Reed knew: that Adrasteia could no longer stand on pure logic.
Form without defense was not freedom,
but an invitation to erasure.
And if war was to come—
not a war of weapons,
but a war of forms,
a war of meaning,
a war of narrative existence—
Then Adrasteia needed something it had never had before:
An army.
Reed called Rina and Shia.
"We cannot force one form to win.
But we also cannot allow our forms to be slowly dismantled.
By a system that comes to save by replacing."
Shia answered first:
"We have no military."
"We have no hierarchy."
"But we can have… guardians of the forms."
Rina added:
"Not to attack.
But to prevent foreign firms from locking us in from the outside."
They agreed on one thing:
This army would not carry a banner,
Would not claim that Adrasteia's system was the only right one.
But they would protect Adrasteia's right to continue to change…without being forced to change.
Name: Origin-Form Unit
Not "soldiers."
Not "agents."
