That's what I told myself. Maybe if I had a decade more.
[He laughs at that--he has it now, but home is impossibly far away, and on the brink of war, just like this place. Viktor wants to tell himself that the arc of scientific innovation bends towards societal improvement, but he's less naïve now. Too often warmaking and weaponry comes first. It limits him in the same way that politics and economics had.]
The Council was mostly interested in the economic applications of Hextech. We built the gates--near-instantaneous airship travel--and they would have been content with that, and nothing else. Imagine, the sheer possibility of it, and they couldn't see past the lining of their own pockets.
no subject
[He laughs at that--he has it now, but home is impossibly far away, and on the brink of war, just like this place. Viktor wants to tell himself that the arc of scientific innovation bends towards societal improvement, but he's less naïve now. Too often warmaking and weaponry comes first. It limits him in the same way that politics and economics had.]
The Council was mostly interested in the economic applications of Hextech. We built the gates--near-instantaneous airship travel--and they would have been content with that, and nothing else. Imagine, the sheer possibility of it, and they couldn't see past the lining of their own pockets.