Isn't it, though? We have no idea how Ribbons got the others to do his bidding. Revive could have been under threat. That's just as much against someone's will as being physically controlled. For most of us, VEDA was the be all and end all to everything. It was all for the Plan.
[Tieria started to sound bitter.]
We had no will of our own. It was secondary to making sure the Plan was carried out to the letter. You never knew that. It wasn't until I had been disconnected from VEDA that I even knew what free will was.