[Merris]

You may have heard that the University was closely associated with Enyo:Nomad in the past.

It's true that they funded some of our earlier shape research but I have been keen to extricate us from their activities.

The University should be independent; free to conduct its own research for the betterment of Markov Geist.  

It's vital that we remove any impediments to the acquisition of knowledge.

Enyo:Nomad tried to keep their shape technology open and fair but eventually their drive to profit took over.  They started to make decisions about information flow.

Their morality was inherently selfish, even though they didn't realise it at the time.

Now, so much destruction has been caused; Petrov's Shard is not exempt from this.

You have done...questionable things but still Brightling believes that you are the greatest hope this city has.

I hope very much that we are not mistaken.

The shape is, still, full of mystery.  I hate to see it turned into a bland vehicle for political control or a simple commercial network.  It is an expression of everything we can accomplish: we should handle it with humility and dignity.

Our children are born into it, it is inescapable.  We are the neurons: the shape provides the synapses.

