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The Eschaton debacle — "Ingersoll calls back across the Mediterranean…"

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Ingersoll calls back across the Mediterranean that target areas of keen strategic interest appeared in Sierra Leone at the exact moment the heads of state and total launch capacities of AMNAT and SOVWAR took it upon themselves to traipse into Sierra Leone. That Sierra Leone thenceforward as of that moment has, or rather had, he pretends to correct with a smile, become a de facto SSTRAC.

Context

Ingersoll's formal sophistry, shouted across the map's Mediterranean: by walking into Sierra Leone, the leaders' bodies imported strategic value into it — persons made targets by their own coordinates on the court. The exact inverse of Pemulis's rule that players are part of the map, and Lord can't find anything in the axioms to refute it.

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