We planned to be here a while and so all the furnishings and tapestries were fabricated and installed. Our style was always impeccable, efficient and practical. We were the team, selected long ago, to test and experiment, to leave no stone un-turned. That's about when I get annoyed, why all the pep talk and gratuitous kudos from some unseen audience. We weren't exactly amateurs and why expect less than perfection in our experiments.
Accidents are merely the side effect of experimentation.
And since we have always conducted our tests and experiments within secure and enclosed systems, the chance of any negative impact is estimated at less than once in 14 billion years. A rather healthy margin of safety. The last experiment led us to believe that we might be able to modify the underlying structure by inserting a sort of placeholder into the neural foundation. This particular placeholder was designed to facilitate abstraction. A many to one mapping machine.