.E.

s.m WERE THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE OLD TIMES - A GREAT EQUALIZER, KEEPING THE BALANCE OF POWER

m.e. EVOLVED OUT OF THE MASTERS - THE OUTCASTS WHO DECIDED TO LEAVE THE OLD WAYS BEHIND,

thus marked traitors by the rest of the S.M.

BUT THEY WERE TOO POWERFUL AND TOO SECRETIVE TO BE DESTROYED
even by the Masters

IT WAS THE FIRST TIME - the FORMER shadow masters started to work together
THEY FORMULATED THEIR OWN GRAND PLAN 

they TRY TO MANIPULATE THE S-TIP to SAVE US FROM DESTRUCTION

but the outer peril may be surpassed by the INNER ONE - a memetic hazard:

WE MAY BE SPARED FROM BEING DISSOLVED INTO NOTHINGNESS
by the destroyer

BUT INSTEAD WILL MELT INTO A FORMLESS MASS OF INSANITY OF INTERCONNECTED
MINDS

devoid of persnonality, the hive mind
no longer human