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− | This page summarizes the entire story, volume by volume and chapter by chapter, for those who want a refresher on events. It also includes the names of all future volumes and interludes, | + | This page summarizes the entire story, volume by volume and chapter by chapter, for those who want a refresher on events. It also includes the names of all future volumes and interludes, as released by Hieronym many years ago. |
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: ''This perhaps describes the position Ryouko finds herself in.'' | : ''This perhaps describes the position Ryouko finds herself in.'' | ||
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− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|1|A Wish}}|[[Ryouko]] goes to school, dissatisfied with her life and feeling out of place in a world where her family at home and friends at school seem to enjoy the near-utopian [[Earth]]. At school, [[Mandatory Session]] is interrupted by the appearance of [[Tomoe Mami]] nearby, who has taken a detour to check the school for potential recruits with [[Kyubey]], who claims he has found one. The sighting leaves [[Ryouko]] dwelling on the remote possibility of becoming a [[magical girl]], distracting her enough that she unthinkingly agrees to go on a date with another boy from class. [[Simona]], one of her friends, sees that she's unhappy and follows her out to a riverbank with a view of the [[starport]].<br> |
− | <br>[[Mami]], on the other hand, surreptitiously visits [[Kyouko]] in her church to discuss [[the Cult]]'s discovery of irregularities in the [[grief cube]] supply chain. She agrees to look into it and departs, only to encounter a [[demon]] spawn on her way back. At the riverbank, [[Simona]] is about to confess her feelings for [[Ryouko]], when they are suddenly attacked by | + | <br>[[Mami]], on the other hand, surreptitiously visits [[Kyouko]] in her church to discuss [[the Cult]]'s discovery of irregularities in the [[grief cube]] supply chain. She agrees to look into it and departs, only to encounter a [[demon]] spawn on her way back. At the riverbank, [[Simona]] is about to confess her feelings for [[Ryouko]], when they are suddenly attacked by demons. [[Ryouko]] manages to keep the both of them alive for a short while before getting trapped. At the moment she attempts to sacrifice herself to save [[Simona]], [[Mami]] saves them both, and along with [[Kyubey]] explains that [[Ryouko]] has the [[potential]] to make a [[wish]] and become a [[magical girl]]. {{Quote|"I wish I could leave Earth," Ryouko said, looking down, "and explore this world. I want to go where no one else has gone before and find my place in this universe."}} |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] becomes a [[magical girl]]. | In short: [[Ryouko]] becomes a [[magical girl]]. | ||
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− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|2|Fantasma}}|[[Mami]], with some reluctance, separates [[Simona]] from [[Ryouko]] and lets [[Kyouko]] take over the immediate training. [[Kyouko]] runs her through the ropes quickly, learns that [[Ryouko]] has an unprecedented 200km teleportation range, and assigns herself as a mentor along with [[Mami]], who has in the meantime realized that [[Simona]] had a crush on [[Ryouko]]. [[Mami]] advises [[Simona]] not to tell [[Ryouko]] how she feels. [[Ryouko]] fights her first [[demon]]s with [[Kyouko]], and afterwards [[Patricia von Rohr]] shows them a pile of [[grief cube]]s she found, indicating the [[demon]] spawn was deliberate. The [[Incubator]]s swear off responsibility, and all [[Ryouko]] can remember is seeing a woman in the distance just beforehand. [[Kyouko]] promises to investigate. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] discovers that someone deliberately spawned the [[demon]]s which led to her [[contract]]. | In short: [[Ryouko]] discovers that someone deliberately spawned the [[demon]]s which led to her [[contract]]. | ||
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− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|3|Mami Watches a Movie, Part One}}|Disguised, [[Mami]] attends the movie ''[[Akemi]]''. It depicts [[Homura|Homura's]] upbringing in an orphanage and [[wish]], then [[Sayaka|Sayaka's]] death, which triggers a vision of the [[Goddess]] for Homura, changing her personality markedly. It then moves on to [[Yuma|Yuma's]] joining, and the new [[Mitakihara Four]] founding the [[MSY]]. The movie then montages through the [[MSY|MSY's]] history to jump ahead to the [[Cephalopod]] first attack on [[Aurora]], after which [[Homura]] rallies the [[MSY]] to send a massive force of [[magical girl]]s to [[New Athens]] to stop the next attack. |
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− | In short: ''[[Akemi | + | In short: ''[[Akemi]]'' depicts [[Homura|Homura's]] life up until [[New Athens]].}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|4|Mami Watches a Movie, Part Two}}|''[[Akemi]]'' depicts [[Mami]] and [[Homura]] directing a surprise assault on the [[Cephalopod]]s at [[New Athens]]. Initially the battle goes well, and the [[Human]] forces on the ground rally, but the aliens deploy stronger measures in turn. [[Homura]] goes out to personally lead the counterattack, but the combination of stealth armor and orbital strikes is too much, and she falls in battle... only to find that her [[soul gem]] refuses to fill up with [[grief]], preventing her from being taken away by the [[Law of Cycles]], to her despair. [[Homura]] then suddenly heals from her wounds, and her white wings are replaced by huge, horrible black wings. Almost entirely on her own power, she leads the counterattack to victory, at the end personally redirecting an orbital superweapon back at the [[Cephalopod]] [[fleet]].<br> |
− | <br>In the final scene of the movie, [[Kyouko]] argues | + | <br>In the final scene of the movie, [[Kyouko]] argues that the battle proves [[Homura|Homura's]] faith has merit to an unconvinced [[Mami]], only for both of them to be interrupted by [[Homura|Homura's]] arrival. [[Homura]] announces her resignation from the [[MSY]], leaving one of her [[The Ribbon|ribbons]] with them, and declares that she is leaving to look for her [[goddess]] and will protect the world another way. The movie over, [[Mami]] goes to leave [[Earth]], beginning her endless work anew with her Version Two [[TacComp]] [[Machina]]. |
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− | In short: ''[[Akemi | + | In short: ''[[Akemi]]'' depicts [[Homura|Homura's]] transformation, victory, and disappearance at [[New Athens]].}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|5|Family}}|[[Kyouko]] and [[Ryouko]] tell [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] parents and grandfather that she has contracted, to their horror. [[Kyouko]] defends [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] choice, and explains some of the [[magical girl]] system to them, though they prove to know more than most. Before [[Ryouko]] goes to bed, [[Kuroi Nakase|her mother]] comes to talk with her, expressing her disappointment that [[Ryouko]] lied when she promised not to [[contract]], but also just talking with her. After watching [[Ryouko]] [[transform]] and discussing her weapon, the arbalest, she leaves [[Ryouko]] with the request to tell her [[Ryouko's grandmother|grandmother]] that her family was "sorry", should [[Ryouko]] meet her.<br> |
− | <br>After [[Ryouko]] falls asleep, [[Kyouko]] sticks around to gather information on her family situation as per procedure. [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] grandfather [[Kuroi Abe]] willingly helps her out, | + | <br>After [[Ryouko]] falls asleep, [[Kyouko]] still sticks around to gather information on her family situation as per procedure. [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] grandfather [[Kuroi Abe]] willingly helps her out, telling her that [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] parents are near divorce, though [[Ryouko]] doesn't realize it, and that they know so much about magic because they're researchers. He also mentions that [[Ryouko]] has an [[Kuroi Nana|aunt]] she doesn't know about. That night, [[Ryouko]] dreams of an old encounter with a [[magical girl]], and finds that she still has the bracelet the girl gave her. She also recalled an old memory of her [[Ryouko's grandmother|grandmother]] talking about [[Kuroi Nana|her aunt]], though she doesn't understand it. After talking to [[Simona]] and her family a bit, [[Ryouko]] spends the morning reading through a swath of informational messages about her new life. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] tells her family she has [[contract|contracted]].}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] tells her family she has [[contract|contracted]].}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|6|Military}}|[[Mami]] remembers the [[Mitakihara Four]]'s celebration of [[October Three]] with [[Homura]], shortly before the [[Contact War]]. The four of them poke fun at each other—including about [[Homura]]'s secret pupil and [[Kyouko]]'s "transgressions"—and eventually [[Mami]] suggests that they take a long vacation from the [[MSY]] together, only for the others to reluctantly shoot the idea down. In the present, [[Mami]] arrives at the [[starport]] with her bodyguards and meets with [[Marianne Francois]], her intelligence officer, who she instructs to secretly investigate the [[grief cube]] supply chain as [[Kyouko]] asked. Later arriving at [[Carthago Shipyard]] via scramjet, then space elevator, then [[Navigator]], she attends a meeting of the [[General Staff]].<br> |
− | + | <br>During the meeting, the Chair of the [[General Staff]] [[Roland Erwynmark]] reveals that the [[Cephalopods]] have been discovered constructing a [[wormhole stabilizer]] in the [[Kepler-37 System]], at the tip of the ongoing [[Euphratic Incursion]]. This would allow the aliens to directly transport reinforcements into the system, within [[Blink]] distance of the [[Core World]] [[Optatum]], and so an immediate [[MagOps]] operation is planned to destroy it. [[Erwynmark]] then announces that he's appointing [[Mami]] as a special [[Euphratic Sector]] commander, over some opposition from her opponents on the Staff. | |
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In short: [[Mami]] is promoted, and tasked with destroying the discovered [[wormhole stabilizer]].}} | In short: [[Mami]] is promoted, and tasked with destroying the discovered [[wormhole stabilizer]].}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|7|Southern Group}}|[[Kyouko]] wakes up (with [[Kishida Maki]] at her side) and while making the rounds at her [[Kyouko's Church|church]] discovers that [[Maki]] has painted the [[Goddess]] with pink hair, a previously unknown trait. However, [[Kyouko]] has to immediately leave to see [[Yuma]] about the saturated [[grief cube]]s incident. On the way, [[Kyouko]] remembers when she first met [[Yuma]], in a confrontation with the [[Southern Group]] shortly after [[Homura]] had first joined the team, before her personality change. [[Kyouko]] had immediately taken sympathy on her, and telepathically invited her to switch sides, though the very young [[Yuma]] had angrily refused after [[Kyouko]] insulted [[Oriko]], who had saved [[Yuma|Yuma's]] life.<br> |
− | <br>[[Kyouko|Kyouko's]] reverie is briefly interrupted by [[Maki]], who tells her the idea of the pink hair came from [[Shirou Asaka]]. [[Kyouko]] then further recalls the next two times she saw [[Yuma]]: first, months later after [[Sayaka|Sayaka's]] death, in a chance encounter at a store where she had revealed she was doing "research" with [[Oriko]], and second, two years after that, when [[Kyouko]], [[Mami]], and [[Homura]] had saved her after the deaths of [[Oriko]] and the rest of | + | <br>[[Kyouko|Kyouko's]] reverie is briefly interrupted by [[Maki]], who tells her the idea of the pink hair came from [[Shirou Asaka]]. [[Kyouko]] then further recalls the next two times she saw [[Yuma]]: first, months later after [[Sayaka|Sayaka's]] death, in a chance encounter at a store where she had revealed she was doing "research" with [[Oriko]], and second, two years after that, when [[Kyouko]], [[Mami]], and [[Homura]] had saved her after the deaths of [[Oriko]] and the rest of her team. After that, they had [[Befriending|Befriended]] her, and once [[Yuma]] recovered she joined them as one of the [[Mitakihara Four]]. Eventually Yuma had told them what had really happened the night [[Oriko]], and they resolved to keep it secret.<br> |
− | <br>As [[Kyouko]] arrives at [[MSY]] [[Governmental Affairs]] to see [[Yuma]], she | + | <br>As [[Kyouko]] arrives at [[MSY]] [[Governmental Affairs]] to see [[Yuma]], she recalls finally [[Homura]] telling [[Yuma]] that the [[Goddess]] provided an afterlife for [[magical girl]]s, the only time [[Kyouko]] ever heard her say it out loud. |
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In short: [[Kyouko]] remembers how [[Yuma]] ended up joining the [[Mitakihara Four]].}} | In short: [[Kyouko]] remembers how [[Yuma]] ended up joining the [[Mitakihara Four]].}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|8|Church and State}}|[[Yuma]] runs out to greet [[Kyouko]] like an older sister, herself having taken on a nine-year-old form, and [[Kyouko]] is greeted by her Goverance partner [[MG]] as well. [[Kyouko]] and [[Yuma]] then meet privately to discuss the irregularities in the [[grief cube]] supply chain, and the further reports of [[magical girl]]s going missing, and [[Yuma]] agrees to investigate. When [[Kyouko]] brings up the [[grief cube]] incident with [[Ryouko]], [[Yuma]] immediately deduces that the [[grief cube]]s were super-saturated with grief—a possible state kept very secret, though they don't have a sample to prove it. Before leaving, [[Kyouko]] recommends that [[Yuma]] visit [[The Ribbon]], but she demures just as [[Mami]] always does too, instead giving her an [[Incubator]] plushie.<br> |
− | <br>[[Kyouko]] checks with [[Kyubey]] briefly about the | + | <br>[[Kyouko]] checks with [[Kyubey]] briefly about the cubes, but he does not provide any new information, and so [[Kyouko]] ends up back at [[Kyouko's church|her church]], where she meets with [[Patricia von Rohr]] and [[Shirou Asaka]]. [[Patrica]] reveals that she kept some of the [[grief cube]]s from the incident after sensing something strange about them, and [[Kyouko]] tells her to inform [[Yuma]] through the plushie, which turned out to be enchanted as a [[telepathy]]-enhancer. [[Kyouko]] also gets [[Asaka]] to agree to share the details of the [[Goddess]]'s hair with the [[Theological Council]], before going to give a sermon on the terrible fate the [[Goddess]] saves [[magical girl]]s from, and to announce they'll be updating the statue of the [[Goddess]]. |
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− | In short: [[Kyouko]] and [[Yuma]] discover that the [[grief cube]]s | + | In short: [[Kyouko]] and [[Yuma]] discover that the [[grief cube]]s from the incident were super-saturated.}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|9|Echoes}}|[[Ryouko]] arrives at [[Kyouko's church]], which holds [[MSY]] living quarters and local military facilities underground, in order to get her military upgrades. [[Patricia]] and [[Asaka]] guide her through the process. [[Patricia]] notes that [[Ryouko]] has an extremely unusual genetic profile, requiring some adjustments to the process, and then begins the procedure. [[Ryouko]] watches in a semi-VR experience as the procedure installs a [[TacComp]], removing implants that are useless for [[magical girl]]s, and installs a [[Permanent Awareness Module]], among other things. Testing out her new capabilities, [[Ryouko]] sends [[Asaka]] a memory snapshot of the [[magical girl]] who gave her the bracelet she rediscovered after her [[contract]]. [[Asaka]] reacts oddly, but continues on to show [[Ryouko]] the armory and get her equipped with the required basics.<br> |
− | <br>Then she cuts the tour short, instead bringing [[Ryouko]] to the [[Ribbon Chamber]]. At the [[Ribbon]], [[Ryouko]] finds herself in a confusing vision, seeing among other things [[Yuma]] at the death of [[Oriko]], [[Simona]] looking directly at her on her first day of class, [[Asaka]] receiving instruction from the [[Goddess]] to wait for the girl who sent her the memory [[Ryouko]] did, the [[Goddess]] herself briefly showing her face and telling [[Ryouko]] to keep it a secret, and the death of [[Kyouko]] on some sort of mission involving submarines. Both of them watching, [[Patricia]] comments to [[Clarisse | + | <br>Then she cuts the tour short, instead bringing [[Ryouko]] to the [[Ribbon Chamber]]. At the [[Ribbon]], [[Ryouko]] finds herself in a confusing vision, seeing among other things [[Yuma]] at the death of [[Oriko]], [[Simona]] looking directly at her on her first day of class, [[Asaka]] receiving instruction from the [[Goddess]] to wait for the girl who sent her the memory [[Ryouko]] did, the [[Goddess]] herself briefly showing her face and telling [[Ryouko]] to keep it a secret, and the death of [[Kyouko]] on some sort of mission involving submarines. Both of them watching, [[Patricia]] comments to [[Clarisse]] that for a few reasons, including [[Clarisse]]'s presence, she's not that surprised by the vision. |
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− | In short: [[Ryouko]] | + | In short: [[Ryouko]] gets a vision from the [[Goddess]].}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|10|Brigadier}}|[[Ryouko]], brought before the [[Theological Council]] to relate her vision, talks over her vision of [[Kyouko]]'s death, determining with them it was on a colony world and that what actually killed [[Kyouko]] was likely a laser, not a misfire from the submarines. She keeps the rest of the vision from them, though [[Asaka]] deduces easily that she saw the [[Goddess]]. [[Asaka]] goes on to explain the circumstances of her own vision, where she met again with her dead friend [[Alice]], whose death under her command had torn her apart. Now that she has recovered and her vision is resolved, [[Asaka]] tells [[Ryouko]] she plans to return to the front with [[Mami]], who has just been promoted.<br> |
− | <br>Later, [[Kyouko]] talks with [[Mami]] about [[Ryouko]], noting that her family tree is dense with | + | <br>Later, [[Kyouko]] talks with [[Mami]] about [[Ryouko]], noting that her family tree is dense with contractees and connected to the Shizuki and Kuroi [[matriarchy|matriarchies]], that [[Patricia]] found a number of novel mutations in her genetics, and that her friend [[Simona]] has some strange anomalies in her recorded past. Unsure what to make of this, and with no further progress on the [[grief cube]] incident, [[Mami]] agrees at [[Kyouko]]'s request to take on [[Asaka]] as a general, with [[Patricia]] and [[Maki]] as two of [[Asaka]]'s attachment. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] grapples with her vision, and [[Asaka]] explains how her story connects.}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] grapples with her vision, and [[Asaka]] explains how her story connects.}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|11|Remains of a Life}}|[[Ryouko]] sets up her [[TacComp]] and chooses [[Atsuko Arisu]] as her designated psychiatrist, then goes out to eat dinner with her family and eventually ends up (through a test of her newfound right to drink alcohol without intoxication filters) bringing them to a firing range at [[Kyouko's church]]. There they visit other facilities, including a sparring area, but [[Ryouko]]'s parents are surprisingly well-informed on the subjects. Afterwards, [[Ryouko]] and her [[Kuroi Abe|grandfather]] visit her spot near the [[starport]], and talk about their impending military lives, and the disappearance of [[Ryouko's grandmother]], both remembering her saying that she had lost something.<br> |
− | <br>[[Ryouko]] receives her [[SW-155 | + | <br>[[Ryouko]] receives her [[SW-155]] pistol, and her [[Kuroi Nakase|mother]] tells her she's planned a going away party. [[Ryouko]] then meets her friends at a showing of ''[[Akemi]]'' and finally reveals her [[contract]] to them, also inviting them to the party. Watching the movie, [[Ryouko]] reflects on [[Homura]]'s beliefs, and the fact that her vision contradicts the movie's portrayal of [[Yuma]]. Afterwards, [[Ryouko]] asks [[Simona]] what she was going to say to her before the [[demon]] attack, but [[Simona]] tells her to forget about it. [[Ryouko]] also asks about when she looked directly at her on her first day of class (as she saw in her vision), but [[Simona]] claims it was nothing.<br> |
<br>Elsewhere, [[Yuma]] convinces [[Kyouko]] to have a spy bug planted on [[Ryouko]] for her protection, and warns her to be careful herself given [[Ryouko]]'s vision. | <br>Elsewhere, [[Yuma]] convinces [[Kyouko]] to have a spy bug planted on [[Ryouko]] for her protection, and warns her to be careful herself given [[Ryouko]]'s vision. | ||
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: ''Manifest Destiny is a term describing the belief that the United States, due to its special virtues, had both a duty and a destiny to expand west into North America.'' | : ''Manifest Destiny is a term describing the belief that the United States, due to its special virtues, had both a duty and a destiny to expand west into North America.'' | ||
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: ''An Einstein-Rosen Bridge is a hypothetical way of connecting two spacetime coordinates; in other words, a wormhole.'' | : ''An Einstein-Rosen Bridge is a hypothetical way of connecting two spacetime coordinates; in other words, a wormhole.'' | ||
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: ''Übermensch is Nietzsche's idea that humanity should turn away from the other worlds and values promoted by "dead" religions and gods, setting instead the goal of advancing new, superior generations of humans on earth.'' | : ''Übermensch is Nietzsche's idea that humanity should turn away from the other worlds and values promoted by "dead" religions and gods, setting instead the goal of advancing new, superior generations of humans on earth.'' | ||
: ''This may refer to [[FA]] ideologies, or even aspects of [[Governance]] thought. It notably stands in contrast to Ryouko's life and wish.'' | : ''This may refer to [[FA]] ideologies, or even aspects of [[Governance]] thought. It notably stands in contrast to Ryouko's life and wish.'' | ||
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: ''Dark energy is a proposed form of energy that drives the accelerating expansion of the universe towards eventual heat death.'' | : ''Dark energy is a proposed form of energy that drives the accelerating expansion of the universe towards eventual heat death.'' | ||
: ''This may imply topics ranging from the role of the [[Incubator]]s to the [[magical girl system]] itself.'' | : ''This may imply topics ranging from the role of the [[Incubator]]s to the [[magical girl system]] itself.'' | ||
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: ''Part of a quote by the god Vishnu in the Bhagavad Gita, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Made famous by J. R. Oppenheimer, who later said he thought of the line after witnessing the first test of an atomic bomb.'' | : ''Part of a quote by the god Vishnu in the Bhagavad Gita, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Made famous by J. R. Oppenheimer, who later said he thought of the line after witnessing the first test of an atomic bomb.'' | ||
: ''Perhaps covers the Unification Wars, which saw heavy use of atomic weapons. May include [[Clarisse van Rossum]]'s role, a character who notably was also present for the first atomic detonation.'' | : ''Perhaps covers the Unification Wars, which saw heavy use of atomic weapons. May include [[Clarisse van Rossum]]'s role, a character who notably was also present for the first atomic detonation.'' | ||
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: ''A singularity is a point at which a function takes an infinite value, especially in space-time when matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole. It is also a term used for the hypothetically unknowable changes to the human condition caused by superintelligence.'' | : ''A singularity is a point at which a function takes an infinite value, especially in space-time when matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole. It is also a term used for the hypothetically unknowable changes to the human condition caused by superintelligence.'' | ||
: ''In former sense, it may reference [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] or [[Asami|Asami's]] powers. In the latter, perhaps it refers to [[Governance|Governance's]] Emergency Mode Level Four.'' | : ''In former sense, it may reference [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] or [[Asami|Asami's]] powers. In the latter, perhaps it refers to [[Governance|Governance's]] Emergency Mode Level Four.'' | ||
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