[quote]"And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I'm not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions."[/quote]
One life hardly balances billions.
The entire point of the trouble this AI had gone though was to send John to Requiem. 032 sent John to kill Didact. That was his atonement.
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I'm leaning towards thinking this (the betraying of a former master being of the Didact, not the Gravemind) but then you've got to consider that the Didact would have never woken at all had it not been for John.