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{{Quote|We didn't come to destroy you. Those poor, short-lived sisters— we did try to explain, you know, but they never grew past thinking of finality as a game where only one could live. A misunderstanding, as useful as it was foolish. We see the universe more broadly. The final shape is more than a single life, a single thought. It is all-encompassing, all-embracing. It is everything. You are part of everything, are you not? So now we have come to ask you for your answer, the only answer to the only question.|One of the Witness' Dissenters explaining how their philosophy differs from the Sword Logic.}}

The Witness viewed the Sword Logic as a "childish game" born of a misunderstanding of its own philosophy, with its vision of the Final Shape being more all-encompassing than that envisioned by the Hive; whereas the Hive believe that only one entity will ultimately become the Final Shape after having destroyed everything else in the universe, the Witness sought a Final Shape in which all living beings would be incorporated into a perfected, eternal, calcified version of reality. It nonetheless acknowledged the Sword Logic as useful in motivating and empowering the Hive as they carried out its will throughout the cosmos.