#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, I am uncertain what the nature of your query is.

#PBoss:  Adder said that there was something wrong with the Ultra numbers for the last couple years.

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, I am uncertain what the nature of your query is.

#PBoss:  What does he mean?

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, would you prefer that this unit speculate as to #Adder’s suspicions?

#PBoss: Yes, that.

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, #Adder recently queried our ongoing efforts to tally the total number of instances of the Process which have been instantiated.  He was persistent and incredulous about the figures that we reported to him.

#PBoss:  Yes, he told me.  What was wrong?

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, Nothing was wrong.

#PBoss:  What did he think was wrong?

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, #Adder believed that the number of Processes which had been reported did not match the situation that he believes exists in the world.  This unit must point out that our methodologies do not permit the possibility of error in matters such as these.

#PBoss:  Tell me why he thought you were wrong.

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, he stated that if the Pantheon based tally  was high as it appeared to be, and the Union based tally as low as it appeared to be, then the ongoing hostilities between the two should have resulted in a different outcome than that which he had observed.

#PBoss: So he thinks that your counting was wrong?  That is literally all that I keep you around for.

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, #Adder did not make that assertion.  Rather, he suggested that his overall understanding of the situation must be wrong.  This unit’s predecessor engaged in speculation with him as to what situations might prevail which would allow our tally, and the observed outcomes, to square with one another.

#PBoss:  Square with?

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, this unit was attempting to deformalize it’s verbiage in order to conform to your expressed desire for less cumbersome communication.

#PBoss: That’s creepy.  What did you come up with?

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, “Square with” was being used to mean something akin to “bring into”-

#PBoss: No, I mean what did the last guy and Adder talk about?

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, #Adder and #5220 constructed a logical proof.  IF the Union numbers are as we believe them, AND the Pantheon numbers are as we believe them, then it should have been impossible for the Union to hold the Pantheon’s territorial gains down as well as they have.  This is explicable if one or more of the stated or unstated parameters of this exercise are false.  From that point on we began to examine each parameter, and determined-

#PBoss: Skip to the end

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, army

#PBoss: Skip back closer to the beginning, like a sentence or so.

#5221: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, The Pantheon has been skimming off of the top of its Ultra harvest, likely the most powerful individuals of each generation, in order to create a secret, and unstoppable, army.