Question in regards to Loyalty...

[Neoteny]

Agreed. The whole code-bombing thing was such a childish, sterile gesture. I mean, it's the kind of immature crap you expect from high-school/middle-school kids (sorry to any we have on this crew), not from someone with his experience and vision. It only makes sense if you view it as a regression, a retreat into puerile behavior only justified by the personal emotional satisfaction it provides. Not the sign of a leader.

I have to remember Morpheus as the tutor to Neo and Trinity and the others, not as the nihilistic nutcase he became.

Well, if you look at Morpheus's transgression along the path he walked, it was just one daring and fool-hearty risk after another. While we as the viewers of the trilogy saw him as a visionary and a consummate leader, the upper echelon of Zion's military (not the council, but the other captains and commander) thought he took dangerous risks and put himself, his crew, and Zion at great risk.

Couple that with the fact that the prophecy came true (even though Neo told him that it wouldn't / it couldn't / and that he wasn't supposed to end the war), and you get what Morpheus became. He was so sure of himself before Neo proved to be the one and he continued to be... not cocky, but confident in his beliefs.

So, you've got Neo supposedly dead, the machines won't give up his body, and Morpheus knew that peace wouldn't last.

So he struck first.

I'm not saying that what he did was right, but it is what it is.


As for the codebombing being childish... RP wise, Qui would love to have a chat with you about that.

It's an interesting path from diplomacy to code bombs. Having played a character that did just that, I believe I can say that quite honestly.

Morpheus was beloved of Zion before he started codebombing. Then he was disowned. At that time, EPN didn't exist, so he was only supported unofficially by those who chose to support him. Later on, EPN was very hopeful of discovering the real Morpheus, but it never happened, so we'll never know according to the "official" story. However, there was heavy suggestion that Morpheus was killed, and so whether or not to support his past actions was left as a personal choice.

As far as I can recall the only truly and entirely pro-Morpheus faction on Recursion were the Prophets of the Martyr.