<div class="floatright">(http://orig10.deviantart.net/3f32/f/2012/002/5/6/dust_and_smoke_by_shimmering_sword-d4l4dg7.jpg)</div>Name: Darclight<br/>Where: Malta, Stormwatch HQ<br/>Doing What: COMMAND STUFF, IT'S VERY TECHNICAL YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND<br/>Milestones: Riders on the Storm and []<br/>1 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 15xp (of 35xp total)<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body"></div></div><hr/><br/>"Auxilia?"  Darclight prompted the gynoid.  "Take over is not the phrase I would use.  That's Recluse's plan, but it's not mine.  If the human governments of the world wish to continue on as they have, then they will be more than free to with my plan, something Recluse would not permit.  What I am attempting to establish is-"  And then he dropped in the middle of the sentence.  "Everyone, take five, we will reconvene here after that."  The armorsuit had noticed Ace missing from the meeting, as well as Sofiya, now.  It wasn't hard for him to follow the latter - all the heat she threw off from being a miniature sun was entirely too easy to track with his sensors.  He arrived on the roof to find them talking.<br/><br/>"Well said."  He figured he would probably surprise Sofiya - Ace would be a different matter.  "Ace.  There is...something I left out of my little delivery there, and for that I apologize.  Sometimes, in my wish to see things changed, I forget of all the things I would not alter."<br/><br/>The armor carried on.  "I said that governments acted only for their own interest, and not for the benefit of all, as you might be accustomed to.  That is true here; I will not take it back.  A hurtful truth is truer than an assuring lie, no matter how hurtful it might be.  But, I speak<em>merely</em>of governments of men.  Men themselves...there is much good about them, though at times they struggle to do what is right, for fear of what rightness will bring to them.  There are those out there - like Recluse - who would see greatness and truth and justice stamped out, and when you are a mortal man, it can be intimidating to face down such foes."<br/><br/>Then the speech turned.  "But they are capable; make no mistake.<em>I have witnessed their capacity for courage, and though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye."</em>And that is why we are here, and that is why we must stay - we are an inspiration to them, a guiding light when all others cease to burn.  I will not pretend that it will be easy, the effort, the struggle, the victory.  But the right is on our side, and right is mightier than you dare dream.  I have seen it, from city to city, across this world.  People will hear us, if we but stand forward and lead."  And in those words, he sounded less...robotic.  More human, more understanding, coming from a place that few who called themselves<em>machine</em>had.  "Come.  We haven't much time.  The children of Ellie Tudor need protecting."