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Going to ponder about Protocol for a bit...

What can we guess about "The Magnus Protocol" in-universe?

It is at least as old as Isaac Newton.

It seems to be a way of keeping the Fears in check or balance or some such.

The O.I.A.R. "externals" are part of this effort, getting to use their dread powers to keep other powers from getting too strong.

And some vaguely related speculation:

It's a bit unclear how the timelines between Protocol and TMA connect/overlap/line-up/work, but since it seems that the fears have always been in this universe, presumably once they "enter" a universe, they have been present for the whole of that universe. Does that mean whatever's left of Jon and Martin has also been present for all that time? If so, they could have set up the Protocol themselves, to try and keep the Fears from turning this world into another hellscape. But then, why did their voices only show up on OIAR computers a few years ago?

Hang on. In TMA, Jon needed to read statements (or, well, extract them) to Feed. Are the voices in the computers doing that for him (or whatever's left of him)? Did he have another source that dried up a few years ago, so that he invaded the OIAR computers for a fresh source?

As for what happened to this universe's Jon and Martin, I wouldn't draw any conclusions until we see the bodies, lol. The "reveal" was from weak data and a lot of guesswork.

That's probably enough rambling for tonight.