Our Sierpinski faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The Facility is under greater threat than ever before. In the days of the Nation, things were easy. I ran the Facility with the support of the Center, which supplied us with everything we needed. But today, the Nation is a thing of the past, and the Republic has sold out to the Empire. And yet we have survived, preserving our ideology and system. How? Because we have built ourselves a defense in the form of Radio Silence.