"The Cryptarchs of the City agree that SIVA's original purpose was benevolent—namely, nanotechnology designed to aid in the rapid construction of new human colonies on habitable planets outside our solar system. The SIVA crisis was an unfortunate aberration, to be sure, but a single catastrophe should not stop us from examining, exploring, and perhaps even building upon SIVA's original utility. Since the arrival of the Light, one can easily imagine a powerful synergy between SIVA and the Light's attendant elements. Imagine its capacity to build and repair!" —from the journals of Master Rahool