Do you remember when I told you that humanity no longer exists in a form you would recognise?
[Very grim now. This is getting deeply personal, and into some of the worst memories she possesses - even if they were only viewed through a video.]
That was the Human Instrumentality Project. The plan to tear down, quite literally, the barriers that exist between individual human beings and recreate them as one whole, uniform being. A return to the primordial soup from which humanity was born. It was intended to end the pain of loneliness that stems from being separate from one another.