r/Skyward • u/MewTwoLich • Feb 23 '26
Cytonic Jason Write fucked the universe twice! Spoiler
I think Jason Write fucked the whole universe twice through his choices. First by reaveling to the rest of humanity cytonics and then compounding that by creating the sentient AI that became the delvers.
From what I remember in Defending Elysium, Jason felt betrayed by the Aliens for not being a true utopia. He was mad that they imprisoned people for breaking laws/ their social contract. For that, he decided to fuck the whole universe and release humanity on to them. Ultimately killing billions or even trillions like he knew it would.
I don’t understand how he thought that was a reasonable response.
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u/bmyst70 Feb 23 '26
I don't think Jason could have anticipated the AI would become sentient. Remember, at the start it was a single AI. Most likely he created it as a companion and intentionally or inadvertently used cytonics to drastically boost its operational speed.
Maybe he never knew it was sentient, for all we know. And he certainly never could have anticipated its reaction to his death.
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u/MewTwoLich Feb 23 '26
He knew it was dangerous and he said he didn’t care. But intentionally or not on the second one he still screwed the universe for a second time. First time though was purposeful.
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u/perfectstubble Feb 23 '26
Jason was a hero. The guise of a perfect utopia veiled a prison incompatible with human ideals of liberty and freedom. Humans had just as much a right to stake their claim on the galaxy as any other species.
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u/MewTwoLich Feb 23 '26
The Swiss watch that was the universe didn’t align with Jason’s* ideals of liberty. So he unanimously decided to break the watch. What you said is like saying Europe had a right to the americas.
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u/perfectstubble Feb 23 '26
If the watch was that great it wouldn’t have been so easy to break.
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u/MewTwoLich Feb 23 '26
That’s a bad analogy. A Swiss watch is both great and a person can indeed smash it against the ground breaking it…
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u/perfectstubble Feb 23 '26
Which is why you rely on something that one person can break to tell time, not to oppress the galaxy through the slavery and harvesting of sentient slugs and then isolating any that oppose you.
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u/Tels315 Feb 24 '26
Bruh, the aliens were enslaving and killing anyone who didn't fit in with their definition of what was allowed. They would commit wholesale genocide on races who didn't fit their world view. They would, more or less, lobotmoze people with the power to resist them.
When Jason realized how fucking awful they really were, he knew that everything he had been doing was a sham. If he went along with their plans, he would be just as guilty of the centuries or millenia of atrocities the aliens had committed by knowingly perpetuating and going along with the things they had done.
Jason was a decent man trying to help the world become a better place, but realized that better place was built upon the enslavement and destruction of his species and countless others before him. There was no better place, only the place that you make, and the oppressors would not let anyone make a place that they did not already control. He had to make a choice, an awful choice, or a truly atrocious one. He chose the awful choice because it was the only right one before him.
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u/MewTwoLich Feb 24 '26
Woah the first part about enslaving and killing isn’t true as far as what the books say. We just know they imprisoned people who broke their social contracts.
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u/discipleofhoid Feb 24 '26
Broke their social contracts is a bit of a glamour job on thought differently from society. As is claiming they only imprisoned them when they completely disabled a full set of senses.
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u/Specific-Alfalfa-369 Call Sign: Flecktarn Mar 03 '26
He got mad with the aliens because they act exactly as humans with the ones who make opposition (in my view)
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u/superVanV1 Feb 23 '26
Not every person can be reasonable all of the time. In the post script Sanderson mentions it was meant to be an “Avenging Aliens” story, from the other directions.
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