The Spar I

"It was so basic," Cornelius said. "You have to educate the student, just enough that they know what not to do, but not enough that they don't have to think for themselves. Ensure a healthy diet. Ensure rigorous training. Make sure the student has a consistent, focused drive to excel. Give them enough real world experience that they can rationalize their growth, and compare it, but not so much that they think they've become experts.

"The actual document was one hundred and twelve pages long, and created the absolute perfect scenario that would be required to achieve perfection. The amount of detail he went into was so extreme. If he were alive I would have asked him if he was trying to be meticulous, or trying to prove that perfection was impossible. But he was dead, so instead I took a different meaning to his work.